Greek Games 1967 at Barnard Arts Festival
The Greek Games return dedicated to Athena on April 22 at 2 30 in Barnard gym. Co sponsor Columbia Barnard Arts Festival tickets on Jake 11 to 2 daily. Scholarships funded from contributions. The event features Greek tunics discus relay charioteer pages and torch relay with crowd excitement and winning lyric readings. Open to Columbia community.
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Christopher Morley
Virginia Gilderstaeve
Amust
Columbia
The Mythos of Greek Games History and Evolution
The Greek Games began in 1908 at Barnard College as sophomores challenged freshmen to a Greek culture inspired contest. Over the years it evolved from athletic displays to a refined festival with dance, choral singing, and formal judging, moving to Berngrd Hall in 1918 and stabilizing around 1923 with a fixed structure and ongoing changes while preserving the Greek ideal of perfection through competition.
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Barnard
Greece
Brinckerhoff Theatre
Eailly
Bheir
Berngrd Hal
Sergi Rachmeninoff
Souste
Alexander Woollcott
Christopher
Alumna Reflects on Greek Games Dance Tradition at Barnard
Alice Harper Feuerstein, class of 1920, recalls sabbatical-stint teaching at Julie Richman High and joining Barnard students in a modern dance class at The Marie Marchowsky Studio. She describes sold out tickets, judged by top professionals, and a memory of Aphrodite themed performance with green chiffon waves. Feuerstein hopes for co ed and modernized future of the Greek Games.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alice Harper Feuerstein
Julie Richman
Present Barnard
Marie Marchowsky
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