Page Four
THE TWIG
March 8, 1946
Students and Administration Evaluate
Focus Week Activities and Results
Faculty
“I found this Focus Week
most helpful to me personally,
and was impressed with the op
portunities it offered the stu
dents.”
“I think one of the very smart
things of this Focus Week was
the selection of men who ex
pressed themselves differently.
They possessed the same basic
beliefs but were different in ex
pression. This is very good and
appealing to different types, and
I hope it shall continue.”
Students:
“The need for more activities
like those carried on last week
was clearly revealed in the par
ticipation of the students.”
“Focus Week made me realize
the need for more original think
ing on the part of the students.”
“Focus Week seems lacking in
that too many activities were
going on. It seems that if the
week is to be set aside for a
purpose, more time should be
given to preparation for discus
sions and seminars.
“The team members were so
down-to-earth and understand
ing that it was a real joy to talk
with them.”
“The most significant result of
the week was the stimulation of
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thought provoking questions on
the part of students. It remains
to be seen what will come of it
all.”
“The B.F.U. party did more
to unite the students than any
thing that has been presented at
Meredith College. If more of
such things could be presented
I’m sure it would raise the school
spirit a great deal.”
“I would like to see Focus
Week extended over a longer
period of time.”
“In my opinion it was ‘tops’
and it satisfied the needs of
many.”
“I think that we should carry
■ out what we have learned from
Focus Week. We should make
Christ our Imperative every
week.”
“Focus Week was one of the
most inspiring weeks I have ever
spent.”
“This Focus Week has been a
great success, I think, and it has
meant much to me spiritually.”
“I think there should be more
small group discussions. I re
ceived more from discussions at
the dining table, classroom, and
Pause for Power than anywhere
else.”
“Just have the next Focus
Week as this one, and it will be
an inspirational experience for
jail.”
“It was the most enjoyable
week I have ever spent at Mere
dith College.”
! “I wish that we could have Dr.
Clarence Jordan back for confer
ences this year.”
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Ivey Offers Modern Dance Is Art
Art Exhibit
Friday afternoon, March 1,
the art students had an op
portunity to hear Professor
Gregory D. Ivy speak on paint
ing, and see his work which is
now on exhibition at the State
Art Gallery. He is the head of
the Art Department at W.C.-
U.N.C., and is one of the top
watercolorists. He said that art
in North Carolina has advanced
tremendously during the recent
years. He feels it a good fortune
to have been able to have helped
these people who have furthered
art. Professor Ivy’s job is to
help people carry out the ideas
that they would like to see done.
He called himself a “high class
janitor.”
As he walked over to a paint
ing on the wall to his left, he
said, “I’m a very peaceful per
son really.” Then he pointed to
the painting “Portrait of a Mod
est Woman,” a picture in which
the expression was a little
“nasty,” and he remarked,
“Some women are that way.”
Some of his other pictures were
“Storm at Gallup,” “Across the
Bay,” “Yesterday,” “Church
yard,” “Landscape,” “Newkirk’s
Barn,” “Tomorrow,” “Airport at
Santa Fe,” “Port Terminal at
Morehead City,” “Grey Hills,”
“Along the Santa Fe,” and “Near
Window Rock.” The variety of
paintings reflect in a measure his
variety of interests.
Professor Ivy briefly took the
group through the different
periods of art beginning with
the Greeks and going through
the 19th century.
In explaining his work. Ivy
said that there was no “right
road” in painting a good paint
ing. He thinks that there are
as many “right roads” as there
are people. He likes to go
sketching, and his favorite
method is to ride around the
country and see the landscape in
different situations so that he
will be sure that he wants to
paint that particular landscape.
Among Professor Ivy’s paintings
are paintings of landscapes in
Mexico, New Mexico, California,
and North Carolina.
The exhibition will be in the
State Art Gallery until March
30.
He has exhibited by invitation
at some of the leading galleries
of the country, including, the
Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan
in New York, and the Interna
tional Exhibition at the Art-
Institute in Chicago. Mr. Ivy
has exhibited his works in
several other places in N. C.
During the World War II, he
was a Sergeant in the Engineer’s
Camouflage Division of the Air
Force.
by Jenny Rembert
Creative Rhythms need ex
plaining—both the term and the
contents, for many of you won
der how anything that’s taught
in a gym class can be put into
an artistic program. What we
teach on this campus for Cre
ative Rhythms is part of a move
ment among the art forms of to
day known as Modern Dance.
It is an art expression—an ex
pression through movement. It
is another way of telling about
the things that happen to us.
Consequently, this dance can be
as exalted as our highest reli
gious ideals or as shoddy as emp
ty minds.
It’s significant that the move
ment began in this country, be
cause it grew out of a reaction
against classical ballet, which is
typically European in origin.
Ballet began in the courts of
Europe in a society that was idle
and needed entertainment.
By the nature of its origin,
this dance became fanciful,
escapist, dealing with legends of
kings and courtesans in fabulous
times. And it was satisfying to
the people who watched it be
cause their lives had no reality.
Companies were formed, which
were frequently commanded to
perform on short notice. Thus, it
is easy to see how the dance
movements became stylized into
definite patterns and the pat
terns acquired names so they
could be quickly recalled. The
companies grew into schools and
the schools spread, but the tech
niques were the same. A dance
could change from a school in
Italy to one in Russia with no
difficulty.
As the techniques crystallized,
the costume patterned itself in
to the traditional, ascetic white,
and the dance movements be
came more stylized. Ballet flour
ished just before and during the
Victorian era, because of its
romantic quality.
But it was an American girl
who dared to break the mold.
Her name was Isadore Duncan,
and she appeared on the dance
scene around the turn of this
century. She danced barefooted,
for one thing, alone, and in a sim
ple tunic. She danced to music
The enrollment at Mere
dith College for the spring
semester, 1946 is 557. This
release was made from the
office of the Registrar and
includes all students en
rolled through February 27.
In making this announce
ment, Mrs. Vera Tart Marsh
stated that the total enroll
ment to date for the college
year is 613.
j that was not written for ballet,
i and she used no traditional bal
let steps. She felt her way to
music in dances that were sim
ple, but profound. And she revo-
I lutionized her field.
I A young man and woman who
I had been interested separately
and later, mutually, when they
married, in East Indian and Az-
! tec dancing, came under her in-
I fluence. Out of this interest was
a school that was to produce
I many leaders in the field today.
I The young couple was Ruth St.
I Denis and Ted Shhwn. The most
famous pupil from their Deni-
shawn school was Martha Gra-
j ham. She danced alone when
I she first left their group, but
later acquired a company of
her own. Now her concerts are
events as great in her field as
Toscanini’s concerts are in the
i field of music. She has become
1 the mind of the modern dance
! as Picasso is the mind of mod
ern art, and it is under her influ-
I ence and that of others that this
art form has come into its own
today. It is highly individual
ized there are no set techniques
—rather, “anything that the
body can do,” expressive of emo
tion, is permissible. This dance
is experimental; it is never
static. Because it is not escapist,
it changes with the ever-chang
ing culture of which it is part,
and reciprocally, it has its effects
on the culture.
I do not mean by the above
that all ballet is bad. Some of it
that we see even today is still
meaningless and sterile. But bal
let, too, has been affected by
the Modern dance, and most of
it now is a combination of the
old and the new. Some very sig
nificant efforts have been made
in this field.
Our Creative Rhythms classes
at Meredith combine a physical
education program with creative
endeavor to express in the me
dium emotions that are our own,
and the Christmas and Spring
programs are the culmination of
this activity. All of the dances
will be original with the group
and the settings and costumes
will have been designed by mem
bers of the group and made
through the Art Department. It
is quite an effort on our part
and one that we hope will be
beneficial to the school.
We think that the program
will be well balanced with the
Folk Dance, which is a people’s
dance patterned by a country’s
heritage and handed down over
the years—and with the spon
taneous effort of the Creative
Rhythms group.
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