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...Imperial roots. This one man would transform American dance forever.The symposium features a starry list of illustrious guest speakers, panelists, and moderators that includes Joan Acocella, staff writer for The New Yorker; Anna Kisselgoff, former chief dance critic at the New York Times; former New York City Ballet dancer Toni Bentley; and current Boston Ballet director Mikko Nissinen, as well as Harvard faculty and visiting professors of history, music, and drama from colleges around the globe. Lecture topics range from “Fashion for Russia” to “Balanchine and Massine?...
...Arts and Humanities are not an indulgent form of free play for the benevolent or indulgent imagination,” Director of the Humanities Center Homi K. Bhabha said in his opening remarks for “Witness,” an event organized by the Center, featuring Toni Morrison and Yo-Yo Ma. “Rather [artistic] interpretation is an act of empathetic intersession, a way of giving voice to another place, person, or period, and setting the stage in their interest.”Co-sponsored by the Office of the President and Provost, the W.E.B...
Last night's "Witness" event in Memorial Church--meant to celebrate the intersection of the arts, humanities, and human rights--featured Toni Morrison reading from her 2008 novel, A Mercy. But Princeton's Nobel Laureate didn't join in the dancing (more on that after the jump.) Morrison, who recently turned 78, read from her wheelchair...
...HBCUs) make up just 3% of U.S. schools, they produce nearly a quarter of all African-American graduates. A 2007 study showed that black men who attend a black college as opposed to another four-year school enjoy a hefty lifetime-earnings boost. HBCU alumni include Booker T. Washington, Toni Morrison, Sean (Diddy) Combs, Oprah Winfrey and more than a third of the current Congressional Black Caucus...
...fall asleep?" they ask after each treatment.) But Dushku, memorable as the bad-girl Faith in Buffy, isn't much of a chameleon. She's passably callow as Caroline and nicely eerie as the doll-like "blank" Echo, but she doesn't transform with each personality, la Toni Collette in United States of Tara...