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Features : 1 ^E GAMECOCK Monday, March 21, 1988 i Play presents j modern version | of Christ's lifp i _ . ?-JW w | By CLAIRE DIEPENBROCK j Features editor | Cotton Patch Gospel, a musical that tells a modern i story of Jesus Christ, opened with two performances J Sunday at the Lutheran/United Methodist Campus Ministry Chapel. The play will continue to run through Sunday with 7:30 p.m. performances tonieht. Tiu*?Hav w , ?i vMiivJua/t I I luay and Sunday. A 3 p.m. performance will be held Sunday. The premise of the two- ________?? act play is that Jesus has t<f . . . come to 20th century Geor- * tnillK CVCI*y.gia instead of first century one will find the Palestine. Atlanta becomes ?i?? ? Jerusalem. Gainesville P1^ movin8 in 3 becomes Bethlehem. The Spiritual sense, A Pharisees are self-righteous whatever their ? dioic ocu ^nristians, and .. 1 Herod bccomes governor of rCliglOUS belietS Georgia instead of the King are." ' of Judea, said Bobby r, ,. KT .?. _ Jones, president of the Katie Normmgton. Lutheran/United Method- director ist Student Organization. The musical is based on Tom Key's and Russell Treyz's book, and the music and lyrics are by Harry Chapin. A f bluegrass band is backing up the cast of seven actors and p singers. n "This will be an entertaining production and the ( message, a familiar one, told in a brand new way is exciting," said Debra Quilling, United Methodist Chap- \ lain at USC. Cotton Patch Gospel is the third production of the c campus ministry in four and a half years. j "It was recommended to us by people who knew of our work and had seen it (Cotton Patch Gospel) produced in \ mi New York and in Augusta last year," Quilling said. u-u - tyc ucucve mis years production will be equally as < well received as our past performances (Godspell in 1984 \ and Jesus Christ Superstar in 1986), and we are excited to < offer it to the community," Jones said. ( Directing the musical is Katie Normington, a graduate student in the department of theatre and speech. I The campus ministry is trying to direct the play toward _ the idea of a communal experience and involvement by i having the audience share in the show, Normington said. | "I think that everyone will find the play moving in a spiritual sense, whatever their religious beliefs are," she said. "It is a simple show in the best sense ? a simplencss 1 ^QZ 1^ j '' p I ' In c?lebration I ot | | Woman's I History 1 Month D * I k ? MNM MHPTOP ?pbwwhr flmPNaw^wnj \ [ mm JEFF THOMPSON/ / n Fine arts senior Arthur Morton (No. 1), Englist tevin Oliver (5) and theatre freshman Sharyn Gi lerform a number from Cotton Patch Gospt nusical is a project of the Lutheran/United M? Center. vhich conveys powerful images." The campus ministry is planning to take its pro >n the road to cities with universities, campus m ind branches of USC, Quilling said. "Touring is a way to reach more people an vhat's happening in campus ministry at USC," s The tour will begin March 30 with a show at W College in Rock Hill. From there the product ravel to Clemson, USC-Sumter, South Carolir Collece and Claflin Pnllf?0/? in Orannohnrn M w O- ".?..6VI/U16, 11 College and Coastal Carolina. The cast has five students from USC, including Morton, fine arts senior; Andy Hertler, a joi junior; Kevin Oliver, a junior English major; Greene, a freshman theatre major and Kevin Wil freshman English major. For ticket reservations and more information, Lutheran/United Methodist Campus Mini 799-7363 or 799-4993. \-\-pty9 R[r-? J- 7-]-8|2-|? M m CAROI zles your senses < p 4 nci i /sc n \ vpkbnj u ? 8:00 pm Carolina Monday, March ] Students $4 P sponsored by CPl Breakfast the Presid ^ RH Room 327 8: Sign up in CPU c sponsored by CPl ideas and issues ^ (II Mul Imr SP01 i %_ gffl Performer I S olavs cello. 1 gives class | - jlJ By WAYNE YANG i U Staff writer I Cellist David Starkweather, a semi-finalist of the 1986 Tchaikovsky competition and a faculty member of 9 fhp I Ini uprc it*? r*f ?..v v/iii? vi jiij vj i vjv-ui 51a, Will pel - form at 8 p.m. Tuesday in Gambrell 9 Hall Auditorium. He will also give a master class for USC cellists at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Fraser Hall. st Both the recital and the master hi class are free and open to the public. Pianist Edward Eikncr, a pro- ct fessor of fine arts at Weslcyan Col- pi lege in Macon, Ga., will accompany IV Starkweather's recital. c< Among the selections they will pcr form are Antonin Dvorak's "Rondo pi in G Minor," Johannes Brahms' s? "Sonata in E Minor," and Frederick V Chopin's "Sonata in G Minor." ir Associate music professor Bob w Jesselson said such pieces are "technically demanding, but not t? 1 junior virtuostic." t\ recn (6) "The'Rondo in G Minor'is an en- ir tl. The joyable, shorter piece that Dvorak C ;thodist wrote. The 'Sonata in E Minor' is w one of the first sonatas that Brahms w wrote, and has a lush, romantic w inistries fcol D&fYlQTYlCl i d share From staff reports c he said. An unusual evening of dance is s inthrop planned for 8 p.m. Tuesday, when an s ion will Israeli dance company featuring deaf la State dancers will perform free. I ewberry Kol Demama will dance at v Carolina Coliseum, and the company o ! Arthur als? w'^ conduct several dance irnalism classes today at USC. s Sharyn The company's deaf dancers per- l liams, a f?rm by using a number of non- v musical signals, including hand d call the movements and winks. it stry at To learn dance sequences, the deaf pcriurmcrs use a vioration method. d The entire company stamps the beat c .................... on a flexible wooden dance board. mm The deaf dancers can pick up the f rhythm of vibrations with their feet u and incorporate the rhythm into their c movements. Directed by Moshe Efrati, Kol u Demama has earned international ac- 9 UNA PROGRAM UNION luring March Matin Dd( i Coliseum !l ublic $8 J Cultural Series Bill Fi 12-4:30 R r^f1/? March 23 \f ?5 sponsored with ent 00 am i ?ff ice ? * J M n erica n Pictures ti media audio visual show sday, March 22 RH Ballroom isored by CPU npH Hg^ avid Starkweather ylc," said Jcsselson, who will give s own cello recital April 11. Chopin, a 19th century Polish L? t? ;mpu9ci, i? ul'm Known lor nis lano works. The "Sonata in G linor" is his "last, big piccc for ;llo," Jesselson said. Starkweather, a cellist who has irformcd on three continents, has :rved as a professor of cello at the /inter Festival of Strings and Piano i Brazil. He brings this experience ith him to the master class. Cello master classes are usually lught weekly by Jesselson. About vo times a semester, a guest cellist is ivited to USC to teach the classes, ello students from the university ill perform for Starkweather and ill have 20 minutes to study and ork with him. to visit USC laim for its vibrant and innovative tyle. Kol Demama means sound and ilence. This year the group received the saac Stern International Award, /hich honors the world's most utstanding dance troupe. Efrati was born in Jerusalem and tudied in Israel. He came to the Jnited States in the 1960s to study /ith the celebrated Martha Graham's ance company and also began workig with deaf dancers. In 1978 he integrated his deaf ancers with hearing dancers and reated the Kol Demama Company. Efrati sets high technical standards or the troupe. "I am neither a social worker nor therapist. I am a dance reator," he said. Tickets for the show can be picked p at the coliseum box office between a.m. and 6 p.m. less Week ry-jciggling !H Patin - Frptf mm m m M?1 V I W by CPU special Pro lady Govma /omen in music worl !H room 327 12:30 Dlk guitar show IH patio 5:00 pm larch 24 7:00 pm HHHMI I Kirlian score | snows mood, ' I overall health j By PAIGE GREEN Staff writer Has anyone ever given you "bad viK?c9" i >? " ?n? - ivv.1. i.n-i waii^cu IIIIU a IUUII1 where you could "feel the mood?" a Elaine Lang, nursing graduate stu- J dent, is conducting an experiment for | her master's thesis to try to explain the phenomenon. Lang will be playing host to a 1 drop-in Wednesday in the lobby in- I side the Greene St. entrance of the Nursing Building. Students or faculty j members can pose for a Kirlian photograph ? one showing their personal energy fields. "ThciP enprov fipMc ^ a] v..mi may UV photographed with special equipment are subject to mood swings and the person's health," said Lang. "1 hope to provide a scientific basis for the theory that the patterns shown by a person's energy field are directly affected by their self-perceived health and even their mental state." Lang's interest in the topic was first sparked two years ago when she came across a book illustrated with colorful Kirlian photographs. Later she learned of noted nurse theorist Martha Rogers' proposal that assessment of the human field is a means of detecting physical and psychological ^ disease and distress. :! "This type of research was popular S during the 1960s and '70s," Lang : said. "But most experiments were E not handled scientifically and ^ therefore lost credibility among members of the scientific field. By ^ conducting this controlled experi- ^ ment, however, I hope to give some S basis to this theory," she said. % State-of-the-art film and video ^ techniques will be used to generate p: and analyze a Kirlian score. The % score measures the overall luminosity of the subject's field in respect to his mood and health. "We'll nCfH at l^act frt vmlnnt??r< . . - ...VM ??V ivudi ?U1U1IIVVI 3 to have a successful experiment," said Lang. "But we're hoping for f many more to participate. It will only g take about 20 minutes for each, and | we will be set up all day long." i Lang said she has no expectations | for the outcome of the experiment, but is confident it will support her hypothesis. ? Workshop I grams B in Jacobs I cshop I I