Word: sides
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dance to Maurice Ravel's beautiful impressionist piece, "Bolero," more than made up for West Side Story's annoyances. Under the shadowed, sultry lights of talented light designer Ryan McGee '98, Miriam Noble '00's seductive choreography created hypnotizingly proud and poised dancers...
...indisputable highlight of the show came in the second half of the program, as Harvard dancers took to the stage for the entirety of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Using the choreography of Babil Gandara, the principal choreographer of the South Texas Dance Theater, Harvard dancers turned the Loeb Mainstage into a swirling, swarming arena of motion and light. Clad in bodysuits of various neon and tie-dyed colors, the dancers marched in perfect unison onto the stage in the opening number, "Speak to Me," like drones from a futuristic world where money clangs and clammers...
...only thing that rivaled the choreography (and the excellent staging and execution of Gandara's choreography) was the light design; the Mainstage has never been awash in so much color. A veteran Harvard light designer, McGee outdoes himself in Dark Side of the Moon. Using virtually every lighting technique possible, McGee incorporates backlights, sidelights, audience-sweeping spotlights, an overwhelming carousels of colors, shadows, purple moons and spinning pinwheels of light to illuminate every angle and curve of the bodies pulsating on the stage. At moments, the lights are so grandiose that they threaten to overshadow the dancers themselves...
...year-long thorn in Harvard's side, the Tigers posed the most serious threat to the Crimson's championship hopes. In late February, Princeton beat Harvard in three games...
...party scene. Dancing is one of those issues. At a big party, the question "where to dance?" is front and center. At the Leverett 80s dances, for example, some of my friends want to dance at the front near the DJ, while others want to stand on the side and scope the crowd...