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About What's happening. (Eugene, OR) 1982-1993 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1983)
• UPFRONT • UPFRONT • UPFRONT • Smiles and Titters Powers and Jeans Dance En semble is a newly formed dance co-directed by two company. Eugene artists, Michelle Powers and Liz Jeans. The company will perform a full-length concert in the Hult Center’s Soreng Thea tre on Friday, Oct. 14. The con cert, entitled Smiles and Titters, will include compositions rang ing from classical to jazz, touch ing on a wide variety of emo tions. Of the eleven works to be per formed, all are choreographed by Powers, Jeans, or by the two together. Joining them in vari ous combinations are dancers Donna Briggs, Cara Siler, Terri Wilder, Kevin Collins, Vance Balter, Sher Alltucker, Doug Nelson, and Dave West. Powers and Jeans will each perform a solo piece as well. Presently, Michelle is com pleting a Masters degree at the University of Oregon concerning the “Neurological Approach to Sensory Motor Movement.” She instructs classes at Creative Insti tute of Dance here in Eugene, as well as running the Whiteaker Dance Program. Michelle per forms with Nicola and Tim Fost er in New Jazz Theater and she also co-directs Powers and Jeans Dance Ensemble. She is availa ble for consulting, choreogra phy, workshops, instruction and therapy. Liz Jeans is presently co-di recting Powers and Jeans Dance Ensemble. This company en ables Liz to further her inten tions of providing a good experi ence for dancers to reach their community. She is continuing to instruct community classes through the Whiteaker Dance Program, and is involved as choreographer for local pro ductions. Future of Justice Coming up on October 19-21 is a very special Future of Justice Conference planned at the U of O. The goal of this conference is “to educate participants towards the reduced use of imprisonment in our society.” Leaders in the field will discuss the impact of imprisonment on the individual and society; workshops will al low participants to share views, explore alternatives to imprison ment, and strategize to imple ment alternatives in their region. Keynote addresses will be de livered on the evenings of Octo ber 19 and 20. The very distin guished list of national speakers includes: Kathryn W. Burkhart, journalist and author of Women in Prison-, Ron Herndon, co chair of the Portland, Oregon chapter of the Black United Front; Fay Knopp, founder and coordinator of the Prison Research Education Action Pro ject and co-author of Instead of Prisons-, Michael Kroll, political commentator and former coor dinator of the National Mora torium on Prison Construction; and Jerome Miller, founder and executive director of the Na tional Center on Institutions and Alternatives (NC1A), Wash ington, D.C. The strategy-oriented work shops will be offered 9-5 pm, Oct. 20 and 21. Topics will in clude: preventing crime and vic timization through a re-educa tion of values; challenging rac ism in the criminal justice sys tem; remedial intervention in sex offenses; developing community based alternatives, decarcerating the developmentally disabled; dismantling the prison system; and building a caring communi ty. This conference is hosted by Sponsors, Inc., a not-for-profit organization established in 1973 to assist prisoners and ex-prison ers in their transition from prison to society. Sponsors an nually assists over 300 indivi duals, among them prisoners and parolees, families of pri soners, and community volun teers. This conference is hosted by Sponsors in celebration of their, tenth anniversary! Registration may be by mail, Sponsors, Inc., P.O. Box 3908, Eugene, OR 97403, or call 485-8341. There is a $50 fee for professionals, $17.50 for students, seniors and the un employed, and $35 for all others. VOLVO Owners Alpine Import / /Service Specialists in Volvo service We offer a preventive maintenance/safety inspection for FREE 12th & Main, Spid. • 726-1808 A fl V UP NIVCRSITY DACL 774 E. 13th Second Floor Smith Family Book Bldg 683-5577 ROUND TRIP BARGAIN FARES AT THE TOP OF THE STAIRS Portland-St. Louis Portland-Boston Eugene-Albuquerque Portland-Chicago Portland-Hong Kong $298 $318 $279 $299 $820 •Fares subject to certain restrictions A Festival of New Work I I A three-part dance concert en titled “Festival of New Work” will be presented on Monday, I Oct. 17, in the Soreng Theatre at the Hult Center for the Perform ing Arts. The concert will in clude a new work by Mary Os lund performed by Oslund and Company/Dance, a piece by Karen Nelson and Alito Alessi of Joint Forces, and an improvisa । tional work by DK Taylor’s The atre of Life. Potter Street Pieces, per formed by Oslund and Com pany/Dance, is choreographed by Mary Oslund. Dancers for the work are John Chanik, Mae Chesney, Jean Fogel, Penny King, Mary Oslund, Marc Sie gel, and Ann Rogers. The col laborative music score is newly created for the piece by Mike Van Liew, and will be performed live by Jeff Homan, Mark Schneider, Dan Stueber, and Van Liew. The half-hour long dance includes “Forward,” an uptempo ensemble section, “Scenes,” a collection of duets; trios, and small groups per formed to blues music, “The Rink, ” a duet. comic “Crowds,” based on pedestrian movement, and “Cascade,” in volving recurrent movement phrases. Costume designer is Barbara Embree. Joint Forces members Karen Nelson and Alito Alessi will per form their first full-length chore ographed duet, along with live original music by Crystal Flame members Michael Harrison and Don Lax. Harrison’s musical composition, “The Swan Has Flown to the Mountain Lake,” has inspired a fresh and exciting dance piece bearing the same ti tle. Alessi and Nelson, usually known for their improvisational style of dance, have integrated their expertise in contact im provisation with their experience of the martial arts and other movement forms to introduce a choreographic style with a new view. Harrison and Joint Forces were noted for their introspec tive quality last year at the Hult Center performance of “White Truck.” This year, Don Lax and Doug Scheuerell, playing parts created especially for them, will be joining Michael Harrison, Alito Alessi, and Karen Nelson for this debut performance. TEETH Ignore them and they will go away Teeth Cleaning, Exam and X-Rays as needed $25 Will Morningsun, D.D.S. Thomas R. Huhn, D.D.S. call for appointment 746-6517 528 Mill St. Nelson and Alessi collaborate in the areas of performance, movement, teaching and heal ing. As performers, they believe in creating a shared kinesthetic experience between themselves and the audience. As movement educators they encourage each individual to cultivate personal acceptance and to simultaneous ly develop a sensitivity to their body and an expanded aware ness of its possibilities. They are both staff members at the Eu gene Center for Personal Educa tion and Healing Arts. Alito, a board member of the center, has a private practice as a bodywork counselor. Karen is a movement therapist and body worker at the Center, and teacher of contact improvisation. Michael Harrison composes most of the music for the group and received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Composition as well as a Close Award in compo sition from the University of Or egon in 1983. He is primary stu dent of the composer/teacher La Monte Young and has received three scholarships to study as his ' apprentice in New York. Harri son has also studied with Pandit Pran Natn and Terry Riley since 1978. The eastern influence on the group’s music is quite obvi ous. Don Lax has played violin for 24 years and was trained in the National Conservatories in Rome and Versailles, France. Although The Crystal Flame is his main outlet as a soloist, he is also a violinist with the Eugene Symphony Orchestra and the Roccoco Consort. Doug Scheurell received a Bachelor of Music in Voice with teaching credentials from the University of Wisconsin in 1971. He has been on the faculty of the East Bay Center for the Per forming Arts and the Family Light Music School in Califor nia. He recently returned from California, where he studied tabla for two years with Swapan Chaudhuri at the Ali Akbar Khan College of Music. Theatre of Life consists pres ently of Alito Alessi, Sage Glenn, Karen Nelson, and director DK Taylor. Their work is entirely improvised and calls on movement, sound, and lan guage forms to create a theatre of the moment with all the pas sion and immediacy of life in its most ripe state. Theatre of Life will be performing from “Club Bardo,” scores which suggest the state between death and re birth and allow the performers to take both theatrical and per sonal leaps into the unknown. Lighting Designer for the con cert is Lucy Lunch, graphic de signer is Jan Bushell. Tickets are $5.25 and $4.25 (students) in advance. Day of show tickets are $5.75 and $4.75 (students); these are available at the Hult Center Box Office and the EMU Main Desk. This pro ject is sponsored in part by funds from the Oregon Arts Commis sion, the City of Eugene Dept, of Parks and Recreation, and the EMU Cultural Forum. SUMATRAN and SUMATRAN DECAF 50c Off Per Pound I I FIFTH STREET MARKET SOUTHTOWNE SHOPPES The COFFEE CORNER Lid. OUTHTOWNE ACCOUNTING SERVICES • Eugene. 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