VOLUME X, NUMBER 1
N.C. School of the Arts
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24. 1975
Workplace To Begin November 1
Will Make An Impact
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Vice-Chancellor Sokoloff with model of the Workplace.
By GARRY WASSERMAN
Essay Staff Reporter
Construction of the NCSA
Workplace has been slated to
begin Nov. 1. The building, with a
construction expectancy of 20
months, will make a huge impact
on the NCSA campus.
Ground-breaking ceremonies
were held Saturday.
Dividing the campus into three
areas - living, working and
performing - the building will
include a combination of all kinds
of facilities. These facilities, vice-
chancellor Martin Sokoloff feels,
“will be able to accomodate the
instructional programs as they
were intended.”
Included in these facilities are:
a new library holding 80,000
volumes; room for dance, visual
arts, and drama departments;
and practice and rehearsal
rooms for the music department.
Total cost for the Workplace is
$3.8 million.
When designing the Workplace,
the basic idea was to have an
interconnecting building which
included all kinds of rehearsal
facilities and thus the building
got its name. The design was
decided upon by a group of
faculty and student
representatives in meetings with
an architect. A convocation was
held so that the student body
could review the placement of the
building. The site that was
agreed on is the present one,
between the main building and
the high school dorms.
The building’s construction
was originally scheduled to start
last spring, but several problems
arose that forced delays. First,
the state office of construction
had to review the plans, but due
to the building’s complexity, the
state took longer than expected to
give its OK. Then, when bidding
time arrived, the bids from the
construction companies were
higher than the NCSA could
afford to pay. The school was
forced to cut some facilities from
the plan to meet these financial
requirements. The school,
however, cut too much, so some
facilities were put back.
The Workplace was finally
successfully bidded on Sept. 18.
Still left out from the original
plans are some space in the
library, administration offices,
and music studios. These couid
still be constructed if finances
permit.
The construction procedures
will pose problems to the
residential and working life on
campus. Noise and dust will greet
people as they try to perform
their daily chores. Also, facilities
like Crawford Hall and the Dome
Theatre will be limited to
campus-oriented activities. Since
there will be no direct approach
to the Main Building from the
high school dorms, a bridge will
be constructed through the
ravine leading down to the
Commons. This will mean a five-
or ten-minute delay in going to
and from the Main Building.
With these problems
confronting NCSA, people are
being asked to be extra tolerant
of one another.
“The building’s construction
will make people unhappy, but
when the people see the building
finished, and start to use it, they
will be happy,” says Vice-
Chancellor Sokoloff. Chancellor
Robert Suderburg is urging that
people be '•ver>' kind” to one
another in this period of
adjustment.
Cdrolind Hotel: NCSA Hbs Hope
By JAMES ROCHELLE
Essay Staff Reporter
The N.C. School of the Arts still
has hopes of using the old
Carolina Theater in downtown
Winston-Salem as a performing
center, Chancellor Robert
Suderburg said.
Last year, the Carolina Hotel
and Theater was offered to the
school for the second time. The
first time the school did not have
the money to buy it. This time it
was for free. Instead, it was
bought by Piedmont Publishing
Company, which publishes the
local newspapers, for needed
space.
Both Sam Stone, director of
development, and Chancellor
Suderburg said that the
reasoning behind the
newspaper’s purchase of the
theater and hotel was not for
space for the company only, but
also for land to trade off. That
means the school may still be
able to acquire the Carolina
theater for a performing center.
In an Aug. 18 letter Suderburg
wrote to influential citizens of
Winston-Salem, he asked for
their support in obtaining the
theater for a performing center.
Suderburg also brought out
facts about the newspapers’ and
the school’s needs.
While the newspaper needs
more room, the school needs a
workplace. Despite the fact that
the newspaper bought the theater
before the school could get it,
there is stiU a chance the school
could acquire and restore it.
Because Winston-Salem seems
to be losing its commercial
business downtown, the only
alternative is a residence,
business convention and
entertainment center. The
renovation and restoration of the
Carolina Theater would help keep
the downtown alive. Tearing
down the theater would be
counter to that purpose.
Suderburg said, “You cannot
put live entertainment next to
each of the shopping centers.”
He said in the letter that
“another campus performance
center is not the answer; when
and if the $7 million would be
available for the NCSA to build a
performance center is obscure at
best. For less than $1.5 miUion
renovation and restoration
monies, Winston-Salem and
NCSA could gain one of the best
performance centers, equitable
in impact to what has been done
in Pittsburgh, Galveston,
Providence, St. Louis and
Cincinnati. To build a house at all
equivalent to the Carolina theatre
would run over $15 million in
1976.”
The theater seats about 3,000
and could be renovated to seat
between 1,100 and 1,400 and could
be used for larger theatrical
performances, such as operas,
dances and musicals.
As things stand now, it appears
the Carolina theater may not be
torn down. Chancellor Suderburg
said, “Everybody is working
together, the School of the Arts.
Charles Crowder of the
newspaper, and citizens of
Winston-Salem, to make the
Carolina into a community
performing center."
Presenting New Faculty to School
By JAMES ROCHELLE
Essay Staff Reporter
This year at NCSA there are 20
new faculty members; three in
the Academic Department, six in
Design and Production, three in
Drama, five in Music and three
guest teachers in Dance.
Richard Dimbleby, who is an
exchange teacher from England,
will be teaching in the high school
English program in Bill King’s
position. Dimbleby holds a
diploma in theology and an M.A.
from the University of London’s
Institute of U.S. Studies.
Dimbleby has been lecturer at
Stevenage College and is an
associate of King’s College in
London.
Elaine Doerschuk is teaching
part-time on the college 1 level in
the History program. She earned
her B.A. cum laude and her M.A.
in history at UNC-Greensboro.
Miss Doerschuk has taught in the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school
system.
Nancy Hudspeth will be
teaching the Italian language and
literature on the college level.
She earned her B.A. cum laude
from Boston University and her
M.A. from Brown University in
Italian literature. She has taught
at UNC-Chapel Hill and at the
University of South Carolina at
Columbia. She is a doctoral
candidate at UNC-Chapel Hill.
In the dance department, three
guest teachers will be at the
school for 10 weeks. Mimi Paul-
Avedon has studied at the Royal
Ballet School in London and the
School of American Ballet in New
York where she received a Ford
Foundation scholarship. Her
repertoire includes “Serenade,”
“Swan Lake,” “Dim Luster” and
“Concerto Barocco.”
Georgiana Holmes began her
training at Boston School of
Ballet and Conservatory of
Music. She studied at N.C.S.A.
from 1965 through 1969. Miss
Holmes has choreographed such
works as “Spider,” “Green
Light,” “Circular Ruins,” “The
Blue Scarf” and “Seasons,”
which premiered at NCSA on Oct.
1&-17.
Carol Bryan started her
training at Melissa Haydors
School in New York, then went to
the School of American Ballet in
New York. She was trained by
Asaf Messerer of the Bolshoi
Ballet to appear in its production
at the Metropolitan Opera House
She has performed in such
works as “Miss Julie,"
“Paquita” and “Petrouchka.”
Miss Bryan and Mrs. Paul-
Avedon will teach pointe and
variations. Miss Holmes is
teaching modem dance.
There are five new faculty
members in the music
department.
Jeane Szabo has been
appointed performance
coordinator of the School of
Music. She majored in speech
and drama at Boston University
and was a radio announcer and
music director at WFDD.
Denis Brott, cello: former
assistant to Gregor Piatigorski at
the University of Southern
California School of the
Performing Arts. He has won
numerous Canadian and U.S.
competitions, taking top prize in
the International Cello Com
petition in Munich in 1973.
Sally Peck, viola; former
principal violist with the Utah
Symphony. She has taught at Sun
Valley Music Camp, the
University of Utah and Treasure
Mountain Festival of the Arts,
which she helped found.
Veda Reynolds, violin:
formerly first violinist with the
Philadelphia String Quarter. She
was also concertmaster with the
Philadelphia Orchestra and the
summer concerts of the National
SjTnphony. She has taught at the
Curtis Institute of Music.
Calvin Murasaki. violin: He
will be working in several local
public schools as well as at
N.C.S.A. He attended the
University of Hawaii and
received his B.A. and M.A. from
the University of Illinois. He has
been violin soloist with the
Honolulu Sj-mphony and has
worked with community opera
theater.
There are several additions in
Design and Production.
Martin Rader received his B.A.
and M.F.A. in directing from
Penn State. He taught at Harvard
during the. summer and was
artistic director of the
Internation Ladies Garment
Workers Union in Baltimore
See Faculty, Page 2