UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Friday, November 22, 1996
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Concert tonight has dance for all seasons
Instructor revives Renaissance piece
By Jeff Ruby
Kansan staff writer
If you don't like the weather, wait a minute and the University Dance Company will change it.
The music and dance department and the School of Fine Arts presents a University
Dance Company concert at 8
tonight at the Lied Center. The concert will feature everything from 17th century Italian Renaissance dance to modern dance comedy.
"A lot of the things on the program have to do with
seasons," said Jerel Hilding.
choreographer of the show's final piece, Cycle of Fire. "It was just a coincidence that these all have to do with elemental themes. They're totally unrelated. It just somehow happened that way."
Hilding said the show's guest artist, talk-and-dance comedian Claire Porter, was a good addition to the cast and crew of KU students.
Janet Hamburg, associate professor and director of dance, said that Porter, who has performed her comic works at the American Dance Festi-
val and in college theater and dance programs across the country, will dance Stipping into Weather , a nonmusical portrait of a harried weather forecaster who becomes her predictions.
"Like Porter, a number of the faculty seem to be haunted by the elements," Hamburg said.
The eight other dance pieces, which are choreographed by six University dance instructors, drift in and out of seasonal themes with names like Autumn Weave, Spring Witness, and Hidden Thunder , Hamburg said.
Departing from the theme of elements, Hamburg said, was Gracious Balleti and Nimble Galliards from Renaissance Italy, a piece reconstructed by dance instructor Joan Stone.
The dance, which is performed to the live sounds of recorders, viols, harpsichords and percussion, is the type of refined舞 one would see in the courts of Renaissance Europe, Hilding said.
He said the concert ran the gamut from 17th century dance to modern dance.
"The only thing we don't do are dance team and tap," Hilding said.
University Dance instructors Muriel Cohen and Patrick Sueau, in addition to choreographing pieces for students, perform a duet themselves.
"Split Rock, a duet choreographed and danced by Cohan and Patrick Sueau, probes the sense of time and erosive texture of the canyons," Hamburg said.
Christy Dalke, an Overland Park senior who performs in both Stone's and Hilding's dances, said that with each show, the 25-person cast became more of a family.
"I love performing and being able to give people a piece of myself," Dalke said. "It's very fulfilling. There's a really strong bonding experience."
Dalke said that preparing for the show went smoothly despite one major jolt.
"The costumes just got in Tuesday," she said. "There's always an element of surprise."
Tickets for the show are $4 for students and $6 for the general public.
Pope, Castro to discuss trip
After 18 years of avoidance meeting still is not guaranteed
By Cameron Heeg Kansan staff writer
It has been a trip 18 years in the making, and there still is no guarantee that it will take place.
Ever since John Paul II was appointed pope 18 years ago, he has noticeably avoided a trip to the embargoed communist Cuba.
On Tuesday, Fidel Castro will meet with the pope to agree upon a papal visit to the island in 1997, but the Vatican rules of holding open-air Masses, unrestricted travel throughout the country and meetings with opposition figures might stop the visit, as it did in 1990.
"The pope demands complete freedom during all his visits," said Kirk Shaffer, KU doctoral student in Latin American studies. "I don't see the Cuban government being as open as the none wants it to be.
"It is one thing to have the citizens stirring up opposition to human rights and religious freedom, but it is completely different to have an
Pope John Paul II
international representative like the pope stirring up unwanted attention for Cuba," he said.
Fidel Castro
Shaffer pointed out that the pope's main concerns lie with the suppression of the Catholic religion on the island
Despite the 1992 Cuban constitutional amendment that permits open worship and organized activities of all religions, Catholicism on the island almost has been decimated. Cuban Church officials reported no more than 250 practicing Catholic priests.
"The pope will be looking to open the channels of communication between the Cuban Catholic Church and the Roman Catholic Church," said Fr. Vince Krische, director of St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center. "What needs to happen is the lifting of the ban on foreign priests traveling to Cuba in efforts to boost support of the Catholic religion."
Castro plans to show the world, especially the United States, that important and influential people are willing to put the past behind them and move into the future.
"The people of Cuba are constantly suffering at the hands of an embargo that has lasted 30 years," said Leonardo Villalon, assistant professor of political science. "I wouldn't mind seeing the pope's visit to Cuba undermine the current position on her has Cuba."
If the pope does visit Cuba in 1997, it will give Castro the type of international relations needed to help end the isolation Cuba has felt since the collapse of communist Russia, Villalon added.
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The University of Kansas School of Fine Arts Department of Music & Dance presents the
University Dance Company
with Cohan/Suzeau
and works by
Claire Porter, Guest Artist
Jerel Hilding
Willie Lenoir
Joan Stone
8p.m.
November
21 & 22, 1996
Lied Center
General admission tickets on sale in the KU box offices:
Murphy Hall, 864-3982; Lied Center, 864-ARTS; SUA office,
864-3477; $6 public, $4 students and senior citizens.
Both VISA and Mastercard accepted for phone reservations.
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