PAFE TWO TIE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 'A..196 PAFE TWO TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29. 1966 DANCE Martha Graham's Brilliant Performance Poll Shows Williams in Lead; Romney, Ferency on Stump Highlighted by Revolutionary Innovations By JOYCE WINSLOW Martha Graham and Dance Company bowed to a standing ovation in Hill Auditorium last evening after a brilliant perform- ance of modern dance. The medium of modern dance itself is new, but Graham's in- novations have made it revolu- tionary. Modern dance before Gra- ham used the dimensions of lev- el, space, time and rhythm to create an interesting and cohesive dance. The dancer's body was used as 'a pliant tool to form new shapes. The distortion of the body it- self, or the body in relation to other bodies on the stage was an 'end in itself. The choreog-' rapher tried only to find new. ways to pose the body in order to achieve an interesting, startling effect. Motion was built upon mo- tion until a dance was formed. The dance was an expression rather than a message. Graham added the message to dance by. adding a new repertoire of steps and movements. Her dances portray an idea, often of mythological origin. The move- ments in her dances are not ends in themselves, but means to con- vey a recognizable emotion. For example, a wringing of the hands and shaking of the head are exag- gerated and stylized into move- ments which do not lose the orig- inal concept of anxiety. The au- dience recognizes the movements as beautiful versions of familiar gestures. Graham does not rely on move- by Graham into a movement ment alone to portray her ideas. which seems as though the dancer The entire dance is unified into a was retracting from herself. frame of music, costuming, sets, Grotesque finger positions have makeup and lighting. Graham's been stylized by Graham. The dances are strictly structured hand is now a unit of expression around these elements in her in itself. The pliee, probably the dance, and yet the feeling sur- most ungraceful of all ballet steps, rounding them is of timelessness has been placed by Graham on and weightlessness. One has the different levels. It is done while impression that he has been on a lying on the floor, or done by voyage through the cosmos: one dancer on the back of an- Every element in Graham's other dancer. By The Associated Press G. Mennen Williams said Thurs- day results of its latest political poll show he leads Sen. Robert P. Griffin, his GOP opponent 43 to 40 per cent with 17 per cent of the voters undecided. But, said Williams, "the only poll that really counts is the one on Nov. 8 and I am confident that I am going to win that one," Williams headquarters said the recently completed survey was conducted by Oliver Quayle and Co. Inc. With 12 days of campaign left, Williams forces expected a visit today by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, (D.-N.Y.), to swing votes to the former Michigan governor. :Meanwhile Democratic State Chairman Zolton Ferency today carried his campaign into the heart of traditionally, conservative Republican territory yesterday to speak at a Michigan Education Association conference in ' Mid- land. Ferency attacked his opponent, Republican Gov. George Romney, with renewed vigor on the subject of fiscal reform. "While the crisis in education is the most crucial issue we face today," Ferency said in prepared remarks. "the overriding issue- because everything else depends upon it--is fiscal reform." "Our state faces a major finan- cial crisis-even payless paydays- in fiscal 1967 unless remedial steps are taken early in the legislative session beginning in January," the Democratic candidate said. "The real George Romney knows this. 'But the public-image George Romney wants to maintain the fiction that the state is on a sound fiscal footing so that he can avoid any revelation of his plans for tax increases until after election, because he fears to reveal them would jeopardize his chances for reelection." On the Republican side Gov. George Romney said that unless America insures that all of its citizens are granted their rights as human beings, the United States is in for trouble. 'The have-not nations-who al- most all happen to be colored- it's almost identical-will be turn- ed on us by our enemies," Romney said, if we fail to give all Amer- icans equal rights. The governor reiterated themes of the decline of personal and family responsibility in America, and the increasing control of the federal government. Speaking to students at Cousino High School in' Warren, Romney stressed the qualities which he said built America-faith, educa- tion, work and cooperation. Romney, a lay preacher in the Church of Later Day Saints Mor- mon, told the students: "To think this universe just happened is sheerest folly." "The Ten Commandments and the Sermon on the Mount are just as true today as when they were written," he said. dance is extreme. Some of the least graceful movements in the human repertoire have been styl- ized by Graham and are now ac- cepted by most modern dance companies as basic for modern dance. The contraction movement of childbirth has been interpreted These elements of modern move- ments are performed in equally modern settings. Just as the dance movements are physical represen- tations of ideas, so are the sets tangible, though distorted shad- ows of familiar objects. A gar- den is represented by stiff, asym- etrically arranged rubber poles. A throne is an arc of wood. A practice bar is a curve. Modern design shapes descend from the' ceiling as the dance progresses to indicate a change in mood, and eyes are accented to indicate emo- tion. JOHN MILLER JAZZ QUARTET 'will play the theme, music from "BAMBI MEETS THE WOLFMAN. Os part of our extensive catering service, ANIMAL CRACKERS will be available on request i1 10 Russian, Japanese Art Forms Contrast Western Conceptions By R. A. PERRY Perhaps our routine acceptance of the truism of a "shrinking, world" has blunted our amaze- ment that into this small mid- western town of Ann Arbor has come and gone in the space of three days examples of two totally different cultures. The Moscow Chamber Orchestra and the Hosho School of Noh presented not mere- ly another form of distraction or another weekend's entertainment, but pure examples of the art and feeling' of other cultures. Each presented an opportunity not only to enjoy m'usic and drama but also to re-examine by contrast our own western artistic conceptions. Orchestral Perfection The Moscow Chamber Orchestra represents perfection itself, and if the Cleveland Orchestra has won the appellation of "quartet," then the Moscow group must certainly be considered a soloist. I sat in the front row of the Rackham Audi- torium, three feet from the lastr violinist, and could not once ex- tract his playing from the en- semble. However, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra exhibited not only per- fection of ensemble but the per- fection of a style, for Barshai's conception of the music was ex- quisitely refined, refined to the point of being almost bloodless. French Model What the audience witnessed was not a style rendered in a Slavic mode but in that which the Russians have 'always imitated and considered as "good taste," the French. . Indeed, watching those husky men playing in such a sentimentally chaste manner made me think of Turgenev, and thus the candlelight performance of Haydn's "Farewell Symphony" emerged .iot as nostalgic, but as appropriate to their whole stylistic ambience. If the Russian's approach some what neglected the longer line of Shubert's music, it nevertheless was proper for Mozart;, for the first time I heard in performance the creation of W. J. Turner's ideal: "Mozart's music is so pure' that it seems often meaningless;' it disappears like the air we breathe on a transparent day." l If the Moscow Chamber Or- chestra refined the music to thet point of canceling expressive ex- cesses, they were,, of course, still dealing with, western astation. The Hosho School of Noh, which opened the University Musical So- ciety's Fifth Annual Dance Festi- val, presented their unique, highly refined art of drama. Here, though, the problem emerged that the expressions remaining after the purification process stem na- turally fronm a distinctly oriental heritage. If in the former instance the combination of purification and *source allowed occasional revelations, in the latter, Japanese event this combination limited viestern appreciation to little more than curiosity. Noh Drama The troup from Tokyo, twelve men in all, presented the best- known Noh play, Sumidagawa. This is not the place to explain the techniques of Noh drama; let it - suffice to say that the three musicians, 'two drummers and a flutist, set the. tempo for the ac- tion and comment upon it with drum beats and vocal calls. The 'actor-dancers speak, their parts with stylized incantations of over- whelming vocal variety. Action is limited to the most subtle move- ments which must convey the in- effable depth of feeling beneath. Deviations from an emotive mear. are quite minimal, especially to western eyes. 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