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‘Variations’ wraps up UO dance performance season Visiting professor Pamela Geber PRESENTS A WIDE RANGE OF PIECES By Heather Kern lor the Emerald Five dance pieces ranging from comical and playful to dark and serious will end the University dance performance season on Friday, June 4. The informal evening, begin ning at 7 p.m. in the Dougherty Dance Theatre at Gerlinger An nex, will feature a free studio concert titled “Variations.” iu otjuer in a series 01 rngnien ing dreams that dealt with being in a glass house and being able to be seen at all times. She said it is a trio dance that works off of a cause and effect motion, where one dancer’s motion cre ates the next dancer’s move ment. “You just can’t do your part; you have to know when to move, what everyone else is doing and go off each other,” said Pei-Yi Cheng, an undergraduate dance major who is one of the dancers in “In the Glass House.” “ABABA,” the second piece being performed by students, blends the current trends of hiD The concert in cludes five dances choreo graphed by a vis iting assistant professor of dance, Pamela Geber. The evening will also include a discus sion and a chance to ask Geber questions about her work. “Each of the What: ‘Variations,'a dance performance by Pamela Geber When: June 4 at 7 p.m. Where: Dougherty Dance Theatre in Gerlinger Annex Cost: Free hop movement with Mozart’s playful third movement of “Sinfonia Concer tante in E flat for Violin, Viola and Orchestra.” Geber’s first solo piece, “Anon,” accord ing to the depart ment of dance, explores the ebbs and flows in the nve pieces are unique within themselves,” Geber said. The dance pieces are mixed, she said, so that there is a range of light and serious pieces. Although the pieces differ in music and styles, Geber said the one quality she tries to bring out is the humanity and the relation ships of the dancers. She also said the dances do not contain a literal story, but instead are more abstract. “Dance can express something that words cannot,” Geber said. Geber, who performs two of her solo dances, “Anon” and “No Rain Date,” has also prepared several dance students to perform “In the Glass House” and “ABA BA.” “In the Glass House,” a dance with a more serious tone, is set to the rumblings of party conversa tions and sounds. The idea for the dance came perception ot time, whereas her second one, “No Rain Date,” is a comical swirl of rolls and quirky gestures. The other piece, “Postcard” is a short solo performed by Amy Stoddart, who teaches ballet in the department. Geber is a recent graduate of the University of Washington’s master of fine arts program in dance. She teaches classes in in termediate and advanced modem and jazz technique and improvi sation. “In the Glass House” and “Postcard” are Geber’s newest creations. Laura Nash, one of the dancers in “In the Glass House” said the concert is a time for people to see who Geber is and what she’s done. “She brings to her choreogra phy a lot of styles, which I think makes it very rich,” Nash said. Visiting assistant dance professor Pamela Geber performs ‘No Rain Date,’ a dance piece she choreographed. Courtesy photo Continued from Page 3B mistakes were harshly criti cized. “That way will kill a per son,” Wu says. “Music is a way for us to express our feelings, to make us happy, make us feel good. So that’s why I say that Dr. Trombley’s way helps me so much.” His mentor saw that strict up bringing in Wu’s music when he arrived at the University. “Many Asian students come to America with quite a bit of musi cal technique, but they have to work on the flute concept and sound,” Trombley says. “So Paul, along with the language difficulties, had hurdles that oth er students don’t have. The chal lenge has been enormous, but Paul prepares with great drive, and he has just blossomed like crazy.” Indeed, Wu admits that his two main activities these days are studying for his English test and fine-tuning his flute music. The mix of the two sometimes makes for an interesting Wu household, What A UO School of Music masters recital by flautist PaulWu When: Tonight at 8 p.m. Where: Beall Concert Hall. Peggy points out. “As the spouse of a musician, you don’t hear just a perfor mance,” she says. “You hear the practice, and you might hear six measures played 40,000 times before you ever hear that song. Sometimes it’s hard to be a musi cian’s spouse without going bonkers.” When the repetition gets to be a bit too much and words fly, the two joke that what naturally comes out is a hybrid language, Chinglish. Nevertheless, Wu playfully admits he rarely wins an argument in either English or Chinese. Peggy has a deep appreciation for her husband’s finished prod ucts, however. “When I’m listening to Paul play the bamboo flute, I look at it and think: ‘These sounds are all coming from a piece of wood with holes in it,”’ she says. “Be cause China’s history is so long, if you listen to the music, you can almost picture the open fields or even that you’re plowing those fields. There’s just so much feeling and emotion inside his music.” Wu’s recital tonight culmi nates a tough three years for Paul, learning the English lan guage, settling into a new envi ronment, and dealing with homesickness. With a doctoral program in his future — he re ceived a Diversity Scholarship to help further his education — Wu has at least three more years to decide his path, whether it’s teaching or playing in a big-city symphony. No matter where he travels, his bamboo flute likely will be the first item packed. Pitch in! 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