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Show The Pail? Utah Chronicle, Tuesday, December 5, 1978 Page Nine RDTpresentation will spotlight Labanotation A ' Repertory Dance Theatre munber Michele Massoney, pictured here, will present a lecture and demonstration Thursday on oanotation, choreography, a method of recording winter quarter play auditions one-minu- they rehearse. Michele Massoney's presentation will be based on a slide lecture on the history of dance notation and the workings of, Labanotation. It was prepared by Marion Jones as a master's thesis at Arizona State University in 1975. Portions of one of the works obtained by RDT from the Dance Notation Bureau will be performed by the RDT dancers to explain the use of the notated score. RDTs advanced repertory class, local dancers who are learning the repertory of the company, will appear in "Session" by Lar Lubovich to complete the program. RDTs City Stages Events are planned as informal occasions where the audience may ask questions and participate in discussion. The event is free. Auditions for "The Trial" by Franz Kafka will be held Wednesday from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. on PMT's Lees Main Auditions for singers, actors and dancers (University student and Equity members) for the Pioneer Memorial Theatre (PMT) production of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" are scheduled Friday and Saturday. Auditions for singers will be conducted Friday from 2 p.m. until 5 p.m.; actors and singers will audition from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. Singers are instructed to perform a short selection from the musical of their choice. An accompanist will be provided. Dance auditions will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. dance which is until 1 p.m. Dancers may do a highly physical and expressive or take the direction of choreographer Rowland Butler. They should wear tights PMT planning intentions. RDT has obtained pieces from the bureau this year for the first time. Doris Humphrey's "Day on Earth" was performed in November and Lucas Hoving's "Icarus" will be performed in March. The Dance Notation Bureau maintains a library of dance scores which are to a repertory company what musical scores are to an orchestra. Noters from the bureau watch works being performed and record the movements in Labanotation. When a company obtains a score from the bureau, a noter comes to interpret it for the dancers as lecture and demonstration of Labonotation will be presented by the Repertory Dance Theatre (RDT) Thursday at 8:30 p.m. at the Central City Community Center. 615 So. 300 E. RDT member Michele Massoney. assisted by other members of the dance company, will present the lecture and demonstration as the second in a series of four City Stages Events supported by a grant by the Salt Lake Arts Council. The program will continue the series' theme of showing the audience the ways in which RDT adds new works to its repertory. A demonstration by choregrapher Matthew Diamond Thursday examined the process by which a choreographer teaches his work to dancers. Dance notation is a way of recording and analyzing movement to preserve a choreographer's work and pass it on to dancers when he is not available. Labanotation, developed by Rudolph Laban in the 1920s, is just one of several notation systems which have been tried. La ban's system is based on the use of abstract slashes and geometric symbols--do- ts, shapes appearing in vertical columns on the page to represent the complex movements of the dancers. The Dance Notation Bureau of New York favors Labanotation as the most accurate way to record the choreographer's Stage. According to Professor Robert Hyde Wilson, director of the show, "There are good roles for any student with an interest in and a capacity for concentrating on an unusual theatrical experience." "The Trial" will open at Babcock Theatre February 6. It is a Babcock Classic Season production. te Auditions for the Young People's Theatre production of "An Adventure in Oz" will be held Thursday and Friday on Lees Main Stage. Auditioners will be asked to read parts from the script. No preparation is necessary. Young adults, ages 10 through 17, can audition Thursday from 3:30 p.m. until 5:30 p.m. Those age 18 and older will audition Friday from 3:30 p.m. unitl 5:30 p.m. "An Adventure in Oz" will run January 31 through Febrary 3 at PMT. The play will be directed by William S. and leotards. "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" will be directed by Jim O'Connor. The play will run February 22 through March 10. Everyone auditioning must sign up for an audition time outside the theatre office (PMT 205).Scores and scripts are available on loan in the office. Barber. Boob Dynasty by Robert Elegant 'Dynasty' weaves history, humanity, change by MADGE H. FAIRBANKS Tse-Tun- Chronicle staff WTest is West and never the twain shall and East "East meet," wrote Rudyard Kipling. The twain met. East and West collide throughout three generations of the g novel, Dynasty. Kekloong family in the Author Robert Elegant makes a successful attempt to help the Western mind understand through historical fact, the Oriental enigma. The novel uses historical fiction to tell the story of Mary Phillipa Osgood, an English warrant officer's daughter. She arrives in Hong Kong in May 1900. Osgood's meeting with the son of a tycoon, Jonathan Sekloong, a Eurasian, and her marriage to his son Charles vividly depict the rigid British Victorian culture in the alien world'of China. The novel deals with the meteoric rise of the Sekloong family to untold wealth, position and political power among theTaipans, the merchant princes of Hong Kong. Mary Osgood Sekloong's life story covers 70 tumultous and turbulent years of change in China from the court of the last Empress Dowager of the Manchu dynasty to Chiang Kaiis best-sellin- much-propagandiz- ed Shek and Mao The Sekloong family of sons and grandsons, daughters and play out the events granddaughters and of the "awakening dragon" China. The Sekloong family, with its many passions, its heritage of East and West and marriage ties, weaves itself into the cross currents of Chinese nationalism, Marxism and capitalism. History to many people is merely a recitation of dates, institutions and nonpronouncable names. Elegant fleshs out the figures of history with the human characteristics of passion, fanatic devotion to ideals and shrewd power plays. His charactors reach out to people in places far removed from the momentous events taking place in China. Dynasty is a powerful and informative tale of our 20th century, and in particular, the age of technology and its impact on a country of millennial tradition and culture. A family learns from each other by learned and trusted loyalties suffering from sibling rivalries and learning difference. Elegant leaves the reader with a thoughtful curiosity the differences of man and the difference it makes not just a tale of history, but of the human family. g. great-grandchildr- Poets offer workshop , readings Max Golightly, Brigham Young University professor and nationally known poet, will give a poetry workshop Saturday at 11 a.m. in the School of Social Work on the University campus. In 1970, Golightly was honored as Utah Poet of the Year with the publication of his poetry collection titled Morning of Taurus. In June of this year, he won the grand prize given by the National Federation of State Poetry Societies for his poem Heritage. In an address given at the convention, Golightly urged poets to "concentrate on. the writing of poetry which uplifts mankind and ennobles his destiny, and which could indicate to the world that poets are still hopeful harbingers of society." Golightly also said "exchange ot ideas and methodsls the most valuable way we have of learning." At 2:30 p.m., after the poetry workshop, Golightly will give a reading of his original works. The workshop is sponsored by the Utah State Poetry Society. The public is invited to this free event. Caroline Eyring Miner, former Utah g Poet of the Year and author of the book, Lasso the Sunrise, will give a poetry reading of her original work December 13 at 7 p.m. in the Murray Library, 166 East Vine St. Miner taught creative writing for 16 years at Highland High School and for the past five years has sponsored a sonnet contest in conjunction with the Utah prize-winnin- State Poetry Society. -- Hair Styling for Men and Women Creative Styling for Every Length of Hair en $1 OFF d'Ray's Problem Hair a Specialty Permanent Waving - Latest Techniques Curling Iron JO - Blow Waving 346 East 2nd South Suite F Albertson's Shopping Center Salt Lake City, Utah 1. 355-690- 2 355-554- 1 $1 OFF $1 OFF l l l l MR. LUBE will help you get your truck or car ready for the holidays. We feature fast, courteous service, top quality Quaker State and Pennzoil oils and Purolator filters. 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