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American Dance Festival – The Joy of Movement

by James Fuller ‘10, Artist Development Fellow: 2009
The American Dance Festival (ADF) is six weeks of dance classes, performances and panels held every summer at Duke University.  This summer, I attended ADF as a six week school student.  Students usually dance six to eight hours a day, and attend performances throughout the week.  Too much [...]

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Eve of ARTS FIRST

Right now, I’m sitting in the Office for the Arts; ARTS FIRST starts tomorrow. I know there’s something I should be doing, some phone call I should have made and several stacks of boxes I should haul around the square. Instead, I’m sitting at this desk, thumbing through the guide, and, for the first time [...]

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Impending ARTSplosion- 1 week to go!

I had a moment of pride this morning when, on my way to ‘Einstein Revolution’, I passed the giant ARTS FIRST banner proudly hanging from Widener. That, together with the beautiful morning and the presence of lots of growing, green flora after months of grey snow and mud, can only mean two things– spring’s finally [...]

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Listening to T.S. Eliot

Today in a discussion with my bosses at the Office for the Arts I learned that the image of rolled trousers in T.S. Eliot’s poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock didn’t only signify rolled up pant legs.  “Rolled trousers are a fashion statement, folded up and creased with perfection – it’s a certain [...]

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Michael Kaiser (Arts Admin. in Challenging Times)

Listen to it, Share it, Talk about it:
Kaiser Podcast
Link to Student Reaction

What did you take away from Michael Kaiser’s talk?
If you had to ask more questions, what would they be?
How did this experience inspire you?

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Harvard at Tribeca

Damien Chazelle, Harvard ‘07-08, will be screening his film Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.  Damien began work on Guy and Madeline in his junior year as his final thesis project in Visual and Environmental Studies, but as the project grew larger and larger, and as he [...]

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Arts Administration in Challenging Times

Who ever says as a child, “Mom, I want to grow up to be an arts administrator?”
I surely didn’t.  But that’s just what I told my parents this past Wednesday afternoon, after listening to the conversation presented at the New College Theatre featuring Michael Kaiser, President of the Kennedy Arts Center in Washington D.C.  Known [...]

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Sometimes, Men Wear Dresses

And to my dismay, their legs usually look better than mine ever will.  The annual Hasty Pudding Theatrical show, involving men dressed in drag, music, and dancing, is one of those ridiculous time-honored traditions at Harvard (like Primal Scream, or burning boats on housing day) that you just have to experience before you graduate.  And [...]

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The Public’s Place at the Table

Last night I had the pleasure of visiting the Ceramics Program to meet with a few general public participants who are excited about getting involved with “Place at the Table.” Laurie Miles (an independent multi-media artist) presented a really wonderful concept for a set of tables whose design is based on guidelines for sustainable cooking. [...]

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