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Page 9 Spelman Spotlight The - September 1981 55 J Photo by Mitchell Faulkner Dancers for “Colored Girls” present an “alter ego”. Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theater. Devoted T o Dance By L. D. Shipley Exhilarating, exciting, and fan tastic are just some of the words used to describe the Annette Beard Contemporary Dance Company. The dance troupe lectured and performed Thurs day, October 1, 1981, at Sisters Chapel. Led by Bruce awkins, the group illustrated several warm up techniques, and performed a dance to be done in concert the following Friday night. Eight members make up the company, they include; Kim Snow, Marcia James, Michelle Saranne, Chiquita Ross, Gina Ellis, Stanley Dalton, John Young, and Broderick Crawford. Also with the group is the Costume Mistress Sajda Masawwir Ladner. Everyone was extremely per sonable as they talked with the audience after the show. The Company has toured all over the world. They tour ap proximately every three months. Mr. Hawkins stated that, Colored Girls Begin New Season By Nancy Bowman Ntozake Shange’s For ColQred Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf, under the direction of Dr. LindaGreen,will open the season for the Morehouse/ Spelman Players, running October 12-17 at the Fine Arts building. Due to a tremendous turnout of at least 90 people for the audition, Green has double cast the seven principal roles with: Kim Barnum and Vanessa Bardwell as the Lady in Green, Robin Black and Myla Churchill as the Lady in Red, Daphne Goodson and Kaye Celeste Evans as the Lady in Yellow, Nina Lyons and Rhonda Orr as the Lady in Orange, Kelee Wilson as the Lady in Blue, Mignon Philpotts and Lisa Stewart as the Lady in Brown and Denise Thimes and Brenda Breaux as the Lady in Purple. This production quite different from the one familiar to most of us will incorporate music as well as dance into the ac tresses' performances. The dancers, acting as what Green calls an "alter ego”, are: Michelle Bernard, Cheryl Blackburn, Cora Harrison, Cassandra Hides, Celeste Adams, Cheryl McClelland, Valerie Rogers, and Tangie Turner. This variation in the produc tion is Green’s effort to capitalize on what the playwright calls a "coral poem.” In this play Green says she wants to use "all the elements in the Fine Arts”. Prior to joining the Spelman Community as the new Drama Dept, chairperson, Dr. Green acted as assistant professor in speech - theatre and co - or- dinator of the drama program at Lincoln University in Jefferson City, Missouri. Of the students she has en countered, Green says "they have a lot of energy and interest in the new program." This enthusiasm will naturally help make the season successful. Future Morehouse/Spelman Player productions inlcude The Cherry Orchard, What Drove Molly Mad, an original play by new faculty member Lemar Alfoad, a children's theatre production, and closing the season will be a musical presen tation entitled Three Penny Opera. Annual Morehouse-Spelman Homecoming Coronation Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel November 6, 1981 “Dedication is the key.” Most of the dancers work another job to help supplement their income, but they all agree that they love to dance. Ms. Bingham, who has been dancing for 15yearssaid,"I still enjoy it." All of the dancers stressed that a requirement for dancing professionally was a devotion to the art of dancing. Bruce Hawkins is the leader of the dance troupe.