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no 01 shou i be a numl THURSDAY MAY 16 EMU Amphitheater MUSIC 5P.M. by Norma Frazer RALLY 6:30P.M. featuring Radical Cheerleaders and community speakers MARCH 8P.M. followed by SPEAK OUT, firedancing, slasa musicians and performances by Young Women’s Theater Collective and Nicole Barrett CLOSING BLESSING by Sophia’s Sanctuary 014109 Sexual Assault Support Services and the ASUO Women’s Center. This event is wheelchair accessible and ASL interpreted. Childcare scholarships are available by request 48 hours prior to the event. For more info contact the Women's Center at 346-4095. Faculty concert showcases range of dance varieties ■ Eight faculty members have been working since winter term on a wide array of dances By Jen West Oregon Daily Emerald • This year’s annual faculty dance concert will feature a diverse cross section of dancing styles that is a departure from the usual modern heavy concerts of past years. The Dance 2002 Faculty Concert will be held at 8 p.m. today at the Dougherty Dance Theatre at Ger linger Annex. Performances will continue Friday and Saturday. Eight dance department faculty members have been working steadi ly since the beginning of winter term on choreography for dances includ ing yoga, Argentine folk, Argentine tango, contact improvisation, mod em and physical theater. Inspiration for dance choreogra phy comes from'different places for different choreographers. For Wal ter Kennedy, a New York Times photo of former Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic being escorted to the United Nations war crimes tribunal sparked the idea for his physical theater piece called “Justi fiable Intent.” “The movement in the photo graph is something I’ve drawn from,” Kennedy said. “Someone is being taken to where they don’t want to go.” He said he used that moment and imbedded it in the dance, then he gave his dancers assignments to generate dialogue for the piece, ask ing them, “What are the words you’d say in this situation?” Kennedy added this dialogue, footage he edited from documen taries on war crimes and an original score composed by dance faculty member Christian Cherry. Kennedy and Cherry said they worked separately on the piece and only talked from time to time about what images inspired them. “We trusted each other’s feel ings,” Cherry said. He said the music he composed for the piece was “electro-acoustic folk” that has been heavily com puterized. “We’re going after that total the ater experience,” Kennedy said. “It’s visual imagery as well as sound score to add up to something in a different way.” He said the result was a dark, brutal piece with a lot of violence. One of the dancers in “Justifiable Intent,” recent graduate Matthew Lieuallen, said “it is a very physi cally challenging piece.” Lifting up his sleeve, he pointed out the bruises he sustained from practicing the lifts and throws in the choreography. But “it’s been a lot of fun,” he said. On the lighter side, faculty mem ber Elizabeth Wartluft will be per forming the passionate Argentine tango and has choreographed an Ar gentine folk dance for the concert. She said she spent three consecu tive summers trading folk dance les sons for English lessons in Argenti na. The folk dance incorporates dance styles such as the milonga, the chacarera doble and the zamba. While tango has a more struc tured style of movement, Wartluft said the milonga demonstrates a more social dancing style. “It’s about the rhythm of the mu sic and being close,” she said. She said several students will perform the folk dances. “I’m impressed at the level of dance from the students,” she said. The student dancers have been working hard in the past few months, according to Amy Impel lizzeri, who is the technical direc tor, lighting designer and a dancer in the concert. “They’ve pushed themselves past their own limits,” she said. Impellizzeri choreographed a piece of contact improvisation for the concert that she said is very ath letic and risky. “There are moments that could potentially happen,” she said. “Each time, (the dance) changes.” Although the dance is improvisa tion, most of the movement has been structured because of the risk iness of certain movements and the momentum of the piece, she said. “It’s a very diverse show,” Lieuallen said. “Don’t expect a mundane show — it’s very unique.” Tickets are $5 for students and $10 for general admission. Tickets for the Thursday performance will be available at a two-for-one price. Tickets will be sold at the door. E-mail reporter Jen West at jenwest@dailyemerald.com. 1^ . Attention Poets! Get involved by submitting your original work to ‘2-Minute Shakespeare,’ the Emerald’s new poetry corner. We’ll try to publish all entries that meet our easy guidelines: Please limit all textual content to 100 words; no anonymous work will be accepted; we reserve the right to edit submissions for length, clarity, grammar, style and libel; all work should be original — that means your own. Submissions will not be returned. Submit work to EMU Suite 300. Corner Tree torn like a power pole in the storm. With nothing left but a hollow trunk like a wonderfully subterranean passage fuzzy with pennies, cans, and empty syringes. Kris Bluth English
