THE MICHIGAN DAILY Tuesday, November 4, 1969 Page Two Limon Company: Not up to expe hictations -Daily-Richa The C +onjutrort ' arrves Stars Audra Lmildley and James Whitmnore prepare for last night's preview of Evan Hunter's play, "The ('Conjuror:" Another lower-priced preview shpwing will be held at Mendelssohn Th tonight, with the official world premiere of the play tomorrow night. The Professional Th Program production also stars Catherine Burns. hunter is the author of "Last summer" and Blackboard Jungle." DAILYOFFICAL BULETI By R, A. PERRY There were two aspects to the Jose Limon Dance Com- pany's visit to Ann Arbor this past. weekendl: verbal and visual. Jose Limon, one of the great dancer - choreographers of the century and one of the more important innovators in mod- ern dance several decades ago, has reached the age when he finds it no longer obligatory to dance in his own presentations; he nevertheless obviously feels some mandate to present him- self before the audience in the capacity of instructor-emcee. There is some charm in this. Looking like an ambassadorial condor or a lanky Henry Miller, Mr. L i m o n represented the grand master who, in his wis- dom and experience, still pro- lfsses a naive wonderment at those aspects of existence--i.e., the movement of the body-that you and I in our infinite men- tal lethargy have long since taken for granted. At the lec- ture - demonstration offered at Hill Aud. on Friday night, Mr.. Limon describec how the "pall descends" at age eighteen, how our popular dance-hall gyra- tions reveal Qur "splendid in- comprehensible isolation," how "most people can't swallow e tern i t y; they'd choke to death." Yes, indeed, there were rd zee some fine one-liners. But Mr. Limon made some blunders as well. He said, for instance, that "dance gives form ne ilt to the ineffable." Fine, but as eatre emcee he then proceeded to de- eatre scribe what the audience would "The see, would feel, and would think in the very terms he said dance by-passed. Not only were such verbal explanations unneces- sary, they were also tedious, re- dundant. and simplistic. Mr. Limon also tried to impress the audience, both at the lecture- demonstration and at the major concert Saturday night, with nt, eas- second-rate, nlonsensical art- s a1es appreciation concepts such as "we're discussing wv i t h you n - yourselves," -and "the dancers edut use their'bodie to explain your 1 to 4 bodies." Such poclamations - which were inaudible to half of nii'a. the auditorium-essentially de- ; ' n " mean the audience: one can say irectr. ;with confidence that Mr. Limon rhor, BA would not elngage in stlch do- mlhers -4 cent efforts at a Manhattan con- rnSi' cert. If verbal introductions to the various choreographies are it: Bus felt to be needed, they should at Staff, be briefly inserted into the pro- .gram. Visually, there was much to admire, but not as much as one S N hoped for. On Friday night, Mr. Limon had six of his dancers run through variations of basic -. _ movements: walking, running. turning ("the language of re- action") , falling t"a dancer's 02 Mon- discipline begins here"}, bal- -Daily---Richard Lee ations on the theme of Othello." the dance matchcs Othello and Desdemona with Iago and Emi- lia: courtly dance forms are broken by the dramatic exig- encies of Iago's venom. Othello's jealousy, Emilia's capture of the handkerchief, and Desdemona's death. It is a stunning. concen- trated work where the tension is effectively contained within the ease of Purcell's music. Clyde Morgan anced the Moor, and while he balanced stateliness and rage, grace and palsy magnificently, one could not help but feel that this fine dancer had powers that the work itself could never elicit. Betty Jones, wlo danced Des- demona in the first performance in 1949, brought the same mel- lowness to her part that Kath- erine Hepburn brings to the stage. She did not wraste or ex- aggerate one gesture; almost understated, she alone incor- porated all artifice into art. Louis Falco and Jeiinifer Muller were both excellent. A word about the accompany- ing music: it was shamefully inadequate. I do not know if the fault lay in the tapes used or in the speakers (I would guess '[ha' l)aily Official Bulletin is an Officlal publication of The C'niver- ity of Mlichigan. Notices should he sent in 'iYPI-Av(ll'1'TEN form to 3 l.SA be~th fore 2p~rm. of the day receding p- ubhcatiol and by 2 pln. iridsia for Saturday and Sun- clay.. imm m, ni ayppear only once. Situdentorganization notices a r e tnot ar rceted for purblication. For in o mliation, phone 764-9270. iUI':si)AY, NovEME 4II'a - l~lry '.11 " a E id X I I011111: . Cy'clotroni Sirl _ _ ^de t M n Cyclotron I u n c B Boomn, 10':;0 a. . 'I'mfre~:tic"rlal Seinar: S. Okubo, Univ. f Rochester, "Model of Hadrons"' P & AColloqium Boom, 4:00 p.m. Thorrmas S p>encer Jeromtie LCture Ser- ie: Joh ?n Ward'-Perkints, ireecr, Brit - :}h School at Rome, "Men. Metods and Mterils Some Practica Aspect of omn Arcitecture and Sculpture -he Ro I Mrble Tae in Sarco en eral Notices i . ol 31. - Sheffiel IProg'r:un: .ppli _-'1''pt P;ofls ! to Pa rtii ate ir°iI t^ more come in and browse: llstate" Regional Office, Detroit, M3ici.: f fice Supervisors Trainees,. the formert but the music had all of the realism and effec- tivelness of a drugstore transis- tor radio. At times the distor- tion level was unbearable and certainly detrimental to any appreciation of the dancers. Tickets for t h e annual per- formances of Handel's "Mes- siah" in Hill Auditorium a r e now on sale across the counter at the University Musical So- ciety in Burton Tower. This year's performances will be at 8:30 p.n. on Friday and Saturday. Dec. 5 and 6, and 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 7. The choral work, a tr'adition of the University Musical So- ciety throughout its 90-year his- tory, will be performed by the University Choral Union. 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Most out- standing in all of these exer- cises was a dancer by the name of Clyde Morgan; his agility, his litheness, his seven-league stride, and his coiled grace were something to marvel at. On Saturday night, four works were presented and perhaps it should be said at the outset that they hardly represented contemporary modern dance; 'ather, the works were all cho- reographed in the late forties and early fifties. Forms were clearly defined and ideas readily understandable. The opening work,. La Ma- linehe, divided into three sec- tions with a coda: the sacrifice of the maiden to the Conquis- tador, the plight of the modern Mexican peasant, the return of the maiden's inspiring aid to effect triumph, and a final re- union of the three protagonists. The dance is ebullient, though with too Inuch vague gesturing on the part of the Conquistador, and the Inusic by Norman Lloyd easily palatable. The ext;laordinary bodily dis- cipline that goes into a dancer's art should seek two ends: to subsume discipline, that is, to make the audience forget the skill involved, and to make the form of the motion beautiful o symbolic on purely an archi- Join The Dil ' tectonic basis. The three danc- ers in La Malinche, Carla Max- well, Daniel Lewis, and Edward De Soto, pleased but never made us forget their efforts. In The Exiles, Limon pre- sents, using the music of Sch- oenberg's Chamber Symphony No. 2, Adam and Eve immedi- ately after the Expulsion. They suffer, they partake of happy remembrances, and they con- tinue on their tormented way. It is interesting that. the reverie ends and torment returns at the moment the dancers "portray" sexual union. Louis Falco and Jennifer Muller impressed on a formal basis and in their de- gree of involvement. The ideas behind the stark forms were explicit enough, and a balance of idea and form was effective- ly maintained. The second half of the pro- gram opened with the work Night Spells by Doris Hum- phrey. Three apparitions ap- proach a dreaming man; the dreamer captures and wins one of the female figments of his own dream. Dance aficionados in the audience applauded the announcement of the inclusion of this work; I found it exquis- itely boring. The final work presented, The Moor's Pavanne, to music by Henry Purcell, was first per- formed inz 1949. Subtitled "Vani- WABX Presents: CORDN LIGTFDOT Friday, Nov. 21 8:30 P.- FORD AUDITORIUM (Detroit) TICKETS: $4.50, 3.50. 2.50 Tickets available at Ford Aud. Box Office and at all J.L. Hud- son stores. MAIL ORDERS: Send checks or money order with self-address- ed envelope to: Ford Aud. Box Office, 10 E. 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