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Dance production incorporates
motion, dialogue into concert
By Karen Engels
Of the Kmerald
Audiences may be surprised to find
dialogue as well as dance featured in "Dance
’87." the annual winter concert presented by
“Dance Oregon!"
"Some of the choreographers wanted to
make a statement two ways — through both
dance and through dialogue." said |anet
Descutner, University dance professor and
producer/director of the show.
Choreographers developed the use of
dialogue in the show after experimenting with
tilt* idea last year. Descutner said. "The
dialogue forms a framework for the dance."
The annual dance production, which is in
its 27th year, will be staged seven times and
opens tonight in Villard Hall’s Robinson
Theatre. More than 40 student dancers and ac
tors are featured in the production, which is
the largest of the year.
The performers range from freshmen to
graduate students to faculty, and from dance
majors to people who "just like to dance.”
I)escutner ex p lai tied.
"The dancers are excited and involved —
many are finding new challenges, and some
are performing on stage for the first time." she
said.
The concert includes six works
choreographed by University dance faculty
members and guest choreographer Rolande
Chesebro of Seattle, who earned her master’s
degree in dance from the University in l‘)82.
The dances are “related to who the dancers
are." Descutner said.
"The choreographers are mostly faculty
members. It’s like in the art department where
professors are artists. We make dances." she
said.
"Everyone in the audience will find
something to like. We have everything from a
tap dance number to a classical ballet en
pointe. and the dialogue may come as a sur
prise to some in the audience." Descutner
said.
Auditions for the show were held in the
fall, and dancers have been rehearsing with
choreographers two to three times a week
since then. Emphasis this month has been on
costumes, lights and working on the Villard
stage. Descutner said.
One difference in the production this year
has been the group's name, which was chang
ed from the UO Concert Dance Theater to
"Dance Oregon!"
I he group did more repertory dance in the
past, said Descutner. and selections often were
revived from past wars The change will in
clude more dancers and involve more of the
student body, Descutner said. This year, only
one of the dances has been revived from a past
year.
This modern dance, entitled "Adrift." ex
plores the use of visual pattern and rhvthms as
a way of molding empty space and reflects the
state of mind evoked by the* ocean, she said.
Another dance, "for nancy." takes tin* au
dience? te> New Yeirk in the 11150s with a mix
ture? of jazz, tap and musical the*ate?r styles. "It
has the hustle and bustle? e»f the? subways, the?
sadness and le>ne*line?ss of 42ml Stre»e?t at night
and a big-bang ending," Descutner said.
Musical elire*e:tor feir "Dance '87" is Bruno
Madrid, a University dance instructor.
Lighting is by David Shaw, a University
theater instructor.
Curtain time? is 8 p in. fe»r all perfor
mances. sche?dtiled for tonight. Saturday. Jan.
24, 20, 30. :tl and Feb. ti and 7.
Tickets are* $3.50 feir University students.
$5.50 feir the general public and $4.50 feir
seniors and students. Tickets can be? reserved
by calling tin? University Theatre? beix office? at
t>80-4l0l from noon to 4 p.m. Monday through
Saturday.
'Bits & Pieces' focuses on mortality
By Frale de Guzman
Of Ihe hmerald
University Theatre’s second
season opened Thursday with
“Bits & Pieces,” a contem
porary version of the Egyptian
myth of Isis and Osiris, in the
Arena Theatre located in Villard
Mall.
Playwright Corrine Jacker
began writing “Bits & Pieces”
after being informed that she
suffered from a terminal illness,
said director Terra Daugirda
Pressler. later, Jacker learned
that she had been
misdiagnosed.
Although the play helped her
deal with the imminence of her
own death. Jacker also ad
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