Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...number. Choreographer Joey McKneely gives the performers a killer aerobic workout. When they're not executing brisk parodies of the goofy-cool footwork done by every backup group in the '50s, they are sexily slow dancing to L&S's low-tempo stuff or, in a gorgeous version of Spanish Harlem, bringing ballet to the barrio. These cats can sing too, both as solo stunners-check out Victor Trent Cook's rabid virtuosity on I (Who Have Nothing)-and as part of street-corner quartets that seem to have been together for years...
...film is at its worst when it delves into historical footage of Franco's Italy, the Spanish Civil War and Nazi Germany. Instead of letting the present day images speak for themselves, Levy constantly compares the events occuring in Bosnia to countless other European examples of facism, nationalism, and national-socialism...
...musical, based on Voltaire's novel, retains the other-worldly quality of the original, though in this musical adaptation its exoticism becomes laughable. The Spanish (or any of their colonies) seem to live, love, and scheme to the strains of a tango; all of Paris, even in the 18th century, spontaneously erupts into waltzing...
...Fantasia-Sevilliana by Joaquin Turina, Fisk's instrument immediately filled the Gardner's tapestried concert hall with its booming sound. The Turina, a work from this century, evokes traditional images of bull-fighting and Spanish dancing. Luigi Boccherini carried these ideas back to Italy more than a century before with his own guitar works...
...Spanish cultures, the family is very close," said Charles A. Peterson '96, a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S. "Things are getting pretty tight right now, and it's stressful on family life...