ARTS The Michigan Daily Friday, February 6, 1987 Page 7 Graham Co. kicks off two premieres By Jose-Arturo Martinez The advertisement in the May 24, 1931 edition of the Michigan Daily read, "the Ann Arbor Dramatic Season, ... featuring Blanche Yurka, Tom Powers, Martha Graham, et al." Martha Graham was a sensation then and this time doesn't appear to be any different. Tonight through Sunday, the University Musical Society will host the Martha Graham Dance Company in performances at the Power Center for the Performing Arts. This series of Ann Arbor concerts marks the company's first national tour in two years and is scheduled before a trip which will include the company's first visit to East Germany. This means that the Grande Dame herself will not be coming to Ann Arbor. Graham is in New York working out details related to the upcoming tour in East Germany. This series of concerts will feature a mixture of older works from the Graham repertoire as well as the Ann Arbor premieres of "Temptations of the Moon," first shown 1986, and "The Rite of Spring," (1984). ]The Ann Arbor connection to the New York based Graham Company is a strong one. Uni - versity professor of dance, Peter Sparling, is also a soloist with the company and performs with them summers during their New York seasons. Sparling has danced in a number of the works being shown this weekend, including "Plain of Prayer" which will be presented Saturday night. It is unusual for a Graham work because, as Sparling says, "it has a male protagonist." "Martha made dances for herself, to be danced by herself," Sparling explained, "so, most of the works had female protagonists." It was not until the 1960s that she began to create works with men in mind. Christine Daikin is another link in the Ann Arbor/Martha Graham connection. She's an Ann Arbor native who has danced for the Graham Company since 1971 and who returns to dance in three works. "Rite of Spring" is a dark, haunting work that will make its Ann Arbor premiere tonight with music by Igor Stravinsky. Daikin helped create her role in the dance, and participated to an extent not common for Graham dancers. "Martha relied more and more on me in creating the work" she said, "she would tell me what she wanted to portray and then I would perform it." What the audience should feel if they open themselves to the sensations of the dance is a sense of guilt for letting the girl die for the sins of the group, she continued. ASSISTANT EDITORS Gale Research Company, a maior publisher of reference books for libraries worldwide, is seeking candidates for editorial positions to do research and writing for our books. Bachelor's degree in English, Language or Humanities is highly preferred; college coarse work and interest in literature of many periods is required. 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She has danced it with Peter Sparling, and it is one of the rare fun pieces about love and joy - yet it does have its dark side. The music for the work was created by American composer Aaron Cope - land "This group has been allowed more freedom than any other," says Peter Sparling. "This is a group of young dancers who will literally bend over backwards for her. They enact what Martha is looking for and then she 'edits."' After the Ann Arbor per - formances the company will go on an extensive tour through Europe. The highlight of the tour will be the performances that they will give in East Berlin. Though not the first time the company has visited an Eastern European country, it is their first visit to this half of Germany. Daikin expressed some concern over what response they would get from the East Germans. "I don't know whether we will have a theatre full of bureaucrats or if their will be some of the general population there," she said. 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