Thursday, November 2ยง, 1 X73 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Thursday, NGvember 2~, 1973THE MICHIGAN DAILY _ _. __ . .... .I - ~- U 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 AM ; 1 - -- --- 3111 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. i 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 _ _ _ 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. ,. _U.. WORKS BY: GAY DELANGHE VERA EMBREE LUCAS HOVING ,\ f I' I l r I Of4 mr, ",, 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 -