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...Native Americans together and to welcome in people who may have far less experience of these events. Cesar Alvarez ’13, an event organizer who is affiliated with the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara tribes, says that one of the Powwow’s key goals is to show the importance of native culture to Harvard. Since this year marks the 15th anniversary of the Powwow, the 40th anniversary of HUNAP, and the 360th anniversary of the signing of the Harvard Charter—which stated the young university’s commitment to educate American Indians as well...
Abbott agrees that the Powwow is an excellent means to show the continued importance of Native Americans in contemporary culture. “It’s very important for people to understand that native people are their friends, their colleagues, their coworkers,” he says. “Often native communities are locked in people’s opinion in an historical context, so that’s one of the things we hope people will take away. We hope they’ll see their peers in a slightly different context...
This ubiquity does not necessarily encourage high-quality adaptations, and Linden says, “It’s done badly all the time.” He promises to give it a new angle. “We sort of recreated the show,” he says, “doing the essence of the script, but as if it was written today, as opposed to doing a piece from the 1970s...
...show aims to politicize the script, a move Linden sees as natural because religion is so politicized today. “We have some addressing of religious LGBT issues, we have some addressing of the repression of shame that is caused by the specter of organized religion,” he says...
Even beyond blurring the line between actor and musician, Linden is aiming to blur the line between performer and audience. “This isn’t the kind of show where you sit down and the actors pretend the audience isn’t there. We’re going to talk to you, we’re going to shake you, we’re going to grab you up to dance, we’re going to try to get you on stage and have a sing along during intermission,” he says...