Maureen Dubois, Overland Park sophomore and Jerel Hilding, assistant professor of dance, rehearse their performance for the University Dance Company concert.
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Daring dances
The University Dance Company's spring concert to feature a variety of performances that make light of the television and corporate world.
By Ezra Wolfe
Kansan staffwriter
forget the swans and sleeping beauties, the University Dance Company's spring concert will pop fun at television and the corporate world. The spring concert will be performed 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday at Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. Tickets are $3 for students and senior citizens and $5 for the public. Tickets are available at the
Music and Dance office, 452 Murphy Hall and at the Student Union Activities box office in the Kansas University.
The dance company will perform "untitled in White with TV," a modern dance choreographed by Jan Eckert, who visited the University of Kansas for three weeks in February, said Janet Hamburg, associate professor of music and dance and director of dance.
"There's a video with a TV monitor on stage throughout the dance," Hamburg said. "Bonanza is on, and the dancers are drawn to the television."
Patrick Suzeau of the Cohan/Suzaeu Duet Company will dance "Portrait," a darkly comic solo revealing Suzeau's character as he and his attache case take on the world. The dance was choreographed by Muriel Cohen, Suzeau's舞 partner and wife.
Suzeau is an artist in residence and Cohan is
an associate professor of dance. Both have been at KU for four years.
"The dance makes a spoof of the tremendous pace, competitiveness and values of the business world," Cohen said.
Cohen said that Suzeau's character had a special relationship with his briefcase.
'It's a surprise, so I don't want to give it away,' she said.
The couple will dance together in "The Age of Kali." According to the Buddhist religion, Kali is one cycle in the four cycles of the universe, said Suzeau. Kali is the age when things fall apart.
"There's total destruction and then things come together again," he said.
Suzaue said the dance was inspired by the events in the former Yugoslavia, where bitter ethnic warfare had caused death and despair.
Jeremy Hilding, a former principle dancer with the Joffrey Ballet and assistant professor of dance, will perform the premier of his dance, "Forgotten Echoes."
The dance represents interactions between people at a cafe.
Live music will be provided for those dances by violinist Ben Sayevich and pianist Christopher Hepp. The two will perform music composed or arranged by Fritz Kreisler.
The other dances are Cohan's "Gatherings," performed to songs recorded by the Bulgarian Women's Choir, and "Stepin'" performed to music composed for the orchestra accompanying Willie Lennard's quartet.
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Alison Mura, Lawrence sophomore, stretches to keep her legs warmed up between performances. Mura is one of eight members of the University Dance Theater under the direction of Hilding.
KU student to study forestry at Oxford
Pam McElwee, KU's first female Rhodes Scholar, is the only person to win both the Goldwater Scholarship for study in natural sciences, and the Truman Scholarship for students planning a career in public service.
By Ezra Wolfe
Kansan staff writer
A member of Al Gore's staff surprised her with a phone call in August inviting her to come work on the senator's environmental policies.
Most KU graduates do not expect their first boss to become the vice president of the United States.
Photo courtesy of Office of University Relation
Neither did Pam McElwee, KU's only female Rhodes Scholar.
McElwee won the Rhodes scholarship December 6 and is one of 32 recipients of the award. The scholarship fund, established in 1906 by Cecil Rhodes, pays travel costs and the full cost of studying for two years at Oxford University in England. McElwee plans on getting a master's degree in forestry.
"It's real exciting," she said "We see Gore and Clintney or three times a week."
When Gore landed a job in the White House, he asked McFluee to come and help him.
It has been more than three months since she moved to Washington, and in five months she will be moving again—to England.
"The Rhodes selection panel looks for outstanding academic record in a challenging environment, a commitment to make the world a better place and service to other human beings," said Michael Young, director of the KU's honors program.
McElwee grew up on a farm south of Lawrence. He longtime friend, Liz SMIT, Lawrence senior, said McElwee often puzzled the 4-H rocky coordinator who happened to
"He'd come home and say, 'By God, Pam's stumped us again,'" Smith said.
Apparently projects were so complex, the committee was not sure the judges were qualified to analyze them.
But engineering did not become McElwee's passion—the environment did.
Growing on a farm, combined with her parents' good examples of recycling and conservation, helped push her toward the environment as a career.
"I was a member of the biology club in high school, and we took field trips to Hawaii and Florida to bring back specimens and see how they were there from what we see in Kansas," she said.
Her interest in the environment led her to become involved in politics, and she became critical of President Reagan's stance toward the Environmental Protection Agency.
"He basically tried to decimate the agency," she said. "It wasn't too hard to be critical."
The combination of her two interests led her to pursue a political science degree, which she
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