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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.
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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
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