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Modern Dancing is Regarded As an Important Creative Art
Modern dance is a unique creative art removed from all other dance forms, according to Elizabeth Sherbon, adviser of Tau Sigma dance fraternity.
Miss Sherbon believes that modern dance is often confused with ballroom steps and night club routines.
"Classical ballet is a fully developed form while modern dance is Dionysian. That is, it is still in a period of change, creation and development," she said.
"In modern dance, the creative approach is most important," she said. "It is completely different from classical ballet and ballroom dancing."
"Rather than a studied movement requiring absolute perfection and control, modern dance is an art based on freedom of movement and the abstract," she explained.
MISS SHERBON feels that modern dance is misunderstood because the public tries too hard to understand it. "Sometimes people try to
Erotic dancing also contributes to public misunderstanding. "I think that erotic dancing may be called the 'sick period' of modern dance." Miss Sherbon said. "But the public often thinks of all modern dance as erotic, when as a true art form it isn't."
read meaning into tach movement. But modern dancing is abstract," she explained. "You should view modern dance as conveying a mood, not saying something with each step."
Miss Sherbon explained that jazz dancing is not a part of the established modern dance. "Jazz is the current folk dance," she said. "Eventually it will become adapted to modern dancing because folk styles always contribute to art forms."
"DANCE IS an impermanent thing. It exists for the moment only." Miss Sherbon said. "It is not like a painting, which can be hung on the wall, or good music, which can be recorded.
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"And dance cannot really be explained. It has to be seen." she said. Miss Sherbon feels that not only dance, but all arts, are valuable.
"I think it is vital for people to have the arts as a respite from mechanization," she said. "Through the arts people can realize themselves as persons rather than as part of the masses."
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James Surface, vice-chancellor and dean of faculties, will address the 90 students. The MRA scholastic trophy will be given to the hall with the highest scholastic average. The presentation will mark the third consecutive time Templin has received the trophy.
Scholarship Banquet Sponsored By MRA
The Men's Residence Association (MRA) will sponsor its bi-annual scholarship banquet at 5:45 p.m. in Templin. The banquet will honor students who, living in men's residence halls last semester, attained a 2.5 grade point average.
Band, Cheers To Spark Rally
The cheerleaders and the KU band will be there to arouse enthusiasm for the OU game the next day.
All students are encouraged to join in the send-off of the football team to Topeka at a pep rally held at 4:45 Friday in front of Allen Field House.
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