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OFF On any 1/3 pound Jamie's Burger Coupon expires 5/1/86 2445 niVard 5t 542-2206 1810 Chambers 5t 545 0485 Eugene, Oregon 97405 ( ! 50* Artwo* and •Sinu. ' 'weekend rate SSWiSSK s? SMST1 Sl Your. SW Since 1920 1. °1 *-11 1. rr _i T"tj rDAY 1 Map« t — Bluep™^ l • , i J *n nrVt Dancers seek enrichment I The Human Dancing Company is morn than movement and more than dance, and its purpose is to do more than entertain. With titles on the program such as "Duel With The Ememy,.l'he Voices Of Amima.” "When Marriage Becomes Friendship” and “The Rebirth Of Icarus." one might think they were in for more than just an eve.ning of watching 11 dancers exhibit their talents. They’d l>e right. Andre Carpenter. HIX: artistic director, wants his audince to leave a performance chang ed: prehaps disturbed, perhaps elated and somehow richer emotionally and spiritually. "I would dare to say that I’m more of a philosopher (than dancer-director), but I’m ex pressing it in a theatrical form rather than an academic one." Carpenter says. "It’s not just another dance company." he adds. Carpenter believes that anyone who has what he calls an “inner life,” as well as anyone who has questions about what it is to be human will be challenged by an I liXI performance • ! ' . V That’s not an empty -belief.. The "company makes passive viewing passe. The audiehce can't help but get involved arid gnivy with, the un ; folding of ideas on stage — ideas presented • through the dll-original works 'which combine . dramatic' movement, mime.: archetypal ;tbemes. • •••' mythology, social commentary and an eclectic. *• uiix of music (from’Ba<:h to /amfir to l-aiirie Anderson to Varigelis.) The result is a story that' . says sbmethipg about the-hiiman' cbnditibn. \ The 1BX: Was created in Ashland in 1973 as a. ■ non-profit educational organization. Its first ma jor.'creation was a show titled "Becoming Human A Journey Of Consciousness." which took the then six-plus members on tour and to various - temporary residences up and down the West. ; Coast, where8audiences have .been: for the most part, enormously receptive. Carpenter says the HfXr* piirpdse i* to • ’’inspire care.rfpr the as-yet unrealised poten tial ites of the human being, to encourage the in tegration of human consciousness, and to reveal ourselves and the audience to the emirarrassing lieauty of inner life, through the performing arts." .' ' •• • . '• J (Carpenter’s philosphical and artistic inten tionality is ail integral Mpect.of the purpose of the HIX). and "Initiations;”, the company's current tour of performances, fits in with that purpose Carppntor says that since childhood he has been trying to “understand the disturbing state of things in the world, and has been trying to find a solu tion, This quest is what ‘‘Initiations" is about. “It’s about being initiated to all the aspects of ourselves that we don’t know.” Carpenter says. "What we don't know in ourselves we will fear in others. It's individuation —* the process of becom ing a whole human being." One of the dances in the program. "Greek Pas-De-Deux.” is dedicated to the forgotten an cient ideal of kalokagathoa |a fine mind in a fine body.) Carpenter explains. It's lhe one-on-one. in timate rapport of mentor and pupil as the medium for truly inspired education "It's leading out w|i«t is already inside, while education is stuffing in rather than leading out." he sAys.' -• .' Anothiir dimension of the HEX' is its relation to Western culture; Carpenter feejs that; in the lemimst mn vetmmt . somehow inen have beep left out and am confused about their roles In the ilix-: limn am left in (He company has three women, ami eight men, uncommon for a dance „ company?,'S’; ■■ •-S S '■■■ X •" • '■.■"IntiatmiiN?: Iiegins with • "Initiation To • M a iih odd ;;.wh i c h j sd an red while a story about a hunt is refeited The shpw'progresses to depict an itV.t>lu|ii)iV..'with "lniti'atiqn To The Shadow." to t he '. ‘Ahjroa-A nd; An i m us '"to the Mentor.” to ‘'.BrotherhiSod."and finally’to "Wholeness '' It ends with a joyful "piece, " AI leluiu The (olbrs " ' I Wiicers of t tie it IX! i hi; I ode Douglas Zaliid Mackie. ’ Airme/ Kgan. Julie McCullough. Sara ('•nstafson-Lomhardi. Cregorv I-ara and Hob Ollar. all of whom dance with the Kugene Be)let Com pany as well.Completing the tompaity'.are cp producers Carpenter and Richard Rertz; along with loe Anderson, Richard Gustafson and Michael Wendt. "Basically my show is to feed that inner life. I sort of take them (the audience) by the hand gently.'' Carpenter says. ‘Tin really not doing ibis for my own ego trip I really feel like 'poor world, you can do something to re:sensiti/.e yourself.' " he adds, : iilX I s "Initiations" will let performed next Friday it 710 p m at the Sprang Theatre in the Hult Center Reserved-seat In kets are $ti. $7 and $M. and are available at the KMT! 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