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Show Sunday, April Wright is being featured at the Art Gallery in Provo Cot-jtonjr- through June I . The Cottontree Gallery is located in Cottontree '. Square, 2230 N. University There will be an artist's reception Thursday from from 6 :p.pi' to 8:30 p.m. at the gallery. Wright specializes in recreating scenes of Utah and the northeast coa& of Maryland and Virginia. Hi paiots outdoors and enjoys experimenting with light and its ef--. feet on the landscape. A, faculty member in the Marriott School of Management at 'Brigham Young University, Wright did not paint seriously until 10years ago when his wife Virgin-- : ia signed him up for a workshop under Jackson, Wyo., artist Jim j Wilcox as a Christmas present. Wright continues to study under Wilcox and also under Utah artist Bonnie Posselli. yim taught me how to see and pae what I see," Wright said. showed me the beautiful colors hi' gray groves of leafless trees, and in mud on a lakeshore ' ' "He believes Posselli has shown hfia the "excitement of colors in nature. I have learned how to use glazes and how to paint reflections W light in shadows." right's specialty has been landscapes, but lately he is focusing on smaller, more intimate eatare scenes. W'rf.'I-aintrigued by the beauty of The way TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough has traversed the globe and examined its living creatures, he's a walking, talking personification of the phrase "been there, done that." Yet, instead of becoming jaded or repeating him- self, Attenborough keeps reflecting, and passing on, a sense of wonder. Beginning Monday night, PBS presents episodes Photo courtesy of a painting. be the featured artist at the Cottontree Art Gallery in N. Dale Wright works on little back alleys said. Wright wiil of nature," he Wright's next ambition is to paint figures in the landscape. He also hopes to return to England, where he served a mission for the I JDS N. Dale Wright Provo through June 1. The galsery is located in Cottontree Square, 2230 H. University Parkway. Church, and paint there. Wright's artwork has appeared in the Springville Museum of Art's Utah Salon in 1993 and 1994. His work is also featured in private collections in Washington, Oregon, California, Utah, Michigan, Florida, New Mexico, Germany and Sweden. For more information, call the gallery at 375-405- 2. fiYUh osts ballroom dance cham pionships ships will be at Brigham Young University for the first time ever in conjunction with BYU's Dances-po- rt Championships. oth events will be Friday and Saturday in BYU's Marriott Cen-teTickets are $6 for one day or $10 for both days for students, staff and senior citizens, and $8 for one day or $ 4 for both days for the general public. Friday's performances begin at noon and nSatarday's performances begin at 1 although ticket holders are w&come to come and go through-lothe day. For ticket reservations, contact jMarriott Ticket Office at 378- II. f. fac-'ult- y, 1 9,3-jn.- , ut also be selected at this event. "This event tends to be a highlight of the championships," she said. "All the lifts they do are Cabaret usually audience-pleaser- s. routines are not restricted by any style of dance and involve one couple at a time." Hill also said competitions will range from preteen to amateur Latin and amateur Standard with more than 600 entrants. The United States National Junior Championships are for youth ages preteen through Youth competitors may compete in International Standard Ballroom aret Champions. Style, International Latin American Style and American Style. Age divisions for this competition are preteen (for competitors who have not reached their 13th birthdays), junior (ages 13 to 15) and youth (ages 16 to 18). International Standard Ballroom competitors will compete in the 5$tates Cabaret Champions will dance only the waltz and quick- - Ludiences both nights will be jreated to a showcase by David osjnski and Michelle Evans, cur- World and United States Cab SVdaudia Hill, a BYU ballroom dance instructor, said the United waltz, quickstep and tango, although preteen competitors will Roseanne' baraes t By MIKE DUFFY ' I: Knight-Ridd- Newspapers er ll :'Roseanne" 7 went barging into o'clock family hour on .uchabig deal. 1'The show's in syndication ev- - freight of the week (at 6 or 6:30 p.m.) ail over America, lnejig is up on that," says Ted Harbert, president of ABC Entertainment. "Ixiok at the content of 'Melrose Place,' 'Beverly Hills, 902lO,' 'Mad About You' and 'Friends,' " added Harbert, listing fwtly 7 p.m. shows all ratings ;yijjiers in which sexual situa tions and double entrendre adult bymor often abound. NBC's from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. step. International Latin American competitors will compete in samba, rumba and paso doble, with preteen competitors dancing only the samba and paso doble. American style competitors will dance the foxtrot, cha cha and swing, although preteen competitors will dance only the foxtrot and cha cha. Hill said the American Ballroom Dance Company elected to have the Junior Championships in Provo because of the high level of interest in ballroom dancing among youth in the West. "Several high schools and private dance studios in Utah offer programs in ballroom dancing," she said. "They perform and then others see them and want to do it. Once students try it, they like it and interest continues to increase. ' ' During the Dancesport Championships, BYU will also sponsor the Second Annual Utah High School Ballroom Dance Championships. Each high school competing will select nine couples to compete in American style waltz, cha cha and Will the network offer up a tamer, more tepid Conner clan now that the show has been moved up an hour? No. "'Roseanne' does controversial subject matter, but never for exploitive reasons," Harbert said. "No one is looking to change the show. The audience is used to it. " From lesbian kisses to Dan and Roseanne getting stoned in the bathroom, "Roseanne" has offered a naturalistic, warts-and-a- ll And contemporary channel-surfinreality is this: "Roseanne" reruns in syndication enjoy a huge audience of kids and teens. And the same goes for syndicated repeats of the far cruder, ruder "Married ...With Children." Then there are the steamy day- pants all aspects of theater and will culminate with a production of "Annie Get Your Gun" at the SCERA Shell Outdoor Theatre, June I. Rehearsals will be times per week in held rqhpirroom. May and Monday through Friday in June. audi-tKSu- S -- -- ;he : Auditioners must currently be enrolled in at least the 7th grade :jnd,cannot be graduated from high Vhool. Auditioners must prepare a monologue and sing f4Qrssecond from a Broadway musical . The workshop will teach partici 23-Jul- time soap operas and raunch-ob-sesse- d tabloid talk shows, about which the less said the better. But it's in the 7 p.m. network once the sole province of hour entertaining. "Last year this event proved to d and will be be very one the audience won't want to miss," he said. BYU's Dancesport Championships will also feature BYU students competing in various event divisions. Students will be certifying in bronze, silver and gold classes and may also compete in open competitions for amateurs and novices. Hill said the Dancesport Championships have become so popular ra ii hi fmi i niww iiyitiu.ii, that again. Future show topics include accounts of the secretive habits and the destructive side of the Scandinavian beavers, the clown-lik- e tufted puffin, the raiding and pillaging of armies of ants and a look at the habits of kingfishers. tiv.wmiwmiimmiiimiMimMmtHiiiimwmimnm itml: yi - c-i- "Little House on the Prairie" where the trend toward more d material has been adult-oriente- especially noticable the past few years. Such NBC sitcoms as "Wings" and "Mad About You" may have pushed the trend into overdrive, with their sometimes hormonally hopped-u- p story lines. Audiences voted yes. And the same happened when Fox shifted Place" to 7 p.m. "Melrose Jean Stapleton beats stereotype ee Registration fee for the workshop is $20. For more informa- COSTA MESA, Calif. (AP) Remember Edith? Jean Stapleton doesn't care. With a children's video and an offbeat role in repertory theater, the actress said she isn't afraid of being stereotyped as Archie Bunker's ditsy wife. The role on television's "All in the Family" won her three Emmys. psychic Madame Arcati in uie Noel Coward comedy "Blithe Spirit" in Costa Mesa for a month, starting April 14. "I call it a plum role," Stapleton said in a recent interview. "As soon as we read it aloud, the cast, we were roaring. It's so funny." Stapleton is featured as on six "Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle- " newly released cassettes of a "I reap the advantages all the time in that people cast me in interesting things," she said. She will star as the eccentric Showtime children's series. She will also play Eleanor Roo- rtfciafitWfnhr '('Mr n stasia. Photo courtesy ol Don Seegmilter This painting, "Innocence in Lace," is by professional artist Don Seegmiller. Seegmiller will speak at the meeting of the Art Section of the Women's Council of Provo Thursday at 1 p.m. Artist to speak to art group The Art Section of the Women's Council of Provo w ill feature Don Seegmiller, oil and watercolor artist, at its meeting Thursdav, at I p.m. at 310 W. 500 North in Provo. Seegmiller is a professional arte ist who has been painting for 13 years. He specializes in painting the human figure. His full-tim- paintings are represented in collections from England to Hawaii. Locally, his work can be seen at the Springville Museum of Art in its permanent collection. He shows and sells work in galleries in Santa Fe. Scoltsdale, and San Francisco. He also teaches a weekly painting class. In August he will conduct a week-lon- g oil painting workshop at St. Mary's Art Center in Virginia City. Nev. He will be giving a demonstration on painting the head in oil. On April 20. the Art Section w ill present a workshop with Dr. Dan E. 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Still, his voice, like his enthusiasm, is unmistakable, and even those viewers familiar with Attenborough's previous TV triumphs will find new marvels here, as series producer Keith Scholey and the BBC Natural History Unit provide very closeup looks at various creatures, devoting an entire episode to each. Monday's premiere, "Kingdom of the Crabs," revisits wiMi'nii : ping the ball on its way to the hole. Then "Natural World" outdoes "The Trials of Life" by the following with "crabs House" or family dramas like tauM.4.i mourn) (Mi jaw-droppi- that the location was changed to the Marriott Center last year so all spectators could be guaranteed a good seat. "'MAJOR VXXJill' IS A MAJOR PLEASURE." 4 heard but not seen, but we see a lot more of the crabs, including some footage of the red creatures invading suburbia as part of their incredible clogging railroad journey lines, littering soccer fields, even ruining a golf putt by stop- - high-spirite- like "Full comedies y two-thr- tional style samba, rumba and paso doble. Scores will be given for each dance and the school with the highest cumulative score will win the championship. Lee Wakefield, director of BYU's ballroom dance division, said this event is very g look at family life the past seven years. And through it all, the adventurous sitcom has consistently remained one of TV's best and funniest. Besides which, the whole notion of a pristine, protected "family hour" seems somewhat outdated considering '90s TV reality. The 3rd Annual SCERA Youth Theatre Workshop, directed by Sgjs&than Criman, will hold Friday from 3 p.m. 6 p.m. from 8 a.m. noon in Saturday ,A0d Mountain View High School -- swing; international style waltz, tango and quickstep; and interna- s) In! o TV's 'family hour' SCERA Youth Workshop sets auditions - of nature documentaries from "Wildlife on One" series, adapted and repackaged into a r episodes string of 10 under the new title "David Natural World." KUED will air the show at 7 p.m. Unlike previous Attenborough documentaries seen in this country such as "Life on Earth," "The Living Planet" and "The Trials of Life" Attenborough does not appear as host, but provides half-hou- . 'M$hc United States National Junior Ballroom Dance Champion- skil-lion- of red crabs on the beach. This time, Attenborough is BBC-TV- 's J ic E3 Christmas Island, a little island in the Indian Ocean where, just before Christmas, hundreds of millions of land crabs emerge from die jungles to reach the ocean and spawn. J say "revisits" Christmas Island, because Attenborough and company were there, filming a previous migration, for "The Trials ol Life," at which time the host himself strode among the many (I counted By DAVID BiANCULU New York Daily News Park-;jwy- pan-'otam- - Page TV naturalist returns with powerful program the work of local artist N . Dale ; THE DAILY HERALD, Pruvo, Utah, 2, 1995 Sun matinee at 2:45 5:10 Cad (801) 0 for nrolimnt rtormeoon and a 1995 cauwgje w stop by our acMy UCMT 25 South 300 IM. S UM Ofy UT 4111 lv |