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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 21, 1980)
EMU square dance promises do-si-dos An old-fashioned, whooping and hollering square dance is promised for Friday at 8 p.m. in the EMU Ballroom. Corvallis caller Al Garren will be leading the dances, with music by local old-time musicians. Admission is $1.50. No square dancing experience of any kind is necessary, since Garren, who has been calling locally for several years and has built up a sizeable repertory of dances, will walk the dancers through each dance before the music starts. The live music is firmly in the style of Southern Appala chian old-time string band music. These fiddle and banjo tunes promise to make the dancing as easy as do-si-do. fjurn Cultural Forum presents SAN FRANCISCO MIME TROUPE SQUASH a topical musical comedy UNIVERSITY OF OREGON EMU BALLROOM Saturday March 1 8 PM $2.50 Students $3 General 686-4373/686-4362 Ticket outlets: EMU Maindesk, Backstage Dancewear, UO Bookstore, Book and Tea Free Workshop with Troupe: Sat., March 1, 11 AM Call U of O Speech Dept, to pre-register 686-4171 The Wayne Morse Chair of Law and Politics Presents "Employment in the 80's" A discussion of job and career changes over the next decade. Featuring WILLARD WIRTZ Former Secretary of Labor and first occupant of The Morse Chair MIKE HEREFORD President of the Retail Employees Local #1092 JOAN ACKER Associate Professor of Sociology, UO WILLIAM F. LUBERSKY Attorney; Spears, Lubersky, Campbell, and Blidsoe And moderated by: EMORY VIA Director of the Labor Education Research Center, UO 167 EMU 3:30 p.m. Thursday, February 21 Paoe 2 Section B ORT presents Steinbeck’s Great Depression classic The dreams of migrant farm workers and the people they work for during the Great De pression are the subjects of the Oregon Repertory Theatre's la test offering, Of Mice and Men. Written by John Steinbeck, CCPA plans second annual DancEugene Just about every major choreographer in Eugene is scheduled to perform in the Community Center for the Per forming Arts Second Annual DancEugene benefit concert Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The event, held at CCPA, begins at 8 p.m. each evening. The dancers come from throughout the Eugene com munity: the Eugene Ballet, the University of Oregon Dance Department, the Curry-Oslund Dance Company, City Center Dance Studio, Dance Works, the Whiteaker Dance Program, the CCPA and other area dance groups. DancEugene, offering a dif ferent program each night, is a showcase of the variety of dance originating in Eugene. This is a time for the dancers to come together to share dance with each other and with the community. Modern choreo graphy dominates all three evening performances with pieces danced by Liz Jeans, Michelle Powers and Joan Lazurus. Ballet, jazz, tap, middle eastern and other ethnic forms of dance are interspersed and danced by Ceil Forest, Janet Descutner, Mary Oslund, Carol McIntyre and many others. Tickets are available for $3 at the EMU Main Desk and also at the CCPA. Call 687-2746 for further info. the play focuses primarily on the plight of George (played by Dan Mayes) and Lenny (Denny Guehler), a pair of dreamers who depend on each other to make the dream come true. “The play is about man's ability to dream versus his ability to operate in reality,” says dir ector Will Emery. “Each char acter in the play is looking for the substance of the dream of a better life. That dream grows from love and communication, or the lack of it. I appreciate Steinbeck’s knowledge of dreamers." The play runs every Wednes day through Sunday at 8 p.m. (Sunday also has a 2 p.m. ma tinee) from now until March 9. Tickets are $4, $5 and $6 and are available at the ORT box office in the Atrium Building or by calling 485-1946. Also available are half-price Student Rush tickets. These enable students with current ID to buy remaining tickets 10 minutes before the beginning of the play. Ri R Music from near and far is in the offing this week by various constituents of the University’s School of Music. Friday at 8 p.m. The Jazz Lab Band I and the newly formed Studio Orchestra will perform in Beall Hall. Admis sion is $1 for students and $2 for the general public. The concert will feature the first performance of the Studio Orchestra, a combination of the Jazz Lab I and extra wood winds, brass and a full string section. According to Jim Olsen, director of jazz studies at the University, the word ' studio” is used to describe the group because it uses about the same instrumentation as a studio recording orchestra. The audience can expect to hear “exciting jazz with lots of interesting parts for all the performers,” he says. On Monday, also at 8 p.m. in Beall Hall violist Julie Anne Sadie will perform in a guest artist recital as part of the Early Keyboard Festival Series. Sadie will also present a workshop earlier in the day. For more information, call the music school at 686-5678. The concert includes several works for viol including Martin Marais' “Suite No. 1 in A Minor and his scenario of an eighteenth century operation called "Tableau of the Gall Bladder Operation." Admission is $2 for University students and $3 for the general public. On a slightly different note (albeit none the less noteworthy), the EMU Craft Center will present, for the first time, a show of works from its 44 staff members and instruc tors. The show will include works in ceramics, graphics, jewelry, textiles, fibers, batik, photography, woodworking, and more. The exhibition, called the EMU Craft Center Family Album Show, runs only Monday through Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. in Room 167 EMU (ergo, don't put this one off until next week). A reception will be held Monday from 6 to 9 p.m.
