UMS Concert Program, October 17, 1977: Murray Louis Dance Company -- Murray Louis

Concert: First
Complete Series: 4072
Power Center For The Performing Arts Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University Musical Society
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Murray Louis Dance Company
featuring MURRAY LOUIS
with
MICHAEL BALLARD, Janis Brenner, William Holahan, Dianne Markham, Anne McLeod, Jerry Pearson, Sara Pearson, and Robert Small
Monday Evening, October 17, 1977, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
SCHUBERT (1977)
Choreography by Murray Louis
Music by Franz Schubert--Quintet in A Major ("Trout") Costumes by Frank Garcia
Performed by
Michael Ballard, Janis Brenner, William Holahan, Dianne Markham, Anne McLeod, Jerry Pearson, Sara Pearson, and Robert Small
INTERMISSION
DEJA VU (1977)
Choreography by Murray Louis
Music by Laure, Tarrega, Lauro, Scarlatti, and Albeniz
Lighting by Alwin Nikolais
Costume by Frank Garcia
Performed by Murray Louis
INTERMISSION
The two concert performances and master classes for University dance students comprise a halfweek dance residency by the Murray Louis Dance Company, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Michigan Council for the Arts.
First Program Seventh Annual Choice Series, Power Center Complete Programs 4072
GLANCES (1976)
Choreography by Murray Louis
Music composed by Dave Brubeck, arranged by Darius Brubeck
Featuring: Rita Koors Myers, "Muruga Brubeck Robinson" with
Mark WhitecaGE and featured instrumentalists
Costumes by Frank Garcia
Performed by
Michael Ballard, Janis Brenner, William Holahan, Dianne Markham, Anne McLeod, Jerry Pearson, Sara Pearson, and Robert Small
Murray Louis' international tours have taken him across the United States and Canada, to Europe, Africa, Central and South America, with special engagements in Tunisia, Yugoslavia, India, and Mexico, under the sponsorship of the U.S. Department of State. Mr. Louis is the recipient of two Guggenheim Memorial Fellowships in Dance, has been presented with the Critics' Award of the International Festival of Weisbadcn, and recently, in 1977, Dance Magazine Award, and honored with six grant awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. The six works choreographed with these grants, including "Porcelain Dialogues" and "Geometries," have been shown around the world to high acclaim from critics and the public. In 1975, Mr. Louis created a new ballet, "Moments," for Rudolf Nurcyev, premiered in Madrid and given its American premiere by Mr. Nureyev and members of the Louis Company in November of that year. In 1976, within a threemonth span, Mr. Louis had two works premiered on different sides of the Atlantic--"Glances," at the American Dance Festival in New London, Connecticut, and "Cleopatra," created especially lor the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen.
Mr. Louis has also created a fivepart film series, "Dance as an Art Form," as well as adapting several of his ballet works for television. This fall, portions of "Glances" will be filmed for the PBS show, Soundstage, featuring the work of composer Dave Brubeck. The Company will then be appearing in the new Bermuda Arts Festival, and touring throughout the United States and Canada. Following a home season in New York, shared with the Nikolais Dance Theatre in April, the Company will make a celebrated return to Europe, partially under the sponsorship of the U.S. State Department.
Coming Events -1977--78 Season
Murray Louis Dance Company.......Tuesday, October 18
"Porcelain Dialogues"; "Deja Vu"; "Geometries"
George Shearing Quintet.......Wednesday, October 19
The Hoofers--Jazz Tap Dance......Saturday, October 22
Philharmonia HungaricaKapp.......Sunday, October 23
Bartok: Two Portraits; Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Balint Vazsonyi, soloist); Dvorak:
Symphony No. 9 ("New World") Suk Trio............Tuesday, October 25
Beethoven: Trio in G major, Op. 1, No. 2; Dvorak: Trio in Bflat, Op. 21; Brahms: Trio in
B major, Op. 8
Murray Perahia, Pianist........Thursday, October 27
Beethoven: Sonata in Eflat major, Op. 7; Chopin: Four Impromptus; Schubert: Sonata in
A major, Op. Posth.
Preservation Hall Jazz Band.......Friday, October 28
Lazar Berman, Pianist........Thursday, November 3
BachBusoni: Chaconne; Prokofiev: Suite from Romeo and Juliet; Liszt: Funeraillcs, Sonata
in B minor
Concord String Quartet........Sunday, November 6
Beethoven: Quartet in Bflat, Op. 18, No. 6; Ben Johnston: "Crossings"; Schubert: Quartet
in G, Op. 161 Mirella Freni, Soprano........Tuesday, November 8
Songs by Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Duparc, Debussy; Charpentier: Depuis le Jour
from Louise Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestrade Waart . . Friday, November 11
Diepenbrock: Excerpts from Marsyas; Dvorak: "Te Deum" (with the Festival Chorus) ;
Mahler: Symphony No. 1
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