Vol. 4, No. 4
North Carolina School of the Arts
October 27, 1969
Civic Music To Present
Penn Ballet Company
On Thursday, October 30, the
Civic Music Association of Winston-
Salem will present the Pennsylvania
Ballet Company in concert at Rey
nolds Memorial Auditorium. This up
and coming young company has pro
ven to be, as a UPI critic affirmed,
"a major force in the world of dance
today".
On Thursday, these talented
dancers will perform ballets from
their vast repertoire. The ex
pansion of the company's theatrical
style over the few short years of
its existence has been of great in
terest, from a strict base (Balan
chine) , into the other modem genres
(Tudor, Sokolow, Butler, Rodham), as
guest choreographers challenged the
performers to find greater varieties
of dance expression within their
techniques and souls.
Anthony Tudor, a world renowned
choreographer, who contributed his
famous "Lilac Garden" to PBC's reper
toire, stated, "I enjoyed working
with this con^jany. These dancers
have character'. Unlike some of our
companies, you can tell the dancers
apart "
DANGER:
CYCLAMATE
Everybody knows that sugar rots
your teeth and makes you fat, fat,
fat. So since 1950 people have been
using artificial sweeteners (with up
to 30 times the "sweet"of sugar) such ■
as saccharin and cyclamate.
Well, last week the Food and
Drug Administration declared cycla-
mates "pessibly dangerous to health",
banned their use and ordered all foods
and drinks containing them off the
shelves by January 1st.
The Secretary of Health, Edu
cation, and Welfare, Robert Finch, said
that there is evidence that .cyclamates
cause cancer in animals. Unlike
sugar, cyclamates do not break down
predictably in the body. They form
chemicals such as cyclohexylamine
which in large doese causes bladder
cancer in rats. They also cause
breaks in the chromosomes of ani
mals and humans.
The only exceptions made to the
HEW ban will be for diabetics and
people on reducing diets under a
doctor's care. Why, one wonders, is
there still a great, basket full of
Sweet 'n' Low in our cafeteria at
every meal? It will no doubt dis
appear at midnight January 1st.
John Butler, an equally re
nowned choreographer, who has cre
ated a number of ballets specifi
cally for this company said, "They're
so young and full of energy....very
responsive to new ideas and fresh
Images".
The excitement around NCSA of
PBC's arrival in Winston is due to a
number of reasons, namely five. Five
former NCSA dancers are now members
of the company and will be performing
Thursday night. They are Janet and
Marilyn Snyder, Ellen Parker, Mar
jorie Philpot, and Dane LaFontsee.
The performance will start at
8:30 p.m., with the doors opening at
Photogra phy
Club Formed
Under the - gxildance of Richard
Spock, Production Manager of the
Technical and Design Department, a
photography club is to be organized.
Spock will be assisted by Bob Mar
shall and Bill Parrish, also of the
Technical Department.
The club's aim will be to get
people together who are interested in
photography and to help them pur
sue this hobby to its fullest with
adequate equipment.
The club will be open only to
NCSA students.
Notices of the club's first
meeting will be posted in the dorms
and the main building.
Beatle Lives
Despite recent reports to
the contrary, Beatle Paul Mc
Cartney is alive and quite well,
thank you.
A Detroit disk jockey,
Russ Gibb, started the rumor,
having come to the conclusion that
bassist McCartney had died sev
eral years ago and was replaced
in the group by a double. His
statement was based on several
clues" which have appeared on the
covers of Beatle albvims. The most
recent "clue" says Gibb, appears on
the group's newly 'released Abbey
Road. The cover photo shows the
(Danny Kaye as the "Ragpioker"
in The Madwoman of ChalI lot. The all
star' aast includes Katherine Hepburn^
Yul Bvynnevy Richard Chamberlain^
John Gavin3 Oscar Homolkaj Gerald Siruj
Charles Boyer, and Donald Fleasance.
See page two.)
Teveof dance”
TO OPEN FRI.
NCSA dancers, recently praised
for their successful tour of Italy,
will perform again in their annual
fall program. This year the dates
have been set for October 31,j
November 1, November 7 and 8. The
Drama building will be the theatre and
each dance performance will begin at
8:15 p.m.
These performances will consist
of both modem and ballet. New works
will be premiered.
"Flic Flac", a new ballet cre
ated by Duncan Noble, is a lively
ballet with music by Benjamin
Britten. Mr. Noble has taken pieces
from Britten's Matinees Musicales
and Soirees Musicales and choreo
graphed a variety of short dances
for six couples. "It's only for fun",
Mr. Noble stated, "with no story line
at all". When asked why a name like
Flic Flac was chosen for his ballet,
Mr. Noble chuckled and said, "I had
no idea what to title this work and
Mr. Lindgren kept calling it "Frim
"Fram". This gave me the idea of
Flic Flac because a step that the
girls do in one of their variations
is a "Flic Flac".
(Cont. on page 2)
four Beatles walking across a
street in a processional line,
with McCartney bare-footed, which.
in Italy is the symbol of a corpse.
Also, the^dj claimed that a
licence plate number which appears
in the picture, 28 IF, meant that
McCartney would have been twenty-
eight years old have he lived to
have the picture taken. Unfor
tunately, Paul is still twenty-
seven. '
(con't on pg. (,)