ARTS 4 The Michigan Daily Thursday, February 16, 1989 P0g8 Trojan Women: Ann Arbor's newest drug BY MARISA ANAYA THERE'S a new kind of trip in town, and you can experience it starting tonight, as Director Andr6 De Shields opens his interpretation of Euripides' powerful tragedy,The Trojan Women. A Martin Luther King Jr./Cesar Chavez/Rosa Parks Visiting Profes- sor, De Shields has several impres- sive credits. He is best known for his performances in the title role of The Wiz , and as "the Viper" in Ain't Misbehavin', both on Broad- way. He also received the 1987/88 Joseph Jefferson Award for directing the Victoria Gardens Theatre produc- tion of The Colored Museum. De Shields will direct an all-stu- dent, multi-ethnic cast in what he describes as "a series of vivid images expressing the psychological terror- ism inherent in war, and the moral indifference and capriciousness of the mythological gods. "Euripides," he continues, "is treating ageless and universal themes in The Trojan Women: the horror, futility and degradation of war, hu- mankind's obsession with lust, the ascent of materialism and the cheap- ening of human life. In our produc- tion, the gods and humankind meet in the ruins of the metropolis, the latest victims of the world's enthusiasm for disaster." See Women, Page 8 unlike the more representational expressions of traditional values in ballet and modem dance. Israeli-born Shimon Braun is a gymnast with Waves who has de- veloped his multi-disciplinary repertoire while training under the likes of Martha Graham, Robert Cohen, Jack Cole and JoJo Smith. "We create a tension between what we all do together and what we do alone," he said. Catch a VN Braun is constantly choreo- graphing new pieces to keep on top of the ever evolving art of dance. The jazz dance group demands a high level of technical competency in all aspects of dance but Braun builds his performance pieces around individual dancers' personal interests and natural abilities. Although most of his company '21ITstep up from the ranks of students in Braun's Jazz Dance Center based in Philadelphia, some are from professional mid-Atlantic dance d ifferent companies, and Braun has even s. Tonight at the been known to pick dancers from off the street. you can experience Similar experiments in move- is unusual art form ment media have recently surfaced Jazz-Dance Coin- in Broadway productions - for ex- .ance is a rare breed ample, the loud electronic music modem, folk and and laser lighting in Chess and the rollerskating and street-modern cos- hich also incorpo- tuming in Starlight Express. Al- like belly dancing though Waves cannot exactly be . Waves evolves by labeled as art or compared to Dance co. 1s... Faustus: RC Players present Marlowe's damned fine play BY MARY BETH BARBER IT sounds like a cover story for the National Enquirer. Author of dramatic plays and satire dies at the age of 27, stabbed in the eyeball. Two versions of his most famous play are found years later, and critics denounce both because there are questions as to who really wrote it. But the RC Players (in conjunction with the Brecht Company) are pre- senting Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus anyway, ignoring the con- troversy and concentrating on the literary quality of the play. Marlowe, a contemporary and inspiration of Shakespeare, probably wrote the original text for Doctor Faustus in 1589. Of the two versions that were found, the RC Players will be using the A-text. It's the earlier version, pub- lished in 1604 - nine years after Marlowe's death - and is thought to more closely resemble the original. Co-director Louis Charbonneau comments that Marlowe could have been as famous as Shakespeare but he didn't have as much time as Shakespeare to publish. Although Marlowe's work doesn't exist in great quantity, it isn't lacking in quality. "It's a great theatrical piece," says Charbonneau, "and has gotten a lot of crap from critics because of the mess with the authors." Both students and faculty are putting on the show, co-directed by Martin Walsh, professor of drama in the Residential College. Actor Steve Frederick rrom the Brecht Company, a local theater group, plays the Devil's helper Mephistophilis, and other cast members include students David Haig, Amy Freeman, and Stephan Vernier. 8..The tale is of a doctor of theology who is bored with his earthly readings and sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of pleasure and meta- physical secrets. But Faustus doesn't do anything horribly great; instead, he pulls little pranks like stealing the Pope's food and putting horns on a knight. "There are shifts in the tones," says Charbonneau, "from black comedy to tragedy to low comedy... similar to slapstick. Nah, it's lower than slap- stick," he laughs. DOCTOR FAUSTUS will be performed tonight through Saturday at 8 p.m., Sunday at 6 p.m. and Feb. 23-25 at 8 p.m. in the Residential College Audi- torium. Admission is $6; $4 for students and seniors. BY MARGIE HEINLEN. JAZZ is unlike any other form of music previously popularized. Jazz can be played as well by a single musician, a duo, or a full swing orchestra. Combining instruments of different tone color and seem- ingly unnatural rhythms, jazz en- compasses an infinite range of pos- sibilities. Jazz dance was also founded on Well... these principles Power Center, y the limits of thi< with the Waves pany. Waves Jazz-D of ballet, jazz, street dance, w rates elements1 and rollerskating combining and here and now Play opens whole can. of worms BY BETH COLQUITT "AND now a moment on birth control. Male birth control. Rubbers. You know, lubies, raincoats, eel- skins, prophos, fear-nots, fishskins, French safes, showercaps, scum- bags..." If you want to hear more of this list, and it does extend for about three more lines, see Life Before Can- Openers, a comic documentary based on the fact that cans were invented about 50 years before can-openers. Since director Chris Carter and author Jay Pekala refuse to release more specific information on the nature of the show, the rest will proceed entirely from the horses' mouths. "It features an interpretive dance that rivals Viva Stravinsky." "The actors are not only playing characters, but themselves as well, sometimes at the same time." "We originally had it costumed in French provincial, but budget con- straints prevented that." "This is the most novel use of the Arena Theatre thus far." "We intend to take a good deal of the stuffiness out of (the Arena).", "There will be improvisational acting going on." "Refreshments will be served. "An exploration of eastern myso- cism." "There will be sex and violeice. But no saxes. There will be violins, though." "The audience should look for al?- stract expression and elements of the bauhaus. They should also pay close attention to the innovative use of lighting, specifically the lights See Openers, Page,& Hair Styling with a Flair - - 6 Barber Stylists for MEN & WOMEN - NO WAITING!!! DASCOLA STYLISTS Opposite Jacobson's 668-9329 transforming the in its productions, See Waves, Page 8 Brakhage to shi BY MARK SHAIMAN STAN Brakhage, considered the most important ex- perimental filmmaker of our time, will show and dis- cuss his works at Lorch Hall tonight and tomorrow. Brakhage's more than 200 films span nearly 40 years of filmmaking. Currently a Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, he studied arts, including photography and drama, at Dartmouth, the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco, and at the Denver Institute. He has also spent more than a decade teaching film at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the last 30 years Brakhage has traveled and lec- tured extensively in the United States and Canada, and occasionally in Europe. His appearance in Ann Arbor is part of the Yon Barna Memorial Symposium on Avant-Garde Cinema, sponsored by the University's Program in Film and Video Studies. Each night will feature three of his pieces. This evening will begin with Desistfilm (1952) a short film ow experiments concerned with the use of the hand-held camera and its part in the defintion of Realism and Objectivism. This will be followed by Dog Star Man (1961-1964), a multi-part exploration of man and his relationships to his surroundings. About 80 minutes in length, this has been regarded to be Brakhage's masterpiece, and its influence on other experimental filmmakers is consid- erable. The Dante Quartet (1987), which took six years to make because it is a hand-painted work, will finish off the evening. Like the works by Alighieri, Brakhage here focuses upon the conditions of the other worlds. Friday night, Brakhage will show his Faust Tril- ogy, completed last year, for the first time in its en- tirety. The first part is Faustfilm: An Opera (1987) in which Brakhage reverses the story and creates a Faust who is a young man longing to be old. Faust's Other: An Idyll (1988) follows this new Faust in a romantic interlude. The final part is Faust 3: Candida Albicore, which deals with a woman having "something of her ritual included in the myth of Faust." STAN BRAKHAGE will present his works at 7:30 in Lorch Hall tonight and tomorrow. Admission is free. r CLASSIFIED ADS! 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THE PROGRAM IN FILM & VIDEO STUDIES PRESENTS One of the most prolific, honored, and influential independent filmmakers in the history of the medium, Professor of Film Studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, and author will be present for a two-evening screening of some of his most important films as part 'of the Yon Barna Memorial Symposium on Avant-Garde Cinema Thursday. February 16th Desistfilm Dog Star Man The Dante Quartet (1954) (1961-1964) (1987) Friday, February 17th Faustfilm: An Opera Faust's Other: An Idyll Faust 3: Candida Albacore (1987) (1988) (1988) The First Complete Showing of the Faust Trilogy Thursay, February 16th & Friday, February 17th Both Events are at 7:30 p.m. Lorch Hall Auditorium Admission is Free J 6 traditional, sophisticated, contemporary, informal... 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