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B12 - Sunday, April 18, 1982 - North Shore News

EEE entertainment

Anna Wyman

ANNA WYMAN
Dance Theatre’s
premiere at the Queen
Elizabeth Playhouse
Thursday was a
celebration not only of
dance but of color and
shape and fantasy as
well.

Innovative is the most
obvious word for Anna
Wyman’s choreography and
the choice of dances for the
gala premiere only em-
phasized this.

The only) production
which was not new to
Vancouver audiences was
Hamartia, a dance based on
Picasso’s Man Sitting. It is
intensely human and
strongly emphasizes both the
emotional and physical
aspects of being human.

Adastra, a purely
outlandish piece of fantasy
does everything to disguise
the human charactenstics of
the dancers.

Gravity seems
nonexistent, the dancers are
masked and marvellously
costumed and their shapes
and movements are far from
that of conventional human
motion and form.

Theatre

The costumes’ were
handpainted by Fritz
Jacobsen in vivid flashes of
color and abstract shapes.

Celebrating more than just dance

They are even more vivid
against the colorless, and
fairly simple set which takes

on the wonderful effect of a

waving, bubbling, definitely
non terrestrial surface.

And it was carned off with
great skill and precision by
the eight member company.

An entirely different
mood was created in the soft
romanticism of Cadenza,
another new work set to
Andre Gagnon's Mes Quatre
Saisons. It was delicate and
lovely.

Mainly a duet for Dianne
Garrett and Denise O'Brien,
it was a nice balance for the
more vigorous pieces.

Not quite as successful
was the opening number,
Anna Wyman Dance
Theatre on Tour. It had lots
of skillful mime and humor
but never quite came
together.

Following the per-
formance, Jack Shadbolt's
interpretation of Adastra
was unveiled at the Van-
couver Art Gallery where a
25th anniversary celebration
for the Canada Council was
held.

There was lots to
celebrate.

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ARTIST JACK SHADBOLT, Canada Council Dance Director Monique Michaud and Anna Wyman stand in front of

Shadbolt’s interpretation of Adastra, one of Wyman’s new dances. The picture was unveiled Thursday, following the
performance. (Eric Eggertson photo)

ANC

A MUSICAL PLAY

six night DALE WASSERMAN
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JOE DARION
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Starring
STEVEN KIMBROUGH

ROMA HEARN FRANK McKAY

with
CHRISTINE ANTON - GEORGE MERNER - ALEX DIAKUN
DAPHNE GOLDRICK - BRUCE GORDON
CHARLES PAGE FLETCHER

and
BRIAN McKAY as the Padre
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Music Direction Sets & (costumes Productton staged by
ROGER PERKINS © JACK SIMON MILTON LYON
Choreography Lighting .
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Onginal productlon staged by ALBERT MARRE
Onginally produced by ALBERT Ww. SELDEN & HAL JAMES

FRI., APR. 23 - SAT., MAY 1 — 8 p.m.

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