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.entertainment rv ~ _, DdllUU UUIIipdl A varied display of contemporary, jazz and classical dance numbers will take the stage tomorrow night as the USC Dance Company's annual spring performance Three university dance instructors ? Wrenn Sapp, Anne Richardson and Dance , Company Director Susan Earle ? have choreographed the three segments of the performance. Each will also dance in the show. The performance will not use any scenery. "We're going to do it through lighting proif?rtir?nc " Fnrlp #?vn1nin#*H - SLIDES FOR these special effects have been designed by Susan Gratch, scene designer for most of the theater department's productions. Michael Reese has designed the [ lighting, while his wife, Sandria, has designed the costumes. |Sapp's segment is a contemporary work 11 entitled "Inner City Song." It features five men and five v omen dancers, dressed in red P||| and black, wifn '.ne musical accompaniment lil|lB of Dire Straits'"Communique." Richardson's segment is a jazz number i|H called "Blue Remembrance," set to music by ^||3h|| Claude Boiling and Jean-Pierre Rampal and t*|?? featuring the dancing of Earle. jjjjBSWHB'' Both Sapp and Richardson will dance in n part of the final segment, a 50-minute ballet choreographed by Earle with the help of Col- I THE LONGEST segment of the show, ' Earle's piece is named "Seasons of Life," and is set to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons." The ballet takes the audience from spring through a full year of seasonal change, tracing the metamorphosis of a butterfly from cocoon to death. Mizanne west will portray tne Duttertly, 1 ^Lucia. Biadin Roldan will dance.v as mwi Stephano, the only "real person" in the ballet. Earle said Stephano's attempts to cap- W ture the elusive butterfly should remind the ? \? audience of human beings' propensity for Suzanne \ trying to touch life's beautiful things. (J5C DanCB Spring's qualities of freshness, birth and the use of pas light are revealed in the first section through yellow. Miria Q H 'c 1377 latfAnii hrintf a jtlftiBa HV^WIIU BUT ?? Dizzy Gillespie it By Jeff Rogers Those who saw Dizzy Gillespie's performance at Carolina Coliseum last night deserve to smile. Those who didn't simply missed an extraordinary show. Even people who have never been exposed to jazz enjoyed r.ilWma oc fiA c r* i . ? 1: viuiuopiv, UO 111V U-T-^^ai-UIU native IV.CJJI IliC (tUUlCUtC smiling with his musical expertise on his trademark "bent" trumpet and conga. The concert was the fourth of six stops on a statewide tour, as the internationally acclaimed jazz legend returned home. GILLESPIE'S QUARTET ? pianist Roberto Enreges, bass guitarist Mike Howell and percussionist Bernard Purdie - also played superbly, and Enreges' artful style brought the crowd to its feet on several occasions. >~ r it?? - . % me evening 5 sunacc inenic was a iriouie 10 Uiliespie, out an underlying theme of promoting young people's interest in jazz was apparent. <4I ran cpp nlpntv r?f aIH fr\ltc " tVi<-> omooo col/1 u? ^ tut, jiiuvr i3 aaiu. iiu BRf V ?ISiSfess4 :wr $ rfaSBiEr giflaMuCL ? ^jroWnWai |Bk * ^THHg??^w> ^ Phntn hn [go .tar-kcnl Dizzy Gillespie shows his stuff as he plays his famou: "bent" trumpet last night. ny's show offe hw jm ? ;v . y.\-. -;':.vBHHp|v; ^Wi . . -r.f. . :--^:'^:;v;^:?;::;-;7:x^: . HfeH&vl, < >- ~ 1 . j >ps HHR' B88 111 - y.M:-::Wr?^ m I IBbMUb m w Ml: -WBliwaftMBIIII^^ K.^r; vHBK"*>'&?&< frasjggH ^ ^nHHHffli B8b3m^ \f|p0^7: fflW flgP bs fl 1^ .9 ~"7-v-~r * " ? B ^ k^vv ' IR : ^ i mmm ^BPv : ^^BSH^BBBBHBS^>; . <m?9fl^^^Hj^^^^fl^H^^R<s'iL. ^ t:< 'W^SSs^^^^Mmsr (Vest and Biadin Roldan have leading roles in the ballet segn Company's spring show, opening tomorrow at Drayton Ha tel colors of pink, lavendar and female character, while James m Austell will dance as Spring's portray Spring's male side. s it home lakes 'em smile at then pointed to the empty sections of the Coliseum and said, "This morning there were children over there and up there. ' Maybe someday in the future we'll have (them as) old folks up there and over there." The Kitani Foundation, the non-profit organization that presented the concert, provided a warm and informal at mosphere by inviting local jazz ensembles from A.C. Flora, Brookland-Cayce, Irmo, Keenan, and Orangeburg-Wilkinson high schools to perform between Gillespie's two sets. GILLESPIE LENT a hand to these groups by directing and playing with them. He even took the time to correct one group's rendition of his composition "Mantiqua." Many of the students looked as if they could hardly believe they were playing for the world-famous musician. Gillespie, a native of Cheraw, began his first set by talking about his home-state roots. He joked about author Alex Haley ("Roots"), explaining that Haley was actually adopted, and his roots were tied to a "white rabbi witch doctor whose real name was Kunta Schwartz." The quartet then moved into "Mantiqua," Gillespie's own : classic, "Night in Tunisia." and Don Redmon's "Gee Babv. Ain't I Good0". i THE TRUMPETER began "Gee Baby" with vocal work as smooth as his instrumental solo tha* followed. Enreges played a hard blues solo that drew cheers irom the crowd. On "Night in Tunisia," Gillespie ^ iosed the set with a splendid solo without the backing of the other musicians. His trumpet pointed to the upper seats, the solo painted a picture of listeners' attention to a master musician at work. He invited two musicians from the local jazz group Phoenix on stage for the second set, and their flute and acoustic guitar provided a pleasant addition to the Gillespie composition "Things to Come." Enreges was left alone for the next number, and he played an amazing rendition of Mason Williams' "Classical Gas." I The pianist sat with his back to the audience; with the speed of the tune, it was hard to believe he was actually playing until he reached over and banged out a chord with a fist. He won the n audience over with his energy and the quality of the driving 5 blues tags occasionally introduced in the tune. Spp "ftillPQnif> " nanp Q %/W Mill W^riW| f v irs diversity i Sggllgjl SUMMER, A lime for carefree activity and merriment, will be danced in upbeat style. Summer often includes some painful g&ah' learning experiences for the young, however, according to Earle; at some point, the butfflt-flu ic am q -7f>A frishtfitipd hv the sneprf J | anc* agility of birds that swirl around her. fl wmm As autumn comes, the butterfly takes full advantage of the falling leaves, flittering among them and dancing with the men she meets along the way. The characters of autumn are fruits and vegetables, the products of harvest time, Earle said. | Sapp and Richardson appear in this section as the Queen of Foliage and Autumn With the arrival of Winter, portrayed by ^ Rhea McElroy, the inevitable occurs ? the butterfly nears the end of her life cycle, becoming gaunt, grey and no longer beautiful. THE BALLET ends on an upbeat note, though, as spring arrives again and the cycle \ of life begins anew as another cocoon is The role of Mother Nature, who introduces the changing of seasons throughout I the ballet, will be portrayed by Carol Britton. jfj Earle said her dancers have made an iw. ((nmnrriviA'* norrnnol fr\ /4onpo . . aiucuLiug iv uaus/V| as they have rehearsed for 30 hours per week in what is strictly an extracurricular activity ? USC doesn't offer a dance major. "That's what makes a ballet ? full3pp||' fledged work," Earle said. THE DANCE company has participated in several festivals throughout the state, including Charleston's Spoleto Festival U.S.A. Each year, the company performs two ^ This SDrinE show will run throueh Sundav. ?*11 with performances at 8 p.m. except for a 3 p.m. Sunday matinee. Tickets are $4 for the .general public; $3 for USC faculty/staff, |P!PPS< senior citizens and military personnel; and $2 ^ for students. lent Of the comPany a'so perform excerpts of I. the show during Columbia's Mayfest " celebration Saturday. For more information, Heath will call the theater department box office at ^ 777-2551. w Carolina Coliseum I :*, --1-. 1 " 'WBilf^ >'?r^ K^HI 1 - Pjji^ ^ "' J ^ j n . m ;-1; Hte.?iiww|'|,( & MnMIWiWMHWMMWMB^^MMMMaB.' . Jazz legend Dizzy Gillespie slaps a conga and shares a laugh with the Carolina Coliseum crowd, as he played the fourth date in his homecoming tour. :