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Strut, stroll and leap for joy! The
best in jazz and dance is coming to
Augusta. The Augusta Ballet is
proud to announce the stunning
premier of a collaborative produc
tion with the world renowned
Wynton Marsalis Septet.
The Augusta Ballet will be per
forming,Wynton’s Bittersweet Saga
of Sugarcane and Sweetie Pie in
four public performances as well as
four special showings for local school
children at the Imperial Theater in
Augusta March 25-29. Audiences
will be transported back to the styl
ish 1940 s as the Augusta Ballet
joins the Wynton Marsalis Septet
to share the stage in a magical
evening of spirited dancing and sul
try jazz.
The show opens as the curtain
rises on a New Orleans jazz funeral
procession. Marsalis portrays the
stmllingoftmmpeter, eulogizing the
passingoftwoimaginary loverswho
arose from his dreamy composi
tions. Performing music from the
Blue Interlude album, the septet
weaves their soulful music with the
lyrical choreography. Musiciansand
dancers narrate the lovers’ tale of
passion and devotion. Asthe lovers’
supsa%’
B What: Wynton's Bittersweet Saga of
Sugarcane and Sweetie Pie in collaboration
with The Augusta Ballet
B When: March 25 - 29, 1997
B Where: The Imperial Theatre b
desires intertwine, Marsalis grows
jealousoftheir love and empties his
mind of their romantic interludes.
The music dwindles, and the lovers
drift away to an unknown place as
the dancers fade into the wings.
The second act will showcase a
collection of short, contemporary
works by resident choreographer
Peter Powlus and three rising cho
reographers within the company. A
full spectrum of dance styles will be
presented in the modern, jazz and
ballet pieces as well as an unforget
table tap and tuba number featur
ing the dynamic trombonist,
Wycliffe Gordon, and the nimble
footwork of Powlus. Mr. Gordon
serves as the Music Director for the
evening’s performance and has per
formed with Wynton Marsalis on
countless albums and concert tours
as well as artistic collaborations
with the Garth Fagan Dance Com
pany, New York City Ballet and
Its Our Pleasure.
Judith Jamison. This talented art
ist now lives in Augusta and fer
vently supports artistic endeavors
in our community.
Sutton Brown, winner of the
Monticello Foundation Scholarship
for emerging choreographers in
1995, will premiere a modern work
featuring four women. Company
principle dancer Valeri Salnikov,
formerly of the Kirov Ballet in St.
Petersburg, Russia, will create an
abstract work for man, woman and
child inspired by a Salvadore Dali
painting. Troy McKinney, also an
Augusta Ballet principle, will
present a modern piece as well.
The centerpiece of the second act
will be 12 Foot 2 Step, Powlus’
award-winning theatrical jazz piece,
set to music by Raymond Scott.
Marsalis’ Septet promises to de
liver a lively interpretation of this
early jazz work. Originally pre
sented at the Southeastern Regional
art e music e literature o theatre
Ballet Festival in 1995, Powlus’
work was awarded with publica
tion in Regional Dance America’s
National Choreography Planin rec
ognition for artistic excellence and
innovative choreography.
Throughout the production, the
Wynton Marsalis Septet will ac
company each choreographed piece
in addition to performing selections
from such albums asln This House,
Citi Movement, The Majesty of the
Blues, Intimacy Calling, and Tune
In Tomorrow. Musical selections
from Wycliffe Gordon’s and Ron
Westry’s new album, Bone Struc
ture will also befeatured during the
second and third acts.
Thefinal act returnstothe 40s, to
the smoky jazz nights in Le Case
Imperial, a New Orleans nightclub.
Set to the swaying rhythms of When
It’s Sleepy Time Down South, Mama
Leona, and other jazz favorites, the
Company will perform a grand fi
nale of wing/jump, adagio, Latin
and ballroom dances. Closing with
rousing versions of Happy Feet
Blues, the dancers and musicians
will spill into the aisles, ukix:gl:
Jjoyful spin with the audience in thi
once in a lifetime performance.
Paine dramatists
to perform Raisin
A Raisin in the Sun will be per
formed by the Etheridge Arts En
semble on March 24-25 at Paine
College Carter Gymnatorium on
Druid Park Avenue, at 7 p.m.
ARaisin in the Sun by Lorraine
Hansberry is the beautiful, ex-
traordinarily mov
ing dramatization
o f the Younger
family wholivesin
acrowded Chicago
tenement. The
plot evolves
around conflicts
that threaten to
emotionally disin
tegrate this close
knit extended fam
ily when Lena, the
mother, receives a
SIO,OOO check
from her deceased
husband’s life in
surance policy.
‘ The classical appeal of A Raisin
in the Sun remains pertinent.
‘Current concerns for values and
‘morals have created national re
'surgence in popularity of the play.
'Lena Younger struggles with the
‘value system of her family: new
concepts of African-American
beauty and identity class and gen
erational conflicts; the relation
ships of husbands and wives, black
men and women, and the outspo
ken feminism of her daugher.
The play stars Maxine Barnett
as the powerful mother, Lena
Younger; and Nic Starr as her ob
sessively ambitious son, Walter. It
features Joey Hayes as her mili
tant daughter, Beneatha; and
Serena Chipman-James as
Shakespeare like
you’ve never seen it
Directed by Thurmond Whatley,
We Tried ‘The Taming of the
Shrew,” But in the Process We
Came Up With a Much Better Idea
is a fast-paced presentation of
many of Shakespeare’s funniest
scenes, along with some of
Hamlet’s better moments. Per
formances will be held March 14
and 15 at 8 p.m.
In this third mainstage show of
the ACP season, the characters
offer Shakespeare’s advice on ev
erything from acting to romance
to magical recipes (although you
many not want to try this last one
in your home kitchen.)
Each evening will close with a
special presentation of When
Shakespeare’s Women Meet, which
shows what would happen if
Gracewood’s eighth annual art
show to be held on March 23
On Sunday, March 23, Grace
wood State School and Hospital,
in association with the Augusta
Woman’s Club, will present the
facility’s Eighth Annual Multi
media Art Show, Flying High
With Colors! The public is invit
ed to view the display from 1 - 4
p.m. in Gracewood’s Education
Center.
The annual competition, which
will be judged March 18 by a
panel of local artists, features
seven media categories in three
divisions:
- Individual Art by clients.
- “Buddy” Art prepared by in
dividual clients with minimal
assistance by an assigned staff
Walter’s wife Ruth. This talented
cast is completed with Anwaine
Hinton as Travis (Walter and
Ruth'’s son); Levi Rolle as Asagai,
the Nigerian; Jonavan Harris as
George Murchison, the rich col
lege student, George Lee as Mr.
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Cast (L-R) George Lee (Linder), Joey Hayes E
(Beneatha), Serena Chipman-James (Rush),;
Nic Starr (Walter), and Maxine Barnett (Lena). :
Linder, the Clyburn neighborh
representative; George Lillia
Thompkins as the nosy neighbor
Mrs. Johnson, and Eldon Shields
as 8080, Walter’s friend.
The Etheridge Arts Ensemble i
noted for outstanding perfor
mances. Among them are A%
Soldier’s Play, Linvin’ Fat, an
Silent Hero, (co-written by Evelyn
Etheridge and Roy Delamotte).s
Raisin will be directed by Evelyn{
Etheridge and assistant director
Jonavon Harris. The play will al
be%erformed at the Morton Th
ater, Athens, GA, March 23,4 p.m.
Admission is free. School grou
and church groups are reques
to reserve seats in advance by,
ing 821-8205. gt o
Shakespeare’s strongest women
could give advice on men and love
to the young Juliet.
Cast members for this world
premiere evening of
Shakespearean frolic are Collette
Miller, M.J. Hamburg, Cheryl
Ollliff, Steven Luttaul, Don Cur
rier, Sharon Neal, Elizabeth
Fricke, Elizabeth Combier and
Phillipe Combier.
Director Whatley calls We T'ried
‘Taming of the Shrew,’ . . . the
perfect introduction to the “good
parts” of Shakespeare. “We have
tried to pick the funniest, most
memorable parts of Shakespeare’s
plays and deliver them in a way
that focuses on fun rather than a
literature lesson,” he says. :
“buddy.” ;
- Joint Projects completed by a
group of clients with unlimited
staff assistance.
The Multimedia Art Show is a
display of original works by
Gracewood’s client artists.
Gracewood’s art program is de
signed to provide the facility’s
approximately 630 developmen
tally disabled clients with oppor
tunities to use a wide variety of
art mediums and toexercise their
imaginations and creativity. To
prepare for the show, clients re
ceived instruction in the use of
various mediums, and persons
with physical limitations are pro
vided assistive technology devic
es to enable them to participate.
