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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (April 8, 1976)
. _ . Photo ty Pwry Gas** Dance 76 on stage Women poets read work Five members of a recently organized group, the Women Poets of Eugene, led an open poetry reading Wednesday in the Lane Community College Women s Awareness Center Some 50 women of diverse outlook and background read or listened to others' work, most of which dealt with feminist orientations. A Sunday evening meeting of Women Poets of Eugene will include an open poetry reading, beginning at 8 p.m. in Mother Kali's bookstore, 343 W. 11th. The group, which seeks to share their words and energies with other women, meets about once a month on an .nformal basis. A 32-page anthology of local women s poetry, titled The Feminary, will be pub lished in May by Jack Rabbit Press. About 50 different poets will be represented. Ex pected sale price is $1.50. Women Poets of Eugene are available for readings at schools or other public or ganizations. Messages, invitations or ques tions for the group may be left by calling Mother Kali s, 343-4864. More Shakespeare to come in Ashland summer season Preview Week showings of the three outdoor theater plays for Ashland’s Shakespeare Festival — Much Ado About Nothing, Henry VI - Part 2, King Lear — will begin June 12 with tickets discounted 50 cents. These early shows repre sent the second and third dress rehearsals of the plays. The full schedule, including Festival/Stage II holdovers Comedy of Errors and G.B. Shaw's Devil's Disciple, starts June 18 with Much Ado About Nothing. Lillian Heilman's story of an embittered New South family, Little Foxes, will join the other plays for the summer run. For the first time in the Festival’s history, theater goers will have a choice of evening plays on the same night. Beginning July 16 Little Foxes will run for 20 perfor mances in the Angus Bowmer V_ (indoor) Theatre while the reg ular schedule of plays are per formed on the outdoor stage. Information and reserva tions for the Shakespeare Fes tival plays are available from the Ashland Festival Box Of fice (482-4331). at the EMU Main Desk or Greve Jewelers, 51 W. Broadway. Students shouldn't overlook the Senior Citizen/Student Rush tickets of unsold seats available one-half hour before pt 100118006 time for $2. Cur rent student identification is needed to purchase Rush tick ets from the theater box office. Also offered at sold-out evening performances are Standing Room Only tickets, which cost $2.50. Some 125 of these are sold for SRO plays in the outdoor theater, beginning one-half hour before the cur tain call. See related article on page 1b. UO Dance troupe brings poetry, enthusiasm to stage By Sue Rainey Music, movement, and color in a sensu ous rhythmic blend, imagery strange and startling, and a lot of splendid stomping were the memorable moments of Saturday night’s performance of Dance ’76 at the University Theatre. But with the incredible came the forgettable, some unpolished in stances that interrupted the otherwise smooth flow. Imprecision wasn’t rare during the ten different presentations and a few wretch edly scratched recordings were also un harmonious ingredients of the evening. De spite these, delight easily survived disap pointment. Particulary beautiful was “Summer Noc turne,” a lyrical ballet danced with stunning grace by Jackie Goodrich and Larry Sutton. "There is a Dream Dreaming Us,” as un lovely as “Nocturne” was lovely, fits in the category of dance as powerful drama. Spoken poetry, a naked light bulb and a single chair were unusual elements in a presentation often startling in its imagery. Nancy Schmidt’s solo was a graphic and eloquent portrayal of alienation and de spair; her fluid movement and violent ges tures were compelling in their intensity. Beginning the show on an upbeat note was “Red, White, and Blue Rondo," done to the spirited jazz of Dave Brubeck. Though a few slow feet flawed its execution, the piece contained many pleasing — and unusual— visual ideas. Hisses and grunts, well-timed, spiced the Dobre Folk Ensemble’s folk dances. En thusiastic steps and stomps were per formed to the beat of traditional Bulgarian, Hungarian, and American folk tunes. The dances were colorful and invigorat ing. A lively peak was reached with the final presentation, “Appalachian Suite,” danced to the tune of a real-life fiddler. The audi ence picked up the rhythm with hearty hand-clapping and joined those on stage in having a fine time. Other performances can be seen tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m., or at a 2 p.m. matinee Saturday. Tickets for the UO Robinson Theatre production are $3 gen eral admission and $1.50 for UO students with fee cards. Downtown mall hosts festival of the arts by Diana baroer As a salute to Oregon artists, as well as the University of Oregon's Centennial celebration and the nation’s Bicentennial, a "Festival on the Mall" will begin Friday, in downtown Eugene and continue through Monday. More than forty different individu als and groups from all over the state will display and perform their skills. These will include theatre groups, cinematic artists, musicians, poets, singers, dancers, pup peteers, mimes and even demonstrations of the medieval art of jousting. Exhibits will be held indoors and out, with an art show on the third floor of the Atrium building, and the “Oregon Artists' Film Theatre" showing five films daily at Cinema 7. The entire program of short films made by Oregon artists can be viewed in one sitting, and shoppers and downtown work ers are encouraged to bring their lunches and see the films showing from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Featured will be an experimental documen tary called "Black and White and Read All Over,” explaining the history of the Register-Guard. Other films will cover a variety of themes. The local chapter of the Society for Crea t'»'e Anachronism, a nationwide organiza tion dedicated to the recreation of some of the lighter aspects of the Dark Ages, will demonstrate medieval crafts, broadsword fighting, and Renaissance dancing to au thentic instruments. The Polynesian Dancers, a local group, will perform ancient and modem dances of Hawaii, Tahiti and New Zealand. Other activities will include performances by a group from the Portland Dance Theatre; the Oregon Jamaican Steel Band; the Eugene Theatre Company; and the Playbox Players and Blackbird Players of Portland. The first Festival of Arts was held in 1953. It received support from former DO presi dent O. Meredith Wilson and was continued in 1955. Since that time, the Festival has brought artists and performers from throughout the nation to the UO campus. Co-sponsored and funded by the Eugene Downtown Association, the University, the Centennial Planning Council and School District 4J, the Festival events are free. Schedules of activities will be posted at various locations on the mall and at each of the performance and display sites. All of the displays and entertainments are scheduled between noon and 5 p.m., Friday through Monday. Mike Seeger not only performs at the 1976 American Old Time Music Festival, he was also instrumental in bringing it here. The festival will take place in the EMU Ballroom this Saturday (see article on page 2b). Advance tickets are available at the Main Desk. A word of warning: last year this event was sold out!
