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...your freak on. Liz M. Santoro ’01 is now teaching a fresh and funky hip-hop class at the Dance Complex in Central Square...
...ballerina-turned-hip-hop teacher has been offering the class since the Oct. 3, and draws on her experience from the casual dance classes that she taught at Harvard before she graduated last June. As an undergraduate, Santoro danced with Expressions and co-directed the Harvard Ballet Company her last three semesters. Like a scene straight out of “Save the Last Dance,” Santoro explains how she danced with the Boston Ballet School for 11 years, but began to break out of her classical training as she developed a love of hip hop and modern...
...Opening with “Motus” choreographed by Elizabeth M. Santoro ’01, the concert began with an interpretative flavor that would characterize the entire concert. The dancers were divided into two groups, those who danced jazz and those who danced ballet. The two groups interpreted the techno-influenced music of Tyler Wood according to their chosen style. The jazz group’s movements gave the music a smooth hip-hop feel, while the ballet group gave classical moves a hipper look by conforming them to the undulations of the music. Although...
...Nowadays, Santoro has found a stronger voice in her passion for dance, but she considers herself a ‘dancer,' rather than strictly a ballerina. "Coming here, I've been able to choreograph, and maybe have some roles I wouldn't have had if I'd entered a company. I've done a lot of modern, which I'd never done before—the growth in my dancing has been amazing. I'm really happy with where I am now," she says...
...With more time on their hands, the women agree that Harvard has broadened their perspectives on the world of dating. Whereas Santoro admits she was "educated" her freshman year, Lane jokes about they irony of her own experience: "In high school, all the guys I lived with were gay. So I knew a lot of guys, but it just wasn't working for me!" More adamant about her priorities, Weiss claims that finding a "normal boyfriend" was the main reason she chose Harvard. Clearly, normal is a relative term...