THE GUILFORDIAN
Harlem Dancers
Perform Feb. 13-14
The Dance Theater of
Harlem will perform different
| programs Thursday and Fri
[day nights (Feb. 13-14) in the
Greensb'oro War Memorial
Auditorium as well as taking
[part in two other events which
are free of charge and open to
the public.
I The free events are a
graded master class at 3 p.m.
Wednesday (Feb. 12) in
Coleman Gym on the
UNC-Greensboro campus and
a lecture-demonstration at
8:15 p.m. that evening in
Dana Auditorium at Guilford
College.
The sponsoring Guilford
College Arts Series and
UNC-G Concert and Lecture
Series were able to bring the
Dance Theater of Harlem to
Greensboro because of finan
cial assistance from the
National Endowment for the
Arts and the North Carolina
Arts Council.
Thursday night's program
will open with "Concerto
Barocco," danced to J.S.
Bach's Concerto in D Minor
for Two Violins. George
Balanchine did the choreo
graphy, and lighting through
out the program is by Paul
Sullivan.
Featured in "Barocco" are
Virginia Johnson, Lydia Abar
ca, Derek Williams and the
Corps de Ballet.
Laura Brown and Paul
Russell next will do "Le
Corsaire" pas de deux,
restaged for Dance Theater of
Harlem by Karel Shook
co-director of the group with
Arthur Mitchell.
Writing about a New York
performance of "that classic
warhorse," a reviewer said:
"Its pyrotechnics were per
formed by Paul Russell and
Laura Brown with such guts
and abandon and athletic
daring that the audience was
caught up in its spirit. It has
been done with more elegance
but rarely with more dash."
In reviewing the premiere
performance of "Caravansa
rai" in April of 1974, New
York Times critic Clive Barnes
praised choreographer Talley
Beatty for the "cheerful and
Guilford College
exultant" creation, which he
called "an attractive jazzy
piece" with music by Santana.
"Caravansarai" makes use
of the entire assembly of 26
dancers. Additional music is
"The Life Divine" and "Black
Magic Woman."
"Dougla," with music,
choreography and costume
design by Geoffrey Holder,
will end Thursday's program,
again using all dancers.
In a program note. Holder
explains: "Where Twains
meet, where Hindu and
African tangle, their offspring
are called Dougla." A New
York Post reviewer called it "a
shock-treatment tangle of
African, voodoo and Hindu."
The Friday evening pro
gram will begin with "Design
for Strings" to the music of
Tchaikovsky's Trio, Opus 50.
Virginia Johnson and Paul
Russell next will dance the
"Don Quixote" pas de deux to
music by Ludwig Minkus.
A major work,l "Agon,"
will follow, with music by Igor
Stravinsky and choreography
by Balanchine. Pieces were
modeled after examples in a
French dance manual of the
seventeenth century.
Of "Agon," the New York
Times said: "This is one of the
most difficult works in the
contemporary repertory, and
the highly talented Susan
Lovelle, Partnered excellently
by Derek Williams, was
absolutely brilliant in the pas
de deux. An outstanding
ji* ■!
performance was given by
Laura Brown, a very classical
dancer."
The Friday program will
end with "Forces of Rhythm,"
a work created for the Harlem
dance group by choreographer
Louis Johnson. It is said to be
a fusion of classic ballet,
ethnic and modern dance
styles, showing the interrelat
ed rapport and beauty of all
dance styles.
A New York reviewer: "If
you want your senses shaken,
then by all means go see
Forces of Rhythm. You won't
believe it when four girls do
pointe work to Aretha Franklin
singing 'Spanish Harlem."
The "He Ain't Heavy"
( section, the critic continued,
"is without a doubt the most
beautiful thing being danced
on any stage in the world
today....a complete and total
experience."
February 11, 1975
World&NationalNews
by Charles Thibaut
INTERNATIONAL
ARMY APPEARS IN CON
TROL AFTER RIOTS SHAKE
CAPITAL OF PERU -
A state of emergency was
declared in Lima, Peru
following a clash between
government troops and strik
ing national police.
At least 40 persons were
reported dead after a series of
riots and looting followed the
confrontation between the
strikers and the government
troops.
The military government of
Gen. Juan Velasco Alvarado
said that economic complaints
were used by the "counter
revolutionary elements" as
rationale for the attempted
overthrow of the leftist
regime.
Inflation has approached 20
percent this year in Peru.
U.S. CORPORATION TO
TRAIN SAUDI ARABIAN
TROOPS
The Vinnell Corporation of
Los Angeles was awarded a
$77 million U.S. Defense Dept
contract to train Saudi Arabian
troops.
The troops are to be trained
over the next three years by a
1,000 man team of former U.S.
Special forces soldiers and war
veterans.
The troops to be trained are
responsible for guarding the
countries oil fields and
petroleum exporting facilities.
They also provide the main
body of the royal families
bodyguard.
The military equipment will
be provided by the U.S.
government under a $335
million contract signed by
Saudi Arabia in 1974 that
includes Vinnell's project. The
U.S. government will pay the
Vinnell Corporation from the
contract with the Saudi
Arabian government.
FEMALE PREMIER FOR
BRITIAN?
Former education minister
Margaret Thatcher upset
Edward Heath in the contest
for the leadership of Britain's
Conserative Party.
If elected she would become
Britain's first woman Prime
Minister.
MARIANA ISLANDS MAY
BECOME U.S. COMMON
WEALTH
The Pacific islands of
Mariana, the scene of some of
the worst fighting in W.W. 11,
are about to become a
Commonwealth of the U.S.,
President Ford's special envoy
there says.
The string of Northern
Marians which lie about 1,500
miles south of Tokyo and 3,500
miles west of Honolulu have
been run by the U.S. as a U.N.
trusteeship since W.W. 11.
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