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Show Dancers in readieness for upcoming festival ballroom or down the length of a long corridor. "The entertainment enter-tainment value of these dances would bt very lacking lack-ing for today's audiences," she .said, Mrs. Farr has achieved variety var-iety i,n all of her dances, but feels that she has maintained the integrity of the period. She will use one dance, the Bran-lea, Bran-lea, just as it was danced in Shakespeare's day. She received receiv-ed her Instruction in recreating recreat-ing the steps from a study of I; ris r Jl) -Tut 1 9 ml n lit . 'vv 77 1 a i i S i ' Wl 1 Pre-play activity at the Utah Shakespearean F e s t i-vnl i-vnl has become a prime attraction at-traction for audiences attending attend-ing the annual summer event on the Southern Utah State College campus. Beginning at 7:30 each evening ev-ening dancers, singers, musicians, mu-sicians, and puppeteers begin a round of entertainment for playgoers entering the Festival Fest-ival grounds. Refreshment vendors roam the area crying their wares. Most of the entertainers are local students, housewives, and business people who donate do-nate their time and talents lor the benefit of the yearly cultural event. Among those responsible for the training of these volunteer volun-teer entertainers is Kara Lynn Farr, wife of Bill Farr, Paro-wan Paro-wan High School basket baU coach. Mrs. Farr is a profess ional dance instructor whe has taken over Festival dance responsibilities for the pasf four years. She is currently . training her troupe for performances per-formances before nightly productions pro-ductions of "Taming of the Shrew" "King Henry IV, Part I" and "The Tempest," begin-ing begin-ing on July 15. Mrs. Farr has found this year's assignment especially especial-ly challenging hecaiise of the character of the dances she is creating. Sh", with the Festival directors, made a derision de-rision to key each d.inop to the production of the evening. Therefore, she has hern faced with the task of creating three separate dance forms. She said that her most difficult dif-ficult assignment has been in devising dances for "King IV, Part I." She explained that the court dances typical of that era consisted of just one or two steps repeated over ani ovtf, ti'-hor in a large Arbeau Thinot's writings. Thinot is considered by many to be ona of the greatest of the Elizabethan dance authorities. author-ities. The dances for "The Tempest" Temp-est" will be in the lively Elizabethan Eliz-abethan style of the street oeople who originally danced them. Dancers for the "Tarn-'.ng "Tarn-'.ng of the Shrew" create a carnival atmosphere and will perform in interaction with actors. In addition to this vork with play production, Mrs. Farr is working with 'hree Festival actors in her lance troupe, Bob Miller, New 'ork City; Tim Duncanson, Ogden, and Bob Metcalf, Minneapolis, Mi-nneapolis, Mich. Another young man. Lynn Bills, Cedar City, assists in 'he couples dances. Three of he six young women perform-ng perform-ng in the dance ensemble are etcrans of two or more years vith the Festival, Debbie Do-Mille, Do-Mille, Rayma Anker, and lathy Chidester, all from Ce-lar Ce-lar City. Another Cedar City irl, Karla Millctt, and two ''arowan dancers, Marilyn lenson and Deanna Adams, -ound out the troup?. All have tudied dancing with Mrs. 'arr. Miss DoMillc and Miss inker are serving as assist-ints assist-ints in her dance studios in dar City and Parowan. Mrs. Farr's background in ballet, modern jazz, and tap lancing has provided n vith a versatile approach to technique. Mrs Farr has ytudied under Ronald Reggcr and Dorothy Vose of the Al Gilbert Studio in Holloywood, Calif., and , Mattlyn Gavers of the University Univer-sity of Utah. Another of her teachers was Grace MacDon-ald, MacDon-ald, operator of the largest ' dance studio in British Columbia. UTAH SHAKESPEAREAN DANCE GROUP, Pre-play activity is an important im-portant factor in audience entertainment entertain-ment at the Shakespearean Festival. These young ladies form a dancing troupe that performs nightly at the festival. They are, rear, left to right, Debbie DeMille, Karla Millett, Rayma Anker and Cathy Chidester. Front, Marilyn Benson, and Deanna Adams. |