While the winter season has numerous wonders?brightly-wrapped presents, snowmen, lights, music, family gatherings?Boston Ballet's The Nutcracker proves itself year after year as the ultimate Christmas- season treat. Based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's 19th-century tale about a young girl, Clara, who is transported to a magical world by an enchanted nutcracker toy, the ballet premiered nearly 120 years ago in the Mariinsky Theatre in St.
The predominantly Chinese clientele and staff of Bubor Cha Cha may, like other Chinatown hotspots, intimidate those who don't speak Mandarin or Cantonese.
Adagio Dance Company's Dancefest 2011 was not merely a performance but a coming together of a community. The 84 members of Adagio; tap dance club Hooked on Tap; step team So Unique; the Belly Dance Ensemble; hip-hop troupe Kaos Kids; the African Dance Club; Israeli dance troupe B'yachad; and dance crews from Suffolk University, Simmons College, Bentley University and Tufts University, as well as friends and family of the performers, filled the Levin Ballroom last Wednesday in the largest gathering of dancers this semester. The event had a tight-knit, Brandeisian feel to it that reminded me of a high school football game at which everyone knows each other.
According to Johanna Wickemeyer '12, director of Tympanium Euphorium's upcoming production, Urinetown is "a satiric, comedic view of a Malthusian world sometime in the future" where people have to pay the government in order to go to the bathroom.
Last Sunday, five a cappella groups from Boston-area colleges?as well as The Poor Richards, who hail from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa.?performed in the Golding Auditorium as part of Starving Artists' first annual Acatoberfest. The Poor Richards; Vocal Suspects from University of Massachusetts-Amherst; the M&Cs from Mount Holyoke College; and the Treblemakers and Distilled Harmony, both from Boston University, gave performances that included a variety of R & B, pop, spiritual, Broadway, hip-hop and funk songs. "We always learn from other groups when we listen to a cappella," says Starving Artists Events Coordinator Ellyn Getz '13, who organized the event.
Last Wednesday, my girlfriend treated me to a funk-jazz concert at a posh Cambridge hotel. We saw up-and-coming saxophone star Grace Kelly, 19, guest perform with Bill Banfield and the Jazz Urbane at Sculler's Jazz Club, located in the Hilton Hotel.
Historically, great jazz groups have come in the form of quartets and quintets led by a highly influential composer and performer.
Joshua Redman once had the whole world in front of him. In 1991, he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in Social Studies and had already been accepted to Yale University Law School.
While pregamed partygoers begin their exodus Friday night down South Street toward the frat houses, students who choose not to drink or go out are left with the eternal Brandeisian question: What should I do on the weekend?
The triangle formed by Harvard Avenue, Brighton Avenue and Commonwealth Avenue in downtown Allston, Mass.
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