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...Bolshoi and elsewhere, choreography is embracing shorter, smaller-scale pieces, and that trend has led to a dearth of big-star roles. "People aren't choreographing for stars anymore - they're not doing Swan Lake," says Lynn Garafola, a dance historian and author of Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance. Increasingly, it's choreographers like Ratmansky who are taking their place as ballet's headliners. In one of Ratmansky's most celebrated moves, for example, in 2003 he restaged Bright Stream, the full-length ballet by radical Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, which Stalin banned shortly after it premiered in Moscow...
...records for women’s hockey in 2000. Longer even than the Crimson’s memorable triple-overtime war of attrition with Mercyhurst in the Frozen Eight two years ago. Longer, the press box consensus went, than any college women’s hockey game save one, shorter than only four games on the men’s side. The game lasted so long the band, Harvard’s most vocal supporters, had to depart Conte Forum after the first overtime, in order to catch a ride home. “There is no moral victory...
...search committee members are scheduled to leave Cambridge today after a regularly scheduled meeting of the Corporation.The search panel last met with the Overseers on Dec. 3. At that meeting, the committee showed the board a list of about 30 presidential contenders, although the panel was seriously considering a shorter list of candidates at the time.—Aditi Banga, Lois E. Beckett, Nicholas M. Ciarelli, Stephanie S. Garlow, Claire M. Guehenno, Katherine M. Gray, Laurence H. M. Holland, Clifford M. Marks, Brittney L. Moraski, Rachel L. Pollack, Nathan C. Strauss, and Kevin Zhou contributed to the reporting...
...search panel last met with the Overseers on Dec. 3. At that meeting, the committee showed the board a list of about 30 presidential contenders, although the panel was seriously considering a shorter list of candidates at the time...
...popular 2003 film “Lost in Translation,” as well as the more recent “Match Point” (2005) and “The Black Dahlia” (2006). “Scarlett Johansson’s career is a little bit shorter than Stiller’s,” said Lachter. “But in a short period of time she has just exploded to be a fantastic leading lady...she has been getting a lot of critical acclaim.” Because of the history of the awards?...