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Entertainment
University Daily Kansan, April 29. 1983
Kaw Valley Dance show will feature local composers
By LAUREN PETERSON Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Meterless music sounds from the piano. A vibrant舞姿 evolves from under a transparent piece of red fabric, the hidden cues driving the five dancers from their human pile to their feet.
"Fibrillation," a piece composed by Tim Crouch, KANU announcer, and choreographed by Faria Vahdat Clark, a local dance teacher, is one of seven dances that the Kaw Valley Dance Theater will perform at 8 p.m. Friday and that the Central Junior High School auditorium
"There is no meter to the music, so the dancers have learned sound cues and developed a rhythmic structure from the dictates of the geographic framework of the group, distinctly imbued in the dance group.
BENJAMIN SAID that the program will be a rare event because each dance was choreo-
dized by his parents.
"I wanted to showcase local composers," she said.
She said that the composers and choreographes had been working closely since January.
"Six Piano Pieces," composed by Stanley Humway, professor of music and chairman of the KU music department, will be played by his brother, a former piano teacher, to Benjamin's choreography.
The first piano piece, "Improvisations," is a series of eight short musical passages that last 10 seconds each.
"The six dancers draw numbers to see what order they will dance". Shumway said.
Then, at the appropriate turn, each dancer will perform a preferred musical improvisation.
THE SECOND PIECE, "The March," is metrical with a strong beat, he said, while "Nocturn." the third dance, is a slower, more flowing piece.
"The dance reflects its melodic, legato style," Shumway said.
"Invention," the fourth dance, is in the
barrego state, and lasts one minute.
The last two pieces, "Scherzo," and "Tracada," are both vigorous and strenuous for the dancer and pianist, he said.
Shumway said that he had written the music in 1971 and that this was the first time his music had been used in a dance performance.
"THOSE PIECES were written to conform with a set of scales that I developed," he said. "I took each of the scales and wrote one piece to illustrate the potential of the scale."
Benjamin said that the six dancers would wear navy and gold transparent tunics during all six
The music of Stephen Addis, KU professor of art history, will also be danced to the choreography of Benjamin.
Hacky Sack foot game catches on as pastime
By LA DONNA LONGSTREET Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
A circle of students stand in front of Strong Hall intently watching a small ball, which looks like a decorated Easter egg, fly through the air.
As it falls near the left side of one of the players, she swings her right leg, bent at the knee, behind her and strikes the falling ball with the side of her foot.
It. tails across the circle, bounces off another player's chest, then then catches it on a shoulder.
Aile moves, quick kicks and laughter form a game of Hacky Sack, a sport many students enjoy.
"I never have played in any other sports, but I really enjoy this," said Genie Sullivan, Lawrence junior. She said she had been playing for about two years.
HACKY SACK has been played in Law-
rence for about three years, she said, but it has only been obvious in the last two years. The object of the game is to keep the ball, called a hack or a foot sack, in the air without using shoulders, arms or hands.
She estimated that at least 200 KU students have played or do play. Many more play with the ball.
It promotes coordination and quick movements, she said.
Sullivan said Hacky Sack has three rules -- players cannot serve to themselves, use any parts of their bodies from their shoulders down or say they are sorry.
If some one makes a bad move he cannot apologize because it is a game of cooperation,
CHUCK SIMPSON, Overland Park posh-more, said, "Hacky doesn't have any win or
loss. It's not a scoring game. You get some
together. You try to get everybody to
get the same score.
A hit is when a player strikes the ball, he said. If each person in the circle touches the foot bag before it is grounded, then that round of play is called a hacky.
"Hacky is a sport that anybody can play with a little bit of practice," he said. A person can be fat, chubby or skinny.
"I find it convenient because you can just about play it anywhere."
Some of the moves include a rainbow, a moncho and a scoop. A rainbow is a side kick that sends the ball over the head and a kick that flies out hitting his chest to bounce the ball off of it.
In A SCOOP the hack actually louches the ground but a player immediately tosses it
Sullivan said that hacks could be bought or homemade with a knitted or leather cover. The ball is about the size of a medium egg and filled with plastic beads.
"For lots of control I like the leather ones," she said. Her hack was of worn brown leather shoes.
Simpson said, "I prefer an elephant skin leather one."
"A hacky leads a strange life. They usually get lost before they reach their prime and self-destruct. You can run a car over it," he said.
The hacky is not made of elephant skin, he said. That means it is loose and worn.
Simpson said he has had three hackies. When he gets a new one, he soaks it in water, rubs it with mink oil and throws it against the wall to loosen it up.
Addis' music, "Serenade, Nocture and Albada," is a three-movement contemporary piece for obe, bassoon and strings.
Sullivan said that because the weather is warm now, there will probably be games most afternoons in front of Strong Hall.
"It's a feeling of evening, nighttime and the morning." Adds said.
Leon Burke III will conduct the musicians.
Benjamin said that "Serenade, Nocture and
Albada" was a combination of both ballet and
modern dance.
Spare Time
A lively game of Hacky Sack, such as this one in front of Strong Hall, is a frequent sight on campus during warm, sunny weather. Bob Dienstbach, St. Louis, IL, senior, is kicking the small leather sack. From left to right are: Sean Minogue, Chicago, Ill.; Bryan Haas, Prairie Village sophomore; and Genie Sullivan, Lawrence junior.
Preyer Theatre. All seats are reserved; tickets are $5, $4, $3, special discounts for students and senior citizens.
The play, "The Seagull," by Anton Chekov,
will be performed at 8 p.m. in the Crafton
THE FOUR DANCERS, who will dance in toe shoes, will wear peach and blue unitards to match three standing panels woven of peach and blue taffeta.
Friday
A student composition recital will be at p.m. in Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
Auditions for the Kansas Repertory Theatre Company Members will be at 1 p.m. in 209 Holloway Hall.
A junior recital by Mark Steinbach, organ, will be at 8 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, 10th and Vermont streets.
The panels were designed by Larry Schulte, a local weaver.
A senior recital by Valerie Horton, piano, will be at 3:30 p.m. in Syrwarthe.
A senior recital by James Maxwell, euphonium, and Ann Goodwin, piano, will be at 8 p.m. in Swarthwot.
"The Seagull" will be performed at 2:30 p.m. in the Craft-Pronery Theatre.
Saturdav
Schulte also designed two woven costumes for "Egwurume," a performance choreographed and danced by Nancy Smith and Roger Syng, both local dancers.
The music was composed by Mel Smith, a local musician.
"Egwuregwu" is Nigerian for "children at play."
Another dancer dueted by its choreographers is Tango Ne End," by Willie Lorenoir and Marsha Pike.
The tango-flavored music was composed by Greg MacKender.
"It's a piece that has spiral movement," Paladun said.
Puladan, who has taught dance in Amsterdam, Holland, England and Australia, said that she got the idea for the dance's red and black color scheme in its famine company that she saw in Amsterdam.
Tickets may be purchased at Act One,
Lawrence School of Ballet and at the door. The price is $3 for adults, $2.50 for senior citizens and
students, and $1 for children 12 and under.
Lauri Nygren, Littleton, Colo., sophomore, front, and Kristin Benjamin, instructor at the Kaw Valley Dance Company, support themselves on the backs of Howard Levenson, Los Angeles, Cal., graduate student, and Roger Syng, Minneapolis, Minn., junior, while practicing for their performance.
List of summer activities gives help to people with too much free time
By MATTHEW SCHOFIELD
Entertainment Writer
Entertainment Writer
Here we go, singing low, hello summer. Ah, the life of leisure, blooming flowers, fresh fruit and lazzy nights.
But, as has been astutely observed by reliable sources, the college student or graduate coming straight from the school of final oxams to the university is rarely an inking of what to do with himself.
"Well," quips the grizzled veteran of news biz with a look of one who has known despair and liked it, "they finally have it made, all that time off, and they don't know what to do with it. Why should we help 'em? When our mother was sick did they sit up nights and worry? Nah, you can bet they didn't. The wimps, the veritable scum. Help 'em? I'd rather skin and roast 'em."
"Oh, I don't think we can do that," the sweet, timid columnist-turned entertainer writer replies. "Not to all of them, at least. Anyway, they're lost, like little lambs. Terrified, they're not going to sleep." The summer nights, Alone, surely they fall fail pre emu. Verily, we should help them."
"Why?" the gruffled grouse queries.
"Because we like them," he squeaks in answer.
AND SO WE COME TO THIS: The University
Do This Summer. "List of Entertaining Things to
1. Go to the movies. This has been done before, but can still pass for a fun thing to do. For you "Star Wars" the third episode, "Return of the Jedi," is coming out. The movie should be released by Paramount Pictures in anase as its predecessors. The summer also promises to brig slaughters of steamy "Beach-
blanket Bingo" remakes, and the usual plethora of teenage horror films. Sorry, but for you lovers of serious films the good ones won't be coming out until the next Oscars season.
2. Go to a baseball game. I don't like baseball but it'll be fun to go to games. You can tell your team what to wear.
3. Wear striped pajamas and pretend you are an elephant. Lots of laughs at parties. To really get them chortling wait until everyone has caught on to the little prank (this might take weeks) then stand up and yell, "What am I supposed to be? I forgot."
4. Go to Athens, Ga., and pretend you are in Greece. Haggle with the amused merchants over olive oil and socialist government. An easy, fun way to see Europe in your own country.
5. If you live in Athens, Ga., stay home and pretend you are Greek. Be willing to humor those tourists wishing to haggle over olive oil and such.
6. Watch obscure Al Johnson movies on television and bother your friends with trivia questions from them. Example: Who played the socialist-learning park maintenance man in "Mad Max"?
7. Pretend you have a job and give money away with reckless abandon. Spend your days feeding the reck at the city park lake.
9. Worry about the grades you will be receiving in the mail. If you have already received the grades worry about the classes you have next fall. If you have graduated worry about where you are going. If you have graduated and have a job laugh at all the people who aren't as well off as you.
10. Organize a neighborhood chapter of "John Anderson for President in '84."
11. Figure out the geometric likelihood of
whether all the people in China jumping into the Pacific Ocean at the same time would actually cause a tidal wave that would destroy California. This is not what happens end and end would come from the event then organize it.
12. Tell all your friends you are going into plastics then put on scuba diving gear and swim around your pool.
13. Write the opening sentence to a novel and rewrite it until it is perfect.
14. Put on a tweed jacket, take your favorite book off the shelf, go outside to a nice shady tree and fall asleep.
15. Go to a fast food restaurant and ask for a "double order of cheese." When the attendant asks what you mean you laugh and repeat your joke voice to the other merry first nippers with you.
16. Hide in your neighbor's attic and cover yourself with racoon furs.
17. Hire a detective to keep an eye on you, then try to lose him.
18. Smash all of your records except for a single of "Sugar" by the Archie, invite your friends over to dance and lock the doors and windows of your house.
19. Call Amtrak and ask if you can take a train from Kansas City to Denver, Dallas, New Orleans or St. Paul. When they say no tell them about all the third world countries with better train service. Then sing, "Nyahanny, nyahanny boo-booes" and hang up. Call them back every five minutes and repeat the process until they answer "yes."
20. Make up a list of stupid things to do and see
who will publish it. This is much easier than
the first one.
We hope you were amused, but that's all there,
there ain't no more.
Art in the Park show will display area talent
More than 100 artists and craftsmen from the area will gather in South Park on May 1 to display their work in the 22nd annual Art in the Park show.
Bands scheduled to perform are The City Union Band, the Jazzhaus Swing Band, Borderline Country and bands from Lawrence High School. KANI-FM will broadcast the activities.
Painting, photography, ceramics, sculpture and weaving are among the arts that will be
Connie Friesen, co-chairman of the event, said the purpose of the show was to give Douglas County artists a chance for recognition and to encourage new artists in town.
Lionel Orloff, who has been showing his
photographs in the show for the past four years, said he thought the quality of the work in the exhibition was excellent.
"It's nice to see what other people have been doing the last year. It's just a nice outing for us."
Because of the many artists in the Kansas City area, the show is open only to Douglas County residents.
Friesen said many artists who had shown their work in the show later became well-known.
Friesen said that for the first time this year the works were juried, but all but a few were
Georgia Orchard, publicity chairman, said the.
only requirement for the works was that they be original.
"They're not supposed to be a kit or anything like that." she said.
The show is sponsored by the Lawrence Art Guild and the Lawrence Parks and Recreation
The art guild will take 10 percent of the money made on sales to promote local arts through such activities as sponsoring visiting artists in schools, buying art for the community and sponsoring exhibits at the Lawrence Art Center, Louis Cout, president of the guild, said.
The show will last from noon to 5 p.m. If it rains, the show will be conducted May 8.
Opera, salute to music will be presented by KU musicians in weekend performances
Two musical performances by KU students highlight this weekend's calendar.
The Jayhawk Singers will present "A Salute to Years of Music" at 8 tonight in the Kansas Union Ballroom.
The group is a student organization that performs jazz, rock, soul, Broadway and show tunes and popular music in chorus, trio, duet or solo forms, said Ray Williams, director.
through Kansas and has had its appearances televised.
Formally called "KU Singing Jayhawks," the 4-year-old group has traveled extensively
Tenight's concert will be two hours long, complete with choreography and costumes.
KU choirs, choruses and the University Symphony will combine their efforts in a performance of Carl Offr's "Carmina Burana" at 3:30 p.m. Sunday in Hoch Auditorium.
James Ralston, professor and director of choral activities, will conduct the combined chorus of more than 200 voices and the 75-piece orchestra. Soliists for the performance are Phyllis Brill, associate professor of voice, John Snyder, music history, tenor; and Brian Steele, a member of the music faculty at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, baritone.
Choral groups performing for the concert are the KU Chamber Choir, Concert Chorale, Concert Choir, University Singers and KU Men's Glee Club.
The manuscript for the work was discovered in 1803 in the Benedictine abbey of Beuren in upper Bavaria. The anonymous compilation of poetry from wandering scholar-poets was edited by Johannes Andreas Schmeller and published in 1847 under the title "Garnina Burana." Orff selected 25 poems from this collection and set them in what he called a "scenic cantata," which he completed in 1936.
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