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Show This Weekend At PMT Dance '68 To Premiere Things7 By MARK VVOODWORTH Chronicle Entertainment Writer Dance '68, spring concert by Or-chesis Or-chesis and the Department of Modern Mod-ern Dance, will be presented Friday Fri-day and Saturday in Pioneer Memorial Me-morial Theatre. Tickets for the two evening performances (at 8 p.m.) and the Saturday matinee are now available at the Pioneer Box Office, from modern dance students and members of Orchesis. Dance '68 features several premieres pre-mieres by Connie Jo M. Hepworth and Juan Valenzuela, instructors in the modern dance department, as well as several repeats from earlier seasons. Mrs. Hepworth has choreographed choreo-graphed the comic "Things (2)" and the exploratory "Cirque," with large roll-about wheels. Mr. Valenzuela Valen-zuela has devised a sort of dance history, called "Shapes of Dance," and will repeat his "Sinner Man," to the Les Baxter folk ballad. Student Works Two student works from the fall season are Christine Jeppson's "Flower Child" and Tim Wengerd's "Poles." Both use some stage properties prop-erties or sets and are danced to electronic music. Featured work will be Doris Humphrey's dance to silence, "Wa- ter Study," which was reconstructed reconstruct-ed by Lucy Venable of New York City, through dance notation. In Doris Humphrey's book "The Art of Making Dances" the choreographer choreogra-pher writes of this piece, "This was composed for 14 girls whose bodies rose and fell, rushed and leaped like various aspects of water, the only sound being the faint thudding of feet in running movements, reminiscent rem-iniscent of surf. This was so striking strik-ing that the Shuberts themselves those canny showmen put it intact into a revue called 'Americana,' 'Ameri-cana,' where it was staged complete com-plete with blue cellophane floors, walls and front drop." Denishawn Apostates Miss Humphrey, a founder of what was somewhat inaccurately termed "modern" dance, broke off from the famous Denishawn Company, Com-pany, with which she had performed Oriental dances for more than ten years, and formed her own company com-pany with Charles Weidman, also a Denishawn apostate. Humphrey retired in 1945, and became artistic artis-tic director of the Jose Limon company; com-pany; in 1955 she founded the Juil-liard Juil-liard Dance Theatre and there taught dance technique and choreography. choreo-graphy. She was extremely musical and of a keenly analytical mind; much of her work was in creating new words of movement in the dance vocabulary, vocabu-lary, to make the dancer a more eloquent medium of expression. Since her death in 1958, several of her works have been revivedl through memory or dance notation, and presented in major concerts as well as on educational television. The University modern dancers are honored to be able to perform one of her first major works. , , , , If ' n II - j ni ; . . " : - , " . .x"; V " V - -;, . i Ruth Post, Diane Ridges and Christine Jeppson roll about large wheels in the premiere of the exploratory dance "Cirque" by Connie Jo M. Hepworth. Also premiering will be the comic "Thing (2)" and "Shapes of Dance." |