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The Red and Black • Thursday, March 1, 1990 • 5
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Festival opens in Athens
By ROBERT WOODRUFF
Contributing Writer
Already known as the Classic
City, Athens is on its way to
owning another title.
The International Festival is
an effort to prove that Athens is
not typical of “small town
Georgia.”
The University boasts of more
than 1,200 students from 100
countries, and foreign officers are
trained at the local U.S. Navy
Supply Corps School. Companies
based in France, Japan, Switzer
land and the United Kingdom
have operations in Athens. Add
these factors together and you
understand the importance of
such a festival.
“It’s our opinion that this fes
tival will go a long way toward
educating the people of Athens
about each other, native and
newcomer alike,” Barbara
Powell, member of the festival
steering committee, said.
‘The truth is that none of us
really know enough about the
world around us, native Athe
nian Joe Toggs said.
“How am I suppose to under
stand someone who grew up half
a world away."
Athens residents aren’t the
only ones who hope to learn from
the festival.
‘It will give me a chance to
learn about other cultures be
sides the United States and my
own country of Sweden, Malin
Gustavson, a University
freshman, said.
“I hope it will also give people a
better understanding of my land,
its culture and give them a better
understanding of me."
The four-day celebration, run
ning Feb. 28 - March 3, has a
wide variety of activities and
looks to have something for ev
eryone.
The festival began last night
with an international wine
tasting. The wine tasting was
held at the Navy Supply Corps
School Officers CIud. Atlanta
wine expert Frank Stone hosted
the tasting which featured wines
from over a dozen countries.
Clarke Central High School
serves as the site for a sampling
of foreign foods and talent to
night. Members of the Athens
Restaurant Association will serve
participants a small taste of sev
eral different world cuisines.
Afterward, international stu
dents of the University will en
tertain the audience with a talent
show filled with pageantry from
their countries. The food sam
pling starts at 6:30 p.m. and a
talent show starts at 7:30 p.m.
Attire and flowers from around
the world will be showcased on
the festival’s third day, Feb. 2 at
Georgia Square Mall. The inter
national students of the Univer
sity will infuse the Athens
community with information
about their countries, manning
display booths from 25 countries,
dressed in native clothing.
The State Botanical Garden of
Georgia will host an open house
from 11 a.m. until noon, as well
as a discussion of plans for a new
International Garden.
Africa’s Cultural Legacy will
be the subject of a panel dis
cussion held at the law school au
ditorium starting at 10 a.m. on
March 3.
The Festival’s climax will be a
show by the Russian folk en
semble Tziganka.
Tziganka’s show will feature
Cossack dancing, Russian,
Ukrainian and Gypsy songs, vir
tuoso balalaika and a “Fight of
the Dwarfs” dance beginning at 8
p.m.
For more information call 546-
1805.
Recent works featured in dance performance
By COLEEN BROOKS
Entertainment Writer
Tickets for the dance concert are
$6 general admission and $4 stu
dents. They are available at Tate
Student Center, the dance depart
ment in the PE Building and at the
Fine Arts Auditorium box office.
For more information call 542-
2838.
Those attending the UGA Con
cert Dance Company’s annual pro
duction are guaranteed a night of
beauty, energy, sensation and fun.
The company will present its an
nual concert at the Fine Arts Audi
torium March 1-3 at 8 p.m. This
year, the program will feature the
work of three members of the
dance faculty as well as pieces by
two visiting artists, Clifford
Shulman and Patricia Dingle.
The annual auditions for the
show are open to all students and
were held by the dance department
in early October.
“Although the majority of the
dancers selected for the production
are dance majors, anyone with the
skill to meet the requirements and
demands of the choreographers is
welcome," said Virginia Carver,
one of the faculty choreographers.
There are a wide variety of
pieces in the program. Jean Mc-
Gregor-Wiles is presenting a cele
bration of feminine energy,
accompanied by a piano composi
tion by a popular Windham Hill
artist, Liz Story. “Instincts and El
ements" is a provocative solo cho
reographed by Catharine Vaucher.
Both are assistant professors on
the dance faculty.
Clifford Shulman choreographed
“Shades of Joy” during his visiting
artist residency fall quarter. The
musical score created for the piece
is a combination of New Age music
and sounds from nature.
Associate professor Virginia
Carver’s work is a formal piece
using three ballet dancers and an
acclaimed cellist on the music fac
ulty, David Starkweather. The
piece is a balletic mood study con
sisting of Baroque dances - a pre
lude, an allemande, a sarabande
and a gigue, set to Bach cello
suites, Carver said.
Carver said “Four By Four” is a
charming, pleasant piece with no
content beyond sensation.
“I’m not trying to do the dances
in an authentic way or as preclas-
sical dances. I’m trying to use the
dances to capture the flavor of the
originals,” Carver said.
Amy Carter, a senior dance edu
cation mtyor, is one of the three fe-
Athens’
International
Festival 1990
Exhibit Day at
Ga. Square Mall
Come see booths and displays
representing 25 countries staffed by
international students in native attire.
Friday, March 2 9:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Free of charge
male dancers in ‘Tour By Four."
‘The dance is very technically
involved, but that’s not the main
focus. We hope the beauty will
overshine the technique,” Carter
said.
Visiting artist Patricia Dingle
was a soloist with the Alvin Ailey
American Dance Theatre for seven
years, but she claims that her work
“He’s Gone Away” has none of the
grandeur and blazing intensity
Ailey is known for.
‘This is not a piece about heroics
or great technical feats. It’s a piece
of choreography that expresses my
attempt to regain the humanity
that I lost somewhere along the
way," Dingle said.
Dingle said she was originally
hired to produce an Ailey piece, but
that the process was complicated
by his death a few months ago. She
said although the work is not an
Ailey piece, it is simple, human
and appealing.
This year’s production is a blend
of simplicity, complexity and many
different moods and emotions. The
combination is sure to be pleasing
to any audience.
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