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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Thursday, October 21-, 1971
Page Eight' THE MICHIGAN DAILY Thursday, October 21, 1971
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WOMEN COMPETE:
Michifish
interpret
art in
water
By DAN BORUS
Although mystified by water,
human beings have long con-
sidered it a medium to cross or
to relax in, not one which could
be used for personal expression.
Ballet, which has been used by
athletes for improvement in co-
ordination, has never been con-
sidered a sport.
Michifish, Woman's Synchron-
ized Swimming, is challenging
both these conceptions.
Taking a medium foreign to
art and an art foreign to sport,
synchronized swimming combin-
es gymnastics, ballet, and swim-
ming all in one sport.
What separates synchronized
swimming for its more well
known kin, competitive racing
and diving and establishes its
relationship with gymnastics and
figure skating is its reliance
on a theme, on a unifying con-
cept.,
Competition is done in two
areas, stunts and routines.
The routines, done in groups,
are based on the interpretations
each swimmer has to the music
she has chosen for her theme.
For example, if the theme of the
presentation was Judiasm, the
illboard
Intramural All Campus bas-
ketball tournament entries are
open now until Oct. 28. Teams
wishing to enter are assured of
playing a minimum of three
games. Entry fee is $5.
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The Wolverine "250" - 25-
mile team bicycle race is sched-
uled to go Sunday at 1 p.m.
Competition will be in t w o
divisions, open and co-recrea-
tional.
music employed by the perform-
er to convey. this could well be
"Hatikva"; if the theme were
the unity of the Michigan
Daily sport staff, anything by
Poco would do.
The team also employs var-
ious symbolic representations in
its work, performing formations
somewhat akin to those that
one might imagine in the reper-
toire of a marching. But in gen-
eral, it is much more like mo-
dren, interpretive dance in which
body movements are the basis
for the relationship to t h e
theme.
Last year's theme was religion
and was involved with concep-
tions of myths and miracles.
This year's theme is yet to be
designated.
Judging for routines is done
on the basis of three distinct
scores: synchronization, that is
how similar the swimmer's ac-
tions are to each other and how
well in time with her team-
mates and with the music; exe-
cution - how well each p e r-
former does what she does, and
style - how graceful each per-
former is and how complicated
the stunts are.As in skating,
the scale is based on a limited
range of points, 0 to 10, and the
highest combination of points
yields a winner.
Stunt competition is judge
on difficulty and on execution.
This May the Mid-west Inter-
collegiate Synchronized Swim-
ming Meet was held in Ann Ar-
bor, with Michifish hosting the
contest. In previous years t h e
meets have been held at Bloom-
ington, Indiana.
The Michifish trio, w h i c h
trumpeted the theme, The Three
Virtues, finished second in com-
petition for the trios.
The duet, under the banner
of the Soft Sead finished first,
soundly rapping nearest rival
and spiritually deprived O h i o
State. The two women w h o
swam their way to glory and
fame in the Women's pool were
Paulajean Comstock and Nancy
Schauer.
S c h a u e r commenting on
the competition pointed out that
"pysching out the judges" was a
consideration that she and her
partner undertook. Fun rou-
tines, she maintained are not as
highly considered as serious, se-
date ones.
The soloist, Sue English, swam
under a theme of the mysticism
of Saint Therese, which, (like
the original,) must have been
psycheldelic. Moreover, she fin-
ished third in the competition
for soloists.
The team competition, which
by definition is four or more
swimmers, using the theme of
A Quest for Nirvana, finished
third, using up the last karma
on the team.
Michifish, this year as they
do every year, puts on a show
for the benefit of the university
community, making it the only
woman's athletic group t h a t
makes or rather earns money as
well as competes. This year the
show will be in March.
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A display of aquatic theatrics
SPORT SHORTS:
Offed Orioles invade Orient
MICHIGAN UNION BILLIARDS
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* BALTIMORE - The Balti-
more Orioles, hoping to find
greener baseball pastures in the
Par East than they did in Pitts-
burgh, left yesterday for Japan to
begin an 18-game goodwill series
against Japanese teams.
The Orioles, dethroned as
world champions by the Pitts-
burgh Pirates, donned kimonos as
they, their wives and team and
American League officials board-
ed a plane at Friendship Interna-
tional Airport for the month-long
tour.
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