WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2002
NEWS
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN = 5A
Program features modern dance
By Todd Rapp
trapp@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Courtnev Kuhlen/Kansar
Junior Beau Hancock and senior Deanna Doyle rehearse their duet "Margartik" choreographed by Gerel Hilding. The two will be performing with The University Dance Company in its full concert this Thursday and Friday at the Lied Center.
Almost an entire semester's worth of work for members of the University Dance Company will culminate with its Fall Concert Program at the end of the week.
The program consists of six dance performances choreographed by faculty from the department of music and dance, and performed by students in the school and in the University Dance Company. The featured event, Choreographic Offering, by José Limón, was choreographed by guest artist Sarah Stackhouse of the Limón Company.
The University Dance Company Fall Concert Program is on Thursday and Friday evenings at 7:30. The events will be held in the Lied Center.
The program features modern styles of dance meant for interpretation, said Kendra Hollman, the president of the University Dance Company.
"Modern dance is for everyone. Everyone can enjoy it," Hollman, Lincoln, Neb., senior said.
The modern dance genre allows the dancer more freedom of movement, and that opens the
The dance company has been having two to three rehearsals every week since auditions were held at the beginning of the semester.
dance up for more expression.
"This is the main thing we build up for every semester," Hollman said. "If you are a dance major, you definitely want to be in this concert." The program is very athletic, and the dancers need to develop their strength over the semester.
She said it wasn't the physical aspect that made the program difficult; it was the amount of prepa-
But members of the company have a positive outlook despite the time and physical strain of the program.
"If someone said, 'My foot is broken,' they would say 'It's fine, keep going!'" said Ellie Goodie-Averill, vice president of the University Dance Company.
Tickets are on sale at the Lied Center, Murphy Hall and SUA box offices. Student and senior tickets are $5, and public tickets are $7.
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Programs presented by University Dance Co.
Choreographic Offering by José Limón, staged by Sarah Stackhouse
This dance is full of rhythms and tilting, arching phrases set into huge wheeling circles, parades, spirals and criss-crossing flights.
Champagne Polka by Jerol
Hilding
A playful dance for seven women and three men. The dancers take turn showing off and enjoying themselves.
Kinetic Calligraphy by Patrick Suzeau
A dance where the mood shifts from meditative to exuberantly sensual and the dancers move like brush strokes, propelled by the music
Ritmas de Danzas by Wille
Lenoir
The dancers fill the stage with attitude, bravado and gyrating bodies in a Latin rhythm.
Fashionable Dances of 1700
bv Joan Stone
Featuring Kathleen O'Connor and Beau Hancock performing a suite of baroque dances to Johann Sebastian Bach's "French Suite No. 5;" portions of the dance were reconstructed from notated scores of dancing masters from Bach's time.
Fine dining declining with Bleujacket's adieu
By Nathan Dayani
ndayani@kansan.com
Kansan staff writer
Fine dining is becoming extinct in downtown Lawrence.
Carmen Anello, assistant manager at the restaurant, said the business initially had success with its local patronage and a steady flow of customers from Topeka and Kansas City. However, the restaurant's bread and
The Bleujacket, 811 New Hampshire Drive, closed Saturday night after nearly two years serving French cuisine to local and area customers. It is the third fine-dining restaurant in Lawrence to close this year.
outer - its Lawrence-based clientele - stopped coming when the national economy began to slow down last fall.
"We had a lot of support before fine dining became too much of a luxury with the economy," said Anello, a Lawrence resident.
KU students went to the restaurant for anniversaries, dates, graduates and greek events, but Anello said the restaurant catered to an older crowd. She said its owners and staff members thought the business would flourish despite the town's college atmosphere.
"They understood that this was a college town, but they noticed that there was a lot of parents,
alumni and KU staff members who lived in the area," Anello said.
Carol Holstead, associate professor of journalism, said the restaurant was too expensive to gain enough local patronage.
"I liked it a lot. The food was very good, but it was expensive for this town," Holstead said. "I ate there once with a friend and we spent $100, but we can't do that every week."
Like the Bleujacket, Fifi's Restaurant and Prairie Fire; An American Bistro, two other fine-dining establishments in Lawrence, have closed in the past year. With these closings, as well as menu changes at other established local restaurants, Hol-
stead said Pachamama's, 2161 Quail Creek Drive, was the only fine dining restaurant left in town.
Stephane Dragoje, lecturer in French and Italian, said he enjoyed the Bleujacket's food, intimate atmosphere and knowledgeable servers.
"Every time I asked about the way things were prepared, they were able to answer my questions very easily," said Dragoje, who is from Besançon, France.
"This was a great place," Anello said. "I don't think anyone really thought it was actually going away."
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