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Ready for anything: Boston Conservatory students learn to switch up the styles.

Publication: Dance Magazine
Publication Date: 01-FEB-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Ready for anything: Boston Conservatory students learn to switch up the styles.(teach-learn connection)

Article Excerpt
The atmosphere in Studio One at The Boston Conservatory is what you might expect from a well-worn, old New England building: polished dark wood, high ceilings, and windows looking out to brick alleyways. But the dance students fill the room with a sense of relief and giddiness, despite end-of-semester jury examinations looming just around the corner. They're presenting an informal showing from their dance electives courses.

The dancers have spent all year learning to adapt to any technique. Their versatility gives them several career options after graduation, and the seniors in the room are wondering if they'll follow other alumni to Broadway, Boston Ballet, Mark Morris, Sean Curran, Paul Taylor, Ballet Hispanico, Alvin Alley, MOMIX, or Cedar Lake, among other places.

The women perform a pointe variation from Petipa's Awakening of Flora, a solo made famous by Vaganova and reworked here into...

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