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Show 1 'Happy Feet' Dance Review Set For Sat. 'Extra, Extra, read all about ab-out it, 'Happy Feet' premiers tonight." These are the shouts that will open a new dance review re-view entitled "Happy Feet" Saturday, April 19, at View-mont View-mont High School Auditorium. Auditor-ium. The performance begins at 7 p.m. and all proceeds will be contributed to the Primary Children's Medical Center. STUDENTS OF "The Dancing Danc-ing Place" have been well rehearsed re-hearsed under the talented and skillful direction of the studio's choreographer, Karen Barnes. Karen takes pride not only in teaching dance skills to her students, but also in teaching the skills of musical theatre. Each student has the opportunity oppor-tunity to learn how to sing with choreographed actions and how to act the part of the char-acter char-acter she is portraying in dance. Karen's teaching has taken her to various dance centers cen-ters throughout the United States, Europe and the Orient. FROM SUCH experiences, she has acquired unique ideas in choreography which are obviously ob-viously present in her review. Understanding the importance of dance expression, her students stu-dents are given the opportunity opportun-ity to perform in a variety of dance forms. Among the various va-rious forms in Saturday's re- view will be tap, jazz, drill, disco, dis-co, modern ballet and gymnastics. gymnas-tics. The popularity of rollers-kating rollers-kating will even take its place in Saturday's performance. Assistant director of the program is Karen's husband, Douglas Barnes, well known local musician and former University Uni-versity of Utah Music Department Depart-ment instructor. HIS ORIGINAL song "Extra, "Ex-tra, Extra" begins the show with a talented group of women: Sandy Bush, Kathy Gee, Judy Kapp, Linda Lid-die, Lid-die, Donna Newman, and Janet Seamons singing and dancing their way on stage posed as newsboys. They are well-known for their musical talent and enthusiasm on stage. As they begin their first chorus of "Everyone's Com-in' Com-in' Up Dancing" the curtains are "accidently" opened too soon by two small mischievous boys. No one on stage is yet ready and all are seen in their final preparations for the review. re-view. ACTION AND excitement is everywhere portrayed by the dancers' hustle and bustle. Some students are tightening ballet shoe ribbons, some reading last minute instructions instruc-tions from their scripts, and some are still combing their hair and putting final touches on their makeup. Several "workmen" are clearing the stage of their work debris, and a couple of "men" do their last minute mopping of the stage. Everything is sychronized to a perfect beat of the music and the total vision vi-sion of activity on stage is exciting. ex-citing. THE ENTIRE program is cleverly narrated by Brent Marshall who recently won top awards for advertising and broadcasting in the Western States. The program begins with a walk down "Memory Lane" and ends in a whirlwind of travel which brings us back to your land and mine America. The finale will stir the audience audi-ence with patriotism and leave everyone with "happy feet" and a good feeling of having experienced an enjoyable evening of musical entertainment. |