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j f It was al i wm? WmL r i */*'' , ^^BMI Performance By ANNA GARDNER Staff writer About 70 dance lovers attended Sally Hess' dance concert Saturday at Booker T. Washington auditorium, but only half of the people were able to see it. Because of inadequate planning, a great idea failed. When I entered the theater, the ticket-taker walked me down to the front of the house. It was then that I realized the audience would be sitting on the stage. As I walked up the stairs and across large sheets of protective paper, I saw a semicircle of metal chairs and a row of brown wooden benches directly in front of them. So far, everything seemed fine. I reasoned that we were on the stage \- v & 15 -n^ THE TtvKA ? ' When you tu Need some extra cash??? If first time donor, earn up to $80 in 2 weeks! 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At this point the tension started to build, and people started to w scout around for a better view. ir Intimacy and quality sound were c< ? Talking y By TOM JOYNER Assistant features editor Tent Meeting opened at Tr night. In view of the recent e breed of oversexed, overp televangelists, the play makes needed sarcastic stab at them. Have you spoken to Jesus to< seen this on a bumper sticker o have you made the mistake of the tube to the PTL club and he his latest chat with the Lord? W about, "The Lord told me yest $4 billion by next Wednesday or end?" Who can possibly believe talk with God? Who cut th< Meeting attempts to explain. Tent Meeting is about a south prised of the Rev. Tarbach (Ji children, Darrell (Weldon Horr irti 18, register with I ; for up to $100! Only! Appointments I A1 available but. not necessary 254-2280 ^ <4) vj) ^ 14) C) 14) ^ \p ^ vp cp CP cp CP cp CP - $ vorth $ LflRSSS | Derson) 5 We 're 1 $ 5$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ 425 Ass ious that if tc poor seatii dvantages of the seating pattern, 1 ut dance is a performing art in 1 'hich the creativity is visual. < As the lights went down, the young | 'Oman to my right folded her coat nd placed it under her. 1 As the lights came up, I saw the s ack of a black derby and two blond c onytails. Between cloth and hair, I ied to get a glimpse of Hess. i ecause much of her work is per- s armed on the floor in silence, I 1 asn't sure she was even dancing, t ut what I could see of the 45-year- t Id dancer's performance was c Kciting. i In "Dancetales," Hess told stories hile she danced with and without f lusic. Her stories were personal but e antained universal themes of love, t with God: C ustus Theatre on Friday scapades of today's new aid and over-made-up Thigpen). T a poignant and much- the protagoi legitimate cl Jay? How often have you ing it out o r a billboard? How often through sev absent-mindedly flipping for the baby :ard Jim Bakker telling of delivered in fho buys all this hogwash erday that I need to raise The story the world will come to an the child th that he is holy enough to respondence ; cheese? Trustus' Tent Big Guy Hi from Arkan ern Christian family com- tent meetinj m Thigpen) and his two world ? or te) and Becky Ann (Erin rewards of 1 Selective Service. LL SERVICE PROFESSIONAL FA "If We Can't Clean It, Nobody terations Fc anging Seas Skilled Seamst Available 8am Monday - Fri< ocated just off campus ? one block ft embly Street my life v\ ? 1 A I B F mSEEmm*, h tl Photo courtesy of Rita Smith y< d; 1 r? ig plans : ruth and age. Much of the text was aj Feministic by definition because it E letailed the female experience and \N promoted sisterhood. R The stories were also intelligently ai tumorous, just when you thought w ihe was going to be overwhelmingly Si lidactic. Through her efficient use of words cr tnd movements, Hess told simple U itories with complex meanings. She A jelieves that chairs make statements fc tbout the people who own them, se here are partitions we cannot see, 01 ind we drag our childhoods behind is. sh Hess used her body to echo her hi eelings, and the faithful audience us- or :d their hands and patience to echo dr heir appreciation. fe : 'Tent Mee how Review he play opens effectively in medias res with tiists taking Becky Ann's badly deformed il lild off of its life-support systems and sneakif a hospital. From this point on we travel eral arguments, several states, constant feai 's health and one humorous jibe after the next excellent deadpan comic style. is of Rev. Tarbach's bizarre plot to declare e second coming of Christ. Aided by cori from God (yes, he received letters from the imself), Tarbach decides to take his famil> sas to Canada for the purpose of holding a I (get the title?) to expose the baby to the at least Moosejaw, Canada ? and reap the being Christ's Grandpop. Sound funny? Go It's quick. It's easy. A _ W CLEANERS jjl | The Brot kBRIC CARE | |jkg tQ th '<a" | this yeai >r The Sti on... use if 1988 Ho ,ress 3pm 1 iay ,, | Cc -om the coliseum. g Tel. 799-2030 /as to dance' Dancer Sally Hess -t 1 jiniys piuiusopny, alent to Carolina \y SUSAN NESBITT eatures editor If you were to ask Sally Hess what she is, she would tell ou that she is a dancer ? that dancing is her job, her areer. If you were to ask Sally Hess who she is, she would :11 you the same ? that she is a dancer, that dancing is er life. Hess, an internationally known performer and horeographer, at USC for a two-week residency, said her aining began at age three when she was enrolled in a lass of creative/interpretive dance, the very beginnings, lie said, of modern dance for children. She joined the lass "because at age two, it was clear that I was already ancing." Perched on the floor of the dance studio in Sol Blatt .E. Center, Hess is potential energy. It seems that at any loment she will leap up and with the motions of her body amplete the thoughts she speaks aloud. "I've often lought that there are better things than dancing, more seful, or beneficial," Hess said of the decision to dance - a decision she said was made for her, not really a decion or choice at all. "I wanted, at various times, to be a political activist, a octor, a psychologist, a healer or senator ? to help peole in some way ... I even quit dancing, once, for four ;ars. But it was always obvious that my life was to anct. i u uanv.c iui as lung anu as ocsi as i couia. SO ither than a decision on my part, it was more an agreelent, to go along with a decision that had already been tade," she said. Hess jumped into the real world of dance right at the >e of 10, as The Child in Doris Humphrey's Day on arth. She has since danced with the companies of Dan fagner (1970-79), Lucas Hoving, Matthew Nash and ichard Alton in New York. She has for five years been spearing with Remy Charlip and presenting her solo orks at universities and dance festivals in the United ates and in Europe. She has been an equally successful choreographer, eating works for groups in England, France and the nited States. She is a 1987-88 recipient of a Fellowship ward in Choreography from the New York Foundation >r the Arts. She has taken part in two Public Television ries. And, Hess said,"I never thought about 'making it' not; I just wanted to dance. "A tree has many greens ? from the first fresh and tarp shades of spring buds through to the last deeper les of summer ? and then changes of color, the yellows, anges and reds; intensities, the blacks and browns, the ying and curling up of edges," Hess said, "that's what I el when I dance. I am a tree, turning." r ting' hits hard "~| see the play. The cast is excellent. All are convincingly poor southern folk without much in the way of brains. Jim Thigpen's portrayal of Tarbach, though, is made more remarkable i as Thigpen reportedly stepped in and learned the nart in two days. Jim E. Quick, the original Tarbach, became ill and was unable to perform. Thigpen, the owner of the [ theatre and the play's director, made the executive decision not to put the play on hold. Both Erin Thigpen's characterization of the childish Becky Ann and Weldon Home's depiction of the confused Darrell are letter perfect. In fact, the only glitches in : the performance came from those technical aspects ? lighting and sound ? that are usually worked out by the : second week of performances. On the whole, I give Tent Meeting the old Siskell-andi Ebert thumbs up. It's a real live funny one, folks. Don't > miss it. And if you're worried about affording it, Trustus has cheap $5 bleacher-seats created with us college 1 students in mind. For ticket info, call 254-9732. bid it's the law. rfM>T hers of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity would $ ank the following for their support of $ r's OiCIFEiT>\r?{/ Athletic Department ) ident Government jcB t) ^ 1 D 7 _* _ T^V i * vr rouce uepanmeni ? mecoming Commission WNOK Radio Brian Strack Jerry Brewer mgratulations to skit winner | Alpha Chi Omega Sorority