ARTS The Michigan Daily Thursday, January 15, 1987 Page 5 'Dancing' opens tonight By Katherine Hansen C'mon. Dance is a serious art form. You must not convey your 'enjoyment by clapping too enthusiastically-rather, by applauding lightly. Not this time. Tonight the Per - formance Network plays host to People Dancing, the local company with the utilitarian name. What you get is what the name suggests: six dedicated artists with an unpretentious approach to modern diance. Whitley Setrakian, People Dancing's choreographer and artistic director, thrives on experimentation. A former drama major at New York's High School for the Performing Arts, Setrakian has used her theatrical talents to personalize the austere dance training she received at U-M and at the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey schools. In 1983, she founded People Dancing and began combining drama and dance elements into pieces that carry her signature. From her traditional yet offbeat, comical and often irreverent styles comes a surprising realization: and - iences can develop an appreciation of dance as art, but this appreciation need not be a tedious acquisition. The resulting repertoire proves that Setrakian and company certainly takeitheir work seriously, but not at the expense of their fun-or their audience's fun either. For instance, "Rachel," a well- received character from concerts past is ressurected in Setrakian's newly choreographed conclusion to the "Rachel Trilogy," a saga in which celestial being meets terrestrial being. Encouraged by previously enthusiastic audience responses, Setrakian decided to conclude Rachel's story when she realized "it needed a resolution." Accompanying "Rachel's" resolution -is the music of Jason Eyster, "a wonderful new composer who has written scores for documentaries all over the world." "Stuff to Do," a second piece on tonight's program, will offer concert-goers a trip through the past. The group will rely on the luck of the draw in a "Chance Dance," a 1960s-inspired improv - isational number dictated by ran - domly drawn playing cards. Also included in the program is "Waiting for the Preacher," a quiet feature employing traditional ballads. So go ahead and clap loud. People Dancing strives to broaden artistic horizons, and to have fun at the same time. Tonight's, tomorrow's, and Saturday's performances begin at 8 p.m., Sunday matinee at 4 p.m.The Performance Network is located at 408 W. Washington. Student tickets are $5.50, available at the door. 'People Dancing: Whitley Setrakian and Dancers' opens tonight at the Performance Network. 'Return To Horror High' gets an 'A' for awful By Kurt Serbus Illusion. Reality. And the blurring that can exist between the two, the deadly, deceptive blurring that can occur anytime and anywhere-in the confines of a Hollywood production company, in the silent shadowy halls of a deserted high school.. .in the mind of a madman. That dark-grey land of eternal twilightand the extremes to which it can drive men-is both the message and the motif of Bill Froehlich's horror-comedy magnum opus Return To Horror High. Three years after a series of grisly, unsolved murders closed down Crippen High School, a troupe of low-budget filmmakers arrive to recreate the carnage as a slasher exploitation flick. The ambitious, histrionic director, the fast-talking, money-grubbing producer, the gutsy, independent leading lady--all are pros at their art- the deft manipulation of illusion, the manufacture and sale, of dreams...and nightmares. And all are about to come face to face with a reality more horrifying than anything a screenwriter could conjure up. For the killer has returned-if indeed he ever left-and he's stalking his prey with a renewed fury, forcing the grisly history of Crippen High to repeat itself. Again. And again. And again. Past becomes present. Real becomes unreal. And versa vice. 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