Tau Sigma combines movement, music
Students express mood through dance
By MARILYN McMULLEN Kansan Staff Writer
Performing an interpretative dance is a form of free expression. One dancer referred to it as the freedom to fly.
Every Wednesday night a limber campus group meets in Robinson Gymnasium to practice and to perfect a well-known expressive art. The group, Tau Sigma dance fraternity, will present a dance concert at 8:30 p.m. Saturday and 3:30 p.m. Sunday in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall.
Eight modern interpretative dances will be performed, Mrs. Marsha Paludan, who has performed for the National Dance Association in New York, will be the featured guest artist.
Kathy Forney, Plano, Tex. sophomore and president of Tau Sigma, said it was not a professional fraternity and membership was open to anyone who passed tryouts held twice a year.
Tau Sigma members emphasize potentiality rather than actual ability when they select new members.
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Perfecting a story with grace
Cecilia Eldridge, Mexico City intensive English student looks for perfect form in body movement and expression while practicing for the Tau Sigma dance recital Saturday and Sunday in the Experimental Theatre in Murphy Hall. Members of the dance fraternity will try to convey individual feelings to the audience through original dances. Techniques other than music are sometimes added to help the dancer tell a story.
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"We're trying very hard to expand membership," said Miss Forney. "We have far too few men for the number of women in the organization. You don't have to take any dancing classes to join. You just have to enjoy dancing."
The 27 members of Tau Sigma all participate in teaching new steps and routines. Elizabeth Sherbon, associate professor of physical education, is the group's adviser.
Meetings are based on a lesson format in which new steps and choreographic techniques are
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taught, Miss Forney said. Members are taught to fill space with their moving bodies and to express their feelings through their choreography, she said.
"A girl whose friend had died used the experience to choreograph a dance in which she expressed her feelings," said Miss Forney. "You could really understand what she was trying to say with her motions."
Explaining the choreographic process, Miss Forney said the dancer must first find expressive music and then use the dance steps he knows which fit the music and to express his mood.
"Sometimes music isn't used." Miss Forney said. "There is one dance in the concert in which slides are shown as the dance is performed."
A dance production class will also participate in the concert and music will be tape recorded, Miss Forney said.
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