Club would rather dance than eat
Mayim, Troika, Makazice, Dayagim, Sepastia Bal, Alunelul, Jovane Jovanki! Not typographical errors, but, members of the University of Kansas Folk Dance Club say, the names of a few of their jigs, among the 25 ot so they selected from a possible 2,000.
A small but determined group has been meeting weekly since fall of 1967 in Robinson Gymnastium. Many work during the week, but instead of feeling tired by Friday nights, they say kicking up their heels makes them feel good and is relaxing.
They'd rather dance than eat, literally. Since eating beforehand would slow them down they acquired the habit of eating together after rehearsing.
"You dance when you're happy or in the face of adversity, like Zorba the Greek," said Milton Rosenberg, associate professor of mathematics and faculty sponsor.
Greeks have participated as well as Indians, Serbs, Chinese, Israelis, and, of course, Americans. The international dances represent almost every culture, including the American.
Stephen Resovich of Kansas City, a KU alumnus, organized the club and based it on the predominantly circle-type Balkan dances he prefers because of his family's Serbian background. Rosenberg and others added some couple dances and other formations for variety. He said dances
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SUA Films. " Tumbleweeds" -7
pumice 9. pM, Dycha Ducchin
4 pM
Music Camp Band. Allen Field House Lawn, 7:15 p.m.
"The Grass Harp," Truman Capote.
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
Music Camp Choirs, Orchestra,
Band, University Theatre, 2.15 p.m.
Three One-Act Plays, Experimental
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with the simplest steps often are the most enjoyable.
Sunday, July 13
Carillon 2 p.m.
Carillon 2 p.m.
Music Camp Choir and Orchestra
University Theatre, 2.15 p.m.
Music Camp Bands, University The-
Music Camp Bands. University Theatre, 7 p.m.
Monday, July 14
Monday, July 14
Faculty to room 104
Stewart
soprano. Swarthout
Recital Hall,
Half 7.
Resovich attends folk dance festivals around the country and started the KU club with the possibility of a performing group in mind, but really more for social, recreational, and educational purposes, not to mention cultural and historical benefits. The members much prefer dancing for their own enjoyment anyway.
"Ah, Wilderness," Eugene O'Neill. University Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
Tuesday. July 15
Faculty Recital. Kenneth Smith, bass; David Holloway, baritone; Jean Barnes Vigil, soprano; Doris Holloway, soprano. Swarthout Recital Hall,
Wednesday, July 1
"The Male Animal." Nugent-Thurber, Experimental Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
Tuesday, July 19
Music Camp Receital, University
Theatre, 7 p.m.
Film. "Thief of Paris," Dyche Aud.
7:30 p.m.
Albert Gerkent, 8 p.m.
"The Grass Harp," Truman Capote.
University Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
Thursday, July 17
Bus to Starlight, 17
Peter Pan,
Robin Hood, 6:45 p.m.
Organ Recital, William Wilkins
Swarthout Recital Hall, 8 p.m.
Three Theatricals, Experimental
Theatre, 8:20 p.m.
Friday, July 18
Explaining his interest and involvement in folk dance, Resovich said that while his family didn't teach him Serbian dances, his father always played a Serbian shepherd's flute, a frula, about the house. His personal involvement stemmed from a "growing conviction that the rapid changes of our technologically-oriented society are leaving out some important values of the past.
"Dancing provides an opportunity," Resovich continued, "for people to become physically involved in the full range of human emotions in a safe, sane and
SUA Films..."Top Mam." 7 p.m.
drive*rate" 9 p.m. Dyche Aud-
torium.
Music Camp Band. Allen Field House Lawn. 7:15 p.m.
"Ah, Wilderness,"ugene O'Neill.
University Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
Saturday, July 19
Music Camp Choirs, Band, Orchestra. University Theatre, 2:15 p.m.
"The Male Animal," Nugent-Thurber Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
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Resovich teaches elementary school science and leads a performing group of boys with a tamburitza orchestra at St. John's Catholic Church in Kansas City, that has appeared on television. He also is affiliated with a performing group that has appeared at Grecian Garden in Kansas City, Mo.
therapeutic way that isn't often provided in today's world.
"The frustrations, joys, sorrows, resoluteness, pride, anger and dignity of Serbs at Kossovo, the French a* Waterloo, the Russians at Sevastopol, are all contained in dance—somewhere.
Rosenberg said that in New York, his hometown, "you could
"People don't vent their feelings through music—song and dance—today as they once did, not for themselves at any rate. The burden of the black man was made easier through commiseration in song. The immigrants relieved their loneliness through song. The hopeful expressed their faith through song."
Robert J. Smith, professor of anthropology, will sponsor the club throughout the summer and into the fall. Rosenberg is returning to New York City. Mrs Hazel Miller, a secretary in the Chancellor's office, will serve as secretary.
The KU club hopes to do something about that and has resumed its Friday night dances, meeting at 6 p.m. in the Potter Lake picnic area and continuing weekly at that time throughout the summer into the fall.
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However, he thinks dancing is in "very bad shape in the country. The vast majority—99 and 99/100 per cent—of the population doesn't dance knowledgeably, if at all."
run into 13 or 14-year-olds who know about 400 to 800 different folk dances and were real experts." Experienced folk dancers have organized into federations in other parts of the country where they are concentrated, such as California, Chicago, Denver, Houston and Minneapolis.
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