4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, February 23, 1933
Alvin Alley ensemble to perform tonight
By LUCY HOOD
' Staff Writer
In 1957 the Bolshoi Ballet toured the United States
for the first time; the Soviets launched the first Soviet
satellite, Sputnik I; West Side Story and The Music
Man were hits on Broadway; the National Guard was
sent to Little Rock, Ark., to escort nine black students
to a newly desegregated school; Don Bowden became
the first American to run the mile in less than four
minutes; and Alvin Ailey formed his own dance com
pany. .
At the time, Ailey and his modern dance company
were not making the headlines as were other events of
the time, but the dancers are making headlines today.
The headlines began in 1972 when Alvin Ailey
joined the Joffrey Ballet and the New York Qty Ballet
as a resident company of the New York City Center.
And the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, performing
tonight at 8 in Memorial Hall, was established in 1974.
Alvin Ailey dancers are best known for their energy
and their reliance on unison dancing. Two reviews
published in the Village Voice, one in 1970 and the
other in 1972, noted the spirit and life in each perfor
mance given by the Alvin Ailey Dancers.
The review from 1972 noted, "I don't know where
the dancers in Alvin Alley's American Dance Theater
get their energy . . J They run with the movement
fierce, but with the ease that comes from sureness of
one's power. They rarely just execute choreography;
they deliver it to the audience gift-wrapped."
However, unison, the other characteristic usually at
tributed to the Alvin Ailey style of modern dance, has
not always received such positive criticism. A 1981
review by Joan Ross Acocella of Dance Magazine said
in reference to a recent Alvin Ailey performance,
'Everything is relentlessly, uniformly big."
Tonight, the repertory ensemble is scheduled to per
form four pieces beginning with "In Excelsis," which
was choreographed by Penny Frank and performed to
Concerto for Violin and Oboe in D minor by Johanri
Sebastian Bach. The second piece was choreographed
by Alvin Ailey, but no traces of unison -will be found
in "Cry." The stage will be left to one dancer, Diane
Maroney, and the music of Alice Coltrane, Laura
Nyro and The Voice of East Harlem.
Following "Cry'' "will be "The Road of the Phoebe
Snow,' performed to music by Duke Ellington and
Billy Strayhorh, Interspersed between the "Prologue"
and the "Epilogue," both performed by the company,
are solos, duets, trios and quartets. And 10 of the
company's 14 members will end the program with a
piece titled "Colony" which is choreographed by Bill
Gcrnell and set to the music of Vangelis and Ashra.
An open rehearsal will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. to
day in Memorial Hall. Tickets are being sold for $5.50
and $7.50 at the Union box office. Call 962-1449 for
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Group plans vigil protesting rms race
The Chapel Hill-Durham branch of the
Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom will hold its monthly vigil against the
arms race today from noon to 1 p.m, in front of
the Franklin Street Post Office.
This will be the last vigil for, signatures col
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paign. Petitions will be delivered to the NATO
headquarters in Brussels March 8.
For more information concerning the vigil,
contact Charlotte Adams, publicity chairman,
local WILPF, at 942-3796.
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By DAVID SQLMIDT
Assistant Arts Editor
American poet Robert Ely, editor of the
poetically and politically influential jour
nals The Ffties, The Sixties and The
Seventies, launches the second Fine Arts
Festival of the '80s with a reading of his
poetry at 8 p.m. today in Gerrard Hall.
Admission to this preliminary FAF event is
free, and a reception will follow.
"It's the opportunity this year for
students interested in literature to hear a
poet read and talk with him afterward,"
FAF chairperson Rachael Horovitz said.
"He's very much a favorite of people in
this area," she said. "In my mind, he's
one of the greatest living poets in the coun
try. Not only is he a poet, but also a
translator."
As head of the Sixties Press, Bly in
fluenced modern writing by printing un
conventional poetry translated from lesser
known foreign poets. Bls own volumes
of poetry include Silence in the Snowy
Fields (1962), Sleepers Joining Hands
(1973) and The Light Around the Body,
which received the National Book Award
for poetry in 1968. His most recent work,
1 The Man in the Black Coat, will be
published in March.
Although Horovitz said Bly is "a very
effective reader," she also emphasized his
talents as a performer whom even non
English majors should enjoy. "It's the
perfect supplement to the classroom experience."
To fund Bly's visit, Horovitz explained
that the FAF pooled its money with the
University's English department, which
covered one-third of the costs.
"A lot of the fine arts departments can
not afford any longer to bring in outside
guests," she said. "If there wasn't a
festival, there wouldn't be a professional
writer visiting the campus this year."
In addition to Bly, Pulitzer Prize
winning author and poet Annie Dillard
will appear for a second preliminary FAF
event when she visits Chapel Hill for two
weeks next month. Following a reading of
her poetry on March 16, Horovitz said
Dillard will conduct one or two afternoon
seminars. Students interested in her work
will have an opportunity to meet her as
well, Horovitz said.
Visual arts, however, are the focus of
this Fine Arts Festival, a biennial event
organized by students in the art, dramatic
art, English, music and RTVMP depart
ments. Therefore, the first part of the
April 5-17 festival will be devoted to poets
in an effort to separate the writers from
the performing and visual aspects of the
festival, Horovitz said.
"We want to make these 12 days a
Chance to open your eyes and to take the
opportunity to put to use the education
you are getting," she said.
The public lectures, performances, ex
hibitions, readings, workshops and discus
sions will be free to the public. For more
information call the FAF office at
962-4204.
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