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Show Dances share one qualitv By KIM FOLTZ Chronicle Staff In between classes, after school, after their part time jobs, they come-one by one-alone, to the Kingsbury Hall. They drop their coats and mufflers in an empty seat peel their levis off the aisle and 'struggled out of their tee shirts on the way to the stage. Most of them are girls, some are dancers, some are choreographers, choreograph-ers, all of them are students at the University, who together, equal, Orchesis Choreographers' Concert. Con-cert. Senior and graduate students of modern dance have been working on the student dance concert which will be presented at Kingsbury Hall Dec. 1 and 2 at 8 p.m. Each piece is choreographed by a student. The student also designs the costumes, lighting, music and selects the dancers. The 13 works to be presented vary in most aspects. They range in length from three to eight minutes; the music runs the gamut from Bach to Appalacian to electronic; some of the dances tell a story, some merely represent movement, for movements sake. "Cecandechann," by Margaret Cayton, is a dance composed by means of chance. Some sections have been set and other change with each performance. The choreographer gave her dancers a set of basic movements to work with and the dancers improvise movements from this base. "Relish" is a three minute dance by Senise Sims done in silence except for the sound of the flippers the dancers are wearing. "Mine is a movement piece," said Lyn Newton, choreographer of 'October Mountain.' "It represents dance, nothing concrete, nothing abstract, just a continuous flow of movement. I guess if it represents anything, it's the enjoyment of movement." Anne Kadish got interested in old time music, the folk music of this country, with a lot of fiddle. She began playing for square dances ,- . A v. . J i . i i I I |
