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.
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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.
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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.