Tag: Dance

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    Eleganza’s style endures

    The student event featured fashion design brands, including upcycled, reworked, and thrifted threads.

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    Why ‘The Exorcist’ is really more of zombie thing

    English course offers kaleidoscopic, cross-disciplinary look at horror classic as film, potential play, cultural artifact with long shadow.

    4 minutes
    Amelie Jülicher ’25 (left) and Matt Given ’25 rehearse The Exorcist.
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    Turning photons into pirouettes

    Astrophysics student Xiaohan Wu used dance to explain the physics behind photons in the early universe, winning the “Dance Your Ph.D.” international competition.

    4 minutes
    Xiaohan Wu dancing.
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    Wonderland reimagined

    Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”

    4 minutes
    Lily Rose Valore as Alice.
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    Creating community in the virtual classroom

    As students prepare for an academic year that will be entirely virtual, many Harvard faculty members have redesigned their courses.

    8 minutes
    Illustration of students connecting virtually to larger network.
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    Jeté into an ionic bond

    Ph.D. student Frederick Moss brings together the incongruous worlds of science and art.

    5 minutes
    People dancing.
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    All the right moves

    Amirah Sackett uses dance to challenge conceptions of Muslim womanhood. The Chicago dancer, choreographer, educator, and activist combines hip-hop with Islamic themes to explore her identity and invites viewers to expand their understanding of movement as a mode of self-expression. The Gazette spoke to Sackett about the importance of education in the arts, her activism, and…

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    Amirah Sackett
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    Dancing with the future

    A multimedia production incorporates dance, music, and spoken word to explore how humans might cooperate with future generations to try to solve problems like climate change. “Dancing with the Future” will premiere at Farkas Hall on Sept. 25.

    4 minutes
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    Voicing their differences

    The student group 21 Colorful Crimson performs a mix of covers and originals, with hopes of eventually recording an album of their own material.

    2 minutes
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    Songs in the key of humanity

    A new Harvard study suggests that people around the globe can identify lullabies, dancing songs, and healing songs — regardless of the songs’ cultural origin — after hearing just a 14-second clip.

    6 minutes
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    Deaf dancer feels the beat

    Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter leads a master class that provides lessons in movement and inclusion.

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    Antoine Hunter,Deaf choreographer, dancer,
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    A concentration’s first growth spurt

    As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media specialty turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators.

    6 minutes
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    Misty Copeland, offstage

    Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theatre’s first black principal dancer, shares her life story with students.

    4 minutes
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    Arts First at 25

    Since 1992, Arts First has had a profound effect on more than just the students who go on to become professional artists.

    7 minutes
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    A ‘Catalogue’ of dance

    William Forsythe dance work will be the first live performance at Harvard’s Widener Library.

    5 minutes
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    New degree of difficulty challenges performers

    Aislinn Brophy was one of the first to study Theater, Dance & Media when the concentration launched two years ago, and believes her pioneering experience bodes well for the future.

    4 minutes
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    Prescribing art in medicine

    A Wintersession course studied compassion and suffering through the lenses of dance, music, and science.

    4 minutes
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    ‘Disappearing’ Chilean art

    New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.

    5 minutes
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    Dancing because they can

    College seniors opt to have fun, be themselves, and leave comfort zones through their participation in the Expressions Dance Company.

    4 minutes
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    Deeper creativity

    New Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey talks about his goals for the division.

    4 minutes
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    Creative, cultured, and diverse

    The annual Arts First festival showcased many forms of imaginative expression and creativity across Harvard.

    4 minutes
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    Strength in movement

    Scientists gave little thought to the neurological effects of dance until relatively recently, when researchers began to investigate the complex mental coordination that dance requires.

    6 minutes
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    Karisma dances for charity

    A midmonth charity arts showcase called Karisma has raised $20,000, which will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Nepali hurricane relief efforts according to Karisma president and founding director Meenakshi Krishna ’17.

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    Arts First, and at center

    Arts First, Harvard’s spring weekend festival, embraces creativity, audience participation.

    5 minutes
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    Where skill meets flair

    The 24th annual Harvard Invitational ballroom competition, organized by the University’s ballroom team, happened in downtown Boston April 11 and 12.

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    Theater, Dance, and Media

    A new arts concentration will offer classes this fall, and students will be able to declare the concentration officially in December.

    8 minutes
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    Sneakers, flip-flops, stilettos

    This summer, dance students are learning how to swing, tango, salsa, and waltz, thanks to classes offered by Harvard Ballroom, a nonprofit, student-run dance organization that offers social dance classes throughout the year.

    3 minutes
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    Bringing culture outdoors

    The idea of “The City as Canvas” is to bring art — what one might experience behind the doors of museums and cultural institutions — into public spaces. On Friday, a Loeb Fellow led a conversation on that topic as part of the series “The Power of Cultural Disruption” at the Graduate School of Design.

    3 minutes
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    Marsalis in motion

    Before a rapt audience at Sanders Theatre, jazz great Wynton Marsalis explored the history of American dance in the second lecture in a two-year series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music.”

    3 minutes
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    Making an art of science

    Graduating senior Kevin Shee threw himself into Harvard’s dance scene after arriving as a freshman, but he leaves after nourishing a second love — science — that will take him to a research career after graduation.

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