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...might have otherwise been an exhilarating event. The event started over half an hour late. Some audience members contented themselves with chatter, while others looked at their watches and groaned intermittently. Finally, a hip-hop beat started to thump, and three of Expressions’ co-directors stepped on stage to introduce their show as “a big crunk party.” The medley of 14 dance numbers lived up to the promise, exhibiting a wide array of technique and energy reinforced by a spectrum of colorful lighting and costuming. Visiting troupes Jam’nastics...
...Center (HDC), and its performances were as sleek and modern as the new venue. The opening dance, “Not Fire, Not Ice” choreographed by graduate student Marita L. Sheldon, set the evening’s tone. Five black-clad dancers took to the dimly lit stage and cycled through poses eerily suggestive of death throes as a solemn voice boomed lines from Robert Frost’s apocalyptic poem “Fire and Ice”. Odd mechanical sound effects and a metronomic beating heart underscored the poetry and contributed to the piece?...
...emotional show from the more demonstrative Orpheus and Eurydice. The form of the play resembles an opera re-imagined by a Beat poet: sung and spoken dialogue alternates, often bleeding into each other and usually backed by the cacophonous melodies of a band on one side of the stage. Virtually each line is delivered with breathtaking intensity, which contributes to the tone but occasionally leads to some unintentionally amusing moments, as when Eurydice dramatically sings about the mug of pens on her writing desk. Most of the time, however, they’re singing about love, death, Hell, and obsession...
...their spring show, “Pointe/Counterpointe,” progressed towards its impressive final piece. Produced by Valentine N. Quadrat ’09, and co-directed by Raymond W. Keller III ’08 and Sarah C. Kenney ’08, HBC took the stage this past Saturday in Lowell Lecture Hall. The evening had an unpromising beginning—the first two numbers were indubitably the worst of the entire performance. “Breath,” a contemporary group piece, lacked basic unison for almost its full duration. This disunity coupled with...
...Today, Chinese still tend to admire American wealth and technological prowess. But one crucial aspect of the relationship has changed: as China's economy has boomed and the nation's importance on the world stage has dramatically expanded, Chinese self-confidence has blossomed. The U.S. may still be the world's undisputed superpower, but the gap is narrowing. Why look upon America with awe or fear when an endless trail of foreign leaders and corporate titans now flocks to China to grab a piece of the action and to pay their respects? Likewise, Chinese see the flood of less exalted...