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...inspiration. “I find that I haven’t done as much here because one of the things I mind here, quite frankly, is that we don’t have a real theatre,” she says. “We have a studio theatre, but the Loeb, which is the only real theatre on campus, is not accessible...
...composing a lot of hip-hop beats and just a lot of music in general. Composing was something I had done when I was a kid, just for fun, but I never really approached it from a serious vantage—that fall I sort of set up a studio in my apartment and I started recording a lot of beats... That was just total serendipity—just meeting your friends and realizing they were also interested in the kind of a band that you were also interested...
...Okusanya feels more than just adulation for Harvard’s artistic community. “The dance space issue,” he says somberly, “needs to be dealt with.” He complains that limitations on studio space hinder undergraduate creativity by forcing groups to cut back on the numbers of dancers they can accommodate. “The dance space issue creates a situation in which not everybody or anybody who wants to gets an opportunity to be expressive. It’s just a total logistical nightmare...
...Being able to work in a space where so many people are engaged in working in this way makes a difference to how one feels about actually going to the studio,” Stopforth says. “It’s not isolated. It’s not out there somewhere in the city. In that sense, it is very much a part of Harvard...
Waking up early in the morning and often working in his studio late into the evening, Stopforth manages to find time to create art that makes strong statements about issues of apartheid and other injustice in South African society. Despite a lack of time for his own work, Stopforth praises his students as his greatest inspiration. “I have never worked with students whose enthusiasm is so extraordinary,” he says. Unlike students at many art schools, Harvard students don’t arrive with preconceived notions of being an artist, a mentality Stopforth says...