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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
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Assistant features editor
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televangelists, the play makes
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onytails. Between cloth and hair, I
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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
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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."
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"~| 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.
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