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...what the Harvard Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) has chosen to kick off its fall season. The production features four pieces, three of them original: “Still Rising,” choreographed by Braxton-Brooks; “Into Emptiness,” choreographed by Ryuji Yamaguchi ’03; “Warning: This May Cause,” choreographed by professional guest choreographer Derrick Sellers; and excerpts from George Balanchine’s “The Four Temperaments,” directed by Weiss...
...Committee presented college administrators with “Dance at Harvard,” a proposal illustrating the plight of the dance community and requesting the addition to the season of a fifth main stage reserved for dance. According to Yamaguchi, who is a Steering Committee member, though administrators at first rejected the proposal, the matter may still be under consideration...
...Into Emptiness” promises to challenge the same dance stereotypes that its choreographer, Yamaguchi, once shared. As a high school jock, Yamaguchi says, he had a prejudice about men dancing—that is, until his wrestling coach suggested he learn as a way to enhance his athletic performance...
...concept of dance,” Yamaguchi said, “is very much like wrestling, or martial arts; what can you do with the space and with other people, and time, and what possibly that you can make out of that.” Yamaguchi also hopes that the male-male lifting and female-female lifting in his piece will work to debunk sexual and gender-based stereotypes...
...foreign film industry the Japanese controlled was China's, and among its top stars was Li Xianglan, born Yoshiko Yamaguchi. Moviegoers thought her Chinese, and in wartime films she became one of the most popular actresses, as well as a popular singer. Faced with postwar treason charges and possible execution, she revealed her Japanese ancestry and was deported. But Yamaguchi's charisma soon overcame her "crimes." In the '50s she made films in Hong Kong (Bu Wancang's The Unforgettable Night) and the U.S. (King Vidor's Japanese War Bride and Samuel Fuller's House of Bamboo) as well...