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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 1, 1976)
UO dancers prepared OV J.C. Pock There is a dance dancing us with all our strength and innuendo reflecting positively on the face behind our skins. Jaspar Pound Sometime during the next two weekends the dance mentioned in this obscure American poem should appear in front of your eyes here at the University of Oregon as the Department of Dance and the University Theatre present “Dance 76” at the Robinson Theatre. The performers are members of the modem and ballet repertories, and the folk repertory which com prise the Concert Dance Theatre and th E Dobre Folk Ensemble. This year the repertory dance companies will present their pieces in two weekends of even ing performances on the main stage of the Robinson Theatre at 8 p.m., April 1-2-3-8-9-10, with 2 p.m. matinees April 3 and 10. Two different programs for “Dance 76,” one being dedicated to the bicentennial celebration, will alternate performances on each of the two weekends. The Dobre Folk Ensemble fea tures a suite of Appalachian dances choreographed by a new dance faculty member, Jerry Duke. Duke collected authentic folk material during research in the P—— southeastern United States and has contributed a lively, foot stomping number for the concert. A Mexican dance, “Los Gatos," by senior Lawrence Hecox, fluid and vicacious, requires excep tional footwork by the performers. “Tancolni Es Mulatni" (Dance and have fun with the gypsies") by senior Gail Andrews shows the ethnic costumes and traditional movement patterns one might as sociate with such a Hungarian title. Also from the Eastern Euro pean milieu comes Jerry Duke’s “Bulgarian Dance Suite.” Concert Dance Theatre ex panded its ballet repertory this season with three new pieces. Ballet director Barbara Reming ton contributes a gorgeous pas de deux entitled “Summer Nocturne” that evokes a mood of warm, romantic evenings under soft skies. Her “La Soiree" is a ballet for seven dancers in four sections utitizing different types of move ment that coalesce in the finale. The dance is vivid, comic, roman tic, a versatile piece of choreog raphy. For her first showing to Eugene audiences, Ceil Forrest, a Graduate Teaching Fellow specializing in choreography, brings two original pieces to “Dance 76.” “The Party” is a de piction of children playing games and dealing with one another at a birthday party. Visual abstractions, line, color and mood are the dominant ele ments of her second piece called “Portraits of America.” This work Weis inspired by paintings from two American artists, Norman Rock well and Stanley MacDonald Wright. Janet Descutners “Red, White and Blue Rondo" will open each concert with speed, energy, color, and tapping feet. It's all-out American. The popular ‘‘Jivin'” revives the late thirties in true be-boppin’ style with choreography by Jenifer Pashkowski Winsted. The development of America in the guise of people and their rela tionships is traced from its ag gressive pioneering days, thgouth the grown of cities, through war, to the present. Music by contempor ary artists such as Jeff Beck, Billy Preston and Emerson, Lake and Palmer accompany this intriguing piece. Dramatic, too, is Janet Descutner s new work “There Is a Dream Dreaming Us." Dialogue provides an unusual accompani ment in parts of the dance. Schoenberg and Webern fill the remaining listening minutes with provoking themes. Lyric prose parts derive from the works of French poets Baudelaire and Rimbaud. “Resonances by Vera Blaine, reconstructed by Janet De scutner, completes the modem dance program. Sculptural form, purity of line and an adherence to rules of composition are the em phasis of this. “Dance 76" tickets and informa tion are available at the UO Robinson Theatre box office by calling 686-4191. Tickets are $3 general admission and $1.50 for UO students with fee cards. Williams play opens at Coburg Inn soon In his recently-published book Memoirs, playwrite T ennesee Wil liams says that Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, scheduled for a Eugene premiere this weekend, is his favorite play. Considered a modem classic almost since its first performance, Cat has enjoyed an unusual measure of success in numerous productions since its 1955 debut. The American Shakespeare Theatre revival in 1975 was so successful that it was moved to New York, where it played to SRO audiences. Eugene will have probably its first chance to see what has been called Williams' most human play when the Eugene Theatre Com pany (ETC) wiil present it, starting this Saturday and Sunday, in the banquet room of the Country Squire Inn. “Cat," says director Dan Hays, “is a drama of survival...a portrait of people at a crisis point. It is an intensely theatrical play with a u nique sense of humor. “It’s an actor’s piece,” Hays continues, "a play of character that presents some of the richest roles available to performers, Maggie, Big Daddy, Big Mama, Brick...strong challenges, be cause they are the essence of theatre, people exposed in their weakness...and strength. A view ing of this play can only lead to the $3.69 JEFFERSON STARSHIP RED OCTOPUS JEFFERSON STARSHIP “RED OCTOPUS'' THE OUTLAWS WAYLON JENNINGS WILLIE NELSON JESSIE COLTER TOMPALL GLASER PURE PRARIE LEAUGE “IF THE SHOE FITS" RECORDS §un Shop Across from the /nureruty bookstore. conclusion that there is light in darkness." The orginal 1955 production featured Burl Ives as Big Daddy, Barbard Bel Geddes as Maggie, and Ben Gazzara as Brick. Ives repeated his role in the 1959 film, with Elizabeth Taylor as Maggie and Paul Newman as Brick. The ETC production has John Freeman, Kathleen Randall, and Denny Guehler, respectively, in those roles with Biq Mama being played by Jacquie McClure. Other members of the cast include Jan Powell (Mae), Robert Webb (Goope*), Wil* Emery (Doc Baugh), and Dan Hays (Rev. Tooker) The Eugene Theatre Com pany has been in existence for some three years and is regis tered with the State of Oregon as a non-profit organization. Past pro ductions include Three-penny Opera, Checkov Comes to U.S., Old Times (also directed by Hays) and, more recently, Forty-nine and Fashion. Cat on a Hot Tin Root will play on Aphl3,4,10.11.23.24, and 25 at the Country Squire Inn. Curtain is at 8:30 p.m. The bar opens at 7:15. Tickets are $3 with the bar tabs separate. Advance tickets may be obtained at Meier & Frank, Toad Hall, and the EMU Mam Desk. The Country Squire Inn is lo cated five miles north of Eugene on Interstate 5, just outside the town of Coburg. 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