Tuesday, March 19, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Tuesday, March 19, 1974 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five _ _ -- THE WINNERS Creative Preserves' moves dance goodies onto stage Provocatire, but judges bomb-out By MARNIE HEYN On Friday and Sunday, March 22 and 24, Andrea Verier and Ellen Bogart will present their masters degree recital Cultural Preserves at 8 p.m. in Schorling Auditorium in the School of Edu- cation. The first number, designed by Ellen Bogart, is called "A Bushel of Peaches, or, Dinner with Daddy." The musical aspect of this piece will include Andrea Katz singing "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" over a tape of an early recording of the same song. Thematically, the dance relates to "children, doctors, daddies, and cowgirls," and other anoma- lies of father-daughter relation- ships, arranged in onion-like lay- ers, all in good oedipal fun. Ellen also choreographed the second piece, entitled "Croise Moteau." Ellen talked about the process of designing this dance: "Croise Moteau is a jigsaw puzzle with several possible com- positions, so it's necessarily rough around the, edges. It explores spatial relationships, measuring, fitting. We worked mostly by im- provising on set material. For in- stance, I made assignments like 'relate to the music,' 'explore that rhythm,' or 'follow another dancer without using your eyes., Ultimately, five of the 16-measure phrases used in the piece were created by the dancers." In music and in dance style, "Croise Btea" is improvisa- tional jazz, utilizing call'response form and layers of sound and image that trade off quality and rhythm. Spontaneous riffs add humor to this sensuous, intri- cately-worked dance. For the most part, the musicians, Nelson Bogart with guitars and trumpet and David Schreiner with bas- soon and synthesizer, lead and initiate movement on the part of the dancers. "To See or Not To See" is the third and final dance of the re- cital. Choreographed by Andrea Verier, this piece features The Run-The-Gamut Trio, Theodore Baskinj, oboist for the Detroit Symphony, Joseph Striplin, vio- linist for the Detroit Symphony, and Michael Pilopian, pianist from EMU. They will be playing Bach, Poulenc, Dr. John the Night-Tripper, Richard Rogers, and Telemann while wearing red gym shorts and red tennis shoes and singing along on the chorus. 'To See" is delightful, com- bining neck-biting satire and serious exploration of new tech- niques and attitudes. Says An- drea: "When I started this piece, what I had in my head was a series of tableaux, which grew and shrank as the whole fell together. I guess my 'message' was satirizing pretension, but I wanted to try some new things, to attempt to organize chaos." She continued: "When we start- ed choreographing my solo, I asked each person to take a sec- tion and elaborate on it, pare it down, embellish it. I think finally that it talks about illusions and realities, the ones we share and those we can't. It's an exercise in symbols and geometry." "To See or Not To See" begins as each dancer comes down the aisle attired in one symbolic garment (over a jumpsuit). They move into vaudevillian parodies of dances from the minuet to quad-mixer boogie to an even- ing's walk with a quasi-dog, tumble, dance blindfolded, and finally fall together and apart off the front of the stage onto mats. Throughout this piece there is a sense of real bodies, of weight, of the limitations of human limbs. There are no illusory leaps through space: therefore, anyone with an interest in movement is implicitly able to explore the same frontiers-even from their seats. By BRUCE SHLAIN Well, I should have known it. After referring to Scream Bloody Mary as "the hiatus in the realm of vulgarity" (a phrase used to avoid saying "trite bull- shit"), I should have known that it would cop the $750 first prize in the Festival. Needless to say, after seeing the film again, my first impres- sion remains that of overwhelm- ing distate. It was some consola- tion hearing the sighs of disgust all around me in the audience. But this is not a meditation on where the judges' respective heads are at, for that would re- quire prolonged psychiatric study, and one would probably not find anything in there any- way. Still, I can imagine the dilm- ma presented in trying to award1 a major prize in this year's fes- tival, for although there were a ~ few fine offerings, nothing re- sembling a "major new film" ap- peared as in previous years. There was, of course, George Manupelli's Portraits, Self Por- traits and Still Lives 1972-73 with Special Reference to the Assas- sination of President John F. Kennedy or This is not Aufweid- ersehen this is Goodbye. Manupelli's 45-minute f i in which was not entered in the competition was a series of flow- ing visual manipulations cen=iered vaguely around the motorcaae ride through Dallas. Shots of col- orful Rolls Royces slowly winding through county scenes rad la- is ;fn er footage of accidentridden r,:as ness races underscored the imag of the Kennedy Assassination, the tragedy that presided de- licately at the fringes of he film's smoldering anguisn and resignation. Although many of the images were highly sexual, contrasting the childish innocence of youn; girls who were forever undress- 7V 1 expected birds Three Dog Night re-entered its, all and finished with some spring- oh and pretty material from their new Fourth album. They succumbed to crowd demands for an encore by peared, rocking out "Joy to the World." ith hair To the detriment of the musi- d pink cal talent onstage, the concert 50s re- suffered from exceedingly bad lves as sound balance. The sound must did a be loud enough for the $2.50 peo- ple, but sound levels were so heroes high that words and notes be- leaving came throbbing, ear-ringing at their white noise, only comfortably got all listened to with fingers implant- ,ed. ed in both ears. The din was hanged tolerable for a worthy cause, distage however, and a temporary loss did an of hearing was perhaps accept- ,ecially ,henhe able in exchange for a concert thenk t l b h ntoo that was a little better than any- ;.}:v":". ~ v; ::...«.,. ~.."?.?:3::r.. .::::.::. .....~V..%'.. ..... '7t.. . . t... L . , .t.. ..Y .. . ..... r..v.;.v:w..vi v }: ,,"^' f ii estival ~........................... r:....'.,.r:: ....«.«.«,.«v q::.r"" .:.w:,:: ^::"::v".... ....... .v:v", ,..., ... ing in the film, none of them dealt with male-female relations, most of them isolated, derached. , Such as the scene in which a woman masturbates with a tele- vision between her legs t h a t shows the Watergate hearings, strumming the face of Ehrlich- man as she retreats into her body. Other comnientary on the me- dia creations that pretend ,o) "speak for us" was made silent footage of Jagger performing ap- peared, strangely empty in the context employed by Manupelli. Another scene was of a woman sitting bored in a wicker chair, while the television next to her showed the eternal flame in black and white, flickering as a re- minder of her ennui. Portraits ends with a harness race in which a rider is thrown. the horse bolting across tWe in- ish line out of control -- the tragic price of freedom, t h e blind forces of history, these were the intangibles that the di- rector played upon with an atti- tude imbued with humorous re- straint. It was a fiac film. I was glad to see Curt Mc- Dowell's Boggy Depot win an award, since it was the funniest film in the festival, an off-key musical parody of West S i d e Story. It featured the M e a n Brothers, marked by McDowell's well-develodep sense for perver- sion, who hypnotize their awk- ward housemate to fall in love. Egg Nog was also amusing, with its apocalyptic measage about the egg nog that could fail from the sky at any moment to annihilate us. I like films with a message. Quarry, by Richard Rodgers, and Shoeshine, the classic sub- way scene, were well-deserving winners. So was And I Don't Mean Maybe, an ambiguously homosexual encounter with vio- lence in the desert by Mark Grif- fiths. Antonia, the fine documentary directed by J u d i t h Godmilow and Judy Collins (yes, the sing- er) on an aging woman conduc- tor, did not win. I guess they forgot to hold the camera up- side down in that one, so it would be noticed. It was a portrait of the aging symphony conductor Antonia Broca, a film which rais- ed itself above the level of pure nostalgia because af the woman's obvious vitality as a creative ar- tist who is still suffering from the music world's reluctance to grant her the opportunity to play her instrument: a symphony. In recounting her struggles to gain a place in the conducting world, Antonia displays a com- bination of determination and warmth and humor that carry the film easily. And her facial ex- pression is amazingly evocative of her life dedicated to music. To be sure, in making any docu- mentary portrait, the choice of subject matter, the person is all- important, and 70-year-aid female conductors you just da not meet on the street everyday. T h e Woman's Question, that of An- tonia's stifled career in. the face of sexist discrimination, is Atud- ed to without propagandizing, and therein lies the real emotional strength of the portrait. I; would have been a crime if the person- ality of this amazing woman had been drowned out in a chorus of epithets screaming for liberation. Instead the focus is on the woman, and the political over- tones of her struggle arc allowed to emerge naturally out of the story. Changing Jewish Life Styles IMPLICATIONS FOR JEWISH COMMUNAL SERVICE A Talk by GERALD BUBIS Director, School of Jewish Communal Service Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles, California WED., MARCH 20--4 p.m. SOCIAL WORK CENTER BLDG., 1015 E. Huron 2 p.m.-WED., MARCH 20 at H I LLEL-1429 Hill a meeting with people interested in Jewish Com- munal Service ALL PROGRAMS SPONSORED BY U of M - H ILLEL "To see or not to see" Three Dog FIFTH4 FI2IiIE.EE. 210 S. FIFTH AVE. ANN ARBOR 761-9700 Better than I. By BETH NISSEN It was definitely a Three Dog Night audience at the Chambers .Brothers/Three Dog Night con- cert in Crisler Arena last Friday night. The concert was sponsor- ed by the Phi Delta Sigma Fra- ternity, Delta Ro chapter, all proceeds going to the March of Dimes. The Chambers Brothers saun- tered on stage half an hour late and tried with limited success to get the lukewarm audience to sing, clap and boogie along. During an audience participa- tion number, they asked the au- dience to clap in unison, thus giving their their biggest round of applause of the evening. The Brothers didn't perform any of their better knowns, but devoted half their set to unin- spired variations on the Motown themes of other artists. The ma- jority of their songs were mushy, hearts-and flowers sobs, dripping with the pangs and twangs of love. Their entire performance was like a musical Dear Abby with electric guitar and drums. After the normal rash of fris- bee throwing and scattered match-lighting in the interim fol- lowing the Brothers' departure from stage, Three Dog Night ap- peared. They satisfied the cheer- ing audience with several of their best, including "Liar", "Shambala," "One", and "Mom- ma Told Me Not to Come." After four songs, Three Dog Night turned the stage over to the Wizard, a musical Merlin be- robed in black satin, who played a rather disjointed tape of com- puterized moog, calliope hoots and sounds like neurotic falling into bottomless p punctuated with visible b aah flashes, flares and of July puffs of smoke. Three Dog Night reapl greasing onto the stage wi slicked back, spats an suits to do an amusingc vne. 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