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Being a full-time student at Harvard is enough to make anyone’s head spin. But try being a biomedical engineering concentrator and contemporary dancer as well as a ballerina. This is the case for Lauren E. Chin ’08-’09. Luckily, her poise and grace managed to carry her pirouetting to the OFA’s Suzanne Farrell Dance Award. The prize—whose namesake was once the prima ballerina of the New York City Ballet—is given to the Harvard undergraduate who has demonstrated exemplary artistry...
...where he lived as a student, he relishes his role as a part of the undergraduate experience. “I’m fully part of the rhythm of Harvard College,” said McCarthy. “And I’m not a particularly good dancer but I feel like if there’s a song that I dance to pretty well it’s that song,” he adds...
...Weber, a former ballet dancer and a professional tapper since 1986, remarked in an interview that Oppenheimer was a “great student...
...language. It seems, then, that any choreographer looking to stretch the limits of corporeal expression would require performers with incredible versatility and training. But choreographers’ avid searches for such rare ability inevitably overlook one fascinating factor in human movement: disability.Heidi F. Latsky acknowledged this oversight. Previously a dancer for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance and now a member of the Hofstra University faculty, she recently choreographed a performance featuring eight dancers, four of whom live with disabilities. Her creation—which is coming to Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art tonight and tomorrow?...
...cannon. “Firebird” and “The Rite of Spring” (“Le Sacre du Printemps”), two ballets with specially commissioned scores by Igor Stravinsky, are perhaps two of the most famous; the latter, with choreography by the legendary dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, caused a furor at its inception by virtue of its outrageous costumes, unusual choreography, bizarre story of pagan sacrifice, and Stravinsky’s musical innovations, all of which tested the patience of the audience to the extreme. “My hope at the symposium...