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...camaraderie peaked near the end of the set when Casey announced it was time for a Murphys tradition—when the audience joins arm-in-arm with their neighbors, like a set of drunken pub-goers. Sweaty, beer drenched and smiling, the crowd swayed and jumped in unison...
...bodies: “Percussive Us,” choreographed by Jeff Shade, Dance Program instructor and Bob Fosse protégé. In this piece, Shade used music by Jim Perry that was a series of percussion riffs strung together. The dancers wore black costumes and moved in unison to different drumbeats at the beginning of the number. As the beat or the instrument in the song changed, the dancers adapted their movements to embody each particular instrument...
...Blast! develops, the colors become progressively warmer, and with this change in mood, the performers become more playful on stage. The actors interact with the audience, running down the aisles, shaking audience’s hands, and encouraging those in their seats to clap in unison with the music. This warming effect is further enhanced by the musical repertoire, which begins as somber and reflective, switches to light and playful, and in the final scene is brash and bellicose...
PSLM ACTIVISTS: (singing in unison) Then come comrades, rally, and the last fight let us face; the “Internationale” unites the human race...
Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed - in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernán Cortés' 1,600 men slaughtering more than 1 million Aztecs (1519-21); a Christian fleet's crushing of a larger Ottoman Muslim armada at Lepanto (1571) and the creation of an empire on four continents by a British army that in 1879 had only...