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Stage fright has never been a term in the dance vocabulary of Expressions Dance Company co-director Shana J. Cloud ’06.“Performance has come very easily to me over the years,” she says. In Cloud’s first performance??at the tender age of five—she replaced a soloist sick with chickenpox on the hallowed stage of Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. According to Cloud, “After having jumped across that stage in front of thousands of people, there’s nothing...
...free admission as well as its location in the Yard, as statements of their commitment to the undergraduate experience. Not everyone agrees with the committee’s new focus. While some students, such as Chad R. Cannon ’09, expressed enthusiasm for the Ben Folds performance??“I’m planning on being back here from New York so I can go to it,” he says—others show less interest.Catherine L.H. Matthews ’06 says she preferred the Springfest activities from previous years, and also...
...Summer Solstice.” A very talented small group performed this truly contemporary piece that blended classical steps with contemporary music and movement. Kenney and David L. Blazar ’06, impressively executed a technically difficult routine. The entire group gave a clean, lively, and sophisticated performance??a perfect ending. The first two pieces of “Pointe/Counterpointe” gave an unrepresentative account of the evening as a whole. Despite a rough beginning, the HBC gave a stellar performance that left both the dancers and audience members enthusiastic for classical and contemporary ballet...
...only 50 minutes. Event organizer and Lowell English tutor Rebecca S. Erwin explained later that Act II was skipped altogether to avoid the politics within the play and to fast-forward to the more exciting scenes. The smell of pizza filled the room as actors prepared for the performance??not by rehearsing lines, but by eating and laughing about the props they were about to use. Erwin kicked off the show by dubbing all the participants “the official founding members of the Lowell Last Minute Drama Society.” At the start, actors were...
...turnover performance??four of them interceptions in the second half—turned the Crimson’s afternoon into an endless defensive stand in the red zone. The Mountain Hawks (3-1, 0-0 Patriot) scored 28 points off of Harvard’s miscues and compiled 453 yards of offense in a 49-24 thrashing of the Crimson at Harvard Stadium...