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...student dancer involved in Harvard University’s Dance Program, I had heard about the upcoming move of the program from Radcliffe’s Agassiz House, where the Dance Program has resided for over 40 years, to a new facility in the Quadrangle Recreational Athletic Center (QRAC). While taking the shuttle to class every morning was an unpleasant thought, I found it much more appealing than having to take the shuttle back to a River house after an exhausting late-night dance rehearsal...
However, Harvard’s Dance Program, which is overseen by the Office for the Arts (OFA), currently faces issues much more significant than my anticipatory attempts at memorizing shuttle schedules. The QRAC construction plans are over budget. With increasing numbers of talented dancers on campus, there are not enough slots in performances to accommodate those interested...
...dancer, this obviously means more to me than the average Harvard student, but at over 700 members strong, the student dance community has traditionally had a perhaps disproportionately small presence on Harvard’s campus. In funding the move to the QRAC, the administration is taking a big step in lessening this disparity...
Entering Harvard’s dance program at Harvard last fall, I encountered a situation that had been developing for several years. The impetus for the move to the QRAC started in 1999, when the new dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Drew Faust decided to reclaim the buildings of Radcliffe for the Institute, including Agassiz House and the Rieman Center, which Harvard’s Dance Program had been renting from the Institute for offices and studio/performance space...
...will have to go to Hemenway. We don’t have a choice, but won’t go everyday,” Munaim said, adding that he felt that QRAC closing was symptomatic of a larger University insensitivity to Quad residents...