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June 2, 1999
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generation are hooked on synthesiz
ers and auto-beat, Sharita prefers “the
delicacy of those beautiful, w ander
ing, ancient phrases in which the
instrum ents seem to be doing an in-
kind of dance and one kind of music
harita Productions, a com
your whole life, you’d find a way to
pany of avant-garde belly
com bine them .”
dancers based in Portland,
“Belly dance was introduced to
will present a new work choreo
me with M iddle
Eastern m usic,.
graphed to Igor Stravinsky’s “The
Rite of Spring.” Primal and power
ful, earthy and elegant, this unprec
edented interpretation will be per
formed at T he Scottish Rite C enter
in Portland, 709 SW 15lh & M orrison,
Thursday, June 10 & Friday, Ju n e 11
at 8 PM.
Directed and conceived by dancer/
choreographer Sharita (a.k.a. Elinor
Friedberg), with historical turn-of-the-
century scenery provided by the Scot
tish Rite Tem ple, the program fea
tures international belly dance artist
Aazura, Dawn Stearns of Gypsy C ara
van, guest artist Jan e A rcher and the
live music of instrum entalist David
Rolin of DHOMBA! An optional au
dience-participation dance party com
pletes each evening.
The com bination of belly dance,
traditionally regarded as a Middle
Eastern art form, with the music of
Stravinsky, one of the century’s most
revolutionary classical com posers,
seems to Sharita as natural as music
which reveals a continuity of tone
and dance themselves. “People ask
derived from instrum ents much older
me how you can com bine belly dance
than the traditional classical ones,”
and classical music," she says, “and I
Sharita recalls. While many in her
answer: if you’ve only known one
S
“Pcoplc ash roc bow you cap
combine belly dance and
classical music...
And I answer, if you’ve
only hnown one hind of
dance and one hind of music
your whole life,
you’d find a way to
combine
tbem.”
trícate dance of their own.” She finds
that Stravinsky’s work, still consid
ered by many to be groundbreaking
in m odern times, suits her choreog-
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Tickets for The Rite of Spring are
$12 in advance or $15 at the door,
and can be purchased at Powell’s On
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emotional expression, sliding sounds,
and rhythmic complexity com bine to
form flowering phrases of superb
melodic coherence."
In Stravinsky’s original produc
tion, the Chosen one danced herself
to death, and ultimately transcen
dence, in a fertility sacrifice. T o con
vey a more assertive feminine role,
Sharita researched M artha G raham ,
the first modern dancer to create the
part in the U nited States. S harita’s
own version uses eye-catching tech
niques and flam boyant costumes to
meld belly dance to the music’s larger-
than-life mythological themes.
Aazura (Julie Muniq), who teaches
and choreographs in Portland, brings
her international touring experience
to the role of the Chosen One. In
addition to perform ing in Europe,
Egypt, and th ro u g h o u t the West
Coast, she appeared in “Rigoletto”
with the P ortland O pera and “Will U
Dance?” at W illam ette University.
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director of DHOMBA!, P o rtland’s
prem ier neo-tribal music and dance
group. A soulful dancer with 18 years
experience. A rcher will collaborate
with D avid R olin, an innovative
drum m er whose repertoire includes
the Middle Eastern rhythm s of the
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