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...snapping father who pulled my sisters and I onto the dance-floor as soon as “Mac the Knife” began to play, by my party-loving mother who taught us each how to fox-trot at an early age, or by my grandparents, Kathryn and Arthur Murray, who spawned a generation of jitter-bugging, tango-lovin’ dancers during the Depression. The Murrays built a successful franchise of teaching studios and later brought ballroom to the masses through television, erasing the class signifiers that had accompanied certain dance steps. At the beginning of their program...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, | Title: Sex, Swing, and Stereotypes | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...This exhibit highlights shawls and silver tableware produced in India during the late colonial period, focusing on the evolution of the former toward European styles and the latter toward more traditional Indian designs. A series of gallery talks and lectures throughout the semester will accompany the show. Arthur M. Sackler Museum. Free. (KAK) Stratification: An Installation of Works Since 1960. Through Feb. 26, 2006. Curatorial intern M. Celka Straughn organized this exhibit of German and Swiss painters and sculptors highlighting seven key pieces from the museum’s collection. Several undergraduates were also involved in the project and will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening 12/9-12/15 | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...said. As last Thursday’s group read aloud from “The Long Christmas Ride Home,” it was clear that Vogel’s conversation-like stage directions and narration are a far cry from, say Arthur Miller, with whom Vogel contrasted her work. One stage direction reads, “[Stephen and anonymous partner] simulate a sexual act that means this play will never be performed in Texas.” Vogel was rejected from the American Repertory Theater (ART) years ago, she said, because the theater’s director read Vogel?...

Author: By Kathleen A. Fedornak, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Playwriting Prof Unearths Unusual Inspirations | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...between in Cambridge. Even animals are hard to find in the Yard.Just outside its gates, however, they’re flourishing. And these aren’t your garden variety birds or squirrels, either: they’re dragons, gibbons, and even phoenixes, all part of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s newest exhibition: “Evocative Creatures: Animal Motifs and Symbols in East Asian Art,” which opened on November 16, 2005. Located within the Sackler’s East Asian collection, the artwork is fascinating for any animal lover or Asian art aficionado...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sackler's Asian Animal House | 12/8/2005 | See Source »

...next year’s “Get Smart,” a remake of the cult hit ’60s television show, his role on “The Office” was played on British television to universal acclaim by Ricky Gervais, and his Uncle Arthur character in “Bewitched” was legendarily portrayed by Paul Lynde...

Author: By Hayes H. Davenport, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Like a ‘Virgin,’ Known for the Very First Time | 12/2/2005 | See Source »

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