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ipiration, spiraling --
ithering of forces to
a higher level." This
defines
more
than
I'S (A Company of
i| name.
Their per-
ice Wednesday, Feb.
¡he Community Center,
ned a wide range of
nto creation of chor-
iy that goes beyond
¡pace, and energy—the
¡loanee creativity.
he dance movements,
■ accompaniment and
attire corresponded
[eir approach to chor-
hy which is not to
lit to any particular
Their main consid-
i is developing the idea
he best movement pos-
I presentation
began
ill three dancers doing
¡tract piece named "For-
lelationships."
Oddly
| without protrayi ng
f or symbolism, this
iwas developed through
motion. With concrete
Mt, a view of every-
estures as an art was
given that enabled one to
see something possibly never
seen before.
"Dances For Your Joyous
Times" by Paula Rahders-
Johnson is choreography that
transforms literal gestures
from, work and play into
dance.
With a lively har
monica accompaniment, this
dance expressed the internal
feeling into real movement
and the inner consciousness
into dramatic dance.
"Time Cycle" a piece by
Terry Stone carried the tone
of the negative aspect of time
in our life with percussive
movement inspired by such
poems as "When the Bell
Jestles" which ends with "the
taste is sour of all I ever did."
Done to taped piano accom
paniment, the dance images
captured the essence of sev
eral writings.
An overall
'wildness' of the piece in
cluded the psychedelicly de
signed jumpsuit.
From a set of dances called -
"The Planets (which exclude
Earth) the piece "Uranus-
The
Magician"
was. per
formed.
This portrayed a
character study of a super-
slightly warped intellect with
musical accompaniment that
was comic and dramatic, and
the choreography implies the
awesome and ridiculous. The
movement depicted resulting
mannerisms and told the story
through development of the
character. The solo dancer
carried out this extremity
a step farther wearing a full
length black velvet cape and
matching head covering.
A scenario titled "Com
placency Corrupted" with
Terry, Paula, and Marie Wink
ler ended SPIRA'S hour of
dance. This farce using alle
gorical satire played with a
bright, crisp tone, emphasized
with facial expressions and
highlighted with colorful pas
tel jumpsuits and gloves.
Dance, which can never
quite be perfectly duplicated
twice, leaves the audience
with the feeling of its unique
ness, much like SPIRA'S ap
proach to dance.
Their
inspiration
was
shared with dance students
by conducting a master class
in the gym at the end of the
day.
With Tom Rahders-
Johnson accompaning, the
class was literally taken high
er
through leap and skip
movements and direction in
dance improvisation.
The only flaw was that by
not having use of a proper
wooden floor in the gym
students were left with jarred
legs and backs.
With the increased involve
ment in dance and the popu
larity of performers like
SPIRA, next year maybe they
they can do their 'gathering'
without talk of proper fa
cilities holding them or the
students down.
Paula Rahders-Johnson (left) portrays "Uranus - The Magi
cian" complete with black velvet cape and head covering as part
of SPI RA's performance in the Community Center Feb. 22. Above,
Marie Winkler (top) and Paula Rahders-Johnson in "Formal Re
lationships."
Photos by Ted McKenna
briefs
wise provides retreat
lire department play
®nhiding in a tree
to his family pro-
tone of the Peter
I "Halfway Up the
Allege theatre de-
toer production,
tod General Sir
toittress, played by
’¿lackamas, returns
tog on duty over-
Rejoining his
’to easy though,
Me, Ann Rindal,
to Rick Albrecht,
daughter, Donna
Delay, Oregon City, have all
changed.
.
In order to escape the family
problems, he builds a tree house
retreat.
The play appeared on Broad
way in the late 1960's and was
praised for it's style and wit'.
"Halfway Up the Tree" runs
March 2 through 4 at 8 p.m.
and March 5 at 2:30 p.m. in the
McLoughlin Theatre. Admission
is $1.50 for students and $2.50
for the public.
tollunity College
Brown Bag Movies will fea
ture "The Pygmalion Effect"
March 2, at noon, in room
CC-117. The movie is about
a psychological aspect of tea
ching where your notion or
prediction of an event can
actually cause it to happen.
The College's theater de
partment will open the curtain
to their winter production
"Halfway Up the Tree" March
2 through 5 in the McLough
lin Theatre at 8 p.m.
.
Jean Taylor will be the
host of the Focus on Women
seminar titled "Give Yourself
a Present-Health!" The pro
gram is to help women learn
about, health and about phy
sical examination,
breast
sical
examination,
breast
examination and other top
ics concerning health, March
9, CC-117, 7 to 10 p.m.
Another crafts fair is com
ing to the College March 8, 10
to 3 p.m. in the Community
Center Mall.
Students are
welcomed to display their
crafts or sell them.
Bar 88 Arena is where the
action will be March 11 at the
College's Hoedown featuring
"Dr. Corn's Blue Grass Rem
edy". The hoedown begins at
9 p.m. and lasts until 1 a.m.
The image of female and
animal mythology characters
is the theme to Sandra Haef-
ker display of sculpture and
drawings at the School of
Arts and Crafts, in Hoffman
Gallery, 616 NW 18th, Port
land, March 2-31.
"Life With Father"
by
Howard Linsay and Russel
Crouse will be performed by
the Portland Actor's Com
pany at the Firehouse Theatre
March 3 and 4 at 8:30 p.m.
Admission is $3.
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