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Show Page B6 Thursday, October 21, 1982 The Newspaper WISH' 0 Laser show combines art and technology by Nan Chalat Remember those light shows at the school dances in the Sixties? The state of the art then was salad oil mixed with globs of food coloring projected through the school assembly opaque projector. Someone jiggled the mixture to the music and it was really far out. Well, the state of the art has come a long way from food coloring and The Four Tops to lasers and the Electric Light Orchestra. And the effects are dazzling. Last weekend the Hansen Planetarium premiered one of the most technologically-advanced technologically-advanced laser shows ever produced and according to the planetarium's director Mark Littman, even the staff was "agog at the breakthroughs." break-throughs." Of the show's creators, a young company called Audio Visual Imag-ineering, Imag-ineering, Lipman said, "They are truly artists." Audio Visual Imagineering (AVI) has brought two shows to Salt Lake, Lasertoons and Laserdrive, which are scheduled to run at the Planetarium through Jan- . i s V . . ...KfcvK0- - i v. liliHIIMMmiMM-llllBIHKIIIIiriMiriWi Gwen is well qualified for this job and would like to work for you. She is a native of Summit County, knows the people and will work hard for their interests. 8 ..o- ir f r The Utah Virtuosi uary (excluding Dec. 24-26). Lasertoons is a soft rock, family-oriented show featuring featur-ing AVI's special brand of laser animation set to the music of the Beatles, Pablo Cruise, Christopher Cross and others. Laserdrive, on the other hand, with music by Pink Floyd, Rush and Alan" Parsons is a guaranteed case of visual vertigo. Both shows transform the planetarium dome into a swirling, pulsating pulsat-ing galaxy of light fantastic with a sound system to match. Lasers, like electricity, can be technically explained. But at the heart of it they are magic. The visual images in Lasertoons are produced by a 2,000 milliwatt Krypton-Argon Krypton-Argon laser projector which splits an intense thin beam of white light into four bright primary beams of color. Then the beams are directed toward the optical scanners (a series of motor driven mirrors, prisms and filters) which have been programmed pro-grammed by the laser artists. art-ists. When the beams are moved quickly across the field they leave the afterimage after-image out of which the cartoon figures are created. It is similar to trying to write your name with a Fourth of July sparkler except that with the use of computers the images can turn around, multiply, metamorphisize and change colors. ' Lasers, in fact, are a little like the broom in the sorcerer's apprentice. Unless Un-less they are controlled by their masters they threaten to burst apart with the power of a sudden thunderstorm. But AVI has them under control whether dancing to the Flight of the Bumblebee by Rimsky-Korsakov, cavorting ca-vorting across the dome in abstractions of geometry or observing us earthlings staring star-ing open-mouthed below. Lasertoons shows at 7 p.m. Friday and Saturdays and at 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Sun-days. Laserdrive is shown at 9:15 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday, at 10:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and at 8 p.m. Sundays. Tickets are $4 for adults and $2 for children under 12 or for senior citizens. DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOE SUMMIT COUNTY TREASURER Chamber music series opens at Egyptian Tswiisi TTestt iX-THOLIDAY VILLAGE MALL, PARK CITY, UT 649-6541 i:-f $1 00 Wed- Family Fun Day $1.00 ' ALL EVENING LONG J m ft" A world where man has f m d a y never been before. IV N 1:15.3:15, ' IPG 1982 Walt Disney Productions 5:15,7:15,9:15 TT i n il i i n u n m 11 i lii! IS! DAILY 1 1 MB . IB vH15 SOLDIER itHl rf .HE S OUR GOVERNMENT S MOSTir ! 1.1 GUARDED SECRET. LUVfc. UCO I IIMY. lJli m STARTS FRIDAY """"ST Daily: m! fl 5:30,9:15 Sat. Sun.: 1:45, 5:30, 9:15 uconce ii.riwi.tJ. Daj, LAURENCE OLIVIER 7:25 JACQUELINE BISSEI sat.-sun.: BEN GAZZARA 3:35-7:25 SWORD at SORCCRER A hieKi Anb nf ptaoto rnmAU venae and maoiC. Dailv: 5:30. 7:30. 9:30 S' and a warrior Sat.-Sun.: V "XV P Cauaht between. 1 :30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 B JfSI f Jy On Thursday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., the Egyptian Theatre, in cooperation with KPCW and the Park City Library, will kick off its chamber music series with the debut of the Utah Virtuosi. This professional 20-piece chamber orchestra is conducted con-ducted by Utah Symphony violinist Kory Katseanes. The group features musicians from the Utah Symphony, Pioneer Memorial Theatre, local recording studios and music faculties from both the University of Utah and Brigham Young University. The Utah Virtuosi perform music from all periods with an emphasis on the classical symphonies of Mozart and Haydn. The Oct. 28 performance perfor-mance will offer the music of Haydn, Handel, Respighi and Schubert, which covers a time period from 1520 to 1920. Tickets for the Utah Virtuosi Vir-tuosi are $8 purchased before the day of the performance per-formance or $10 at tne aoor. Tickets for the entire chamber cham-ber music season, which includes in-cludes this performance and programs from the Salt Lake Chamber Ensemble, Soun ding Brass and The Las' Vegas Brass Quintet, are now on sale at both the Park City Library and the Egyptian Egyp-tian Theatre. Series tickets are $27 for general admission ad-mission or $22 for members of any of the sponsoring organizations: KPCW, The Park City Library or the Egyptian Theatre. Series subscribers will receive free admission to a special two-person performance perfor-mance of chamber music in the late spring. For further information on the chamber music series call either 649-9371 649-9371 or 649-8118. Slightly twisted evening with Dance Theater rn- r-g fap( rf f, 1 1 f by Nan Chalat It was a small but enthusiastic en-thusiastic audience at the Egyptian Theatre which heartily applauded the Dance Dan-ce Theater Coalition's "Slightly Twisted Evening of Misplaced Love" Saturday evening. The five-member cast gently explored the ups downs and vagaries of love. Although the subject had a potential for melodrama, the Dance Theater Coalition skillfully avoided it. The troupe gave every indication in-dication of having gathered together for a casual evening of friendly gossip about relationships. But the individual in-dividual performances showed far more than a casual interpretation of the material. The poetry, both original and by well-known authors, was subtly choreographed and flawlessly rendered. The program was mostly a series of monologues, each player obviously intimately s in tune with his material. Dance and movement played a secondary role to the poetry. The balance between bet-ween new-found love, heartbreak hear-tbreak and ironic nostalgia was well maintained but the transitions were awkwardly abrupt. The pieces however were so powerfully performed perfor-med that the awkwardness each time was quickly overcome. over-come. A "Slightly Twisted Evening" captured the many facets of love, eliciting knowing groans, guffaws and sighs. The material, selected by the dancers, was compelling without becoming uncomfortably personal. In the end theater goers did not feel chastised for their indulgences but rather felt that thev were not alone in feeling slightly misplaced. '- " a The v Dance ; ,,-Theater Coalition used 1 only two props and only one costume change. The audience was given no program and most had little idea what to expect. ex-pect. In these instances the troupe was perhaps too casual. A program crediting the poets would have been helpful and more dancerly costumes would have been less distracting than the uniform beige shirt and black slacks. But perhaps they felt costumes would have detracted from the sens of spontaneity. The Egyptian Theater should be credited for bringing such a fine production produc-tion to town. It was not a show that could have been expected to make a profit. But surely those who attended, atten-ded, did. 1 Dave Zatz Zatz knows trivial folks You might say Dave Zatz played "Guys and Dolls" this week, as he scored another win in our Trivia department. He knew his Guys all right for instance, that Guy Williams was TV's Zorro. Another entrant said Guy Madison, but that was the fellow who played Wild Bill Hickock. Close, but no free Deli sandwich ! Zatz also knew that Charlie Chaplin played an Adolf Hitler type in "The Great Dictator" and that IAE's first production of the season is the musicaluPippin." 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