ancers make the fabric speak @ SMcK Dance presents The Still Project Wednesday April 5 to Saturday April 8 a The Roundhouse (Pacific at Davie). Katharine Hamer News Reporter FOR West Vancouver choreographer Susan MacKenzie, the dress is a much a part of the drama as the dancer. The director of SMcK Dance is rounding off a 20-year fascination with pioneering con- temporary artist Loie Fuller in The Still Prsyect, which begins its run next week at The Roundhouse. MacKenzie, a co-founder of TIDE (Toronto Ladependent Dance Enterprises) and former member of Toronto-based Dancemakers, first created a Fuller-style work in 1978 for Regina Modern Dance Works. Full.c was “like a rock star” in the early 1900s, says MacKenzie: “She had her own theatre in Paris. She was incredibly famous.” Along with dancers like Ted Shawn, Ruth St. Denis, and Isadora Duncan, Fuller was closely linked to the romanticism of the Art Nouveau movement, and was fascinated by the shapes made by light and fabric. Unlike Duncan and the others, who often staged their work outdoors so they could be close to nature, Fuller was “an indoor tady mostly,” says MacKenzie. “(She was working) during the transition between gas light and electricity. She had 30- 40 stage hands, and she choreographed all of them.” MacKenzie says her original solo, for which she had to wear a dress made with 40 yards of silk, was “a really incredibie project fer a 20-year-old woman.” The Still Project, whose cast includes Vancouver dancers Marthé Leonard, Ron Stewart, and Susan Elliott, reworks that solo plus a number of pieces in a similar style pro- duced by MacKenzie over the years. In a recent Arts Vancouver piece, MacKenzie describes the challenge of dancing in flowing silk costumes as being similar to working with a mask: “The dancing,” she says, “comes to be about making the fabric speak.” The Still Project has been selected to run as part of the Canada Dance Festival in Ottawa this summer. Tickets for next week’s show are $16 ($12 students and seniors) for evening perfor- mances at 8 pm. and pay what you can for the Saturday matinée at 2 p.m. Focus on business sense photo Don Malt BENEATH billowing siik are dancers Ron Stewart and Robin Poitras. SMcK Dance’s The Still Project premieres next week at The Roundhouse. Congratulations Gillan Longman! Winner of the Fido® Pet Look-Alike Contest at Park Royal Shopping Centre on Saturday, March 25th. / @ Business Sense Canada’s National Guide for University and College Business Students March/April 2000 — $4.95 Toronto quarterly enters its second ycar with this issue. The cover story is a review of on-line recruitment proce- dures. You have nothing to lose by posting your resumé, _burt business students should take a more proactive approach. Ryerson’s new B.Comm degree in retail man- agement also gets coverage. , i Home Business Report Working for people work- ing from home Feb/March 2000 — $3.95 Practising what they preach Home Business Report comes from the very noncorporate setting of Abbotsford, B.C. With an eastern regional office in Toronto. Home Business Report teils you how to be your owa boss with this issue looking at bed and breakfasts, e-commerce aad home office vs. commut- ing. The cover story looks at Canada’s home-based busi- ness-friendly communities as determined by a survey frora Home Business Report and the Royal Bank. Top marks go to Maple Ridge, B.C., Barrie, Ontaric and Gand, Newfoundland. — Hagazines available from Global News, the Market, Park Royal South, West Vancouver. FINAL DRAW - April. 15, 2000 Purchase 3 tickets for $5.00 at the Clinique counter at any Bay store, and receive a special Clinique gift. Or order tickets by phone 875-1119 / 1-800-618-1119 While you're at the Clinique counter, recommend two friends who want to be eligible to win $50,000 in our next lottery and ‘you will automatically be entered to WIN! $1000 fran hing Pe spree $300 ift basket of cosmetics om Clinique Gillian and her King Charles Cavalier Spaniel, Windsor. The Longman family has won a new Fido handset with three months of airtime. 4q Fido's got you covered ~ In Vancouver, across Canada and around the world. / On the North Shore, Fido follows you from Deep Cove to Lion’s Bay. _ Thanks to all our contestants and new customers who helped raise $490 for the West Vancouver SPCA on Saturday, March 25th. Fido is available in Park Royat Shopping Centre at the Fido Kiosk, Future Shop, London Drugs and Wireless Wave.