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The N.C. Essay
May 21. 1970
Sanders Ballet
Premiered in
Philadelphia
The ballet stage has only recently become
the place where intensely human dramas take
place. The dance has dealt in yearning prin
ces and coquettish peasants and, more recent
ly, in the geometry of movement, line, and
color.
What it was and what it is becoming was
both illustrated when the Pennsylvania Ballet
offered a new work to its repertory in the
opening night of the series at the Academy of
Music.
The future way was suggested in Job
Sanders’ Fugitive Visions, a ballet without a
tangible plot or recognizable characters, yet
with a swelling feeling of sorrow and, finally,
compassion. In a way this plotless ballet is a
glimpse of the human condition with its humor
tangible plot or recognizable characters, yet
with a swelling feeling of sorrow and, finally,
compassion. In a way this plotless ballet is a
ghmpse of the human condition with its humor,
its youthful optimism and the ultimate sense
that nothing matters but love, deep, unspoken,
serene.
Sanders subtitles his ballet ‘in memory
of....’but the piece is not a eulogy, it is an
affirmation. The characters are pure, vul
nerable, gentle, and because of their yielding
natures, they and the dance may be seen in
time to be too expressive of the pacific
attitude to be timeless. For now, however, it
says something about love and fear that touch
es an audience.
In form it is a series of 14 sections put
together without significant breaks in the fab
ric. There are solos, small ensembles, groups
of 10, dancing in simple costumes, the men in
trousers and bright loose shirts, the girls in
chiffon over tights.
There is a brief section in which they
fill the stage with physical love. Couples
everywhere. There are bright, funny min
utes as in Wendy Barker’s quirky dance with
David Kloss and Ramon Rivera.
John Jones, principal new to the com
pany, danced a lyrical solo and was effective
in ensemble when the dance provided every
man with a girl...but left him out.
The work builds to a strong last state
ment in which the group faces the harsh light
and instinctively pulls together, protectively,
the dancers performing a buffer between the
girl terrified by that vision and the world out
side. It seems very natural, very economical,
and the dance is what so few turn out to be:
affecting.
The subtle application of hghts to the
shifts in mood was a major aspect of the
dances’ effect, and the rather somber music -
a string arrangement of the Prokofiev Visions
Fugitives - completed the picture.
AN EVENING OF MODERN DANCE
First All-Student Production
On Thursday, May 21, an evening of dance,
staged and choreographed entirely by students
of the school will be presented in the NCSA
auditorium. The program is a senior recital
featuring works by Catherine Wheeler and
Lynne Hedrick. One additional work by
Elizabeth Brotman, a senior in high school, will
also be performed. The entire program will in
clude five works, using a company of 12 dancers
both modern and ballet.
Catherine Wheeler’s first piece is entitled
Four Dances. The music used is 15 th century
French Renaissance dance music. The work is
very light and is based on a medieval theme
using archaic form in movement.
Her second piece will be Roar, Roar, Roar,
Roar, etc...or How I became charming, de
lightful, and delicious, with music by Eric
Satie. Obviously a comic piece as suggested
by the title it is based on the theories of the
Dadist movement.
Lynne Hedrick’s work is The Daughters.
BOYCOTT OF COCA-COLA PLANNED
Out raged by the recent expansion of the
Vietnamese War into Cambodia and by the sup
pression of dissent, we call upon all persons
who disapprove of the recent events in America
and who seek an immediate end to the war to
join us in a national boycott. We call on all
concerned people to stop buying all products
produced and distributed by the Coca-Cola
Company. We intend through this boycott to
exert pressure upon the economic resources of
the government. Also, we call upon all citizens
to join us in refusing to pay the ten per cent
federal tax on every monthly telephone bill.
That tax is earmariced to go directly for mili
tary expenditures, and massive public refusal to
pay that tax will withdraw substantial financial
support from the unpopular war abroad and
put effective pressures on the administration.
The present crisis necessitated decisive action,
and we urgently request that the troubled citi
zenry of this nation unite in supporting this
beginning effort. We urge that this boycott be
expanded during the next weeks and months so
that the administration can no loiter ignore the
people. National Boycott Committee
“DONT JUST STAND THERE”
(con’t from pg. 1)
students who have not had the time an oppor
tunity to register, the registration period has
been extended to this Wednesday, May 20th.
You may still register in the Student Affairs
Office for the following offices as well as the
four previously mentioned:
Vice President
Judicial Board Chairman
Lower Division Representative
Middle Division Representative
College Representative
Music Department Representative
Dance Department Representative
Design and Production Department Rep.
Writing Department Representative
Rehearsals of Lynne Hedrick’s THE CA VE.
It is based on the short story The Daughters
of the Late Colonel by Katerine Mansfield.
The music is by Berio.
Lynne’s other piece is The Cave, a work
based on Plato’s Allegory of the cave. The
music is by NCSA’s Michael Colina. It was
recorded by the NCSA orchestra, under the
direction of Marc Gottlieb.
Elizabeth Brotman adds a different flavor
to the evening by using music of Laura
Nyro. The work is appropriately entitled
Nyro Series. It includes two solos and a duet
performed by Cathy Wheeler and Lynne Hed
rick.
The technical director of the entire pro
gram is Robert Marshall. Production stage
manager is Carrmiie Lavine and sound tech
nician is Stacy Meyer. All the costumes
were designed by Nancy Lindquist.
The evening is one that should be noted,
for it is the first evening of dance choreo
graphed, staged, and performed entirely by
students. The curtain will be at 8:15 p.m
All students and faculty are urged to attend.
This is your chance. Register an4 vote
for Student Council Association representa
tives.