Gyrating jazz dancers delight audience By MARGARET HERRING Collegian Staff Writer While many folks stayed home Wednesday night to watch "Something for Joey" on television, one lucky audience en joyed a fascinating form of entertainment jazz dance theater at the Playhouse. The Jazz Dance Theatre's concert opened on a light-hearted , note with "Junk Yard Funk;" featuring music by the Walter • Murphy Band, Paul McCartney, Gary Wright and Rick Dees. , The audience laughed and applauded with delight as the dancers mimed to "Someone's Knockin' at the Door;" gyrated to "My Love is 'Alive," stung and got stung in "The Flight of - the Bumble Bee" and discoed, flapped and quacked to "Disco Duck." 4 ' concert review "Anne Boleyn" traces the story of the second wife of Henry VIII from the time of Henry's first infatuation to her sub sequent beheading and the succession, of Jane Seymour. Anyone knowing his history can appreciate Jean Sabatine's accurate choreography, for-she brings the story to life on the Playhouse stage. Next, "Family Tree" follows jazz dance throughout its Thriller, French comedy in town ; :Downtown 'z• "Black Sunday" Acclaimed new :thriller involving a mentally disturbed ) %ex-soldier (Bruce Dern) with ;':Palestinian terrorists and a plan to blow ,: , up the Super Bowl. Robert Shaw and 4Marthe Keller also star. John ;:Frankenheimer ("Seven Days In May," "Birdman of Alcatraz") directed. rCinema One ,• "Cousin Cousine" French romantic ,comedy which received several Oscar nominations this year. Garden & The Centre Colinty Youth Service Bureau S- 07; x 4II I wish to thank local businessmen, all participating teams, and especially those who donated individually to make The 3rd Annual Delta Chi. Marathon a huge success. Peltzt (lllii graternitg WINNING TEAMS: 1. Chi Phi 2. Phi Kappa Sigma 3. Tau Kappa Epsilon _ Special thanks to Scott Kresge, Carl Claus Bill Heidig, Bill Tamborro, Owen Morris, & Greg Allen "Network" Splendid, acid-tongued satire involving a fictional television network. The acting by William Holden, Robert Duvall and Oscar winners Peter Finch and Faye Dunaway is top notch all the way. Cinema Two "The Seven Per-Cent Solution" Nicholas Meyer's best-selling novel comes to the screen as Sherlock Holmes (Nicol Williamson) and Dr. Watson (Robert Duvall) team up with Sigmund Freud (Alan Arkin). It also stars Vanessa Redgrave and Sir Laurence ' Olivier. The Movies Men's in mime-concert development in the twentieth century with a tap to "I Got Rhythm," followed chronologically by the Charleston, jit terbug, 'sos slow dance, '6os fad dances (Twist, Swim, Jerk, Funky Chicken) and '7os bump and disco steps. Close to what we know as a "production number," "Family• Tree" is an exciting refreshner in the middle of JDT's performance. One traditional piece, "Angles of Impact," illustrates a sort of youth rebellion in its attempt at paralleling "West Side Story." Although it falls a bit short of this goal, "Angles of Impact" transmits agony, "Trilogy" transmits sheer dancing joy by males and females. Unfortunately, the males were out performed by the females; it is to the women's credit that they shone so brilliantly in "Trilogy." Of course, Jazz Dance Theatre in Concert wasn't perfect. Several dances seemed rather loosely strung together by theme to all but the most dance-serious of the audience. For instance, "Impasse," although obviously dealing with a man trapped within himself, just didn't come across convincingly enough. All the beads of this emotional necklace were there. It's just that the linking string was too weak to support them. The Jazz Dance Theatre Company certainly has all its dance steps down pat. The technique and the emotions required for jazz dance are obvious to the audience. If there were fewer leaps and bounds across the stage in Wednesday's performance, one would be totally convinced of JDT's ex cellent grasp of the art of jazz dance. Women's L Pi Beta Phi 2. Delta Gamma jitterbug, On Campus "My Little Chickadee" The very interesting twosome of Mae West and W.C. Fields star as a less-than-romantic husband and wife in , this 1940 comedy set in the old West: 10 Sparks "Pattori" George C. Scott - rejected, but deservedly won, the 1970 Oscar for his superb portrayal of General George Patton in this stirring World War H film. Karl Malden co-stars as General Omar Bradley. Findlay Rec Room . , ---- M 1976 The Miller Brewing Co.. Milwaukee. Wis ...:i:.',.... :; , : ..‘c.0 . ! . ' . !•00.: . • . i00'..:••0 r .:::0'.i.:,.. Artists Series, in 20th season, maintains cost, quality balance Continued from page 1. - "The Series pbjective," assistant manager Richard Martin said, "is to reach our students with the highest quality performing artist we can. Then, if they reject the -arts, it will not have been because they' were offered less than the best by the Artists Series." "There are some students who will not go to hear a pianist who may be Arthur Rubinstein toinorrow simply because he is not Arthur Rubinstein today," Brown said. Therefore, the Series offers lesser-known artists to educate their audience to appreciate other artists than the most familiar names. In 1977-1978, the Artists Series program will again be divided into four separate series: Music, Theatre- Dance, Performing Arts and Fine Arts. In addition, there will be a Film Series and a Jazz Festival. All of these performances are paid for out of the talent fund which Brown estimates will be more than $155,000 next year. The 1977-1978• Music Series is expected to cost ap- Alan Kolpon . fi MI WE, - Nowcomes 111/ - • , .7 proximately $42,000. In ad dition to the Cleveland Orchestra on September 14, the Music Series will include the Vienna Choir Boys (Sept. 30), the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (Nov. 3), the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (Feb. 3), the Goldovsky Grand Opera's performance of "La Boheme" (March l6) and cellist Lynn Hariell (April 9),. ARTISTS SERIES' The Theatre-Dance Series will be presented at an ap proximate talent cost of $35,000. Sir Michael Redgrave and ensemble will lead off this The Daily Collegian Friday, April 8, 1977- series on Oct. 9 with a production called "Shakes peare's People." The Nation al Theatre of the Deaf will follow, on Oct. 15, with a production Brown describes as a "stupendous achieve ment and a marvelous oppor tunity for our audiences to experience." Another highlight of the Theatre-Dance Series will be the production of "My Fair Lady" on Oct. 30. This production appears at a cost of $12,000, compared with the Redgrave ensemble's fee of $6,000. The larger sets, casts and costume costs of the "My Fair Lady" production ac count in part for its higher fee. The Theatre-Dance Series will also present - two fine ballet companies: the Pitts burgh Ballet performing the "Nutcracker," on ,Dec. 2, 3 and 4, and the Pennsylvania Ballet on March 10. The Performing Arts Series is the largest item on the Artists Series talent budget. Its expected cost next year, $59,800, reflects the very high cost of transporting an entire Broadway musical ("Bub- bling Brown Sugar," on September 20) and of ad ditional concerts by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, on Feb. 4 and 5. The Fine Arts Series will begin with three string quartets performing Beethoven, the Vermeer Quartet, on Oct. 21, the La Salle Quartet on Jan. 6 and the Cleveland Quartet on April 14. Also part of the series will be the New York Renaissance Band, on Jan. 20, the Orchestra Camerata of Salzburg on Jan. 12 and Speculum Musicae on April 7. Together, these last three ensembles will offer a musical spectrum stretching froM the Renaissance to the 20th century. The Fine Arts Series next. year represents an attempt to present "not only , a solid series,' but an innovative one," Martin said. The string quartets and Renaissance Band alone would have made an excellent series, according to Martin, but the 20th cen tury music of the Speculum Musicae is an additional indication that the Series wants to expand its horizons. _,,,_~~- ~~~
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