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Show Arts & Leisure SOUTHERN UTAH STATE COLLEGE, CEDAR CITY THE THUNDERBIRD MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1989 PAGE 10 Dancers to light Centrum for March 30, 31 shows On With the Show, a dance concert extravaganza featuring 17 numbers choreog'aphed and performed by SUSC students, will be presented March 30 and 31 in the Centrum. Dance titles for the 8 p.m. concert range from the street gang selection Speed Demon, a jazz number choreogaphed by Mike Anderson, to the lovely ballet pas de deux, The Spring Waltz, featuring Anderson and Gmette McDonald. Other numbers, concert director Terri Lauterbach said, are a Latin mambo with Lillie Garrido and Douglas Ftirlow and 1920s-styl- e tap pieces choreographed by Kim Tui ley, one of them featuring d, incers Alysann Ford, G.a Andrus and Molly Mangelson. Its a rewarding and stimulating experience for me to work with the students in this fully staged and costumed dance production, said Lauterbach, an instructor of physical education and dance. More than 50 students are working on the production, most of them dance majors and minors at SUSC. The result is a lively concert and a dazzling variety of stles, tempos and music, Lauterbach said. The diversity of numbers, Lauterbach continued, includes a humorous number by Trisha Gordon in which the dance rhythms are created with basketballs, tapping feet and other elements, and Gecko, a graceful contemporary number choreographed by Cathleen Deal. Yet another number, a Highland Fling, comes complete with authentic Scottish costuming and bagpipe accompaniment. Tickets for either night are $4 for adults, $2 for students with identification cards, and $1 for children under 12 (no children under four, please). Tickets are available at the Centrum Box Office, telephone non-music- 586-787- I fc i V i 1 i VlXiks - jf, dance concert On With 'Speed Demon is one of 17 dances planned for SUSCs March 30-3- 1 the Show.' Dancers include (from left) Irene Pan, Kim Turley, Mike Anderson and Teri Millet. Greenwood concert Exhibition 48 scheduled for May 4 set for April 6 May 4 appearance is part of gala gymnastic event Country superstar Lee Greenwood will appear in concert May 4 at Southern Utah State, the guest performer for the Western Royale and the 1989 USAUSSR Gymnastics Friendship Tour. The concert starts at 8 p.m. in the Centrum. Tickets are now on sale at the Centrum Box Office, (801) Were really excited about having a talent such as Lees to complement this event, Utah Summer Games Director Rich Wilson said. Its going to be a great night. Greenwood won Single of the Year and Song of the Year awards for his God Bless the U.S.A. Other hits are It Turns Me Inside Out, Ring on Her Finger, Somebodys Gonna Love You, Touch and Go Crazy and IOU. With a musical style all his own and a reputation as an excellent performer, Greenwood is considered a soulful bridge between country and rhythm St blues. His broad-basepopularity has resulted in four gold albums and more than a dozen major awards, including a Grammy for Best Male Country Performance and honors two years as the Country Music Associations Male Vocalist of the Year. The versatile performer has an appearance resume as diverse 3j his musical talents he sings and plays 10 instruments having appeared in everything from Hee Hav. and the CMA Awards Show to the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Miss USA Pageant and a Bob Hope USO Christmas Tour and TV Special. Greenwoods concert is scheduled the second day of the May 3 through 5 Western Royale. A parade, rodeo exhibition, barbecue, American Folk Ballet performance and an exposition of Western crafts and culture are additional activities planned in honor of the visiting Soviet and American gymnasts. The three-daevent ends with a gymnastics exhibition May 5. 586-787- 2. self-penn- d y Country music star Lee Greenwood will play at SUSC May 4- Juror Gaell Lindstrom has selected 202 pieces for inclusion in Exhibition 48, the Cedar City Annual Art Exhibit scheduled to run April 6 through 28 at the Braithwaite Fine Arts Gallery on the SUSC campus. The exhibit pieces were chosen from 448 entries. Lindstrom is the guest lecturer for an April 6 reception planned to mark the opening of the multimedia exhibition. The public is invited to attend the reception from 7 to 9 p.m. in the gallery. The exhibit is sponsored by the Cedar City Art Committee, a organization, with partial funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Lindstrom is a native of Utah, holding a bachelors degree in art from the University of Utah and a MFA degree from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He began his teaching career in Cedar City in 1953, teaching first at the high school then in the art department at SUSC. In 1957 he joined the art faculty at Utah State University where he is now a professor emeritus of an. for his paintings in southern Utah, Lindstrom was the purchase award recipient at the recent Dixie Invitational Art Show in St. George for his oil landscape, Hurricane Mesa. He has had over a dozen solo exhibitions in Utah, California and Minnesota, and won numerous awards for his work. Several of his art pieces are included in SUSCs collection and many are found in private collections in this area. non-prof- Well-know- n it |