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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.
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A Festival of New Work
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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.
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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.
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