Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media concentration turns 2 this spring
As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media (TDM) concentration turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators, a milestone for a nascent department that its caretakers describe as adventurous and enthusiastic as it finds its footing. “It’s an exciting, thrilling time to be in a place that has the resources that it has and such an amazing student body. Our students are coming from a lot of different disciplines, and I like that it’s interdisciplinary, and not purely practice-based,” said James Stanley, lecturer on history and literature and on Theater, Dance & Media. “TDM is still finding its feet, trying to figure out what it wants to be by inviting diverse artists into the classroom and in conversation with its students. The more it does that, the more it will find its grounding.” Martin Puchner, chair of the Committee on Theater, Dance & Media, called the progress “exhilarating.” Ten students have declared...