Word: stage
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...energy of "Money." Jim Augustine '01 and Elizabeth Waterhouse '00 deserve special notice for their performance Saturday of the powerful and extremely moving duet to "Time:" showing unique awareness of each other's smallest movements, their two bodies moved virtually as one as they danced and romanced across the stage...
...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...
...have my seatmate, who is blessed and cursed with perfect pitch, squirming in pain. This warped sound abated in a flurry of political posters during the first choreographed number, "Wintergreen for President"--incidentally, a longtime favorite of the Harvard Band. As John P. Wintergreen, Jordan Cooper '99 owned the stage with his fantastic voice and commendable acting ability, while Todd Plants '01, who looks eerily like a grown-up Ralphie from "A Christmas Story," won our sympathy as the simpleton with reservations about being Veep ("what if my mother found out?"). Joe Nuccio '00 commanded a range of priceless facial...
...back to the point at hand, which is that often, if people don't like to dance, they like to dance near the front of a room even less, so the group inevitably splits between the floor and the stage. You'll be at the Masquerade, dancing on the stage, and the next thing you know, the people you came with have gone to Tommy...