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...strong showing at “Dancing Caprices.” The first piece was a beautiful debut of “Elysium” choreographed by Claudia F. Schreier ’08. The sound of fast-paced violins filled the air as a group of five dancers gracefully performed to the music of Philip Glass. The resonance between the choreography and the title of the piece culminated towards the end. One of the male dancers evocatively lifted one of the female dancers, who seemed to transcend the boundary between life and death, perhaps returning to Earth after...
...word that Christine W. Dakin’s students, both past and present, use to describe her is “intense.” Petite, with delicate features and clad in a festive red sweater, this adjective seems inappropriate upon a first glance of the famed dancer. But one look into her bright eyes, perceptibly curious and insistently alive, and it is easy to understand their impressions. Dakin is currently a Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and will be performing with the Harvard Contemporary Dance Ensemble this weekend. When asked how she would introduce her solo...
...Page.”The Adams House Pool Theatre served as an intimate atmosphere for the show, with enough breathing room for all, but hardly a spare seat in the room. A black-cloth backdrop and simple lighting allowed the audience to focus on the movement of the dancers. Out of the 11 pieces, the standouts were “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair,” “Eat Pray Love,” and “Teanga Eile/Second Tongue.” “Twenty Love Poems” featured Daniela...
...most extraordinary minds on the planet,” he said. “I probe those minds and try to figure out how…they carry through projects, doing things which matter for our world.”Explaining what it means to be a dancer, d’Amboise described the fetus’s experience in the womb, a motif he would return to in his discussion of “Apollo.”“The blood is pumping and they begin to feel rhythm through movement. Momma’s running...
Lantip Kuswaladaya shudders when he recalls the earthquake that struck Yogyakarta in May last year. "My wife, who was six months pregnant, was trying to get down from the second floor of our house," says the professional dancer, who lives in Kembaran village, just outside the quake-prone Indonesian city of half a million. "Even though the house was swaying like a palm tree, she eventually made it down safely." His neighbors were less fortunate. The quake, measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, struck before dawn. Most of the houses in Kembaran were reduced to rubble. In Yogyakarta's immediate...