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4/THE BANNER/February 18, 1988
entertainment
Black History Month continues
Alvin Ailey dances at Thomas Wolfe
By Scarlet Bell
Asst. Entertainment Editor
The Black History Month
celebration continues at UNCA
with the presentation of the
Alvin Ailey American Dance
Theater. Sponsored by the Cul
tural and Special Events Com
mittee and Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority of Asheville, the group
will perform on Feb.23 in the
Thomas Wolfe Auditorium at 8
pm.
The dance company, estab
lished in 1958, dedicates its
work to the preservation of the
American modern dance tradi
tion, as well as to the unique
ness of black cultural expres
sion, according to Sharyn
McDonald, coordinator of the
Cultural and Special Events
Committee.
"It’s primarily black dancers
(in the company), but it has
other minorities, also. The
company has an international
flair to it, though roost of
their material is rooted in
black experience," said McDon
ald.
She added that the Cultural
and Special Events Committee
co-sponsored a performance of
Alley’s junior company with the
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority in
1985, and the dancers played to
a packed house in Thomas
Wolfe Auditorium.
Their junior company came
in ’85, and it was so successful
diat now we’re sponsoring the
main company; they’re probably
the most famous modern dance
company in the world," McDon
ald said.
The choreography of Alvin
Ailey is very physiceilly de
manding for the dancers, and
very exciting for the audience
to watch, McDonald said.
...
National Endowment for the
Arts.
"The company charges
S30,000 for a performance, but
luckily we got half of that
from grants. Otherwise, little
UNCA Cultural Events Commit
tee couldn’t bring them here."
Each year, the North Caro
lina Arts Council offers support
to groups like the Cultural
and Special Events committee
at UNCA so they can bring
companies like Alvin Ailey to
their campus, said McDonald.
In addition, McDonald said
"Their junior company came in '85, . . .
now we're sponsoring the main company:
they’re probably the most famous modern
dance company in the world”
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that the committee relies on
the support of groups in the
Asheville area to co-sponsor
these events.
■We never break even on any
event we sponsor, and we
heavily depend on ticket sales,
co-sponsorships, grant money
and individual student ticket
sales. If we didn’t have the
support from the outside com
mittee (Alpha Kappa Alpha So
rority), though, we could never
"Alley’s choreography is very
exciting, and in some ways,
dance is like an athletic event;
the training the dancers must
do is as rigorous and involved
as other athletes. What they do
with their bodies to music is
beautiful, moving, and incredi
ble."
McDonald said that this per
formance could not be possible
without grants from the North
Carolina Arts Council and the
The Alvin Ail^ American Dance Theater comes to Thomas Wolfe Auditorium
Comic relief photo—Stacey Higdon
Randy Levin brou^t comedy to UNCA last wedc.
do it."
McDonald said that these
cultural events are meant to
entertain students, but they are
also meant to be a learning
experience for them as well.
"Seeing The Alvin Alley
American Dance Theater is a
cultural experience, and that
culture in our lives makes our
lives more meaningful. But, you
go not only to be entertained
but to learn something. And
from Alvin Ailey, you can def
initely learn something."
Tickets for the performance
can be purchased at the Ashe
ville Civic Center box office,
UNCA’s Highsmith Center or
from members of Alpha Kappa
Alpha Sorority.
Art show planned
By Kris Beddingtield
Staff Writer
Carl Goldstein, nationally
knovm artist and instructor at
UNC-Greensboro, will serve as
the judge at the Asheville Art
League’s first juried show.
Goldstein will judge all the
entries on Saturday, February
20.
The spring show will run
from March 1 through March
27 at the Asheville Art Museum
located in the Civic Center.
Entries will be accepted on
February 18 and 19 at the
Asheville Art Museum between
I p.m. and 5 p.m.
Entry fees for the show are
$5 for members of the art
league and $10 for non-mem
bers per piece of work sub
mitted. A maximum of three
pieces may be entered. Jean
McAfee, president of the art
league, said the art league
board decided the cost of the
fees.
Prizes of S300, $150 and $75
will be awarded. McAfee said
the entry fees, art league dues
and money derived from the
critique sessions, which are
held every other month on the
third Saturday, will provide the
prize money.
Goldstein will conduct the
critique session for the month
of February. The session will
be the Saturday afternoon of
February 20 from 1 p.m. to 4
p.ro. at the art museum.
The critique sessions are for
all interested artists who want
to receive professional evalua
tion of their work. There is a
$5 fee for the one piece of
work critiqued.
"The spring show is open to
the public and in the past we
have always had a respectable
turnout," McAfee said. "For
the month of March the fee
for the art museum is $1 per
person, and the public is also
invited to the reception held
February 20 at 7 p.m. at the
museum."
McAfee also said the average
number of pieces entered is
two or three per person. She
said the art show usually has
about 50 artists who partici
pate, with about 150 pieces of
work entered.
Goldstein received his BA at
Brooklyn College and his MA
and PhD at Columbia Univer
sity. He now is a full profes
sor at UNC-Greensboro and has
written several books and ar
ticles on art.
Coming soon:
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23
8:00 P.M.
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