Friday, March 10th, 2023 | 7:30 PM
Sanders Theatre, Harvard University
Pay what you think is fair for tickets. You do not need to buy a ticket or make a donation to attend, but we appreciate any donation you are willing to make! Suggested donation of $10-50+
Free parking is available at the Broadway Garage, located at 7 Felton Street, between Broadway and Cambridge Streets. Patrons tell the attendant that they are attending a Sanders Theatre event. They receive a swipe ticket which they will use to get back into the garage after the show, and which they will use to exit. Parking is from one hour pre-performance to one hour post.
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PROGRAM
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SAMUEL COLERIDGE-TAYLOR
Ballade in A minor
DUKE ELLINGTON
River Suite
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Suite from “Romeo and Juliet”
ABOUT THE PROGRAM
See the Music, Hear the Dance was the motto of George Balanchine, the father of American ballet. He demanded that his dancers be acutely musical. He believed that dance should be visual music, accentuating its every nuance to force audiences to hear it differently.
For our March program, we are encouraging our musicians (and listeners) to embody the acute ‘dance’ at the core of each of the pieces we are performing.
In its purest, fundamental form, dance is the art of body movement. For musicians, how we move our body completely changes what the music coming out of our instruments sounds like, and for listeners, the way a musician moves while playing not only affects how the music sounds or feels to them, but can actually help them follow the music more effectively. Music and Dance are interlinked — one can’t exist without the other.
Both music and dance have been part of human history since its earliest origins, bringing transcendence to spiritual rituals and creating bonds within communities. They operate in much the same way on a metaphorical level. Dance as a metaphor evokes connection, flow, improvisation. Music evokes much the same and also how we express ourselves, our emotions, feelings, and thoughts throughout our lives.
The Anglo-American speaker and author Alan Watts put it well:
“We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played.” ― Alan Watts