_ _ ._ Pge IBD -The Michigan ly -Thursday, Septernb 85 7f 0 ,; Tbechigin Dii Th CAMPUS CINEMA I The best of our science By Byron L. Bull Among football games, parties, road trips, tragic romances, afternoons in the Diag, nights in the Arb, no memory of Ann Arbor and the University is complete without Casablanca, or 2001, or Rebel Without A Cause. Movies are as big a part of life on campus as anything; over the years this campus has grown to a position of cinematic preeminence despite the fact it's far from Hollywood and isn'trconsidered an outstanding place for film studies. For whatever reasons, the campus supports over a half dozen cinema groups who over the course of the school year schedule hundreds of films of almost every variety, and provide those with an affection for the medium a seemingly endless torrent of film fare they would other- wise have a slim chance, if any, of seeing elsewhere. On just about any night of the week (with the exception of Tuesday, which is usually discount special) you can walk in MLB 3 or Auditorium A in Angell Hall and see anything from Terms of Endearment to City of Lights. Generally the big crowd pleasers, last years blockbusters and date movies - The Big Chill, Diner - play heavily on the weekend while the more obscure works - My Dinner with Andre, Black Narcissus - get scheduled on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. There is an often precarious balance between popular offerings and the curious gems, where the film groups try to recoup losses on the letter with offerings of the former, and often go into the red anyway. There's certain predictability to the schedules, partly out of economic necessity, partly due to a particular film's tireless appeal. On the Water- front, The Maltese Falcon, and Citizen Kane will probably be playing on campus when our kids are here. Others, Jaws, Ordinary People, American Graffiti, lasted scarcely a few semesters. The works of Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman are timeless, and both directors get more than a fair coverage. Other directors fall in and out of favor with a cyclical regularity that seems to run at two or three year intervals. Herzog, Goddard, Coppola are all out of favor. Truffaut was a longtime favorite, whose films were shown less frequently for a few years, and suddenly reappeared en masse the semester after his death, the way people suddenly began scooping up Lennon records four years ago. Underground and cult films play an important part of the film scene, ap- pealing to taste as diverse as the grotesquely stunning Eraserhead to the gently charming King of Hearts (a decade-old fave). Years ago Bruce Lee retrospectives were popular cult No need to sweat By Susanne Baum DANCE, THE consumate form of body language, is constantly bubbling and brewing in little Ann Ar- bor town. This city, about one-tenth the size of Detroit, has as many dance events as all of metropolitan Detroit. Ann Arbor's liberal, open-minded dance world can be enjoyed by everyone from the experienced, life- long dancer to the beginner interested but ignorant about dance, to those who just enjoy watching bodies in notion. A University student can enjoy dan- ce all year long at any one of the many dance theaters located on central campus. First, the world renowned Univer- sity Dance Department, attached to the Central Campus Recreational Building has at least one concert a month throughout the academic year. These concerts include senior and graduate theses, student com- positions, faculty works, lecture demonstrations, and the Annual University Dance Company spring concert. All concerts, except the University Dance Company's spring concert, are held in the dance depar- tment's own Studio A Theatre for an extremely reasonable price of $3 per concert. This small, intimate, yet fully equipped theater, gives the audience a sense of closeness to the dancers and enables them to see even the slightest facial or body movement. It is a nice change from the enormous, multi-balcony theaters where the minute details get lost somewhere between the performers and their distant audience. The dance department's gala event is the University Dance Company's Spring Concert, usually in March, at the Power Center. The department has a ten year history of collaborating with the other arts, and next March is no exception. The concert theme is Americanism, specifically 20th cen- tury American artists. The program will consist of collaborations between American 20th century composers Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, David Borden, and David Gregory, and choreographers Jessica Fogel, Peter Sparling, and Bill DeYoung. Also, a 1920s Doris Humphrey dance will be reconstructed from Labon Notation and performed by the Dance Department students. The department's combination of dynamic faculty and eager students produces invigorating concerts. The student concerts are especially in- triguing, with the young, eager students breaking out of their teacher's mold and exploding into their own styles of movement. More information and a calendar of all dance concerts can be obtained from the Dance Department in the fall. The University Musical Society, located in Burton Tower, annually brings to Ann Arbor dance companies from all over the world. This year, the U.M.S. will offer six dance features in their annual dance subscription series entitled "Choice." The Kalidoskopio of Greece, a 35-member company composed of the Athens Folk Dance Ensemble and the Katseros Television Bouzouki Orchestra, will open the season in October. The com- pany performs both traditional and modern Greek music and dance. Three international ballet com- panies will make their Ann Arbor debut: Aterballeto, Italy's first national ballet, the National Folk Ballet of Yugoslavia, and the Berlin Ballet. Two modern dance com- panies, The Murray Louis and The Lewitzky dance companies, are Jessica Fogel, Assistant Professor in the University Dance Department, titled 'Enfield In Winter.' playing silent classics like The Black Pirate and Robin Hood to a live ac- companiment by orchestra and theater organ that are absurdly fun nonsense and should never be missed. Hill Street Cinema, which emerged just a few years ago, has survived despite showing its films off campus (at the Hillel Foundation, 1429 Hill St.) and features a lot of foreign classics. They also sell popcorn and drinks, which is no insignificant detail if you see a lot of movies. Mediatrics, an extension of the University Activities Center, is fun- ded by the University and sticks to a pretty conventional, safe schedule, though they also stage periodic sneak previews of major Hollywood releases during the course of the school year. With so many groups and films competing against each other, and a limited audience, times have been lean for everyone the last few years. As a result, there's been greater cooperation between everyone, with the more conscientious groups making sure there's no duplication of schedules and that smaller, special films aren't up against heavy com- petition. Three of the groups, Cinema Guild, Ann Arbor Film Co-op, and Cinema Two have started joint spon- sorships of some films, such as Repo Man and last winter's impressive staging of Fassbinder's mammoth 15- hour Berlin Alexanderplatz, a film far too expensive for any one organization to afford. Every group prints up its own set of poster-size schedule, but a free publication called the Michigan Cinema Guide compiles them all into a convenient, magazine-format publication that is invaluable. scheduled in March. Bella Lewitzky, director of the Lewitzky Dance Com- pany and a trailblazer in the modern dance world, is internationally known for her high energy, non-stop concer- ts. Tickets for these University Musical Society-sponsored perfor- mances range from $60-$44 for the four concert series and from $11-$18 for single performances. Tickets and further information are available at the Musical Society's office in Burton Tower, a hard-to-miss central campus landmark. A lot of dance is brewing outside of the University at the half-dozen private dance studios within walking distance from campus. All offer dance classes in either one or more of the various types of dance, including tap, ballet, modern jazz, folk, and ballroom and some studios even have performing companies. The Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre on Church Street is the home of the Ann Arbor Ballet Theatre Company. This classical ballet company directed by Carol Sharp performs twice a year. The Community School of Ballet, on East University has the Community Ballet Workshop, which performs classical ballet at their annual spring concert. The 25-year-old Ann Arbor Civic Ballet Company, directed by Sylvia Homer, is based at the Sylvia Dance Studio on E. Liberty. This company performs classical and contemporary ballet works of both local and guest choreographers. Their concerts are twice a year, in the fall and spring, and are reasonably priced at $4 per concert. Dance Theatre 2, the only non- University modern dance company, resides at the Dance Theatre Studio on North University. This company performs bi-annually in early October and early April. For those physical, sweat-loving people, Ann Arbor is loaded with high energy dance classes. All the in- stitutions mentioned above except the University Musical Society offer a wide variety of dance classes. The University Dance Department offers the largest range of classes, in- cluding modern, ballet, Afro American, jazz, tap, and composition These classes are divided into two categories-those for dance majors and those for non-majors. Any University student can register for a class for non-majors but only a few with limited enrollment, are offered each term. Classes for majors are oc casionally open to non-majors bu permission of the instructor is attractions, now it's Mad Max and The Road Warrior. The Terminator will probably be around for more than a few years too. The groups that sponsor the films are mostly volunteer organizations, made up of small, dedicated staffs who spend a lot of time and energy to bring the films they see as important to town. Most of the shows are held in University lecture halls, with ad- mission usually $2, more for double features. Cinema Guild started it all some 30 years ago, and today still consistently runs a pretty solid schedule of classics. They also sponsor the annual 16mm Film Festival, which on a good year pulls in fascinating shorts from across the country. Cinema Two, the second oldest of the groups, balances the classics with more recent releases. Alternative Ac- tion does pretty much the same, with an added interest in films that are political, or socially topical. Ann Ar- bor Film Co-op sticks to more recent films, hits of the last couple of years. The Michigan Theater is a small town version of a movie palace, slowly under the process of restoration, that runs the whole gamut of cult films, recent hits, and emphasizes the classics.. The Michigan has plenty of charm and really is the only place to see a Bogart vehicle, or a Frank Capra comedy The Michigan also has begun to mount lavish revivals of period films, Murray Lewis: Takes things in artistic stride.