Vol. 3, No. 8
North Carolina School of the Arts
October 18, 1968
"AN EVENING OF DANCE
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STUDENT TOURS
SLATED FOR OCT 28
Students from the School of the
Arts will go on the road for a week
beginning Monday, Oct. 28, giving
performances in public schools all
across North Carolina,
This will be the third such
tour. Already in the planning stage
is a fourth tour scheduled to begin
next March 24.
Some 40 schools, mostly high
schools, will be visited during the
tours. The Dance Department will be
performing in Eastern North Carolina
the Drama Department in the West,
and the Music Department in the area
around Winston=Salem. During the
week of Nov. 4, a modern dance group
under Miss Pauline Koner will be
touring the western part of the
state.
This year the Drama Department
will be performing Eugene Ionesco’s
"The Bald Soprano". The play is one
act, which lasts about half an hour,
will be followed by a discussion be
tween the audiences and the members
of the cast.
The actors will be appearing in
schools at Olin, Barium Springs,
Hickory, Hudson, Valdese, Morganton,
Asheville, Clyde and Canton.
The Music Department will be
sending our two small groups, a
brass ensemble and a wind ensemble.
The musicians will perform In school
at Mt. Airy, Sparta, Reidsville,
East Bend, Boonesville, High Point
and Greensboro. They will play at
two schools in Reidsville and three
in Greensboro.
Drawing on their regular reper
tory of ballets, the Dance Depart-
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ATTENTION!!!
STARVING ARTISTS
ment will head east for its first
week of performances, which are
scheduled at Edenton, Tyner, Rocky
Mount, Kinston, Goldsboro, Smith-
field and Raleigh.
Miss Koner’s modern dance group
will leave the following week for
performances in Asheville, Forest
City, Bessemer City, Mooresville,
Salisbury, Linwood and Thomasville.
The two dance groups and the
drama group will be out on the road
from Sunday to Friday, living in mo
tels along the way. The music group
will use the school as home base
since their performances will be gi
ven within a short distance of Wins
ton-Salem.
The tours this year will be un
derwritten by the North Carolina
Arts Council and the Mary Reynolds
Babcock Foundation. The Arts Coun
cil is sponsoring the dance groups,
while money from the recent Babcock
grant to the School of the Arts will
pay for the music and drama tours.
Benefits of these tours are
many. Students making the tours are
given an opportunity to learn first
hand of the life of a touring pro
fessional artist. In this case, the
groups give two performances a day,
one in the morning, the second in a-
nother school (sometimes in another
town) in the early afternoon. Nights
are spent in motels along the way.
(con’t on P. 4- Col. 2)
The N.C. Essay announces a
contest for the following:
1) A masthead for the school
paper - consisting of the same
material as the present masthead
(i. e, "N. C. Essay" at the top
of page one).
2) An emblem for the school pap
er - any design but one which may
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metric Figures (e. g. circle ,
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Entries should be bold, attrac
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livered to either Mr. Fragola or
Tony Senter, before Friday Nov. 1,
only a few weeks from today.
Ten dollars will be awarded to
the winner in each of the two cate
gories. So...it looks like its back
to the old drawing board for all you
poor souls who happen to be short of
rent, mad money, etc.
Two performances of "An Evening
of Dance" will be presented by the
Dance Department of the North Caro
lina School of the Arts at 8:15 p.m.
Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19,
in the auditorium of Main Hall at
the School of the Arts. Performances
will be open to the public without
charge.
Richard Gibson of San Francisco
is at the school to choreograph his
ballet "Adagio for Ten and Two",
which will be performed by students
at the School of the Arts. Music is
Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings.
Gibson is artistic director of
the Peninsula Ballet, and he has his
own school of ballet at San Mateo,
California. He trained at the San
Francisco School of Ballet and at
the Robert Joffrey School of Ballet
in New York.
His "Adagio for Ten and Two"
received enthusiastic reviews from
dance critics when it was performed
in regional ballet on the west coast.
Also included on the program
Friday and Saturday will be the
Peasant Pas de Deux from "Giselle",
which will be danced by two of Gib
son’s students who are spending two
weeks at the School of the Arts.
They are: Ken Del Mar and Kristine
Elliott.
Other ballets to be performed
by School of the Arts students are
Symphony No. 13, choreographed by
Duncan Noble with music by Haydn and
"Summernight", choreographed by Job
Sanders. Both Noble and Sanders are
members of the dance faculty at the
School of the Arts. Both ballets
were performed during the Festival
Theater’s season here last summer.
Noble's ballet was also perform
ed at the Southeastern Regional Bal
let Festival in Tampa, Florida last
April by the Augusta (Ga.) Civic
Ballet.
Sander's "Summernight" was pre
miered here last summer. It was pre-
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Wednesday at 11:50 in room 317 or
see Mr. Anthony Fragola, Tony S'enter
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