Volume V, No. 11 North Carolina School of the Arts October 2, 1970
VISUAL ART
ff4iTIAT
A High School Visual Arts Pro
gram has been inaugurated this fall
at the North Carolina School of the
Arts for thirty high school students
in grades 9 through 12.
The arts program, which is in
addition to the regular high school
academic courses, consists of art
history, painting, drawing, graphics,
sculpture, basic crafts, and field
trips.
Mr. Robert Costelloe, Miss
Mackey Jefferies, and guest artists
are the instructors. Both day and
boarding students have been accepted
for the coming school year, 1970-71.
Mr. Robert Ward, President of
the School of the Arts, described
the program as follows; "When the
North Carolina School of the Arts
was first established, there was
considerable discussion about
whether a School of Visual Arts
should be included. Because, how
ever, very complete programs on the
college level are offered in Chapel
Hill, Greensboro, and Greenville,
it was felt that there was no need
for another such program on the
college level in the state.
STAMBLER
READS TONITE
The North Carolina School of the
Arts will present Peter- Lane Stambler
in a poetry and prose reading in the
auditorium of the main building to
night, October 2, at 8:15 p.m. Thfe
reading, which will include poems by
Blake, Wordsworth, and Hopkins, is
open to the public at no charge.
The poems have been chosen to
provide introductory mottos for the
prose selections from Stambler's
new novel, "The Outset," which is
set in Indian and Japan.
All the selections describe and
contrast many kinds of love; only
one deals with the love of a man, and
a woman. Others range from the excite
ment at the wonders of nature through
the torment of loving the world too
much to ignore its problems.
Stambler, who teaches writing as
a subdivision of the School of Drama,
completed his Bachelor of Arts degree
at Yale University, with honors. He
also holds a Master of Fine Arts de
gree from Carnegie-Mellon Drama School,
where he was the Heinz Fine Arts
Fellow.
The Convocation program on
Wednesday, October 6, will include
"Documentaries and Stories," four
short theater pieces that were
developed under the direction of
James Dodding by Drama students who
travelled to England this past sum
mer.
Also on the program will be a
selection of musical pieces, including
"Bangelsangerlieder," anonymous;
"Two Ayres for Cornettes and Sagbuts,"
by John Adson; "Sonata No. 22," by
Johann Pezel; and "Intermezzo from
Music for Brass Instruments," by
Ingolf Dahl. Playing these pieces will
be the NCSA Brass Quintet, which in
cludes Ed Helbein, trumpet; Marcellus
Pailen, trumpet; Robin Conrad, horn;
Steve Sherrill, trombone; Bob Collier,
tuba.
FISHER+DINGFli\N
Nelle Fisher, former member of
the Martha Graham Comp»toy, and Nolalf^
Dingman, ballet master of the Wash
ington (D.C.) Ballet last season, have
accepted appointments to the North
Carolina School of the Arts dance
faculty. In making the announcements,
Robert Lindgren, dean of the School
of Dance, said that Miss Fisher
will teach modern dance, while Mr.
Dingman will be an instructor in
classical ballet.
Originally from Seattle, Wash
ington, Miss Fisher studied at the
Neighborhood Playhouse in New York
City on a scholarship arranged ny
Martha Graham.
She has been featured in
several Broadway musicals, working
under such choregraphers as Jerome
Robbins, Agnes deMille and Hanya
Holm.
She comes to the school follow
ing a year divided between duties as
the choregrapher of the San Fran
cisco Opera Company and as guest
principal teacher for seven months
at the Rotterdam Conservatorium
Dansacademie in the Netherlands.
Nolan Dingman, of Jacksonville,
Florida, began his New York studies
at age 16 at the Carn©gie Studios.
He also studied at the Ballet Arts
School, Ballet Theater, School of
American Ballet and received his
modern and jazz dance training with
Jack Cole and Martha Graham. In
Hollywood, he studied at the Universal
International Studios in Hollywood.
Dingman has appeared with the
Ballet Theater and Sadler Wells
Ballet. With the Washington Ballet,
he danced at the White House for the
Christmas party given by President
and Mrs. Nixon for diplomats and
their children in 1969.
moon RESiGns
Jim Moon, who was scheduled to
teach two-dimensional design in the
school's new Visual Arts Program,
has resigned from his post as an
instructor at NCSA. Moon, who was
instrumental in the program's form
ation, is reported to have left the
school because of differences with
administrative figures in relation
to the course. He originally handed
in his resignation to be effective
second semester; however, the school
decided that an experimental course
required a full-time instructor and
thus. Moon's resignation became
effective immediately.
Robert Ward, President of the
school, said that the resignation
came as a result of Moon's wanting
a change in contract that did not
coincide with the school's budget.
Ward admitted that materials for the
course had been ordered late, but ex
plained that the school could not
reasonably order until it was known
how many students would enroll in
the course. (A major problem in that
students were still registering a
week after school had begun).
In reference to a lack of space
for the program. Ward said that the
school was larger than had been
anticipated and that room space was a
problem in every department.
The President also indicated
that there were some personal differ
ences which played a part in the mat
ter.
When we went to speak to Mr.
Moon at his home in Old Salem, he was
painting and working on plans for a
home he is building in the country.
He declined to comment on the reasons
for his resignation and sent his cor-*
dial best wishes to everyone at the
School of the Arts.
by M.FergusoJ^ K,
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