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Show Wternative dance company adds three members dance class as a substitute for gym. She enjoyed it so she decided to stay with modern dance. "I've been dancing for four years and I feel I can express more through the art of dancing and I am able to communicate to the audiences through dance," she said. Miss Crone feels the dance company now is concentrating con-centrating on the performance quality of their dances. The newest members were chosen by .Mrs. Ririe and Mrs. Woodbury because of their dancing expertise. In the Ririe-Woodbury dance company there is a wide age spread. Young dancers bring in vitality and new ideas to a dance company whereas the older members have an experience which cannot be lost; an older member keeps the depth which experience gives a dancer," said Mrs. Ririe. Along with Mrs. Woodbury and Mrs. Ririe, Dee Winterton, a professor of modern dance at Brigham Young University, is the only member who has stayed with A a- By NANCY ROBLEZ Chronicle Staff m Dance Company is . e one and only dance any on the University is! f a strong desire to perform choreograph, Mrs Shirley nd Mrs. Joan Woodbury, iSOciate professors with the .'unentof Ballet and Modern , banded together and d the Ririe-Woodbury e Company. Officially shed in 1964, the modern , e company operates at the -rsity- ln addition t0 re8ular bers loan Woodbury, Shirley ie Dee Winterton and Phyllis .jsk'ell, three new members have lned the company. . i0na Sheya has been with the company for approximately two months. "I find the other members good to work with and ,he rehearsals are very interesting," in-teresting," said Miss Sheya. She has been dancing for ten years and is waiting to finish school Wore she makes any definite plans about the future. A member of "Orchesis," an honorary dance nrpanization at the University, the company since its origin. Working on funds earned from recent tours across the United States, the Ririe-Woodbury jCompany will travel to California October 22 again performing concerts and teaching master classes. The company also received . another grant, for $1,200, from the Utah State Institute of Fine Arts and the National Endowment on the Arts, to give lecture-demonstration lecture-demonstration programs in Utah elementary schools this year. Included in the program will be the premiere of the movie "Wash." Mrs. Woodbury explains " 'Wash' features all the members of the company dancing to an electronic musical score written by Nyle Steiner with movements and coloring to create an abstract, ab-stract, dramatic, and a motiona effect. This year the company will concentrate their performances out of the state. Miss Sheya has performed in many of the University dance concerts. Clark Stookey, another new member, plans to major in physical therapy. Mr. Stookey took up modern dance three years ago because the modern dance department works closely with his study of physical therapy. Melanie Crone found her way to the dancing world by taking a |