6
University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Friday, April 4, 1986
Production to merge ballet with bagpipes
By Sandra Crider
Dancers spinning prouettes to bagpipe music may sound far fetched. But the Kaw Valley Dance Theater and the folk music group Scartaglen have successfully combined ballet and Celtic music in an approaching production.
"The music has a primitive underlyning beat the dancers love," Kristin Benjamin, artistic director, said at a rehearsal Wednesday.
The production, "Parallel Rivers," will be performed at 8 p.m. today and tomorrow at Central High School, 1400 Massachusetts St. Tickets are $4 for adults, $3 for students and senior citizens and $1 for children 12 and under.
10 pcm enhancer 12 pcm
Benjamin said the unmetered baggie music posed one of the greatest challenges for the dancers, because they could not count beats in the music.
In addition to a synthesizer, flute, violin and guitar, the eight-member band uses a mandolin-like bozoki, a hammer dulcimer, a stringed citerin. Northumbrian small pipes and an Irish drum.
However, Celtic music is not all played on bagpipes. Scarftaglen, which roughly translated from Celtic means "heartland," uses a multitude of familiar and unfamiliar instruments that has been around for centuries.
Matt Kirby, a member of Scarctaglen, said he and another band member made their Irish drums using a wood frame and goatskin.
VCR w/2 movies $9.66
VCR w/2 movies-$9.66
(overnight Mon-Fri)
Store Hours:
Mon-Sat; 9:30-9 / Sun-1.5
SUITTY'S TV
1447 W 23rd    842-5751
CHAINS FIXED FAST
800 Mass.
"Parallel Rivers" is not an ordinary production for the dance company either. Benjamin said
This is the group's first stab at something outside the garden variety concert realm
I got my goatskin from Steve's
Meat Market in Deto Soto. Kirby was
TIME FOR A RESUME.
904 VERMONT 843-8019
12th & INDIANA 841-6717
23rd & IOWA 749-5392
kinko's
HOUSING TO MEET YOUR NEEDS
Offering a variety of living styles to meet your needs.
We know it is hard for you to know what is going on in the world, so it is also time to look for the future.
Korke's can help you pursue her passion for teaching. She will take up special papers and most interesting ways to give your creative ideas to others and use them. There is room to be and we see her.
*Contact us and see us here.*
- APARTMENTS
- DUPLEXES
- FOUR & SIX APTS
- SINGLE FAMILY
HOMES
Convenient locations near campus, bus route and shopping
FEATURING
ARGO APTS.
11th & Missouri
ROCKLEDGE APTS
711 Rockledge Road
CALL 842-3175
OPEN WEEKENDS
Big Blue Property
Management, Inc.
"In my classes that I teach I started using Celtic music several years ago." she said
When she heard Scaraglen play last summer, she got the idea for the joint venture
"I called them up and introduced myself, and they thought it was a neat idea." Benjamin said.
The challenge of choreographing Celtic music is in mixing classical ballet and folk dancing
The program includes a segment choreographed by Marcia Grund, former KU professor of dance, titled "The Widows." It tells the story of a young girl who falls in love with a man who goes off to war. The title reveals the outcome.
"Sometimes I have to say to the dancers, 'this is not ballet, this is a step.'" Benjamin said. "And other times we have to take the jig and put it en pointe."
Another piece includes a bagpipe solo that is a challenge for the company's men to dance to.
"I knew I wanted to see some men in kills," Benjamin said.
an all- time favorite
Taco Salad—a crisp tortilla shell filled with lettuce, tomatoes, beans, and seasoned beef. Topped with shredded cheese and sour cream and served with our own, Mexican salsa.
Served daily $3.15 or try our no-meat taco salad $2.95.
THE KANSAS UNION
PRAIRIE ROOM
Level 2
The Kaw Valley Dance Theater has auditions for its 20-member troupe twice a year and practices daily.
BLACK DIAMOND April 4,1986
ALPHA DELTA PI
"I LOVE AMERICA BECAUSE THERE'S PLENTY OF LITE BEER, AND YOU CAN ALWAYS FIND A PARTY. IN RUSSIA,PARTY ALWAYS FINDS YOU."
EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED IN A BEER. AND LESS.
© 1985 Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI
Friends don't let friends drive drunk