Word: yamaguchiã
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Juggling apples and eating them at the same time is a messy affair. Yet the fine art of eating and throwing fruit makes a tidy set of bookends to Ryuji Yamaguchi??s Harvard career. First, there was the freshman talent show way back in the fall of 1999 where he introduced himself to the awestruck Class of 2003 Tercentenary Theatre crowd by juggle-eating apples. He also balanced a chair on his chin, a small sample of the masterful skills he nurtured as a teenage street performer in his childhood home of Tokyo...
...Yamaguchi??s dance-of-speech comes screeching to a halt when he’s asked to describe his favorite moment on stage. He looks off into the Rieman studio space, stumped, considering the freshly mopped dance floor. He’s got nothing. It’s all been wonderful. And everything about being at Harvard feeds into his dance. “A lot of preparation is just hanging out. My classes influence my dance.” When pressed, he admits that even a tedious Quantitative Reasoning requirement is about dance...
...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’s closes the show with a jazzy finale...