Word: urban
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This is An Urban Nutcracker, the latest and most ambitious product of a five-year collaboration between Alison Chase, a founding member of the innovative Pilobolus Dance Theatre, and Bill Wade, director of YARD (Youth at Risk Dancing), a company of teenagers drawn from the student body of the Cleveland School of the Arts. It's hardly the first time The Nutcracker has been updated: Mark Morris' raucous The Hard Nut is set in postmodern suburbia, while Donald Byrd's Harlem Nutcracker uses Duke Ellington's swinging adaptation of Tchaikovsky's score. But An Urban Nutcracker has a special ring...
...give up their plans to work in poor neighborhoods for virtually no pay, Oriol still pursued her ideals. After years of working with residents in the neighborhoods, Oriol got rolling The Family Van, a mobile healthcare and education center bringing health and social services to Boston's urban communities...
...design with the environment in mind. In turn, Henn got Allenby to lecture twice: once at the Harvard Club and again for an industrial ecology course that Henn designed and taught for undergrads at Rutgers University. Also at the I.E.E.E., Henn met Clinton Andrews--now an assistant professor for urban planning at Rutgers, but at the time on the faculty at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Last year Andrews and Henn co-chaired a conference at Princeton. "The idea was to inspire Jersey's K-12 educators to embrace an integrative approach to learning...
Geyser University Professor William Julius Wilson, who teaches Afro-American Studies 197: "Race, Class and Poverty in Urban America," said the initial optimism might be wishful thinking...
Disneyland was another bet-the-farm risk, and Disney threw himself obsessively into the park's design, which anticipated many of the best features of modern urban planning, and into the "imagineering" by which the simulacrums of exotic, even dangerous creatures, places, fantasies could be unthreateningly reproduced...