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Show The Salt Lake Tribune BA ___BJACK GOODMAN,D-2 RIS __ BOOKREVIEWS,D-5 D SUNDAY BARTS LISTINGS, D-8, 10,11 MAY23, 1999 She’s Following | in the Stepsof Ririe-Woodbury a for ae Ethical |eatmentof... ) . ancer EmmyThomsonreturns to tah as the company’s heir apparent BY HELEN FORSBERG THE SALT LAKE TRIRUNE She is a girl with the samekind ofspirit Shirley and I have,” said Joan Woodbury. She was talking “Christian Biker,” by Jim Frankoski Celebrity” to “Civility,” “Business as Usual” and “Politics and the High Road.” On June 26, the photographers themselves will present a talk, “This Is Our View.” And on Tuesdays be: fore the talks, KRCL radio has agreed to play host to Schaefer and a guest previewing the talks for a half-hour. The photographers made most of theartistic decisions on the daunting task ofexploring the meaning ofeth ics. They had to work quickly, and one of the few requirements wasCollier's idea of presenting the images as a diptych two matching or juxtaposed part with an inherent ten: sion orconflict “We trusted the artists and asked themto help us understand this is sue,” says Collier. “If you believe art ists are visionaries; if you believe artists are barometers; if you believe ;; artists are the truest and the most genuine and the most authenticof peoplethat live in a community, then you should engage these people to “MonkeyDreams,” by Valarie Dow. ethic : thediscipline dealing with what is good and bad andwith moral duty andobligation; 2. a set of moral principles or values; a theoryor system of moral values; the principles of con duct governing an individual or a group; a guiding philosophy. — Webster's Dictionary BY JOHN HEILPRIN THE SALT -AKE TRIBUNE Outsidethe Salt Lake Art Center is a bit of unusuallypolite and carefully lettered graffiti “ETHICS please.” The wordsare a playful turn by the Art Center, yet their underlying message is more than a tongue-in cheek request Mindful of the Olympics bribery scandal and other recent Utah trou bles, a grotipofartists is turning ad versityinto opportunity using it to provoke communal self-examination. Their unique photographic exhibit sets the stage for a series of public examining. The rescue has to come help solve and identify someof the problems.” Dow's “Monkey Dreams,” for ex. discussions in June on a varietyof ethical issues. “The Salt Lake City Ethics Project: A Photographic Investigation of Eth ics” opened this weekend in the Art Center's main gallery and runs through July4 The show offers a powerful and fromthe community, since the whole question of ethics is a community issue. ample, is a response to the recent Theproject was conceived and di rected by John Schaefer, a photogra: pherwho is the Art Center's educa caped through an improperly pad: by six area painters and sculptors, but then de surprising collectionoforiginal work photographers: Valarie Dow, Teresa Flowers, Jim Frankoski, Chad Johnson, Craig Law and Fred Wright. They were commissioned two months ago from among dozens of potential candidates tion curator and headofthe Chil. dren’s Media Workshop. He and Collier at first considered enlisting cided on photographers because, as Collier puts it, it could give “an im mediacyto the public's getting to an Ist Ajong with the photography ex hibits wil) be a series offree talks Thehope is to challenge publie assumptions byraising questions about starting on June 2 to encourage a they’re providing us with exposureto public discussion of ethics with invited local speakers. The Wednesday talks will be moderated by Schaefer andalsowill include commentary by how we conduct ourdaily lives not to offer easy solutions “They're not providing answers, what they think are someethical is: sues,” says Ric Collier, the Art Cen ter’s director and curator for the ex hibit. “They're proposing and professors from the University of Utah andUtahValleyState College. Subjects range from “Kidsin Cri sis” and “Role Models Athle' killing of two chimpanzees(Chip and Happy) at Hogle Zoo after they es: locked door and attacked two zoo workers. Dow uses warm tones, shad. owsandreflections to create haunting images that raise fundamental ques. tions about the meaning of refuge and why we have zoos Shecontrasts stark portraits of animals in their cages with ephemeral images evoking the animals’ dreams or memoriesofalife free of captivity One photograph shows a hippopota mus withits back fading into the cell's blacknessandits mouth wide openin a depressingly vulnerable and depen dent pose. Her unifying theme is “forgiveness and restoration,” words borrowed from Utah author and naturalist Terry Tempest Williams See ETHICS. Paye D4 about Emmy Thomson, the dancer, teacher andchoreographer whom Woodbury and Shirley Ririe have deemed their heir apparent Thomson becomes associate artistic directorofthe Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company when she returns to. Utahat the end of July. S$ strange Beeh punk, she says. she came here from Minnesota via her Volkswa gen, wanting to climb in the mountains. Th. omson loved it here and decided she had to find a reason to stay She enrolled at Utah State Uni versity Jan Abbott/Sun Newspapers After learning of the University Emmy Thomsonis following in of Utah's ac footsteps of her mentors at the claimed modern. Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. dance depart ment, she changed schools. Ririe and Woodbury were twoofherprofessors “I remembersitting at their feet during composi tion classes, listening to them talk and having a strong feeling that what they were saying had every thing to do with life, with my life, how I believed, said Thomson. In 1981, while a junior at the U., she became a member of the Ririe- Woodbury company. Shestayed with it for five years. “My life was forever changed dancing with them,” said Thomsonby telephone from Minneapolis. After leaving Ririe-Woodbury, she headedfor New York. She taught, met her husband, dancer Morris Johnson, and gavebirth to twoof their three sons (who are now 7, 10 and12). Then it was back to Min: nesota, where she headed the dance department at Apple Valley High Schoolforfouryears. She also was head of the dance programat Macalester College, St Paul, beforereturning tothe AppleValley school in 1997 Both times, Emmy came in and just energized the program,” said Nancy Grimes,formervice principal at Apple Valley High School. “I can’t speak highly enough of her skills. The level of professionalism she See THOMSON. Page D-4 The Royal Copenhagen 1999 Children’s Christmas Plate mae Company ete Buy The First Day of Issue Edition | a ee) season tickets now, and neverhear the words sold out "again! 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