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Come eat with the Blue Hen today. She’ll give you a warm fuzzy feeling and some good eats. 1769 Franklin Blvd. • 683-0780 • Eugene & Florence BREAKFAST • LUNCH • DINNER Dance interprets body’s beauty ■ Performers explore issues surrounding the female body through choreography and costume By Yael Menahem Oregon Daily Emerald Women and their bodies. The topic can be a complicated one, but the VanUmmersen Dance Company interprets the move ments of a woman’s body in a full evening dance performance fit tingly called “Body.” The show is Friday at the Soreng Theater in the Hult Center. This dance “addresses body is- , sues and how one experiences liv ing in their own body, feels in their own body and being public with your own body,” said Pamela Geber, a University dance professor and performer in the show. Margo VanUmmersen, the show’s choreographer and con tributing performer, brought this post-modern dance performance to life. She received the McKenzie Riv er Gathering Foundation’s Lilia Jewel Award in recognition of the unique perspective women bring to the arts through this collection of dances. The opening number is also HULT FOR THE PERFO Silva Concert Hall February 19,2000 at 8:00pm TICKETS: 541-682-5000 www.hultcenter.org Catharine Kendall Emerald Laura Nash rehearses for “Body,” Friday’s dance performance at the Huh Center. called “Body,” with the dancers in skimpy black outfits and showing the body as “a spectacle and body as a thing,” VanUmmersen said. “Each soloist draws from that to a really more sensuous and interi or essence,” she added. Geber described her solo dance, “Nipples,” as abstract, not literal. The performance encompasses “the ideas of luxuriousness, round ness, voluptuousness,” she said. For the piece, textile artist Mari lyn Robert created a dress made out of organza silk fabric that bounces and adds another ele ment to the piece. “The dress is practically chore ographed itself,” VanUmmersen pointed out. Another unusual number, titled “Plumb Lines,” finds the dancers hanging from hammocks made from silk, also created by Robert. The dancers fly and swing through midair. “That piece is very primal, sen suous and [has] sort of womb-like images,” VanUmmersen said. Another dance number, “Tem ple,” takes an “abstract view of your body as your house, your temple and your place of wor ship,” Geber explained. VanUmmersen said she choreo graphed Friday’s performance pieces because she wanted to bring various dancers in the com munity together, and she is in trigued by the title’s theme. “I’m fascinated with the human body,” VanUmmersen said. “As dancers and people, on one side, we find so much glory, promise and fulfillment from our bodies. “On the other hand, so much conflicts surround body: shame, illness and sickness where bodies betray us. I was just fascinated by that contradiction and I wanted to explore that in a theatrical way.” “Body” begins at 7:30 p.m. Fri day. Call the Hult Center, 682 5000, for tickets and information. 008412 Chinese New Year Pestival 2000 (formerlij China Niejlt) ■ Sunday, Jon. 30, 2000 ■ 5-7pm: Dinner <S> Exhibitions in the Skylight Lounge ■ 7:30: Shorn in the EMU Ballroom ■ Rdults and Ehildren: $7 admission ■ Ehildren under 3: FREE ■ Tickets Rvoiloble at EMU Ticket Office For More Information Chinese Student Rssociation Telephone: 541-346-4322 e-moil: cso@glodstone.uoregon.edu
