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."
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"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
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'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
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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
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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
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"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
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Artists Series, in 20th season,
maintains cost, quality balance
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"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-
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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
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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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