8A - The Michigan Daily - Monday, October 26, 1998 Check out Election '98 this Thursday to find out the inside scoop on this year s candidates. Dance moves audience TOMMY GHJJ.H Fil PEOR CALVI N BRAND N STUDENT DISCOUNTS ONEYIE EXAMS AND) EYEGLASE HOURS MON-TU ES-THIU-FRI 9-5:30 {jchardsons v sr t 320 S. STATE ST (LOWER .EVLOF DECKERR By Anna Kovalszki Daily Fine and Performing Arts Editor As the lights dimmed, a surprise, not included in the program, awaited the audience at the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's third appear- ance in Ann Arbor. Instead of embarking on the promised journey through the history of the 20th Century, the audience glimpsed a solo performance by one of the creators of the company, Bill T. Jones. Titled "Etude" and set to Ludwig van Beethoven's Quartet No. 16, the short dance study was a joyful expression of inner contemplation and physical movement, with juxta- positions of conformity and freedom. Included were sexual gyrations, light leaps into the air and in conclusion, a slow, sensual use of hands and fingers to introduce the rest of the perfor- mance. "We Set Out Early ... Visibility Was Poor" consisted of three uninter- rupted movements, interspersed with flashes of light to introduce different narrative elements. In effect, the per- formance was as much kinetic, mir- roring Jones' concerns of "dance ... as a means of communication, a bridge, if you will, with the world," as dramatic. The first section, "On the TSII," uses mechanized forms and move- real, as if a Dali we set out Power Center Oct. 23, 1998 painting were mim- icked on stage. Another became a soldier's march, con- cerned with training in wars. Light departures were given as the dance move- ments of the cen- tury, such as the tango, waltz and ragtime were examined. The colors of costume and set ment, highlighted by the metallic stat- uary pieces in the background. Set to Igor Stravinsky's "L'Histoire Du Soldat," it is concerned with the industrialism of the early century. The characters wear strange costumes; a man wears a skirt. These individuals come together to show dynamic as well as static forms. One section looked especially sur- became disassembled and made into a wagon, which was raised up into the sky. A large oval-shaped chrysalis of light slowly moved across the sky, illuminating the dancers and the mes- merized audience. We all somehow communicated in this transition piece, in musical terms that Jones finds, "as pure and moving as silence." "Voiceland," the final movement, was set to Latvian modern composer Peteris Vasks' symphony for strings, "Stimmen." Named after the German term for voices, this piece examines the community and the isolation of modern society. Nature and its sounds are incorporated, as well as ecological catastrophes. In its concluding notes, a comforting inclusion of a formerly isolated dancer shows us that human- ity still exists, although it is expressed strangely in indistinguish- able language. It is. language resem- bling birdsong, a reference to the con- tinuity of nature. Bill T. Jones' concerns that his dance company be a representative microcosm of the world community are evident. His group of 10 dancers incorporates all body types and cul- tural representatives, and somehow they are completely one. Their diver- sity only adds to their power for interpretation. Courtesy of the University Musical Society Dancers of the Bill T. Jones/Amie Zane Dance Company performed In "We Set Out Early ... Visibility was Poor" this past Friday at the Power Center. lighting were mostly bright. 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