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On Saturday, April 16, die charm- incorporated into a collaboration of
ing, whimsical, and evocative Peter fourchoreographersahdthusical perPucci Plus Dancers will be perform- *. former Prince. Pucci is die recipient
."Curtain Time."
The Saturday night program reflects Pucci's something'foreyeryone
ing in the Snell;TTieaterof Potsdam
of the 1990 American Dance Festival
principle. Pucci is not out toperpiex
College at>7:3f>piih: Peter Pucci began his dance career with the wellknownPilobolus Dance Theatre where
Fellowship.
During the past eight years Peter
Pucci Plus Dancers have enjoyed three
his audience. While entertaining lis
with his often feisty, ^ly^fgorxi^hi^r
mored characters, his reflective iia?
tie was the principal dancer and
successfuletnjagemein^New York
ture is actively cfeatin^movertiegf
cochorepgrapher for nine years.
"Hie Joffrey Ballet is among the
several companies from whom Pucci
has received commissions to create
City' s Joyce Theatr^mf|ieManMade
Festival, theAltogetherDifferent Festival, and a current weeklbng series of
performances:^; ; v a < ^,
revealing the subtle but com^jl^e^Sct"*
tional motives that uMeriy; hulman
relationships. Whether his^'ubject is
intimacy or social injustice, Pucci's
dances^ A guest appearance with the
Joffrey enabled him to dance in his
Pucci's dan^;"Heu^fj^Civility" 'e^sit|pptentfemainsthe
was treated fogthe comjiny's ap- ^ani&tlfiustdowithcho- "
"Moon of the Falling Leaves," which
pearance at tKe1LineoIn~C§nter Serf-; ^i&l^aphy what s emoous FuiflfestivalfJft|?dancers ha"ve ,;?t|5halty close to me. The
also taken part in ^ J a c o b ' s Pillow t^figre-experience 1 have, '
Dance F e s ^ ^ tourgd~tJie US and 3$hE more I know how I Europe, and have produced[two pub- feel about things and how
lic TV^pWsf "One Nighf^iSly," and to get that out."
is based on Native American themes
and danced to original and traditional
Native American music and poetry.
His second work for the Joffrey Ballet, entitled "Willing and Able," is
This.concert is part of the Performing Arts'Seriespf the Associated Colleges, and is made possible with support from the Student Dance Ensemble of SUNY Potsdam and public
fundsfrpm the New York State Council pritlhe'ALris.
adult and each child must have a ticket. Tickets are available at Desert
Island Music, Northern Music and
Video (Potsdam and Massena), The
Other Bookstore (Canton & Potsdam),
The Pear Tree, SLU Bookstore, Canton College StudentJJnion. Potsdam
tickets are $10for general admis-
College Student Union, Clarkson's
;sipn,~I$8 for seniors and students, and
%5for SJflNY Potsdam students; children .10 and younger are free, if accompariied'by ah-adult, limit two per
Cheel Information Center, Associated Colleges (267-333 I) and the Crane
Box Office (267-2277). Group rates
available at 267-3331.
K
Discoverer of GJilfer Dekssioe-Era
PlMrtpgraphs to Spealglin Iphibition
, By Vanessa Killebrew
On April 7 the Richard. F. Brush
Art Gallery put a new exhibition on
display. The exhibit is a showing of
photographs mat are of rural people
and areas from the Depression Era
that were taken in the 1940s.
The exhibition, entitled "Official
Records: Farm 'Security Administration Photographsfromthe Permanent
but were lost. They were found in the
1980'sty Sally Stein, a photographic
historian who discovered the 700
transparencies that Had been missTiled in the Library ofCongress.
The pictures in the Brush Gallery
show an underlying theme of depression and devastation, yet they also
depict a sense of happiness.
"One of the most important points
pered wall paper and
stores with advertising
for one-cent oranges and
five-cent- apples. Although this shows a sense
ofdeprivation, the bright
colors
that
the
Kodachrome film gives
off contrast this thought
giving it a happier, stron-
Collection," is at the Richard F. Brush
are; that people tend to think these
gerfeeling.
Art Gallery through Julie 6
These photographs were taken by
the Federal .Farm Security Administration, by artists mat took mis government sponsored images. The purpose of this FSA project Was to show
improvements that federal assistance
programs provided to American farm
families who were affected.by the
Great Depression.
Tlie reason mese photographs are
so important to recognize is that the
artiste who took these pictures used
newly invented color Kodachrome
images are natural, when in fact they
are not;" said! Cathy Tedford, Director of the Gallery. "TheyareTahdbmly constructed and contrived."
Collections manager of the Gallery
' Carole Mathey said, "These pictures.
are very striking to look at. I think
these pictures show what the government has done* or what the people
need:the government to do."
The exhibition, "Official Records:
Farm Security Administration Photographs from the Permanent Col lee-.
tion" is at the Richard F. Brush Art
These photographs are
examples of the American values in the 1940s.
film. Thisfilmwas thpfirst color film Gallery April 7 through June 6.
All _©f.tjie.se photographs' are of
to be.used by anyone.
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This is hot the only reason that people who experienced tough times
these photographs are of great inipo*-•' during;the depression. Some-of the
tance. They were taken in the 1940s, pictures show rooms- with craft pa-
Caupies at SquamDarice,
tiacintoshCounty,
OK, is also on
display Mjti^^alhjryk
. Phdto Courtesy of Univ. Communications
They relay a feeling of
American prosperity and
patriotism.
Sally Stein, the discoverer of these extraordinary photographs, Will
be visiting St. Lawrence
mis Saturday, April 16
to give a lecture on this
exhibition and to talk
about these pictures that
willbe on display until
June 6. The presentation,
"The Rhetoric of the
Colorful and the. Colorless:. Material Culture
and Social Documents in
the- Great Depression,"
will be at 11 aim. injthe
Griffiths Arts Center,
- Room 123.
By comparing these
j folpr-phptQgraphs.to1he:,
. rhprefamousolaclc-afld-.
white images of the era,
as well as to other popular and cplorful forms of
mass culture of the.peri;! od, Sjteitfs Jeeture; will
explore why the color
: irhagessseem so surprising, and if the Colorphotographs give us more,
less or different information about life, art,
culture and commerce
during the 1930s.
The Performing Arts Series of the Associated Colleges
and the Potsdam College Dance Ensemble
present
Peter
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"...nottiing short of dazzling."
Dance Magazine
Tickets: SIO General. SftSenlor/Students. $5 SUNY Potsdam with ID.
Children 10 and under free if accompanied by an adult
(Limit two per adult, child must have ticket for seating.)
Tickets Available At:
Canton: SLU Bookstore, The Other Bookstore, The Pear Tree,
SUNY Canton Student Activities Office
Potsdam: Associated Golleges. The Other Bookstore. Northern Music & Video
(also Massena), Desert Island Music, Cheel Information' Desk.
. SUNY Potsdam Student Union, Crane Box Office
Tickets by phone with credit card: 267-2277
or call (315) 267-3331
The Performing Arts Series thanks the Student Government Association of SUNY
Potsdam Tor its continued generous support. The Series is made possible.
in part, with public funds from the New York State Council oit the Arts.
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