September 30, 1975
Craft Center Workshops
by Sylvia Arnatt
Every Wednesday starting
October 29-December 10, the
Craft Center in the basement 1
of Founders, will be holding
workshops in batik, natural
dyeing and spinning which I
will be teaching. There will be
three workshops for batik, one
for dyeing and three for
spinning. All that is required
for these workshops is a
minimal fee for materials,
interest and participation.
Choir
Season
High P
by Pat Townsend
The Guilford College Choir
opened its 1975-76 season of
music with a performance at
High Point Friends' meeting
on Saturday the 27th, in the
evening. Ed Lowe directed the
choir in a varied selection of
musical pieces ranging from
Beethoven to spirituals. Kathy
Mclver, who was the choir's
accompanist last year before
her graduation in May,
accompanied the choir's
on piano for the majority of the
performance. Barb Smith and
David Haworth also played the
piano for some selections. For
"The Heavens are Telling" by
Hay den, Lark Wellborn,
Volleyball Women Win Two
(almost
by Pat Town send
The Guilford Women's
Varsity Volleyball team open
ed its 1975 season last
Tuesday night with a tri-match
against UNC-Charlotte and
Catawba College. The team
faltered slightly, but beat
UNC-C 9-15,16-14, 15-11. The
squad of Lady Quakers had
their hands full when, at 9:30
they finally faced the Catawba
team. This scrappy bunch
were constantly returning
everything that came their
way. Coach Currie agreed that
the opponents were steady
and determined, but feels that
the Quakers gave the game
away, as they had been
leading 14-4 in the third game.
The first contest of the match
had been a speedy Quaker win
of 15-9, but by the second
game fatique had set in on the
women, and the score was a
near miss of 16-14, Catawba.
The visitors were able to gain
12 straight points to win the
game before the Quakers
could score one. (fifteen points
is the score needed to win,
with an advantage of two
When I came to Guilford
College I realized that I had
something I could give the
Craft enter; that bring my
knowledge of crafts that are
not usually taught. I wanted to
be able to share this
David Haworth and James
Hood were the soloists, and in
"Beautiful Saviour" Mary
Ann Brown sang the solo. Lark
Welborn and David Haworth
presented some special solo
music midway through the
program. During the second
half of the performance, Sylvia
Arnatt was the featured soloist
in "There's a Balm in
Gilead". The choir ended the
program with an impressive
and powerful rendition of
Beethoven's "Hallelujah"
from the "Mount of Olives."
For this performance the
group was joined by ex
student of Guilford, Jim
Knight, a resident of Raleigh,
who was an active member of
the choir last year. The choir
and director were well
received by the people of the
meeting, and it was difficult to
decide who enjoyed the
performance more, the guests
or the hosts and hostesses!
points required.) Pressure,
crucial mistakes on bumps,
and bad serves helped to lose
the game.
However, Coach Currie
observed, "It did give our tear
the chance to see that it is not
impossible for a team to make
that much of a comeback. I
hope if we're ever in that
position, we'll be as stubborn
as Catawba about giving up!"
The Quakers were victorious
over the Aggies of A&T last
Thursday night 15-3 and 15-13
in a match involving the entire
Quaker squad. Also scheduled
for that evening was a game
with Bennett College, but
extenuating circumstances
caused them to make the
cancellation.
Doris Adams, Diane Conk
lin, Charlotte Hines, Terry
Hoge and Elizabeth Parker
are the returning players from
last years' squad. Of the eight
new comers to the team, seven
are freshmen. They include,
Sally Busken, Cathy Flick,
Kathy Gilbert, Lee Hertzog,
Betsy MacKenzie, Liz Moran,
The Gnilfordian
knowledge with people and
give them guidelines for
exploring these crafts by
themselves.
My interest started about
seven years ago, when I began
'teaching myself crafts that I
saw around me. I became
more skilled, and decided to
start teaching two years ago.
I'm looking forward to
leading these workshops, and
hope that everyone interested
will come and join us.
Lightness Charac
Tuyla Tharp
by Chris Benfey
Friday night the Twyla
Tharp Dance Company open
ed the Concert/Lecture Series
of UNC-G. Ms. Tharp is one of
the leading dancer/choreo
graphers in the world. "Deuce
Coupe", a piece she choreo
graphed to Beach Boys music,
was performed by the Joffrey
Ballet.
In Friday's performance the
stage was always bare. The
lighting was simple and
unobtrusive. The audience's
attention was focused on the
movement of the dancers,
which was often unbelievably
complex and sometimes very
funny.
Two dancers dressed in
white hold a pose, ready to
execute a classical "pas de
deux". The audience waits in
the awed silence of a religious
place. The male counterpart
drops his gaze, stares intently
at a spot on the floor, and lets
loose a projectile of spit. He
rubs his ballet slipper into the
spot with exquisite delicacy.
With the first notes of the
music - from a Bach cantata -
the couple begins to execute
the familiar arabesques and
pirouettes of the classical
ballet. The spit, however, has
put the audience on its guard;
the chic white costumes look
more and more like ordinary
underwear. Therfe are more
spits to the floor, with no less
in tempo, no loss of
concentration. Poses dissolve
and Wanda Robbins. Beth
Howell is a junior and a new
member, also.
Coach Currie feels the team
has extremely good potential,
being particularly rich with
strong spiking talent. How
ever, a great responsibility
has fallen upon the shoulders
of Diane Conklin, who serves
as the sole starting setter. Due
to lack of experienced setters,
the team has adapted to a new
offense called a 5-1, where
there is one person on the
court at a time to do all of the
setting.
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A fine meteor shower occurs from October 14th to
November 7th. Known as the Orionid shower, it is best
seen in the pre dawn sky for several days around October
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into the rhythmic quirks and
playful flops that distinguish
Twyla Tharp's dances.
Between two Chuck Berry
numbers, in a take-off on
fifties dances, two women
dancers hand to their partners
the gum with which, while
dancing, they have been
blowing enormous bubbles.
The thing is done so subtly it
is hardly noticed. Twyla's wit
does not insist.
Twyla is a diminutive
fireball. She dances with an
unbelievable looseness, yet
with no consequent loss in
precision. Her dances move;
the audience is never bored.
No long dramatic episodes -
which expressions of Pain,
Sorrow, the Tragedy of Life -
strangle the prevailing light
ness of her work. The
lightness, though, is not
superficiality. It is alive,
awake, electrical.
In a time in which more and
more dancers dance against,
or even despite, the musical
score, Twyla dances with it,
often so effectively that you
can almost see the music. In
an embellished version of
Mozart's "Twinkle, Twinkle",
one dancer's movements
coincided with the staccato
embellishments, another's
with the slower underlying
theme, creating a fascinating
impression of counterpoint in
movement.
Backstage after the perfor-
The Women's Varsity
Volleyball team will be
contesting in a tri-match with
the High Point and St.
Augustine College teams at
7:00 in the "Crackerbox" (the
Gym). This will be the last
home game for the Quakers
before they "hit the road for a
while", playing at St.
Andrews, Methodist, UNC-C
and High Point before
returning home on October
23rd to play Louisburg and
Pembroke.
Performance
mance, your reviewer spoke
with one of the dancers, whom
he knew from his dancing
days. She was drenched with
perspiration and her hands
were shaking. I realized that
the easy lightness of the
Tharpian technique requires
an immense physical effort
and discipline. She had been
in the Martha Graham
Company, one of the most
severe and austere, and also
best known, of modern dance
companies. "I cut my hair,
and bought some blue jeans,"
she said, "and quit the
Graham company while I
could still do it comfortably."
On October 3, the UNC-G
series will present the Chinese
Acrobats of Taiwan, on their
first U.S. tour. "Far more
than a mere series of stunts",
say the program notes, "their
performance is an ancient and
integral part of Chinese
culture, based on a desire for
man to find perfect harmony
between mind and body."
On October 4, there will be
a performance of the Broad
way hit, "Don't Bother Me, I
Can't Cope", a jazz musical
with "a Black orientation"
and a tone "sardonic, rather
than bitter". Norman Cou
sins, longtime editor of the
Saturday Review, will speak
on October 5, at the Elliot
University Center. Concerts
and plays are at War
Memorial Auditorium.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL
ROSTER, 1975
YR. NO
NAME
Doris Adams 31
Sally Busken Fr. 45
Diane Conklin Sr. 42
Cathy Flick p r. 13
Kathy Gilbert Fr. 14
Lee Herzog Fr. 22
Charlotte Hines r -
Terry Hoge Soph 12
Beth Howell J r * 33
Betsy MacKenzie Fr. 25
Liz Moran Fr. 30
Elizabeth Parker Sr. 20
Wanda Robbins Fr. 21
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