Word: tanhehco
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Dancers…don’t have as much power, because they don’t have a single identity,” choreographer Tina Y. Tanhehco ’05 agrees. “It makes it more difficult to fight for space—it’s disjointed. All the dancers are not happy about it…but we don’t know who to turn...
...dancers, dancing as if completely controlled by the music. The first act closes with Hawkins’ and O’Brien’s dynamic tap and step number. After a short intermission, the fun will start up again with a piece by award-winning choreographer Tina Tanhehco ’04. Entitled Toys, the dance explores gender issues through the role reversal of a typical strip club. Seven men are objectified by three women, dancing in response to the women’s orders. Director Ryuji Yamaguchi’s introspective dance follows, and director Adrienne Minster?...
...choreographers also benefited from a strong cast of 25 dancers with a broad range of training and style. “You get totally different perspectives from the cast because of the wide variety of background,” Hoyos says. Tanhehco reports of her dancers, “It is rare to get to work with many male dancers, and I feel grateful to be able to work with men who wouldn’t usually associate with the modern dance community...
Tanhehco’s piece Toys has generated considerable buzz in the Harvard community. Inspired by her own observations of men disrespecting women, Tanhehco co-collaborated on a script with Abby Fee, Joe Small and Pippi Kessler. The dance is largely improvised; Tanhehco strove to give her dancers creative freedom, offering tips on motivation, focus and blocking. “I thought it might be interesting to deal with the issues of female exploitation by placing men in their shoes. At first the piece was a fluffy sort of examination of exploitation with women yelling commands...
...women who reads the script, Sasha Weiss ’05, feels the dance is especially relevant to the Harvard community. “Dance is a great medium to explore gender issues, especially at a very traditional, patriarchal school.” Tanhehco agrees: “I hope that this piece might make people think more about the way women are treated at parties or club situations as well as in general, and also show that there is still a need to think about the inequalities that exist …This isn’t something that...