Entertainment
Dancer beats odds,
performs on broadway
by Scott Wyland
Esteb takes on mural design
worker Gregory Hines:
Copy Editor
“He’s wonderful, the best,
Most students attending the he’s a master, a gentleman, a by Keith C. Casper Jr.
college will probably wonder, at pro; not arrogant, (he’s) Staff Writer
“I sort of fell into it,” said
one time or another, if the in talented and considerate, he’s
struction they’re receiving is warm - he likes hugging all his Clackamas Community College
Student Diane Esteb. Esteb, an
top-notch; after all, this is just a co-workers.”
art
major, recently landed a job
Terry’s 28 years of dance ex
small community college.
at Park Place School painting a
Well in the area of jazz perience paid off when she was
dance, this question need not be able to beat the auditioning mural. As difficult as good
considered, nor the little voice odds; she outshined all the work is to obtain in the com
mercial art field, Esteb has
of doubt accompanying it be others and landed the part.
listened to, because Terry
“I walked into the audition managed to find it. She expects
Brock, the regular instructor, is cold. They gave the combina to collect one thousand dollars
of star-quality.
tion, then they watched the (minus paint costs) for her ef
Terry has been touring the dancers. They only show you forts.
She received the job of being
country with a pro company once and you have to pick it up.
performing broadway tap dance They needed one girl - they in charge of the mural’s produc
tion through the president of
shows, including a two week gig singled me out.”
in New York with Gregory
When listening to her the local PTA group. She had
Hines. Terry was on campus describe her style of tap, it known the PTA president since
her children had attended Park
visiting the dance class during sounded rather difficult:
“It’s rhythm tap, not show Place School. Even with her
her Christmas sabbatical, ¡and
agreed to the interview. She’s tap. It’s not done in high heels connection, Esteb was not just
presently back out on the road. and skirt, and there’s no drum to handed the project. “They had
Even off-stage, Terry exudes tap to - our feet are the drums. someone else in mind,” Esteb
dynamic, enthusiastic energy The metronome is inside your said. Esteb submitted her design
(preliminary drawings) for the
which must augment her success head.”
Terry agreed that travelling on project and they were preferred
as a performing artist. She
answered all questions with re the road isn’t as glamorous as
sounding answers, especially many people conceive. The big
what she liked and didn’t like gest challenge according to her is
“..keeping your health together
about New York:
“It’s fascinating if you want with the travel between cities, the
to do sociological case studies! I long hours and the time changes.
Lyn Thompson
like the excitement of perform Eating right can be difficult.”
In closing, Terry gave a simple Photo Editor
ing in the big, bad apple. I love
The design and performance
but strong suggestion to all aspir
the food, the delis are great.
But I can’t stand the filth, the ing, young dancers striving to of Emily Dickenson “The
crime. The poverty depresses' transform motion into poetry, Myth” by Deborah J. Hum
me. Also, it’s non-stop like a sweat into sweet success, and phrey was superb. Humphrey
herd of cows! And the rudeness faraway visions of broadway into portrayed Dickenson in her
years of seclusion effectively
a whirling, tapping reality:
and temperamental behavior ...
“Don’t substitute preparation through the reading of docu
there’s always a high-charged
anxiety there. You can’t be for guts, hope, will, desire. If you mented letters sent to and
received by Dickenson through
friendly or they think you want work hard enough and you’re
good enough, then after that ex out her life, playing out the
something,”
Terry had only the best of pose your talqnt. Someone will emotions she felt would have
gone into those sent, and come
praise for her renowned co see it.”
from those received.
Humphrey dealt with the feel
ings of a woman competing
with her brother for her father’s
affections, the relationship bet
ween Dickenson and her friend/
tutor Leonard Humphrey, his
death,and the deaths of both of
her parents. Dickenson’s feel
ings on death are aptly
presented with a line of her
work, “Parting is all we know
of heaven, and all we need of
heU.”
The play truly begins with the
line, “Truth is so rare, it’s
trays a “Jungle Scene”. Este
in charge of getting the des
up and ready to paint, as wel
all of the edging which stude
paint around the large are;
just like a giant coloring bo
“All the students think 1
great,” smiled Esteb, as she
joys working with the kids v
much.
Upon completion of
mural, Esteb’s work is
finished. “They want me to
more murals,” she comment
Being excited and optimi
towards new projects, “grei
and “wonderful” clearly
lustrate her enthusiasm as
looks ahead to more artworl
Esteb, a second year Art i
Art student Esteb paints mural jor at Clackamas, is man
and has two children. She lo<
forward to her first paych
over the proposed plans.
The mural - a 103-foot wall - from the project and smiled
that Esteb has worked on for she said, “It’ll pay for half
about 52 hours, is about 3/4 daughter’s orthodontist bill.
finished. The mural design por
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delightful to tell it,” giving the
audience the notion that this is
Humphrey’s interpretation of
the truth about Emily Dicken
son’s life.
Humphrey explains Dicken
son’s willful seclusion from
society in the words, “The soul
selects her own society, then
shuts the door.” “I believe she
was happy in her life, with her
seclusion,” commented Hum
phrey.
Supporting this fine actress
was a simple yet convincing set
ting of a single room. Most of
the props were from Hum
phrey, herself, such as the
wooden rocking chair, a rug, a
large wooden chest of drawers,
storm lamps, and a desk set
donated by a friend. All of these
simple items provided a setting
of coriifort, of a homeyness that
would be found in a room
where a woman spent 15 years
of her life.
The lighting was a definite
plus. The stage, itself, was lit
dimly, only Humphrey had a
spot, thus focusing the vie\
attention on her. It set the m
of a woman alone in her rc
with only her writings to 1
her company and to com
her throughout the trials of
and death.
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duction, however, needed w<
The music selections and re
dings were fitting and
done, but were played so tha
the audience could hear was
music, rather than the dialoi
Humphrey’s costume, des
ed and created by Traci Nic
fit the time, the mood, and
background of Emily Dicken
Clothed in a layered dress
white linen fashionably date
Dickenson’s era, Humpl
showed her knowledge
Dickenson’s life in that
reportedly wore nothing c
than white in her years of st
sion.
In all, the performance she
Humphrey’s talent in theatres
a well designed play, and a
notch presentation.
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