UMS Concert Program, November 20, 1971: Chorica Dance Theatre -- Zouzou Nicoloudi

Concert: Seventh
Complete Series: 3746
Power Center For The Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University Musical Society
of
The University of Michigan
Presents
CHORICA DANCE THEATRE
ZOUZOU NICOLOUDI, Director
Saturday Evening, November 20, 1971, at 8:00 Power Center for the Performing Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
AGAMEMNON
by Aeschylus
Modern Greek Translation......V. Rotas
Music...........N. Rotas
Choreography........Z. Nicoloudi
Masks and Costumes........M. Gazi
Chorus oj the Argive Elders..........The Chorus
Cassandra II...........Yanna Philipopoulos
Voices............M. Gazi, K. Krantoneli
Voice of Cassandra............G. Tournaki
Apollo, who loved Cassandra, bestowed on her the gift of prophecy. As she resisted him, the god rendered his gift useless by causing her prophecies never to be believed. After the fall of Troy, Agamemnon brings her, a captive, to Argos. In the chorus presented, the Argive Elders express strange forebodings of evil. Cassandra prophesies Agamemnon's death and her own as well as disasters to follow because of the curse on the House of Atreus. The Elders argue with her disbelievingly, and Cassandra goes into the palace to her death.
Seventh Program
International Presentations in Power Center
Complete Programs 3746
CHOEPHOROE
by Aeschylus
Modern Greek Translation.....I. Gryparis
Music...........N. Rotas
Choreography........Z. Nicoloudi
Masks and Costumes.......M. Gazi
Electra................M. Kiosse
Slave Women..............The Chorus
Electra, Agamemnon's daughter, and the chorus of slave women approach to pour libations on the tomb of her father, by order of Clytemnestra who has been disturbed by ominous dreams. Electra laments her sad fate and prays to the soul of her father that his murder be revenged.
FROM THE LEGEND OF ORESTES
Music...........N. Rotas
Choreography........Z. Nicoloudi
Masks and Costumes........M. Gazi
Electra...............Z. Nicoloudi
Clytemnestra.............K. Krantoneli
Aegistkus...............K. Tzoumas
Orestes................A. Venetis
Another day of misery is dawning for Electra, who mourns the death of her father and her sad lot in the house of the murderers. In the background, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus are lost in the rapture of their love. Now and then, a foreboding of evil grips them. Clytemnestra, overwhelmed by anguish, tries to approach Electra. She attempts to justify her actions but Electra curses her. Electra laments. She no longer hopes that her brother, Orestes, will return to avenge the death of their father. Orestes appears before her. After a few moments of joy at their reunion, Orestes must do his duty. He must kill his mother. After the murder, Orestes, out of his mind, feels the presence of the Furies around him. He knows that these deities, avengers of crime and especially crime against ties of kinship, will pursue him. He flees at their very thought.
THE EUMENIDES
by Aeschylus
Modern Greek Translation.....I. Gryparis
Music...........N. Rotas
Choreography........Z. Nicoloudi
Masks and Costumes........M. Gazi
The Furies...............The Chorus
Voice of Clytemnestra............E. Veeghi
To help Orestes escape, Apollo has bewitched the Furies who lie overcome by sleep. The voice of the ghost of Clytemnestra is heard, stirring them up to avenge her murder. They awake and begin their horrifying dance.
INTERMISSION
THE BACCHAE
by Euripides
Modern Greek Translation.....T. Stavrou
Music...........N. Rotas
Choreography........Z. Nicoloudi
Masks and Costumes........M. Gazi
Leaders of the Chorus........M. Kiosse, Y. Papoulidou
Song...............Y. Papoulidou
A Bacchae.............Th. Panayiotidou
Followers of Dionysus............The Chorus
Three choruses are presented:
a) The Bacchae, followers of Dionysus, sing in ecstacy the praises of the god.
b) They hope for Pentheus' destruction at the hands of his mother, for he is hostile to the new religion.
c) They rejoice in the victory of their god.
THE BIRDS
by Aristophanes
Modern Greek Translation......V. Rotas
Music.........M. Hadjidakis
Choreography........Z. Nicoloudi
Masks and Costumes........M. Gazi
The Birds...............The Chorus
Song................G. Moutsios
THE COMPANY
Maria Gazi, Mary Kiosse, Kalitsa Krantoneli, Kely Markantonatou, Mary Mavraki, Thalia Panaghiotidou, Yiota Papoulidou, Zeta Pelou, Yanna Philipopoulou,
Maria Triantaphilou, Bela Vlatani. Haralambos Timotheou Kostas Tzoumas
Antonis Antoniou, Yannis Fakis, Lefteris Grigoriou, Yannis Maliakos, Yannis Papalambros, Yannis Prokovas, Takis Saridis, Nicos Skiadopoulos, Angelos Venetis, Georgos Zografos.
Announcing Special Added Attractions in Hill Auditorium
The Russians are Coming!
MSTISLAV ROSTROPOVICH, Cellist.....Saturday, January IS
OSIPOV BALALAIKA ORCHESTRA and
Stars of the Bolshoi Opera........Tuesday, February 8
Public sale begins November 22 at Burton Tower Regular Prices--$7, $6.50, $6, $5, $3.50, $2.50
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