UMS Concert Program, October 18, 1977: Murray Louis Dance Company -- Murray Louis

Concert: Second
Complete Series: 4073
Power Center For The Performing Arts Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University Musical Society
resents
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
Tuesday Evening, October 18, 1977, at 8:00
Power Center for the Performing Arts
Ann Arbor, Michigan
PROGRAM
PORCELAIN DIALOGUES (1974)
Choreography by Murray Louis
Music by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky--Quartet in D major Lighting by Alwin Nikolais Costumes by Frank Garcia
Performed by
Michael Ballard, 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 jor the Arts and the Michigan Council jor the Arts.
Second Program Seventh Annual Choice Series, Power Center Complete Programs 4073
GEOMETRICS (1974)
Choreography by Murray Louis
Music by Alwin Nikolais
Costumes by Frank Garcia
Lighting by Alwin Nikolais
Performed by
Michael Ballard, Janis Brenner, William Holahan, Dianne Markham, Anne McLeod, Jerry Pearson, Sara Pearson, and Robert Small
Duet: Anne McLeod and Sara Pearson Solos: Michael Ballard 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 Weisbaden, 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 Nureyev, 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 for 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 -197778 Season
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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