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University Daily Kansan, January 25, 1983
Entertainment
Dancing brings joy to KU club
Rv LADONNA LONGSTREET
Staff Reporter
In a flurry of ballet shoes, bare feet and moccasins, 35 folk dancers joined hands to kick, jump and shuffle last Friday night away.
The KU International Folk Dance Club had begun another evening of teaching, learning and simply enjoyting ethnic dances from Bulgaria, Romania, Scandinavia, Mexico, Japan, Scotland, Russia and the United States.
The 20 to 25 members meet from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. Fridays in the gymnasium at Saint John's School, 1208 Kentucky St. They devote the first hour and a half to singing and the second hour to reading, and save the latter part of the evening for requests.
Mike Rundle, Logan senior, said that everyone could choose a favorite dance, but every fifth dance was an easy one to break up a string of difficult dances. The club tries to do it with the music of both the experienced dancers and newcomers, he said.
"We gear most of our teaching for beginning dancers," said Cathy Bear. Deeferdall, senior.
Thea Millich, Kansas City, Mo., senior; and Andrew Schnabel, Crookston, Minn., graduate student, dance in the gym of St. John's Church, 1229 Vermont,
The club learns dances from professionals at workshops, from experienced international students and from individuals who may have learned a dance while abroad or in a different club.
"People move here from other places who are quite experienced," said Baer, who has been dancing since she
Yoshiko Nurse, Tokyo, Japan, graduate student, said,
"I've taught at least four Japanese dances."
Steve Resovich, KU alumnus, started the club around 1967. It was one of the first formal groups in the area, he
People begin folk dancing. Resovich said, as a recreational activity, because of an ethnic background, an appreciation for the culture or simply because it is what they like to do.
Folk dancing has become a part of some of the dancers' lifestyles, and members of the group know each other well.
relaxing which allowed young people to be close in a structured setting, she said.
Resovich said such groups should try to learn the dances in their authentic forms to maintain the feeling ethnic
In the old countries it was a way of meeting others and
Through dancing, anyone from any background can study the culture, history and geography of other peoples;
On campus
TODAY
A BIBLICAL SEMINAR, "The Bible as the Book of Faith," to be at 13:30 p.m. at the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Campus. be at 1:00 p.m.
THE TAU SIGMA DANCE CLUB will meet at 7 p.m. in 242 Robinson Center.
CAMPUS CRUSADEs for Christ will meet at 7 p.m. in the Madison Auditorium of the Kansas Union
Alderson Auditorium of the Kansas Union.
A BIBLE STUDY with the Campus Christian Fellowship
A BIBLE STUDY with the Campus Christian Fellowship will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Union
THE PRE-MED CLUB will meet at 8 p.m. in the Council Room of the Union
KU THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE will present a
children's play, "Dandelion," at 1 p.m. in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
TOMORROW
A CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYER SESSION will be at 7:45 a.m. in the Ecumenical Christian Ministries Center.
THE UNIVERSITY FORUM will feature a lecture by Takuero Hiuchi, KU department of chemistry chairman, about "Drug Research and Society's Stake in Drug Research", at 11:45 a.m. at the Ecumenical Christian University.
KU THEATRE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE will present a children's play, "Dandelion," at 1 p.m. in the University Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Cast of KU play competes in college theatre festival
By LAUREN PETERSON
A group of KU theatre students has won a chance to hit the big time.
Staff Reporter
The seven students will perform Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, "Buried Child," at the American College Theatre Festival at 8 p.m. Feb. 4 at the Folly Theatre in Kansas City, Mo.
The American College Theatre Festival committee selected the group when the committee came to evaluate the play last October, said Jack Wright, KU professor of speech and drama and director of the play.
The Kansas City city festival, hosted by Park College, is one of 13 regional competitions in the United States, Wright said. Kansas is part of a four-state region with Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.
THE WINNER of each region competes for the national title in Washington, D.C., this April.
In the play, a prodigal grandson, played by John Andert, Louis sophomore, returns to his family's once-productive home.
Andert said his character was the personification of the American dream gone sour.
"Everything he was taught to be true starts to crumble," Andert said.
Each of the strange characters in "Buried Child" is written in this chapter, behead.
The patriarchal grandfather, played by Rusty Laushman,
Lawrence junior, is ill and numbs his pain with alcohol, but never resires to death. Laushman said.
THE SYMBOL of this strange clan, the American family gone to seed, is the buried child of the title, an infant who has mysteriously disappeared.
Llaushman said the tone of the play was almost surrealistic.
"It makes you think a lot. There are beautiful, rich images like the bushel full of corn and carrots that the grandson brings in from nowhere." he said.
Wright said the sets for the play were realistic. The scenes center on a dilapidated house built with old wood from vacant landscapes.
Besides the KU cast, three other theatre groups from Iowa State University, the University of Missouri-Columbia and Boston University are also involved.
In addition to the night-time performances, he said, they will participate in daily workshops and seminars in acting, directing and technical theatre.
NATIONALLY KNOWN THEATRE experts will judge the play, he said, including Everett McGill, film and stage actor; John Ezell, head of the design department at the University of Wisconsin and associate producer director of the Great Lakes Shakespeare Festival; and Marilyn Stasio, theatre critic for the New York Post.
Tickets are available at the Folly Box Office. College students receive a discount with their identification cards.
Wright said the KU cast had been working hard for the past few weeks to prepare for the festival.
"Our excitement is going to Kansas City," he said. "It could be great to go to Washington D.C., but Kansas City is a lot of distance."
Computers project prophet's ideals
Staff Reporter
Bv JOHNNIE BETH FISCUS
An international prize-winning production that uses 26 computerized projectors to draw parallels between an Old Testament prophet and the 20th century is showing at the University of Kansas this week.
The production, a combination of a multi-image slide show and a musical composition, is based on writings in the Old Testament by the prophet Habukkub, who questioned God's existence when he saw the violence and declining morality around him, said Karen Mueller. Winfield junior and project coordinator for Habukkub.
Habukuku (pronounced hub-back'uck), showed Monday night in the Kansas Union Ballroom, and will continue playing Tuesday and Wednesday at 8 p.m. There also will be a 12:30 p.m. matinee performance Wednesday.
A variety of communication techniques are used in the multi-image format.
Using 26 computerized projectors, a three-member touring team displays the composition across a 50-foot screen. It takes the tour team four to five hours to set up the equipment, team leader Jim Schimmele said.
Thoughts and ideas are suggested by the relationship of various images of people and places in each segment. This allows the viewer to actively think, observe and draw conclusions for himself, Mueller said.
The hour-long show examines the questions raised by the prophet and parallels them to the 20th century, she said.
Members of the national Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship worked with composer David Maddox on a three-channel soundtrack with original music and lyrics. The visual effects and soundtrack were designed for photography and animation would blend with the soundtrack.
Habukkuk was produced by Eric Miller, who was the director of Twentyonehundred Productions, and Scott Wilson, the current director. It represents their feelings toward the questions raised, Mueller said.
In August 1980, twentyonehundred Productions, a division of the fellowship, entered Habulukku in the International Society for the Advancement of Music.
It won the gold medal in its division and was the only production at the festival to receive a standing ovation,
Habukkuk is open to the public. Tickets are $2 and are available at the Student Union Activities box office in the Student Union Building.
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