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University Daily Kansan, February 1, 1983
Entertainment
Planners call attention to campus arts festival
By LADONNA LONGSTREET Staff Reporter
By organizing University arts events into a special occasion this month, planners hope to call attention to the everyday events on campus many people take for granted.
on campus many people take for granted.
Beginning Thursday with Twyla Trap Dance, the third annual University Arts Festival will feature performing or visual arts every day until March 6.
"Some of the finest performers in the world have played here at KU," said James Scally, chairman of the arts festival committee and assistant to the chancellor.
All but one of the festival events would have been at the University of Kansas even if there had not been a festival, Scaly said, but this month was chosen to focus attention on the arts...
THE FESTIVAL has done its job to increase interest during its three years.
Jacqueline Davis, director of the concert and chamber music series, said, "The reason that this festival will be better
The quality of the presentations has continued to be good, Davis said. The University Chamber and Concert series have a good reputation, and artists are generally glad to come because they are pleased with the response to their music.
During the festival set aside time to attend performances, which they wouldn't normally do, Davis said.
TWO OF THE EXHIBITS, which will be displayed from now until Feb. 27 in Spencer Art Museum, are "The Literati Dream in Modern China" and "Form Illusion Myth: Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir." The first includes traditional landscape painting on scrolls, and the second 50 prints and drawings by Steir.
Steil will speak and give a slide show on her work at 3 p.m.
Friday in the Spencer Museum Auditorium.
A collection of more than 100 books from the 16th to 19th cen.
THE SIXTEEN-MEMBER Twila Tharp Dance, a modern dance ensemble, will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium for the first time at KU. Davis said the University was fortunate to have the nationally famous group here.
turies, entitled "A Choice of Emblems," will be exhibited Thursday through March 6, in the main gallery of the Kenneth Spencer Research Library.
A panel discussion and slide show about prints, called "The Life Cycle of a Print: Symposium," will be from 1 a.m. to 3 m., to be held at the University of Virginia.
The American String Quartet will perform at 3:30 p.m. Feb.
20. in the University Theatre.
A juried crafts exhibition of materials such as metal, clay, wood, leather, glass and fiber, will be shown from Feb. 13 to March 11, in the Kansas Union gallery. The craftsmans will come from six states to participate.
come from six states to participate
"MUCH ADO About Nothing" by William Shakespeare will be presented at 8 p.m. Feb. 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26 in the University Theatre.
The world's oldest orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, will perform for the first time at KU at 8 p.m. B. 26 in Hoch Auditorium, with Herbert Blomstedt directing Scaly, and there will be a reputation as one of the best in Europe during its 200 years.
The most popular group that will play at KU will probably be the Preservation Hall Jazz Bam, Sally said, which was the first time any of us had seen it.
Davis said the group would perform an unplanned, spontaneous concert at 8 p.m. March 4 in Hoch.
THE LAST EVENT of the arts festival will be the annual Symposium of Contemporary Music from March 6 to 9, in Murphy Hall, consisting of nightly concerts at 8 p.m., a panel discussion and performances by master classes.
Scally said there were always many other arts activities on carmins as well as SUA films and lectures.
"There should be something for anybody almost every day," he said.
The Twyla Tharp Dance ensemble will demonstrate its style of modern dance at 8 p.m. Thursday in Hoch Auditorium. The performance will be the opening event of the University Arts Festival.
Educational play shows evolution to children
Bv JOHNNIE FISCUS
Staff Reporter
A play can be educational as well as entertaining.
Through simple, catchy songs and actions, KU Theatre for Young People taught Douglas County school children about the process of evolution last week through their performance of "Dandelion," a children's play by Judith Martin.
They also performed for the public Saturday at the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
dance the history of the world according to Charles Darwin's theories:"
TODAY
Dianoum" depicts the theories of evolution in terms that the children can understand. For example, the opening scene shows the earth as a "boiling, bubbling pot of soup" that slowly cools and hardens.
The show's setting is simple, but effective. It is performed in the style of the Paper Bag Players, a small troupe of artists
"DANDELION" is best described as a theatre piece," said
Jed Davis, director." It inpicts in songs, mime, puppetry and
On campus
Because there are only a few props, "Dandelion" relies on audience participation to get its message across.
The play tries to explain that evolution is a constant process.
The actors lead the audience in singing the title song. And during the last scene when writing is being developed, the actors must stop or rewind to allow the audience to see what happens.
PROPS CONSIST of inexpensive material such as cardboard boxes, chalk, poster paint and fabric. There is no elaborate scenery, just a bare stage with a piano in the foreground and props piled in the background.
For as simple as it was, "Dandelion" was remarkably educational.
"Dandelion" S' cast includes Mary Ramos, Leawed sophomore; Tracy Iwersen, Kansas City, Mo., freshman; Bobby Phelps, Independence, Mo., senior, and Dale Justice, Miami, Okla., junior.
The two pianists are Laurie Dumler, Russell junior, and Jane Crawford, Prairie Village special student.
"Dandelion" is the 1963 spring touring production of the University of Kansas Theatre for Young People. It will be presented all through the Midwest this semester.
THE BIBLICAL SEMINAR will study the book, "The Bible as the Book of Faith," at 4:30 p.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center, 1204 Oread Ave.
WOMEN IN COMMUNICATIONS will sponsor their annual job seminar at 7 a.m. in Flint Hall.
THE BAPTIST STUDENT UNION will have a Bible study and discussion at 7 p.m. in the Baptist Center, 1629
THE TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in
742 Robinson
THE CAMPUS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP will have a Bible study at 7:30 p.m. in the Kansas Union.
CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST will meet at 7 p.m. in the Alderson Auditorium in the Union.
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