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By OCTAVIA WRIGHT
Staff Writer
Tomorrow night USC students
will have the chance to see a
mime, a dancer and an actress ?
all in one performance.
Uuest artist Ruth Zaporah will
do a live improvisation? 1 performance
at the Booker T. W ellington
Auditorium as part ot iU-aay
visit to USC.
Zaporah's career bega* *- ~>en
she was six years old and growing
up in Baltimore.
"My family would always ask
me to perform for them on Sundays,
and I got so much appreciation
that somehow it stuck," Za
porah said.
Zaporah began to expand upon
that appreciation in high school
when she started taking ballet lessons.
And later on, she took modern
dance courses.
It was in college, though, that
one of her teachers became her
mentor and inspired her to enter
the performing arts.
"I was in the drama department
and started putting movement and
feeling together," Zaporah said.
She has also done varied performances,
both solo and with a comMortar
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"I much prefer working in theater,"
Zaporah said.
Unlike some performers, she
said, she doesn't limit herself to
one aspect of the arts. With the
ability to act, dance and mime, Zaporah
provides her audiences with
a spontaneous variety of
entertainment.
"I don't see them (acting, dancing
and mime) as being different
areas. I see it as my complete being
as working and I use all capabilities
to create theater," Zaporah
said.
Anxious to try out a university
setting and come to the East Coast
to visit family, she feels her stay at
USC has been pleasant
"I usually work with theater and
dance companies and psychological
training institutes," Zaporah
said.
For 15 years, she was a director
at Skylight Studio in Berkeley, Ca
nr., unui six months ago, when she
resigned. "I'd been traveling so
much that I didn't want the responsibility
from the studio, and I
wanted to try other things," Zaporah
said.
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For the past two weeks, 20 students
have had the opportunity to
study under Zaporah, who leads
and teaches experimental theater
workshops across the country.
Zaporah and seven students will
perform "Ruth Zaporah in
Concert."
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Zaporah was able to come to
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Arts Commission and the USC Department
of Theater and Speech,
said Melody Schaper, a USC professor
and coordinator of Zaporah's
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