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Seeing The Hard Nut Once Again

Posted on December 18, 2010 by Wendy Lesser

Mark Morris’s The Hard Nut is a Christmas confection, but I first saw it in the summer. It was August of 1995, and my husband and I and our ten-year-old son traveled north from London to catch the highlights of the … Continue reading →

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Short Takes

Posted on November 2, 2007 by Wendy Lesser

During a single week last month, I took my Hunter College freshmen to two dance events: a rehearsal of Mark Morris’s Mozart Dances at the Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, and one of the premiere performances of Christopher Wheeldon’s Morphoses/The … Continue reading →

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Teaching the Arts

Posted on January 12, 2007 by Wendy Lesser

This past fall I taught a course called “New York and the Arts” at Hunter. My students were freshmen in the CUNY Honors College, which meant that, on the basis of their academic promise, they had all been granted a … Continue reading →

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