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From Staff Reports
South Carolina's got itself a brand new dance company
the South Carolina Ballet Theatre.
The touring ballerinas will make their first Columbia
pearance tonight, tomorrow and Sunday at 8 p.m. at
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Founded by Columbians Stan and Anita Ashley, the So
Carolina Ballet Theatre was ehartered in December of 1(
with the expressed goal of eventually establishing a prol
sional ballet company in South Carolina.
ALTHOUGH BASED on the classical tradition, the cc
pany seeks to pursue new ideas and avenues with the build
of a repertoire that is unique, varied and exciting, said Pe
Garrick, artistic advisor to the company.
A repertoire that will, to quote Gwenneth Lloyd who foui
cd Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, show that dance is "i
only champagne and pate for the elite, but also beer and si
ties for the people."
The program will open with "Concerto in D Minoi
choreographed by Ashley to Vivaldi's composition of I
same name. Classical in scope with no story line, the influer
of George Balanchine is prevalent in the intricate corps
ballet work and detailed partnering.
Next on the program will be the World Premiere of "M;
aues." The result of a vear-lone collaboration between Ashl
and reknowned pianist Pawel Checinski to the music of t
Polish composer Szymanowski, this dramatic, emotic
charged ballet is broken into three unrelated sections.
"SCHEREZADE" IS an abstract ballet danced by tv
women and one man that explores the elements of love, fat
power and inevitable death. "The Tester Tantris" is a sean
for man's identity as an individual and as a member of h
society. "Don Juan's Serenade" is an insightful solo that pn
bes the mind of the world's most famous lover.
This last movement is being choreographed by Andre
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Kuharsky, a former soloist with Canada's "Les Grant
Ballets Canadiens," will also be performing this section.
Because the ballet commemorates the 100th anniversary <
the composer's death, Checinski is flying in from Chicago f(
the performances and will be appearing as guest pianist.
THE "DON Quixote Pas de Deux," a dazzling display
balletic pyrotechnics (Baryshnikov danced it in the "Tumi
Point") will provide a welcome release for the audience af
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By Julie Jameson
Men Without Hats will make the
debut performance of their Southern
tour in Columbia at Strider\ fonrert
hall this weekend.
Men Without Hats, a Montreal- A
based pop band, have hit the top forties
with Safety Dance on "Rhythm of
Youth".
"In some ways Safety Dance has
taken some of the pressure off the ' - <
band, but in other areas the success has | y |
put new pressures on," said the band's fjp
musical director and spokesman, Ivan
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"Of course we're a lot more
busy," he said.
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out pop tunes for three years.
"I have one of those five year plans.
When I reach the fifth year of being
with the Hats I think we'll decide to
start something different," Doroschuk
"We all have a great raport. Two of '
the members are my brothers and one
is a good friend." Joining Dorseh ik
are Stefan (guitar and violin), Co n
(keyboards) and Alan MeCarthy
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lyrics set to pop ihythms, and .
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Doroschuk said his personal
ing taste is rooted in Roxic music and
English progressive. Ivan thinks
Music Television is a "good idea. But
20,000, but I think you lose that in- Take off that
timacy with the audience. Plus, 1 don't .. ,
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an arena. It's dangerous." and The Nashvtl
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the powerful conclusion of "Masques."
Danced by Kuharsky and Jill Zupan from the Boston Ballet,
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lie Scorchers.
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rapid-fire pointe work for the ballerina, it never fails to literally
"stop the show" whenever it is performed.
"Don Quixote" will get stiff competition as "audience
favorite" from the last ballet on the program, Ashley's jazzy
"Summersoup."
Rural roots influence
band's new country sound
By Marc Fink
Jason and The Nashville Scorchers, fronting Men
Without Hats at Striders tonight, should provide an entertaining
contrast to the electro-disco headliners.
The band, whose recent six-song record received threeand-a-half
stars in Rolling Stone, consists of leader Jason
Ringenberg, vocals and harmonica, Perry Baggs, drums,
Jeff Johnson, bass and Warner Hodges, lead guitar and
backing vocals.
Most ol the tunes on the "Fervor'4 EP were written by
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damentalist imagery, such as "Hot Nights In Georgia" and
"Harvest Moon."
HODGES' STINGING lead guitar highlights "Hot
Nights In Georgia," snaking around "The cotton burns as
Sherman marches toward you / Destroying every bit of
sweat you've known." Michael Stipe, vocalist with R.E.M.
sings on the refrain, but is mixed inaudibly.
"Harvest Moon" lyrically recalls "Sin City" from The
Flying Burrito Brothers' first album, "Love for sale, sin
for hire/Trading time for eternal fire," delivered from a
classic backwoods posture.
The comedy cut, "Help There's A l ire" is based on
Chuck Berry's timing and melody of "Too Much Monkey
Business" and Bob Dylan's spit-it out vocals on "Subterranean
Homesick Blues." Featured are Ringenberg's
flashy harmonica, and whnrminn
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get next to you, you holler out, 'Help there's a fire.'"
FROM l)EKP in the country hails "Pray For Me, Momma,"
with Johnson joining Ringenberg on author credits.
Closing the sampler is "Both Sides Of The Line," written
by Ringenberg with the musical execution lacking the
power of the lyries, "But if the mountains fall down and
the seas around could crumble in my midst/I'd trade it all
for a midnight call and just one Holy Kiss." The song
tumbles over Baggs' drums rolls and Hodges' meanest
riffs.
Jason and The Nashville Scorchers fall into the Rubber
Rodeo/Rank and File department of new country, rather
than the rockabilly/roots rock camp of Stray Cats and The
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Although not on the level of legendary country rock
albums like The Byrds' "Sweetheart of the Rodeo" and
"(iilded Palace of Sin" by the I lying Burrito Brothers,
Jason and The Nashville Scorchers' "Fervor" ranks above
records by the plastic, Californian Rank and f ile and the
B-52's ol "country punk," Rubber Rodeo.
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