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Show Layton Arts Council schedules third outdoor concert LAYTON-The Layton 1 Arts Council will present its third Concert Con-cert in the Park on Sunday, June 24 at 7 p.m. in the patio area of the Layton Heritage Museum, 403 N. Wasatch Drive, directly west of Layton High School. The program will start with a production entitled "The Magic Toy Shop," a variety show featuring featur-ing tap, ballet and jazz numbers by students from Larae's Dance Unlimited under the direction of LaRae R. Thackeray. An well-known dance instructor, Thackeray aims to build self-confidence self-confidence and self-esteem through performing opportunities. Some of her students have appeared in Ballet West programs. The second performing group is called "Imago, The Theater Mask Ensemble." This portion of the program is called, "Mask! From Commedia to Bauhaus." 'Mask has been described as a multi-media smorgasbord of mask performance that include Italian Commedia lunacy, German Bauhuas metaphysics, African Mende secrets and Northwest Coast Kwakiutl theater. The project has been made possible possi-ble by grants from the Utah Endowment En-dowment for the Humanities, the Wyoming Council for the Humanities, Humani-ties, Washington Commission for the Humanities, and the Idaho Humanities Hu-manities Council, affiliates of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Hu-manities. The narrator for Mask begins by saying, "All over the world and for many centuries, people have been captivated by masks in public performances per-formances and private ritual. Join us as we take you on a journey into these worlds filled with creatures and characters out -of -t he-or din ary . Leave the land of the probable and enter worlds that are continents and years away; to places where things are not always what they seem." Imago, known for its unusual . work in mimemask theater, has appeared ap-peared on The Disney Channel and on "Good Morning America." Last season the Imago performed throughout the Orient with performances perfor-mances in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore. Creators of Imago, Carol Uselman and Jerry Mouawad, worked with anthropologist, Ailsa Crawford; humanities scholar, Dr. Phyllis L. Thompson; John Cr Chapin; and company members, Beverly Schuster, Bill Robison and Mark Greenfield, to create a world view of mask performance. The presentation combines lecture with live performance of masks from the Italian Commedia Dell' arte; the Kwakiutl Indians of the Northwest Coast of America; the Mende people peo-ple of Sierre Leone, Africa; the architectural theater of the German Bauhaus. The program will also include original pieces from Imago's repertoire. reper-toire. There is no admission charge for this program. Individuals should bring br-ing their own lawn chairs or blankets. |