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...Balanchine choreography, compelling Stravinsky music, and four talented dancers converged onstage to produce a very strong interpretation of “Apollo.” Shee’s Apollo sat proudly in a stool while three muses each presented an allegorical representation of their art: Calliope (Elizabeth C. Walker ’11) portrayed epic poetry, Polyhymnia (Kakigi) depicted mime, and Terpsichore (Merritt A. Moore ’10) personified dance. From the three, Apollo chose Terpsichore to accompany him in the subsequent pas de deux...
...balance between the abstraction typical of modern dance and the visual appeal of classical ballet. The best moments of her exquisite choreography featured not only the usual leaps and turns but also interesting new movements, like dragged splits. She worked with the most talented HBC members: Lynch, Moore, Shee, Walker, and James C. Fuller ’10. Walker shone the brightest, but all five brought Schreier’s complex choreography to stunning fruition...
...main challenge that Walker and the cast had to confront in their production was Grellong’s melodramatic script. The play’s complex intrigues come off as somewhat contrived—even though its story of publishing and plagiarism is not unfamiliar to Harvard—but the dialogue often rang even more false. Twice throughout the play, Elizabeth tried to win David to her side, telling him that unlike Chris, the two of them are “old inside.” Moments like this one, where the script was too self-consciously trying...
...director, Walker also livened up the theatre with her dynamic blocking. While the conspiracies within the play developed, her blocking neatly reflected the changing relationships of the characters. At one point, Catomeris and Cutmore-Scott stood at opposite sides of the stage, facing away from each other, with Kargman sandwiched between them in the role of peacemaker. Later, she effectively reversed the picture as Catomeris and Cutmore-Scott circled Kargman triumphantly, stopping on either side of her in order to clink champagne-glasses over her head...
...Walker and her performers salvaged Grellong’s sometimes-ridiculous script with their comedy, exuberance, and dedication. While there were times when the performance faltered, the fault lay more with the triteness of the words themselves than with the actors’ delivery of them. Otherwise, they created an entertaining and witty performance out of the twists and turns of “Manuscript...