4The Daily Tar HeelfTuesday, April 3, 1984
Company performs
crisp, lyrical dances
The Hubbard Street Dance Com
pany explored many facets of human
experience education, memories,
relationships and plain fun in six
crisply choreographed, lyrically danced
and highly entertaining numbers Sun
day night in Memorial Hall.
The company's first number, Lire
Drive, represented education as it
should be demonstrative and enter
taining. Folksy, strummed sounds of a
mandolin and guitar opened the show
and were soon accompanied by the
whole leaping company clad in
modern, electric blue unitards and
white jazz oxfords giving a historical
sketch of dance in America.
The linear dance began with a syn
chronous performance of balletic
movements with a folk dance air.
Then the music changed to a per
cussive bongo beat and the dance went
through the same metamorphosis,
becoming aerobic and exchanging li
quid ballet movements for a crisp,
sharp "jazzercise" interpretation
which gradually developed into an
almost break-dancy choregraphy.
The next-to-last number, Diary,
was Hubbard's best. Two dancers,
Claire Bataille and Gregory Begley,
performed this emotional, highly sen
sitive and reflective number.
Bataille' s performance was flowing
ly responsive to Judith Lander's
beautiful ballad accompaniment.
Bataille's excellent ability to sustain a
position gave a suspended, slice-out-of-time
aura to her performance. The
spotlight on her black-clad form
heightened the sense of introspection.
Gregory Begley gave a mesmerizing
interpretation of the second Lander
ballad. His body was simultaneously
lyrical and tense, as if it contained a
desperate emotion craving to escape,
but tragically confined.
An equally stunning but less emo
tionally intense number was the
humorous relationship illustration
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playful choreography captured the
ups and downs of a man-woman rela
tionship through the dancers' intert
wined bodies, their playful ballet,
their leap-frogging off of one another
and their carrying one another cn
their backs.
Kitty Skillman and Clinton
Wilborn's performance in the warm
environment of magenta, violet and
yellow suits and lighting was both
mindlessly playful and skillfully ex
ecuted. They kaleidoscopically melted
into one another when the dance
became sensual and retained the
energetic string that linked them
together when they were physically
distant.
Full Moon was another balletic per
formance with a modern theatrical
twist. Begun in the moonglow of a
soft blue light, the phosphorescently
clad company writhed romantically to
gymngpedic music.
The dancing became interesting
when the dancer began using each
other as objects rather than people. t
one point a male dancer nonchalantly
walked across the stage lugging a
female dancer who was crouched in a
fetal position as if she were a sack of
potatoes.
The other two numbers, At the
Rosebud and The '40s were spicy
numbers with a lot of cute grins, but
there was nothing really unusual about
therii.
Technically the dancing and
choreography were very good, but
television has made this type of danc
ing so accessible to the public that,
although entertaining these numbers
were not as successful as the earlier
more unusual and interpretive dances.
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Guadalcanal pumps it up for Cat's Cradle gig
Guadalcanal Diary put on a hard
driving, intriguing show for a Saturday
night Cat's Cradle audience of more than
100. The band mixed a heavy guitar
sound with Murray Attaway's subtle but
strong vocals for a show even the band
seemed to enjoy.
Playing a host of fine originals and a
complementary dish of covers, Guadal
canal Diary sounded at times like the
Byrds, at times like Jason, and the
Scorchers, and at other times like a hard
core punk band.
Guitarist Jeff Walls, the most animated
member of the band, wore tacky brown
cowboy boots, blue jeans and a black
shirt with "Mel Hilliard Chevrolet" writ
ten in glitter on the back.
Bassist Rhett Crowe, who has close
cropped blond hair and glasses, wore
jeans and a blue sweatshirt before chang
ing into a blue silk dress and white cow
boy boots after the first set.
Drummer John Poe wore jeans and a
blue Coca-Cola shirt, with the logo in
English and Japanese.
Vocalist Murray wore a gray sweatshirt
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that turned dark with sweat as the first set
progressed. He later changed into what
looked like a cut-off brown maternity
dress with jeans.
The show started slowly with an instru
mental and some minor pieces. "Under
Jets" (so named because of Lockheed
Corp.'s presence in Marietta), a song
about the band's home, Marietta, Ga.f
gave Attaway the first good chance to
show off the band's witty lyrics. "Oh, to
wake up in barber city," he sang.
Leading into a strong version of the
band's novelty song, "(I Wish I'd Killed)
John Wayne," the Diary played what
Walls called the "BonanzaMaxXbora
theme." "We did that to keep the song
interesting," he said.
Guadalcanal closed the first set with
the Syndicate of Sound's "Hey Little
Girl," a rocking number in which At
taway's delivery took on a feel of -bejji-gerent
irony similar to the vocal style of
Gordon Gano of the Violent Femmes.
The dance floor filled as the second set
began with the punk-sounding "Dead
Eyes," a song from the group's EP,
Watusi Rodeo. Poe pounded his drums in
what was nearly a Keith Moon exhibition
as Attaway sang, "Skulls at the bottom
of my whiskey glass."
Guadalcanal Diary surprised the au
dience next with a sound-alike version of
the Beatles' "She Said," a selection
which suggests the band must truly have
some obsession with singing about death
or dead things.
Attaway stood square-footed at center
stage, guitar in hand, singing. As the
lights reflected from his glasses, he some
what resembled a plump John Lennon.
Perhaps the highlight of the show was
Guadalcanal's "Johnny B. Goode," an
interpretation of Chuck Berry's classic
more intriguing than Devo's version of
"Satisfaction." Attaway shook maracas
and sang in bluesy anguish as the band
turned this rocker into a real dirge. At
taway fell to the floor and moaned out
the lyrics while rolling around on his
back.
The band also performed strong ver
sions of the more pop-sounding "Michael
Rockefeller" and "Watusi Rodeo."
The third set opened with Attaway
singing in Spanish, accompanied by Walls
on guitar. The song was called "Fuki
Waki." It illuminated the band's off-the-wall
humor.
To close the show, Guadalcanal Diary
played a percussion-laden, tour de force
version of "Kumbaya, My Lord." With
Attaway singing in earnest and em
phasizing the words, the song came off
with reverential power and glory.
The 1 a.m. closing time had already
rolled by, but the audience wanted more.
Cries of "Dead Eyes!" . forced
Guadalcanal back on stage for a second
rocking performance of "Dead Eyes."
In the end, Guadalcanal Diary sound
ed, well, like Guadalcanal Diary. And
that was quite fine.
Choirs, symphony to perform Verdi's 'Requiem Mass'
By STEVE CARR
Slaff Writer
Critics were not kind to Giuseppe Verdi's Requiem
Mass at its first performance. Despite a varm reception
from the general audience, sophisticated circles dispara
gingly referred to the work as opera in church garb. Verdi
himself was passed off as a mere tunesmith.
"The critics were misguided," said Larry Cook direc
tor of UNC's Carolina Choir and the Durham Civic
Choral Society. "They thought all religious music
should have the same style."
Both choral groups will participate in three perfor
mances of the Requiem with the North Carolina Sym
phony this week.
"Verdi really was an operatic composer," Gerhardt
Zimmerman, conductor of the North Carolina Sym
phony, said.
Zimmerman will conduct tonight's performance in
Chapel Hill and Thursday's performance in Raleigh.
Cook will conduct Durham's Friday night performance.
Both Zimmerman and Cook feel that the Requiem's
operatic elements contribute to the work in a positive
way. "There is beautiful vocal writing," Cook said.
"The piece is expressive, subjective, dramatic."
The arrangement between Cook and Zimmerman is
unusual. To begin with, Cook coordinated two different
choirs. "It's hard to keep track of what I do with each
group," Cook said.
Even though Cook prepared the choirs, Zimmerman
will conduct two of the three performances. "There's
always some difficulty to prepare for someone else,"
Cook said. "We talked about tempos, but there was not
a lot of communication. It was a surprise when (Zim
merman) changed his mind at the first rehearsal."
Both men agreed, however, that they got along well.
"Larry and I are on the same wavelength," Zimmerman
said. "I think he's a very good choral director."-
"J like what he's doing," Cook said in reference to
Zimmerman's interpretation. Cook did say he would
take some of the fugues at a more relaxed pace than
Zimmerman.
"There's always the possibility for change," Zimmer
man said. "No two people will have the same interpreta
tion." "I very much like the work," Cook said. "I think it's
something people would like to hear."
Despite the potential for cynicism in the piece with the
return to the Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) in the final move-
ment and mankind begging for mercy, Zimmerman feels
the Requiem "reaffirms life as' a struggle."
Verdi's Requiem will be performed tonight at 8 in
Memorial Hall. Student tickets are $3.50 and are
available at the Union box office from noon to 6 p.m.
and at the door. For more information, call 962-1449.
For information on tickets for the general public or
tickets for the Durham and Raleigh performances, call
the N. C. Symphony office at (919) 733-2750.
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GRAHAM A Greensboro professor
might not have known where the beef
was, but he did find the fish on the
back of his neck.
Following an emotional four-hour trail
in Alamance .County District Court, a
Burlington pet store owner was found
guilty of assaulting UNC-Greensboro
Professor Dean Fadley with a fish sand
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Meanwhile, Fadley was found innocent
of assault, trespassing and using indecent
language in public in the March 12 inci-
Pet stores owner throws fish at man
dent at a pet store at a Burlington shopp
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Pet store owner James L. Price was
given a suspended sentence and ordered
to pay court costs. He immediately filed
notice of appeal. Fadley, a speech profes
sor, has also filed a civil lawsuit against
Price.
According to testimony, the two men
got into an argument at Price's store over
an agreement they had 'made concerning
some malamute puppies. Fadley had bred
the dogs and Price agreed to sell some of
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.Fadley testified that when he went to
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Fadley said Price became angered and
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me. I realized I'd been hit with the fish
sandwich."
After the incident, the men took out
warrants against each other. They both
hired lawyers for Wednesday's court
hearing. Judge J.B. Allen Jr. sided with
Fadley in the argument and found Price
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