THE MtCHEGAN DAILY Saturdays January 24, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, January 24, 1970 art Faculty art show: Modern mixed media ATTENTION AL UNNDERGRAO WOMEN! Here's your chance for a night out at the courtesy of Elliot House on tan. 24 at 8:00 PM. Dining Roam 3, M~rkley Hall Featuring: Dancing, Bananasplit Bu h, Refreshments Music by Bobby Sox and the U-Trow Another Babcock-Neaton Production-"We serve to please" By LAURIE HARRIS A conglomeration of both the media and subject tending to exemplify modernity lay the groundwork for the faculty art show currently being held in the Museum of Art in Alumni Me- morial Hall. The show allows for a new interpretation of the conven- tional watercolor, lithograph, oil painting and sculpture. But it has also displayed an intri- guing handling of ceramic, epoxy, burnt wrappings, ma- crame, metals and acrylic paints. Small cow bells jingle from a wwll hanging of intricately tied knots in the art of macrame by Gerald Hodge. William Lau has placed the usual gayly colored Fisher-Price plastic toys into a looming, ceramic phallic symbol called "Game." Epoxy sculpture taking on the effect of hardened wax is cre- ated by Ted Ramsay.! And there is even an interpretation of a soft, billowing cloud in styrene lit from behind by an electric light by John Thomson. Susan Crowell has created several works in fine, smooth porcelain. "Breastplate," a pun on the term, is a dinner plate with five female breasts cluster- ed on top of each other. Robert . Stull has built up two enormous black, vases with weighty, al- most impregnable lids. Thomas McClure's sculpture in bronze is strong and dynamic in its interpretation of "Eve." But the theme of the show is definitely modern and the trend is to pun on the expected pr to represent everyday themes in the new media of today. Milton Cohen's poster calls attention to a show in his own studio that is considered to be p rt of this exhibit. Cohen's studio is located at 617 East Liberty and the exhibit hours arw 8 to 9:30 Monday and Wed- nesday evenings. Th3 portion of the snow in the museum will run through Feb. 8. The hours are daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except Wednesday (9 a.m. to 9 p.m.) and Sunday (2 to 5 p.m.) #1+ 5th Week Shows at 1,3,5,7,9 DIAL 5-6290 William Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel "The Reivers" is now a film! "'The Reivers' fills one with a joyous sense of life and laugh- . ter. A marvelous time is had by oll."-New York Magazine Susan Crowell's "Breastplate" Steve McQueen *Th Reivers' Md U' ALIENA TED? 'Sr ~9 'V, Lau and Robert Stull I The flexible Nikolais concert By C. Q. SPINGLER Fantastic collages of color vi- brated on the syclorama, across and o v e r the dancers of the Nikolais Dance' Theatre Wed- nesday night. Scenery created pf mobile metal units, elastic bands and a floating tent sus- pended in mid-air were used sometimes as props, sometimes as costumes, sometimes as a sta- ble scenic u n i t. Movement, space, light, sculpture and sound were fused into a brilliant ex- ample of Total Theatre. The final product was so - alive and innovative that it would be ludicrous to review this company iri conventional dance terminology such as "tecnbque." It proved t h a t dance can be, ,is, in the United 4States, one of the most advanc- ed and accomplished of the per- forming arts. Incredible flexibility, not on- ly physical suppleness, but men- tal agility (plus the ability to respond to other dancers, to create, and com.municate this vibrant energy to the audience) characterized the performance of the dancers. Humour, wit, political and social comment followed one another with such rapidity that the audience was constantly alert, challenged and delighted. Each dance was com- plete unto itself, an image as profound, symbolic and clearly defined as a poem by Valery. The dance Mantis created an , image of the insect world, Nou- menon, a t h i n g perceived or, metaphysically ('according to Webster) an object of purely rational apprehension bodied forth the inexplicable transfor- mations of a large viscous mass. Three red mummified, yet def- initely feminine shapes, never quite human, constantly chang- ing shape in irregular rhythms, composed the multi-dimensional image patterns of the dance. In the finale, Tent, the danc- ers first appear in white me- chanic-type overalls, bearing a long piece of cloth which be- comes a tent under which one could dance. Then a costume for seven people through which only masked heads appear dis- ,connected from bodies, through which feet appear, then feet and masks and masked feet all creating images of torture,.an- guish and Eden. The tent aclecd as{ a shield for costume changes, so extraordinarily illuminated that it looked like liquid, was a mirage, both lyric and grotes- que and transformed the stage Into a miriad of locations and atmospheres. T'he tent w as a simple element made complex by a fusion of light, movement, space and electronic sound. In the dance Tensile Involve- ment, festoons of elastic bands were manipulated by the dane- ers into geometrical forms sug- gestive of the most modern sculptors and designers. Surely the work of Alvin Nik- olais, choreographer, composer, costumer, lighting technician and; scene designer is that of a J m a n of genius. It illustrates that Dance Theatre can be the most expressive and dynamic of spectacles, for, dance is a sep- erate language, capable of in- venting entirely new images which have emerged entire from artists imagination and which defy verbal expression. NATIONAl. *ENERAL CORPORATION FOX EASTENThEATES FOX VILLBG 375 No.MAPLE RD.-"7694i300 MON.-FRI.--7:15-9:15 SAT. & SUN.-1 :30-3:20- 5:15-7:15-9:15 "THE YEAR'S BEST COMEDY !" SATURDAY RENJEW Bob Car 1 I F I I r' I I I I PAUL NEWMAN PATRICIA NEAL MELVYN DOUGLAS in HUD Newman's great portrayal of the archetypal anti-hero JANUARY 23-24 AUD A 7:00 & 9:30 7 5c (very little) NEXT WEEK Bergman's SHAME Information Dial NO 2-6264 t.. i / JAN. 31-FEB. 1 SATURDAY-SUN DAY A FRANKOVICH PRODUCTION FOR COLUMBIA RELEASE SHOWS..AT 1:00, 305, 5:10 7:15 & 9:30 P.M. r Conference on Repression Teach-in/discussions/response workshops Repression in this country takes many forms. It can be blatant violence or censorship, or it can be subtle, institutionalized repression that people do not even notice because they have Learned to live with it or because they are not a member of a group at which it is directed. The leadership of the Black Panther Party has been decimated, 28 of them murdered, and similar actions will be taken against other groups, both white and black. Those who successfully criticize the government (e.g. the "Chicago 8") are jailed or shot. People work at meaningless, impersonal jobs, where they are conditioned not to think or question authority, as are students in most schools. The repression is increas- ing; it is becoming much less subtle and much more violent. Everyone must understand what this means and how to combat it NOW. Come to the conference. i i1 ."".""". .:. / .. .. . . ;;P;;:;;;T;;:.I;i~ £ S i:. Y'i'.:"','in CJi'Rtk2 4'VAht b.<^.i ". 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