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Show IJl41 I THE ARTS THE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL• SOUTHERN UTAH UNIVERSITY • W£DNESDAY, NOV£MBER 191 1997 AND ENTERTAINMENT I Dancers to perform at student showcase It's concert time for modern dancers at SUU. "Dance Showcase," an all-student Mainstage II production, has four more performances this week. A total of more than 40 students will perform in a variety of dance numbers at the Randall L. Jones Theatre. There were three performances last week, but dates will continue tonight through Saturday. Curtain time for the performances will be ...---- -- -7:30 p.m. Admission is $6 for the general public, and $2 for SUU students. . D, D S "Each of the numbers is student choreographed. The 15 dances on the program were selected from a total of 25 submitted by students for possible inclusion," said Shelly Belka,· represenative for Orchesis, a student dance organization which is providing the major portion of the concert. "The 90minute program will include one ballet number plus modern, jazz, and hip hopthat's the fun stuff." The 15 da nces are choreographed by 13 students. Stephanie Johnson, a senior dance m ajor from West Jordan, has two dacnes in the program : " You Mother," a comedy performed to a monologue and almos t no music, and "Jack and Jill in Wonderland." "The program has been in rehearsal for about 30 hours for each of the last six weeks," Belka said. "It should be a fun, fu n show. There are some individual and - - - - - - - - , paris num bers Q included with larger group dances." Carrie OW' Ch ristofferson, a freshman from Las Vegas, Nev., attended one of the performances 1ast l{ week. She said, "It was so awesome. I thought that it might be good, but I had no idea that it would be that cool." All aspects of SUU's Mainstage II productions arc managed by students. Becca Hollis, Las Vegas, Nev., is the program director, and Ama nda Hughes, Vernal, is stage manager. Orchesis faculty advisers are Kay Andersen and Shauna Mendini. 'It"should be fu fu h says Orchesis Rep. Shelly Bel''..,.a. Sarni Knowles, Cedar City, Stephanie John son, W est Jordan, and Tiffany A nderson, Ephriam, all dance ma;ors, perform "Fly " choreographed by Shauna Mendini, Orch esis adviser .. ' Former poet laureate sets reading at SUU FOOD & DRUG STORES • Buy a $10 30 minute Phone Card and receive a $10 30 minute phone card HALF PRICE! 07329 . 633 So. Main • 586-1203 " Praise," "Human Wishes," and Robert Hass, who just this year "Sun Under Wood." He has also completed an appointment as written a book of essays on poetry, United States poet laureate, will "Twentieth Century Pleasures," and make a poetry reading presentation · co-translated many of the works of at SUU Friday. Nobel Prize-winning Polish Poet The reading, which is being coCzeslaw Milosz. sponsored by the university's Hass gained language and national literature prominence when department and the his first book, SUU Convocation " Field Guide, 11 won Series, will begin at the Yale Younger 4 p.m. in the Poets competition Humanities Room in 1973. Since (Room 202) of the then, his many Braithwaite Liberal recognitions and Arts Center on awards have campus. It is free, included the and the public is National Book welcome to attend. Critics Circle Hass, who was Award and the born and raised in MacArthur. the San Francisco "genius" area of California, Fellowship. spent his two years After earning an as poet laureate undergraduate degree at St. Mary's fighting what he sees as a growing College in Moraga, Calif., he was American illiteracy. awarded a doctorate in English at He has traveled extensively Stanford University. promoting with a wide variety of He has taught at SUNY Buffalo, audiences the concept that " imagination makes communities." St. Mary's, and University of California Berkeley, where he has Hass has published several books been a professor of English since of prose and poetry. His books of 1989. poetry include "Field Guide," |