| Show r 13th Summer dance prog ram features ballet ethnic dance The 13th annual Summer Dance CINCINNATI BALLET ENSEMBLE affiliated with the program will be held from July 20 University of Cincinnati’s of Music will be featured on the 13th Annual Summer Conservator through Aug 21 Featured this Dance Program to be hefd year will be the Cincinnati Ballet from July 20 through August 21 The ensemble is under the direction of David McLain ’ recentEnsemble under the artistic ly named ballet master direction of David McLain Mr McLain and David Blackburn associate director of the Ensemble will instruct in ballet Folk as will Karina Rieger ballet mistress of the Harkness Ballet of New York City and Stefanie Zimmerman of New York City’s school of Performing Arts Mrs specialist says Zimmerman will also teach historic dance which she first introduced to USU last summer Faculty members in modern dance are Marion Anderson in currently dance at USU Gertrude Shurr director of the O’Donnell-Shur- r School of Modern Dance New York City and Pamela Ladimer soloist with the Norman Walker Dance company will return for his sixth consecutive summer at Utah State to teach ethnic dance The Cincinnati Ballet Enartist-in-residen- semble mmer- touring company of the larger parent Rich cache of folklore surrounds us7 Folklore is not restricted to the family storyteller nor does any group such as the Indian have a closed market on folklore We are surrounded by old and new traditions stories and many other folk items that reflect our old way of life To alert people to the rich cache of folk history they may be ignoring Dr Wayland D Hand director of the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology at UCLA is at Utah State this summer assisting in creating a folklore curriculum In a public lecture July 15 Dr Hand told his audience how to recognize folklore and go about collecting it for posterity organization The Cincinnati Ballet Company is made up of soloists from the company They are affiliated with the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music Dance “There are various areas of department which is the official human concern that are covered school for the company Mr formal history (wars ruling McLain is chairman of the CCM by territorial dynasties legislative Dance Department He was acquisitions enacrecently named Ballet Master for tments)” said the white-hairethe third consecutive year by the folk historian He displayed inChicago National Dance Masters terest in people and has devoted association his life to recording the history of Soloists of the Cincinnati Ballet common people Ensemble are David Blackburn “Unless a person is high born and Jane Wagner or succeeds beyond normal Lecturer-in-residenc- e at USU bounds he is likely to be will be Miss PW Manchester forgotten by history” he said who is visiting Guest Lecturer on “The folklorist thinks of himself y at the Ballet as a person interested in of Music and marginal areas of history and of “Dance Editor Contributing literature” News” New York City Dr Hand tries to gather the The Helen Tamiris Foundation cowboys songs of sailors award for 1970 from the Tamiris Foundation of New York City has made it possible for Miss Manchester to participate in the summer program Program coordinator is Dr Rachael Dunaven Yocom Chairman of the Dance Department of New Work City’s School of Performing Arts Supervisor Two classes in outdoor activity for the Summer Workshop is Gertrude Shurr Class cards may will be taught this summer be picked up at the Theatre Arts through the auspices of the office in the Fine Arts center Conference and Institute Division at Utah State A course in Outdoor Survival and Campcraft will begin today and continue for six days The first three days will be taught on campus and the last three in the Sinks area of Logan canyon The office of Dr EH Himes Nolan K Burnett assistant director Summer quarter has professor of health physical announced that there will be no education and recreation will school held this Friday July 24 a teach the course Tuition is $30 Utah state holiday There will and a $5 laboratory fee will cover also be no class makeup transportation and materials scheduled for the holiday from A course in archery will be cIhss offered July 22 through August 19 FM KUSU— Due to the holiday each Wednesday from 6 to 8 pm The the air Friday on the USU football practice will not be on field Participants must supply university station broadcasts 10 pm their own arrows Fee is $10 The weekdays from 7 am to teacher will be Arthur Mendini at 915 mhz d r College-Conservator- £ We are missing so much by not ferreting this material from people before its too late he said There is nothing sadder and more frustrating than to find out about a recently deceased octogenarian who had spent his life in coal mines and his children can’t remember the songs he used to sing or the stories he told Dr Hand was remembering just such a case in northern California and shaking his head Dr Hand is a specialist in folklore of Western miners He has spent 25 years compiling a dictionary of American popular beliefs and superstitions To date the volume contains one-hamillion entries including ethnic traditions He has been teaching lf Institute Division offers classes in Survivial Archery Clothing Holiday on 24th Utah State University Volume 67 Number 96 July 20 1 970 Four pages miners etc as they once sang them Besides folk music and customs folk balladry narrative folk speech (including proverbs and riddles) folk medicine arts crafts dances and legends are the disappearing treasures the folklorist seeks to get down on paper as such trades Many blacksmith cooper and midwife that carried with them a rich tradition are obsolescent A tradesman jealously guards traits that were unique to his In some cases occupation can be found still practitioners that remember much of the lore associate professor of Health and Education Physical Recreation CLOTHING COURSE A course in comparative clothing construction techniques will be taught during this session of summer quarter July 20 — folklore at UCLA for 33 years While Dr Hand is at Utah State he and Dr Austin E Fife professor of languages and USU folklorist will prepare a program in folklore to start Fall quarter One course will be taught each quarter incorporated in the framework of the English department Simultaneously USU is developing an archive of regional and local history and folklore in the special collections division of the Merrill Library said Dr Fife The public is invited to attend free of charge Dr Hand’s lecture “Folklore in the Study of Cultural History’’ Wednesday An informal reception after the lecture gave interested persons a chance to talk to Dr Hand and ask him questions Guest botanist to speak here The James B Duke Professor of Botany at Duke University Dr William D Billings will be at to parUtah State July in five ticipate groups under the auspices of the College of Science The fourth of five Distinguished Visiting Professors to come to the campus during summer quarter Dr Billings will talk on 20-2- 4 lecture-discussio- n ecology physiological and ecosystems He genecology plans to devote some time to discussions of mountain ecology and the fragile ecology of arctic ecosystems Dr Billings has been on the faculty at Duke University since 1952 His first assignment as an associate professor was the directorship of the Desert Ecology Project under contract and Research with QM US Development Command Army He earned the Certificate of Merit of the Botanical Society of America in 1960 and was a Fulbright Research Scholar to Aug 21 The class offers five university 1959 credits and will be taught from New Zealand in will He speak daily at 3:30 pm 8:40 to 10:50 am daily Virginia 304 of the Forestry-Zoolog- y of Room in Lewis assistant professor inBuilding The lectures clothing and textiles is the be are open to the public The final structor No auditors will week of the series will have Dr allowed to register Porter on campus The course will emphasize Keith Roberts the chairman and is alternative tecniques and in- Dr Porterof Molecular Cellular tricate construction details and professor Biology at will deal with development of and Developmental at Colorado of the University Boulder (Continued on Page 2) |
