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...pride was palpable as soon as the company stepped—or rather, tapped—onto the stage to rehearse. Jennifer N. Kurdyla ’11, another officer who has danced with TAPS for three years, entered the room wearing a black sweatshirt with “TAPS?? on the back in large white letters. But by the end of the first strenuous run-through, her sweatshirt lay strewn on the edge of the stage. At a quarter past 10, the room was already crackling with energy. Lowell Lecture Hall was finally awake...
...Driscoll ’11). The show’s program alternated between pieces by the two groups, with a finale performed by both. While the two troupes featured well-thought out pieces, Mainly Jazz was often more imaginative in its dances, performing stories as well as movement. TAPS?? arrangements were technically sound, but at times creatively restrained...
...sets, “Taps?? is played, and the collaged inhabitants of José González’s sonic dreamworld, halfway between the frozen North and the turbid South, wave him on his way, out into a promising artistic life of his own fashioning...
...oppressive. It was impossible for any journalist to remain a detached observer. But it wasn’t the bagpipes or the reading of names or the faces of those left behind that really got to me. It was that third, long note of “Taps?? and the way it cut through the silence in that pit and seemed to hang in the air forever. That was what brought the tears to my eyes...
...difficult to say whether it is the call itself or its association with death, but “Taps?? has a way of putting things in perspective. Earlier this week, I had “one of those days.” Work was hectic, I had to run a gazillion errands and when my day was finally done, my normal bus route was under construction, so I had to take a bus the opposite direction to catch a train that would take me home. When I finally got to my apartment, I was hot, tired and cranky...