french ‘love’ circus opens
Le Grand Magic Circus, a no
holds-barred revue from Paris, will
open a two-night stand at the Port
land Civic Auditorium tonight. Cur
tain time for both tonight's and
tomorrow s performances will be
8:15 p.m.
The "entertainment” offered by
Le Grand Magic Circus is the
work of Jerome Savary who
started the company as an avant
garde street theatre in Paris some
( Dancers celebrate naming'
The University's dance theatre — in use but nameless
since 1970 — will be named this coming week (Oct. 27-Nov. 3)
in honor of Dr M Frances Dougherty, who brought dance from
a "fancy exercise" to an art form at the University.
Dr Dougherty, who did not study dance formally until she
attended college, has choreographed more than 40 composi
tions, eleven of them major works. Interested in dance from
early childhood, she turned that interest into a career that
spanned 40 years of teaching, choreography, dancing and
administering dance programs.
When she came to the UO in 1959, dance was a part of
the Physical Education Department for women and played a
minor role in the men s program. She created the University’s
department of dance and her efforts were instrumental in UO
establishing the first graduate program in dance in the North
west
During her last two years as head of the department of
dance, enrollment in the department increased from 60 stu
dents to 120. She retired as a professor of dance and head of
the department in 1974.
A week-long observance, "The Centennial Naming
Celebration of the Dance Studio Theatre, will mark the dedi
cation and naming During the week, special performing
groups will appear in six evening events at the theatre, located
on the third floor of Gerlinger Annex.
The official naming ceremony and dedication of the
theatre will be at an 8 o.m. performance of the University’s
Repertory Dancers, alumni and faculty dancers on Oct. 30.
This Wednesday at 8 p.m., Dan Wagoner and Company
will appear in a modern dance concert. Heidi Bunting, a
graduate of the UO department of dance, is a member of
Wagoner s New York-based company.
Wagoner is described, by Clive Barnes in the New York
Times, as looking like, “a cross between a friendly leprechaun
and a high school track star. His face positively glows with
friendly good nature, but in all of his dancing there is a lurking
touch of mischief.”
After being a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company
for nine years and a soloist with Martha Graham from 1960 to
1968, Wagoner broke away from the established modern
dance companies and formed his own ensemble.
The vocabulary of his choreography involves a variety of
traditions, mixing ballet with any number of recognizable
brands of modern and popular dance. Most of the subject
matter concerns itself simply with movements in space and the
relationships that come into being during such movement.
However, the imaginative style and high-energy inven
tiveness of his work has been known to overwhelm his audi
Continuing the line-up, the Oregon Mime Theatre will give
a mime lecture demonstration at 7:30 p.m. on October 28 and
a full performance at 8 p.m. on October 29.
At 8 p.m. on November 2 and 3, the Soul of Japan, a group
of Japanese dancers and choreographers on tour in the U.S.,
will perform.
These latter two groups will be covered more extensively
as their respective performance dates draw closer.
All performances are open to the public at $2 per person.
Admission to the mime lecture-demonstration will be $1.50.
The week-long series of events is part of the University's
Centennial Year activities. It is being sponsored in part by a
grant from the Western States Art Foundation, with funds from
the National Endowment for the Arts, The Oregon Arts Com
mittee, the Department of Dance and the University Centen
nial Committee.
During the dedication week the special performers will
each spend two and one-half days on campus conducting
special classes which are open to the public. A schedule of the
classes and requirements for admission are available through
the University dance department, 686-3386. Registration
must be made in advance.
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the Folies Bergeres, it is a satirical
revue, with a new theme and new
material each season. This year’s
version is entitled “The Grand
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The Prague String Quartet
concert tonight, is sold out.
A few tickets may be turned
in by persons unable to attend
tonight's concert. Persons in
terested should call the School
of Music community relations
office, 686-3887.
Faculty trio
performs free
The University Trio will perform
works by Beethoven, Keller and
Brahms on Wednesday (Oct. 27)
at 8 p.m. in the Beall Concert Hall.
Members of the trio, all faculty
members at the Music School, are
William Woods, piano; Lawrence
Maves, violin, and Robert Hladky,
cello. They will perform the
Beethoven Trio in E Flat Major,
Op. 1, No. 1; Declaration for Vio
lin, Cello and Piano, by Homer
Keller, a music school composi
tion professor; and the Brahms
Trip in C Major, Op. 87.
Wednesday s will be the Trio’s
first concert in more than a year;
last year, pianist Woods was on
sabbatical leave in Europe. It also
marks the fifteenth year that the
present members of the Trio have
played together — longer than the
members of any other profes
sional trio on the West Coast.
Admission is free.
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