THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 10, 1970 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, February 10,1970 dance Falco troupe: Explaining the undefined WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY-4:10 P.M. February1 I1th and 12th DEPARTMENT OF SPEECH STUDENT LABORATORY THEATRE presents GAMMER GURTON'S NEEDLE author anonymous and THE MANDRAKE by Nicolo Macchiavelli Arena Theatre, Frieze Bldg. Admission Free q By ERICA HOFF Pointed ballet slippers worn by an entourage of hard study- ing girls backed by Tchaikovsky are no longer the choreograph- er's primary media. Louis Falco superbly put the art of dance into a contemporary context in Sunday's performance at Hill Aud. Falco i n c o r p o r a t e s taped voices and laser beams into his works without falling into the omnipresent trap of allowing technology to dominate the choreography. His light designs and human tableau's reinforce each other as slender red beams reiterate the dancer's complex movements, The first work, Argot, pro- vided the vehicle for the danc- ers' individual expression. Jen- nifer Muller performed human- ly, emotionally-her dancing is more than beautiful; it is mean- ingful. And the portent of Miss Muller's dancing pervaded the ballet itself. Juan Antonio is technically precise, but his dancing is more athletic than expressive. Each ,in style of the Sonata lost in building momentum for all of the struc- tural details that Ashkenazy sought to reveal during the on- rush of sound. Schumann's Kreisleriana, writ- ten in 1838 in honor of one E. T. A. Hoffman's characters, alternates brooding melancholy with brooding frenzy. As in other Schumann works, there is much busy activity of dubious intent; there is also much lyric beauty and breath-taking rodomontade. Although Askenazy's perform- ance was fascinating and ex- citing in its technical victories, a certain detachment slightly vitiated both qualities. This detachment does not stem, however, from insensitiv- ity, but, it would seem, from the transition of the artist into a new area of concern. turn and bit of balance seems to belong to an acrobat rather than containing the full hu- manity that Miss Muller ex- pressed. However, Antonio per- formed admirably while main- taining a distance from the work and not really contributing to it. Falco's choreography demands more than mere technical abil- ity of his dancers-it requires emotional involvement. A slow- ly timed fall by Miss Muller against Antonio becomes much more than a carefully executed feat. And because the dance must be a personal expression by the dancers, the viewer feels he is watching the very private interactions of the two people on stage. The dancers' extended movements entreat the viewer to enter this private tour of mind and body which is purely physi- cal and, yet, highly sensual. The choreographical design in Huescape, the second number, was more ordered and more complex. It clearly established the conflict of the performers on stage. Falco danced the'role of a man struggling to choose between a heterosexual and a homosexual relationship. But even in this more structured work, Falco does not approach the grand scale design of a Balanchine ballet. The work is pefinitely dependent upon each individual and the manner in which he so personally relates to the others on stage with him. O N, Timewright is Falco's largest production incorporating voices, lights and laser beams. It is a drama of life, death and the inexorable passage of time. The success of this new combina- tion in the performing arts is a tribute to both Falco and his set director William Katz. The impact of Timewright is overwhelming. The cast of six- larger than in Falco's other works-allows greater intricacy in the interplay among the dancers. The work is emotional- ly charged though speckled with humor. The viewer becomes al- most embarrassed as he watches a dance of man's most intimate acts-and yet there is a great deal of inexplicable understand- ing. It is in this production that the eerie red laser beams swirl along the patterns of the danc- ers creating a new dimension in lighting effects. Miss Muller dances onto stage late in the ballet adorned in circlets of tiny white lights, But it is the whole group of dancers working together and constantly understanding each other that makes each of the compositions so overpowering and yet so sublimely real. NATIONALGENERALE COPORATIOh FOX EASTERN TH-EATREIMM' 375 No. MAPLE RD.-"76941300 LAST TIME TODAY "BOB AND CAROL AND TED AND ALICE" dRmw TONIGHT at 7-9 P.M. A Great Screen Classic Returns * and MARION BRANDO in TENNESSEE WILLIAMS' "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" Screen Play by TENNESSEE WILLIAMS . Based aPon the original P ay StreetNtameedmoe" by tKtiESSEE WILLIAMS APresent he StagebyIrcne Meeayarselnick .Directed by RE A KAZAN Re-released thru S -Unid Ati NO 2-6264 The Most Explosive Spy Last 2 Days SHOWS AT: 1:00-3:05-5:10-7-15-9,20 Scandal of the Century! Vladimir Ashkenazy: A chan By R. A. PERRY Pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy, who performed last night at Hill Aud. under the auspices of the University Musical Society, may, well be. entering his "middle' period." Russian-born Ashkenazy has always appeared, in his previous recordings as well as in his last Ann Arbor appearance two summers ago, to be a musician more inclined toward the poetic line than to a display of power; to be sure, he had power in reserve and an especially strong left hand, but as a general stylistic tendency, Ashkenazy went for the singing line rather than the dramatic proclama- tion. He was best in those pass- ages where the melodic line stands silhouetted against si- lence; there, with a fine sense of rubato to create those min- ute elastic tensions that give music .the pleasure of expecta- tion and fulfillment, he placed each note: as a Jewel in its setting. Last night, however, Ashken- azy seemed more interested in the structure --- perhaps the "deep structure" -- of the music than in its easily recognizable melodic statements and develop- ments. He offered the listener not a chance to be carried on the music, but, if you will, to look into the music. Choosing re- markably "easy" (to the ear, not pecessary to the hands!) com- posers such as Chopin and Schu- mann, Ashkenazy did not pro- vide the expected cushiony (and in Schumann lumpy) bed of poe- try, but a net in which notes were the'links but the interstic- es were of larger' import. Thus one did not stay with or on the music but fell into it. Many might disagree with this brief statement of Ashkenazy's intent, for the pianist still main- tained, a high degree of sensual- ity in Schumann's Kreisleriana and Chopin's B minor, Op. 58, No. 3 Sonata. He used the pedal extensively and in forte allegro passages achieved not so much a delineation of furious note se- quences but a thick sonorous im- pasto of colors. He went in for neither pneumatic nor overly- refined fingering for its o w n sake, but he also did not go af- ter the music's heavily-incensed poetry that the Ashkenazy of two years ago would have. Askenazy's new options - if they indeed indicate a turning interest-are not necessarily ill- received, for in the Largo of the Chopin Sonata, the opening up of structure and eschewing of mere lyrical line effected a cer- tain suspension of time, a cer- tain Cosmic Pause, that Beet- hoven practised in, for instance, the Introduzione movement of the Waldstein. On the other hand, the simple Chopin Noc- turne in E major, Op. 62, No. 2 could not quite bear such a heady scrutiny, and the Presto 4 BACH CLUB presents !'Bach's Music- An Introduction" plus people, food, fun, etc. EVERYONE INVITED! Wed. Feb. 11-8 P.M. 1236 WASHTENAW 665-6806 663-2827 663-3819 A UNIVERSAL PICTURE " TECHNCOLOR@ * Starts Thursday "GAILY GAILY" RI ~ --~~ . . - - -..- -. ~ .-.....___________ i D 5 R I I11 DOUBLE FEATURE BEGINS TOMORROW BOTH FEATURES ON MICHIGAN DAILY "10 BEST" LIST ,CIII, I "One of the year's most pleasant "A VERY FUNNY, IMMENSELY APEALING MOVIE. -Vncent Canby, N. Y, Tme movie experiences." 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