Vol 9, No. 3
N.C. SCHOOL OF THE 3fkTS
Tuesday, December 10, 1974
PHONE: 784-0085
VIPs, Splits, Glitz
de Mille Theatre to Open
By JOHN HUBBARD
Kssav .''tuft Reporter
All of the schools will participate in the
opening of the new de Mille theatre on the
night of Feb. 4,1975. The program, which
is being directed by Robert Lindgren,
dean of the dance department, consists of
four dance pieces and will run for six
performances.
The Theatre is being dedicated to
Agnes de Mille, because of her many
contributions to the performing arts and
to the School of the Arts.
Miss de Mille has been on the National
Council of the Arts, the presidential
commission which supervises the
National Endowment of the Arts and was
chairman of its first Dance Panel.
She was the first president of the
Society of Stage Directors and
Choreographers, Inc. She was also an
original member of the Advisory Board
of the School of the Arts.
World Premieres
Miss de Mille chose Winston-Salem for
the world premiere of her ballet, “A Rose
for Miss Emily” and her own Heritage
Dance Theatre.
One of the four pieces will be George
Crumb’s “Ancient Voices of Children,”
with text by Garcia Lorca. It is
conducted by Robert Suderburg and
choreographed by Richard Kuch. The
piece features Elizabeth Suderburg,
soprano, Jonathan Suderburg, boy
soprano, and will have a group of student
and faculty musicians. It includes an
introduction performed by the drama
department.
Crumb, a Pulitzer-Prize winning
composer, will be here Feb. 7-9, and is
scheduled to teach master classes during
his stay. This will be the first time that
the work has been danced.
See OPENING Page 8, Col. 1
lOssav Piloto
Agnes de Mille
Students Ousted For Rental
By BRYANT ARRINGTON
Kssay Staff Reporter
The occupants of the first floor of F
dormitory were told Nov. 19 that they
would be moved to other dormitories at
the end of Christmas vacation. Although
ill the occupants of the floor presently
iiave a single room, the first year
students involved will now have to share
rooms with students who previously had
rooms to themselves. Other students will
have to move to insure that older
students have priority on single rooms.
Somewhere between 15 and 20 students
will be involved in the move.
The dormitory move and the one-week
extensions of Christmas and spring
vacations, announced Nov. 15, are both
efforts to reduce a predicted deficit of
$36,000 in the budget for housing. Vice-
chancellor Martin Sokoloff explained,
“The housing budget, like the budget for
the cafeteria, is not state-supported. Both
the dormitories and the cafeteria are
part of the auxiliary budget which must
be receipt-supported (pay for itself).”
Why isn’t the budget working? Sokoloff
said “In order for the budget to break
even, we predict a number of students
living in dormitories. There should be
423 students living in dorms. We have
about 380. We have been affected by a
number of things. There are 20 students
in London, and more students than
expected are living off-campus for
medical, economic or artistic reasons.”
More students attending NCSA should
mean a greater use of both the cafeteria
and dormitory. However, this has not
been the case this year. Sokoloff said,
"Actually, we have more students than
we had predicted. The budget allowed for
about 550 students. In our last count, we
had about 584 students.”
Highest Dorm Charge
Sokoloff admitted, “We have the
highest dorm charge in the university
system because our dorms were built on
a bond issue; but we extended the bond
payment 10 years and reduced the
payment by $31,000. Unfortunately,
rising fuel costs used the $31,000 that had
been saved.”
Students interviewed from F
dormitory requested their names be
withheld because they feared
“administrative reprisals.”
“Our first reaction was one of
See HOUSING Page 2, Col. 3
Nelle Fisher
Is Struck
by Car
By KAY CRUTCHER
Bc^gue Returns Home
Director Exchange Success
By BRYANT ARRINGTON
Kssay Staff Reporter
Robert Bogue, guest director-
instructor from London, is returning to
Mt. View (training school for
professional theatre) on Dec. 21. Bogue
took part in an exchange program
between Mt. View in London and NCSA.
The exchange program started when
Paul Meier, a drama teacher from
NCSA, wanted to study in London this
year. Mt. View was unable to spare any
one director for the entire school year in
exchange. So an agreement was reached
whereby a different teacher would guest
instruct each term. Bogue has done much
more than teach, however.
Besides teaching sophomore drama
students, an acting-speech course of his
own design, Bogue has guest lectured in
other departments. Bogue, a playwright,
gave lectures to the creative writing
class, the costume design class, and is
lecturing on acting, directing, and
British Theatre during Intensive Arts.
Bogue acted in “The Prime of Miss
Jean Brodie” and wrote a narrative on
the play which he performed during the
Celebration campaign for the Foundation
Fund. While here, he wrote “Playwrights
and Paradise”- a “blending of various
aspects of the theatre and church. It was
performed at the First Episcopalian
Church,” Bogue mentioned.
Several of Bogue’s plays have been
produced. “One, ‘Women in Liberty’,
toured this country in ’72,” Bogue said.
“Another, ‘We Have Miss Dickson
Today’, a psycho-drama, won an award
in the 1973 British Drama Festival.”
Bogue spoke about differences between
NCSA and Mt. View. He said, “I see
perhaps the major difference between
the American and British approach to
theatre is the importance of
craftmanship or method in England
versus the greater freedom and
See BOGUE Page 2, Col.
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ROBERT BOGUE
Kssay Staff Rejwrter
Nelle Fisher, of the modem dance
department, was injured in an accident
in front of her home at 120 Vintage
Avenue on Friday, Nov. 29. She suffered
a fractured pelvis, a broken left shoulder,
serious bruises and internal injuries. She
is listed in “good” condition at Forsyth.
Memorial Hospital where she expects to
remain for five to six weeks.
“I was shopping Friday, getting ready
for Intensive Arts,” Ms. Fisher told an
Essay reporter Wednesday. “As I was
going around the car for my groceries, I
saw headlights coming towards me. A
car rammed into mine; I was knocked
down. I heard wheels-they stopped and
then started again, going the other way-
I was on the pavement. I realized I was
hurt.”
The neighbors came out and someone
called an ambulance. They took me to the
emergency ward and here I am.”
When asked how she was coping with
being in a traction, Ms. Fisher replied, “I
am thinking of all the things I wanted to
do during Intensive Arts. The students I
was working with and Dick Kuch have
taken everything on. The kids are
marvelous.”
“There’s been a stream of visitors
through here. I really appreciate the
attention and all the love I’ve received
from everyone at the school. Some of the
students are even looking after my
h ouse and feeding my cats.”
“I asked Robert Ward to bring me a
cassette with ‘Peter and the Wolf’ she
continued. “I am choreographing it for
February. I’ll be back to work on that.”
Summing up the accident, Ms. Fisher
said, “It was close to curtains for me. I’m
lucky to be here. The horridness of a
nightmarish experience like this, I guess
you can learn something from it. It
certainly puts a value on your life.”