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March 17, 1983 The Pendulum Page 5 Dance company presented unusual style by Penny Thomas Stiff Writer The Sidewalk Dance The atre of Knoxville, Tenn., presented their unusual style of modem dance at their performance in Whitley Auditorium last Thursday night. The modem dance com pany which consists of five members, displayed not only different techniques of mod em dance, but they also incorporated vocal expres sion in some of their pieces. This style of including spealcing is considered to be more of a theatrical type of presentation than just strict Dance review dance routines. The production started with a dance called “An Aria” performed by Anna Lynn Shugart, one of the original members of the 1976 company. In this piece, Shugart seemingly panto mimed an opera song as she mouthed the words and glid ed around the stage with her burgundy dance skirt follow ing her moves. Michael Bensey, another of the original troupe mem bers, introduced one of the dances that makes the com pany more theatrical in style with the second piece called “The Story of Euticus.” Perched upon a ladder, Bensey recited the books of the Bible while another com pany member, Gary Abbot, danced to Bensey’s words. Then both performed a duet acting out an interpretation of the story of Euticus. This type of interpretive dance along with the next dance “Jeanie,” where the dancer slowly folded up a green blanket with dead flowers in her hand, and the dance called “The Wood Peewee and Its Song” where the cast, all dressed in plain white leotards, imitated movements of the Wood Peewee bird, are all charac teristic of this more theatri cal aspect of the modem dance. One dance called the “Sunday Funnies” did seem to liven the audience’s atten tion as the dancers imitated comic strip characters. The three dancers of this number were dressed in the characteristic clothes of comic strip cartoons such as bright blue capes or floppy chef hats, or bright red hats and ribbons. The dancers brought to life the Sunday comics in their leaps and hops mixed with their exaggerated facial expressions that cartoon characters always have. However, the dancing tal ent of these dancers did finally surface when they performed the dance called • mtm « » “Evening Song.” This piece was a slow paced number that revealed not only their precision movement and secure bal ance, but also their skin tight imitards revealed the dancers’ defined and toned muscles. The audience reaction to the first segment of the production was one of silence interrupted with what seemed to be polite applause. This could have bMn because these dances were fairly new and different to the usual dance produc tions usually performed at Elon. The second segment of the production consisted of one long dance that showed even more talent and stamina of the dancers in the company. In this number, the three dancers covered the area of the stage in their perfectly timed turns and moves and kept up this agitated move ment throughout the whole song. After all that move ment, the only signs of fatigue or exhaustion were the sweat beads on the dancers’ foreheads — if they were breathing heavy, they sure masked it well. The dance named “Red Riding Hood” made up the entire third segment. This dance again returned to the theatrical approach as the cast of dancers portrayed the characters of “Red Riding Hood” in a play-like presen tation of dance and speaking parts. The audience seemed to relate to this piece more than the others as some people laughed or snickered at scenes where the dancers “THE STORY OF Eutkoa” aa portrayed by Sidewalk Daace Company members. Photo by Ron Kruppa pretended to throw Red Rid ing Hood off the stage. The audience showed their appreciation for this dance by loud applause. The final piece of the production was a humorous dance called “Watermelon.” The dancers were dressed similar to watermelons with green shirts and pink over alls speckled with black sparkling seeds. At first the dancers mimed eating watermelons and sat down on the edge of the stage and acted as if they were chewing and spitting out seeds. Then the image of the imaginary watermelon became a reality as they pulled out a huge air-filled rubber ball about seven feet in diameter that was decor ated like a watermelon. The dancers used this gigantic watermelon as a prop to dance around and dance on top of it as they bounced it around the stage. This particular dance, said Anne Lynn Shugart later at a reception held in West dorm lounge after the dan cers’ performance, “was one of the favorites of younger kids.” Shugart said that most of the members of the Sidewalk Dance Theatre not only tour and perform, but also teach classes to subsidize their incomes. Most of the dances that the company performs are choreographed by Artistic Director and Choreographer Annie Genung but some like “Red Riding Hood,” and “Watermelon” were choreo-' graphed by dancers from New York. Virginia Mynatt, another member of the company,^^**^,^^^ -said that most of their travels have been primarily limited to the east coast as only as far west as Tennes see, but the company hopes to soon tour abroad in Europe or other places out of the country. But thanks to SUB and the Alamance County Arts Council, Elon was fortunate to be at least one host of the Sidewalk Dance Company. roommates battled to predict each other’s auwen. Koto by Ron Kruppa. Roomies match wits by Jennifer Tulloch Staff Writer Last Thursday, the Harper Area Council presented The Roommate Game, a take-off of TV’s The Newlywed Gme, involving students and their roonunates. The event was held in Harper Center Lounge, according to organizer Su«e Bowling, because “There’s not a lot going on for the students of Harper Center, and we wanted to organize some wtivities on this part of campus.” ... m The Roommate Game consisted of competition betw^n (different teams of roommates, all of whom live in the Harper Center Area. The format of the game was identical to that ot the Newlywed Game; one roommate from each te^ womd leave the room while the others were asked questions, then the isolated contestants would come back and try to mate answers with their roommates. Will Migniuolo, instructor of English, presided over e game by asking the contestants questions and entertaimng t e wdience with his own humorous ad libs. An example of me type of questioning was, “Describe your roonunate s friends. A. The Brady Bunch, B. The Rough Riders, C. Cheech and Chong, or D. The Warriors.” After several rounds of questioning, the wiimers were lecided. Kim Daniel and Lisa Brown came in first, winmng a Brown and Co. gift certificate. Craig Johnson and roommate Eric Sabin came in second, and received for their teamwork two Harper Area T-shirts. ASTEAK MOEeGBISaflTiUfDORAIMI JincmRJUST$l.29 Please present this coupon before ordering. One coupim per customer, per visit, please. Customer must pay any sales tax. This coupon not good in combination with any other offer. ^ Offer lood during normal breakfast hours only at the Hardee's Restaurant in Elon College. NC. ()Aer gtxxl through May 31.1983. AREGULAR ROAST BEEF SANDWICH, REGULAR FRIES ' ANDMBNUM KETEA0NLYSI.69 I Please present this coupon before ordering. One coupon per | custr>mer per visit, plea.se. Custf>mcr must pay any sales tax. 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