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Show Page 30—THE HERALD. Provo "'tah, Thursday, January 24, 1980 Lively Arts The newest trends in music, drama, films and leisure fun aK Chazy Company Comesto Provo the week-end concerts, and some of By CHARLENE WINTERS Lively Arts Editor Les Ditson and Maureen Wiley do many things. They repair roofs. They probably wouldn't have started the company,’ said Miss Wiley, who added the primary problem is money. “Still we can do everything we can imagine in terms of art,” said Ditson, “T am really committed te making my own dances, and having our own company Bree that’kiné of freedom,” added Miss Wiley. In the four years they have been working in the company, they have “. forzen”’ on the road in a truck that lost its heating. They.have made arrangements with sponsors for a performance,and arrived to find they have no accommodations for eating or sleeping They have become expert roofers after repairing leaks in their studio ceiling They have not been able to pay their dancers a full-time wage, so dancers have found part-time jobs, and they have juggled schedules so the company could tour. They teach and reteach their repertorie of dances as dancers join and leave the company. Miss Wiley’s music will be featured Though they do not classify their work as abstract, neither do theytell a story. Theybelieve it is enjoyable to watch dance for the sake of movement. We believe in excitement of movement: a motion,and let it speak for itself,” plained Miss Wiley. The Chazy performers shared a residency at BYU last semesterat the invitation of modern dance director Dee Winterton. Dee once lived in Ditson’sloft for six weeks six years ago while Ditson toured. Though they had never met, they had mutual friends who recommended they work together. Theydidit last semester, and the effort was successful fix truck heaters. They compose music lay musical instruments. They act. They design costumesand lighting Theyjuggle schedules and teach. They sleep in strange beds and eat strange oe ‘easiest’ thing they do is dance. They founded the Great Chazy Dance Company, and will be featured performers Thursday Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.in the de Jong Concert Hall at BYU in the annual Dance in Concert. Ditson and Wiley are modern dancers whose dance company is stationed in Philadelphia. Ditson is artistic director and has training as a painter, designers, kinesiologist and dancer. He toured internationally with the MurrayLouis and Alwin Nikolais companies after earning both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from UCLA. “T found the BYU dance program exciting,” said Ditson. ‘ students have intenseenergy, commitment and good spirit Also featured in the concert will be costumes designed by Ditson. In one number, ‘Sojourn,’ Ditson and Wiley hbawl costumes with fingers dozens of inches long. Other costumes make their limbslook disjointed from their bodies. They are visual evidence of the Great Chazy Dance Company's originality. e compsny was founded four years ago. “Tf I knew then what I know now,I Wiley is the choreographer who originally trained as a concert pianist. She also acted and danced hercollege degrees are in music and dance (bachelor’s from Crane School of Music and master’s degree from Temple University). Wiley studied under Ditson and in his words, ‘‘couldn’t do without her.” Many oftheir numbers will be seen in Still they love the art. 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