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"How to Walk, Run, Jump, Fall Together" is an energetic and entertaining evening of all-original dance. The concert features the work of two faculty and five student choreographers, including three seniors.
"This is a celebration of our senior students and also an opportunity to create dances that can be playful, serious, and above all, an experience in having fun together," said Concert Director Jumay Chu. "The concert reflects a wide array of the work being done in the department, experimenting with conventions and bringing issues and ideas that are non-traditional to the forefront. It's interesting to see how the dancers' disparate backgrounds inform their individual choreography."
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Leslie Morris
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
The 2008-09 Cornell Dance Series kicks off with a one-evening-only performance of Trajal Harrell: Quartet for the End of Time. A cutting edge choreographer and dancer, Harrell probes the antagonism between sincerity and irony in this contemporary dance work set to Olivier Messiaen's "Quartet for the End of Time." This famous music was first composed and performed by prisoners in a Nazi war camp. This touring company will perform October 2.
"Quartet for the End of Time" by cutting edge choreographer and dancer Trajal Harrell
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Ben Veaner
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
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Jim Evans
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Friday, 02 May 2008 |
 SMART TALK
by Dr. Will S.
Sert
MITIGATE AGAINST: Codgers
(not old codgers) remember Archie
Bunker, the TV comedy character who looked dumb and close minded at the time
but has become a model for today's cable news personnel. Unfortunately, he lives on in many of my
patients at the Institute for the Linguistically Impaired, who often pretend to
work as public servants. Let's just say
they fill political offices.
These toilers for our taxes often propose action that will mitigate against some undesirable
tendency. Mitigate against is worthy of Archie Bunker because it's wrong on
two counts before we even debate the rightness of the action.
First (not firstly),
mitigate against is redundant. Mitigate already means to make less
severe. Against is no more necessary than mental before telepathy.
Second, mitigate
is usually the wrong word, anyway, so it becomes a malapropism in the greatest
Archie Bunker/Dan Quayle/George W. Bush tradition. Mitigate against isn't
as funny as consorting for immortal purposes,
but it'll have to do in these scary times.
The expression my patients probably intend is militate
against. That means to counteract,
or operate against.
Many of them can't understand the distinction, and I train
them to stick to plain words they understand, much as soldiers aren't allowed
to handle weapons they haven't qualified for.
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