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2018 Jan 22

Peter Chu Master Class

7:30pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge, Studio 1

Image: Peter Chu. Photo credit: Levi WalkerChoreographer Peter Chu creates works that push the physical bounds of movement with contrasting sharp and liquid-like energy that expands, contracts, isolates, and undulates. Partnering exchanges and an innate wisdom of the body & mind play significant roles in Chu’s works. He is a dance maker inspired by the temporal nature of emotions experienced within movement enmeshed with striking imagery to provoke thought.... Read more about Peter Chu Master Class

2017 Dec 17

Run AMOC! Festival: A Study on Effort

3:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St.

A Study on Effort explores connections between sound, body, and duration. An hour-long dialogue between dancer Bobbi Jene Smith (formerly of Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company and subject of Bobbi Jene, the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2017 award winner for Best Documentary) and violinist Keir GoGwilt (soloist with the Chinese National Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, and others; Harvard ’13), the piece transposes different physical and emotional tasks between music and...

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2017 Dec 15

Run AMOC! Festival: A Study on Effort

7:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden Street

A Study on Effort explores connections between sound, body, and duration. An hour-long dialogue between dancer Bobbi Jene Smith (formerly of Tel Aviv’s Batsheva Dance Company and subject of Bobbi Jene, the Tribeca Film Festival’s 2017 award winner for Best Documentary) and violinist Keir GoGwilt (soloist with the Chinese National Symphony, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Santiago, and others; Harvard ’13), the piece transposes different physical and emotional tasks between music and movement, finding pleasure at the boundaries of the two artistic disciplines.

Presented by: A.R.T. as part of the Run AMOC! Festival... Read more about Run AMOC! Festival: A Study on Effort

2017 Dec 15

Run AMOC! Festival

Fri - Mon, Dec 15 to Dec 18, 7:30pm - 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St.; OBERON, 2 Arrow St.; Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle St.

A.R.T. presents the inaugural Run AMOC! Festival, performed by the new American Modern Opera Company (AMOC). The festival features a collaboration between an internationally acclaimed dancer and award-winning violinist; duets staged as duels between three pairs of performers; and a musical meditation on the lives of black men and women lost as a result of police brutality over the past year. These newly developed pieces by AMOC artists will be performed at venues around Harvard Square.

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2017 Dec 08

Cypher at Harvard Dance Center

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Dance Center, 66 Garden St., Cambridge

Back by popular demand, a community cypher led by Aysha Upchurch AIE'15 will take place in the Harvard Dance Center's spacious Studio 1 for anyone needing an hour to dance it out in a joyful environment. Free refreshments will be provided!

What is a cypher?
A cypher is freestyle dance jam where an open circle is created and people take turns dancing in the center. The cypher (or cipher) has deep, long-standing cultural roots in hip hop culture, African tradition, and even religious beliefs. Our...

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Political body

HunterSilence has never stopped Antoine Hunter. The deaf advocate, dancer, producer and choreographer talks about communication, his own kind of advocacy and the approach to choreography that he will bring to a Harvard Dance Program master class.

By Isa Flores-Jones '19... Read more about Political body

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