Dancers show modern moves
■ Students are hard at work
preparing for concerts staged
tonight through this weekend
By Diane Huber
Oregon Daily Emerald
Nine different student choreogra
phers have been creating nine origi
nal modern dances since October
for the annual Resonance Embodied
Winter Student Dance Concert. The
concert will be performed at 8 p.m.
tonight through Feb. 16 in Gerlinger
Annex’s M. Frances Dougherty
Dance Theater.
Choreographer Rebecca Rank said
all the dances are categorized as mod
em, which means “anything goes. ”
Choreographer Tracy Webster
said modern dance is defined by
“personal interpretation,” meaning
that no one dance is like another.
Each has different moves, different
music and incorporates different
kinds of styles, such as ballet, jazz,
hip-hop and even breakdancing.
Webster’s dancers begin in uni
son, but as Radiohead’s “Climbing
up the Walls” continues, the
dancers twitch and spasm across
the floor. Her dancers wear near
nude costumes that consist of skin
colored leotards with patches of
black mesh sewn on randomly.
When Webster put together the
costumes, she said she was “think
ing about something odd that peo
ple would find scary, but also cool. ”
She said the costumes are part of
the overall theme of her dance
— insanity.
“Everyone mentions insanity when
they interpret this song,” she said.
“Some interpret it as relationships
driving them mad. I’ve heard the
writer worked atamental institution.”
She said the dance starts as an or
ganized group but eventually falls
apart.
The dancers “start out symmetri
Photos by Adam Jones Emerald
Brianne Groh(left), Martinique Hughes (center), and Tiare Duncan balance themselves for
a moment during a rehearsal Tuesday to prepare for the opening Thursday.
cal, cool and calm,” she said. “Then
the lights turn red, and everything
spirals out of control. ”
Rank’s five dancers, on the other
hand, wear red satin dresses. Their
faces are painted solid white, their
cheekbones highlighted with per
fectly pink circles, and their lips are
a deep red. After watching them re
hearse, Rank still wasn’t satisfied
with the makeup.
“Your lipstick needs to be darker,
and your white needs to be so much
darker,” she told the dancers.
She said the costumes and dance
were inspired by the five months
she spent studying in Austria,
where she became drawn to the or
namentation expressed in Baroque
art. She tried to represent the peri
od in the makeup and costumes.
“Obviously the dancers couldn’t
wear a corset, though,” she said.
There isn’t a strict story fine to her
dance, she said. She incorporated
stories and pieces that stuck out in
her mind when she was in Austria.
“I took those interesting tidbits —
the stuff we weren’t tested on — and
turned them into movement,” she said.
For both choreographers, this is
one of the first times they’ve been
on the “other side of the stage” for a
big performance. They are dancers
as well as choreographers, and ex
periencing a performance as a cho
reographer is much different than as
a dancer, according to the pair.
Associate Professor Sherrie Barr
said the annual concert is a “strong
part of the curriculum” because not
only do students gain experience in
choreography, they also learn how
to produce an entire dance perform
ance, which includes arranging
lighting, designing costumes, and
finding dancers.
“In a sense, it gets them to put what
they’ve learned into practice,” she
said. “They learn to generate and in
vent movement and put it into a co
hesive whole to create dance. ”
Tickets are available at the door
and are $5 for students and seniors,
and $10 for the general public.
Tonight’s performance is $2 off per
couple for Valentine’s Day.
E-mail reporter Diane Huber
at dianehuber@dailyemerald.com.
One ring rules Oscar nods
That time of year has come
again when the most popular
name on everyone’s lips is “Os
car.” The Academy Of Motion Pic
ture Arts and Sciences released
the nominees Tuesday for the 74th
Annual Academy Awards. The
awards will be presented March
24. View the full list of Oscar
nominees on our Web page at
www.dailyemerald.com. Then
vote for your favorite pick on the
online poll.
Best Picture: “A Beautiful
Mind,” “Gosford Park,” “In the
Bedroom,” “The Lord of the Rings:
The Fellowship of the Ring,”
“Moulin Rouge”
Best Director: Ron Howard (“A
Beautiful Mind”), Ridley Scott
(“Black Hawk Down”), Robert Alt
man (“Gosford Park”), Peter Jack
son (“The Lord of the Rings: The
Fellowship of the Ring”), David
Lynch (“Mulholland Drive”)
Best Actress: Halle Berry
(“Monster’s Ball”), Judi Dench
(“Iris”), Nicole Kidman (“Moulin
Rouge”), Sissy Spacek (“In the
Bedroom”), Renee Zellweger
(“Bridget Jones’ Diary”)
Best Actor: Russell Crowe (“A
Beautiful Mind”), Sean Penn (“I
Am Sam”), Will Smith (“Ali”), Den
zel Washington (“Training Day”),
Tom Wilkinson (“In the Bedroom”)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer
Connelly (“A Beautiful Mind”), He
len Mirren (“Gosford Park”), Mag
gie Smith (“Gosford Park”), Marisa
Tomei (“In the Bedroom”), Kate
Winslet (“Iris”)
Best Supporting Actor: Jim .
Broadbent (“Iris”), Ethan Hawke
(“Training Day”), Ben Kingsley
(“Sexy Beast”), Ian McKellen (“The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring”), Jon Voight (“Ali”)
Best Original Screenplay: Guil
laume Laurant and Jean-Pierre Je
unet; dialogue by Guillaume Lau
rant (“Amelie”), Julian Fellowes
(“Gosford Park”), Christopher
Nolan (“Memento”), Milo Addica
and Will Rokos (“Monster’s Ball”),
Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson
(“The Royal Tenenbaums”)
Best Sound: “Amelie,” “Black
Hawk Down,” “The Lord of the
Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,”
“Moulin Rouge,” “Pearl Harbor”
Best Editing: “A Beautiful
Mind,” “Black Hawk Down,”
“The Lord of the Rings: The Fel
lowship of the Ring,” “Memento,”
“Moulin Rouge”
Best Visual Effects: “A.I.,” “The
Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship
of the Ring,” “Pearl Harbor”
Best Cinematography: “Amelie,”
“Black Hawk Down,” “The Lord of
The Rings: The Fellowship of the
Ring,” “The Man Who Wasn’t
There,” “Moulin Rouge”
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