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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Thursday, NGvember 2~, 1973THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Dancers
By M XRNIE HEYN
When University Dancers in
Concert opens at the Power Cen-
ter Thursd.y at b p.m., the audi-
ence will be treated to an evening
of stimulating visual and musical
experiences.
University Dancers, an all-stu-
dent troupe under the direction
of Elizabeth Bergmann, Vera
Embree, Gay Delanghe, and
Quin Adamson, will present three
pieces of contemporary dance to
delight the eye and tickle the
cerebrum.
The first composition is Lucas
Hovings Aub-de, aubade being to
morning as serenade is to eve-
ning. The dance is a study in
color and tension. In an excellent
technicEal framework, the artists
coil and flex a pfogression from
random molecular coordination
at the beginning of the piece to a
fi -le of conscious integrated
motion.
The stage is set with light and
colar, thraigh which the danc-
ers move in parAlll dnd1 figue
pattwrns. Over the sound of
moogy jazz, the eight perform-
ers are drawn together and
apart by almost visible energy
patterns.
Aubade is a song of anticipa-
tion with verses and choruses of
motion. The dance begins with a
stage full of solo dancers fund-
tioning independently and not
quite colliding. Intense sound
and light then fall across the
stagy and surround a double duet
of vividly limbed figures.
The grouping then shifts rapid-
ly to an energetic trio which
grows into a quintet. Suddenly
the stage is emptied for a brief
peacock male solo just as sud-
denly embedded in a stretchy oc-
tet. A famcle trio spirals across
the floor, tracing centrifugal and
centripetal motion, and outlining
shine
a dawning sense of self-aware-
ness.
The 1 st saction of the piece in-
cl ides a muscular, strong-jointed
male quartet, four simultaneous
duets that ser'e to multiply the
mood of expectation, and a fluid
double quartet that exhibits a
new - found consciousness of
movement. Aubade closes with a
deliberately - drawn duet in
murky, primeval light with still-
rising anticipation of the com-
ing day.
The second composition, Vera
Enbree's Songs of Today, is a
collection of four pieces perform-
ed to popular songs. She intended
in each dance to express to young
people that their music and social
criticism was being heard and
understood, to "make a bridge
across the generation gap."
Eleanor Rigby is well-danced,
but is meager in development,
probably due to the abbreviated
in
concert
length of the song, and is tied to
a literal interpretation of the
lyrics. Nina Simone's Four Wo-
men, a lyric compilation of
b l a c k female archetypes, is
strong and promising, but is
again very literal, and borders
on serious mime.
The choreography for Vince
Guaraldi's Jazz Mass is a slight
and graceful restatement of a
hackneyed quasireligious r o u-
tine. The tableau of beautiful
young women in white and pastel
outfits reaching soulfully on high
is trite to the point of exhaus-
tion, even when done as well as
the University Dancers do it.
The last piece of the set, Mark-
Almond's Get Yourself Together
or It's the End, could have been
hackneyed as well, but is saved
and transformed by brilliant dan-
cing, especially on the part of
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Alvin McDuffy, who rates at
least four stars for his work in
this particular number.
The final dance, Limb Literal:
Leg Technology versus Arm
Technology, was designed by Gay
Delanghe on a grant from the
National Endowment for the
Arts. Her purpose was to make
a three-ringed circus for the
dance stage, and she succeeded
spectacularly.
Words are inadequate to de-
scribe the sensory and intellect-
ual fun of a dance that includes
a juggler, masked dances, on-
stage TV monitors projecting
images of nude dancing bodies,
an apache cakewalk and tap-
dance to Vivaldi trumpets, in-
stant color videotape replays,
airplanes, a comico-erotic pas de
deux, clown makeup, acrbbatic
pyramids, and racing dives.
The Firesign Theatre
Featuring
PROCTOR and BERGMAN,
Sat., Dec. 1, 1973
PEASE AUDITORIUM
2 SHOWS
7:30 P.M. & 9:30 P.M.
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GENERAL ADMISSION
IS $2.50
Tickets can be purchased at: McKenny Union Ticket Booth,
Party Store, Ann Arbor Music Mart, and J.L. Hudson's.
Huckleberry
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Sonny and Brownie
rap on the blues
By GLORIA JANE SMITH
"When are we coming to Ann
Arbor? I don't know," Sonny
tells me. "We're booked solid
until 1976."
"We used to come to Ann Ar-
bor," adds Brownie. "But that,
honey, was way before your
time."
As I sit and talk with them
backstage at East Lansing's
Mariah Coffeehouse, I'm thinking
that this is very likely. After
all, Sonny Terry and Brownie
McGheebeganrplaying together
about 12 years before I was
born.
In times like these, when it's
considered a miracle if a band
can remain together long enough
to cut a debut album, nearly 35
years of performing and record-
ing over 70 albums between the
two of them has to be some sort
of record. "It's longer than most
men stay by a woman," Sonny
adds with a warm, hearty laugh.
How do they do it?
Well, I'll tell you, Sonny ex-
plains. "McGhee here lives in
California and I live in New
York. He comes out here if we're
playing in the east and I go
out there if we're playing in the
west"
They may go their separate
ways between bookings, but on
stage they are a tight musical
duo - bellowing out blues that
comes from the gut and spreads
a powerful feeling of involvement
to those who listen:
Brownie fiddles with his guitar
strings and says "F sharp."
Sonny pulls out the appropriate
harmonica and answers "gotcha
covered." And then they just
wail . . . it's the stuff that Mick
Jaggers and John Mayalls are
made of . . . jus' old time mis-
sissippi - countryside - N e w
Orleans - streetcorner blues.
They describe their music as
"the roots" and say they al-
ways know they're communicat-
ing with their audiences: "Sure
we do . . . they yelp and holler."
They have toured the United
States, Canada, England, Eur-
ope, Australia and New Zealand.
About their international audi-
ences, Sonny says "I like 'em
all," while Brownie puts in a
definite preference for "the
States."
What Sonny and Brownie are
all about is perhaps best under-
stood by Sonny's response to my
question: do you read and write
music? "I'm no musician," he
says. "I just make people feel
good."
And if your curiosity has been
aroused and you wonder just how
good Sonny and Brownie can
make you feel, their most recent
release is now in the stacks and
includes Arlo Guthrie, Sugarcane
Harris, Eddie Greene, John May-
all, John Hammond and others
as sidemen.
HI4RRIS GUESTS
HOLLYWOOD (UPI) - Julie
Harris will remain in Hollywood
after her series expires this fall
to guest star on Jimmy Stewart's
new series, "Hawkins."
mediatrics presents
David Lean's film:
Dr. Zhilvag~o
A haunting love story set against the background of a tragic
war. An epic of beauty and terror starring: Omar Sharif, Julie
Christie, Geraldine Chaplin and Rod Steiger.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Nov. 29, 30 and Dec.1
ONE SHOW ONLY EACH NIGHT-8 p.m
NATURAL SCIENCE AUDITORIUM Admission: $1.00
NEW WORLD FILM CO-OP presents-
WINNER OF 8 ACADEMY AWARDS
Best actress/Liza Minelli, Best director/Bob Fosse, Best supporting actor/Joel Grey
best film editing--best musical score--best cinematology-best sound-best crt direction
Dailv Photo by KAREN KASMAUSKI
UNIVERSITY DANCERS present intellectual and sensory fun at Power tonight and tomorrow at 8.
ARTS
CULTURE CALENAR
FILM-New World Film Co-op presents Millet's Three Lives
in Aud. 4, MLB at 7, 8:45, 10 and Fosse's Cabaret in Aud.
3, MLB at 7, 8:45, 10; Ann Arbor Film Co-op shows Vis-
conti's Death in Venice at 7, 9 in Aud. A; Cinema Guild
features Rocha's Black God, White Devil in Arch. Aud. at
7, 9:05; Mediattics presents Lean's Dr. Zhivago in Nat.
Sci. Aud. at 7, 9:30; South Quad Films shows A Night at
the Opera in Dining Rm. 2, South Quad at 8, 9:45.
DRAMA-Gilbert and Sullivan Society performs The Grand
Duke at 8 in Mendelssohn; Union Gallery features Iones-
co's The Bald Soprano at 8 in the Union Gallery; U Play-
ers enact Zindel's And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little in
Arena Theatre, Frieze Bldg., at 8.
DANCE-University Dancers appear at Power at 8.
WED./THURS.
$1.25
Nov. 28 and 29
7 and 9:30 P.M.
may be seen as double with
Kate Millet's THREE LIVES at
7 only for $2.0
Modern Languages Aud. 3
UNIVERSITY DANCERS
AT
POWER CENTER
TONIGHT-8 P.M.
FRI., NOV. 30-4 P.M. & 8 P.M.
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WORKS BY:
GAY DELANGHE
VERA EMBREE
LUCAS HOVING
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TICKETS ON SALE AT:
$2.00 and $3.50
FOR INFO CALL 763-3333
POWER CENTER 12-4 P.M.
MUSIC SHOP-717 N. UNIVERSITY
sponsored by Dept. of P.E.
Daily Ph6to by STEVE KAGAN
l ainn t ian, .of fire, lily dear!'
Actors rehearse for tonight's, Friday's, and Saturday's perform-
ances of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano at 8 at the Union Gallery.
MUSKET'S
EXCITING, NEW, ORIGINAL
MUSICAL COMEDY
"Counterpoint"
UNIYERSITY
OF MICHIGAN OFESSIONAL HEATRE 00GRAM
PRESENTS
A SHAW FESTIVAL PRODUCTION
RICHARD MURDOCK,
PAXTON WHITEHEAD
IN
YOU NEVER
CAN TELL
by BERNARD SHAW
with PATRICIA GAGE,
JAMES VALENTINE. SHELIA HANEY -