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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!