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Goodwill Dancing

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The ‘Talented Mr. Damon’ led the celebration of arts and culture at Saturday’s 15th Annual Cultural Rhythms Festival.

Actor and Cambridge native (and former Harvard student) Matt Damon can’t contain his pride at receiving the Harvard Foundation’s Cultural Artist of the Year Award for his “Outstanding Contributions to the Performing Arts.”
Claire Sulmers ’03 (left) and Regine Joseph ’01, from the Expressions Dance Company, energize the crowd with a hip-hop dance performed to the jams of rap artists Mos Def, Pharoahe Monch, and Jay-Z.
Ballet Folklorico de Aztlan member Mindy Chen ’02 performs the “Danza de los Machetes,” a Mexican dance which celebrates the harvest.
Eric Valle joined the Native Americans at Harvard and Radcliffe in a traditional Native American Pow Wow dance.

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