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HORACE BRISTOL'S "JOAD FAMILY APPLYING FOR RELIEF" is part of an exhibition of photographs now on display at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. The exhibition, 'The Grapes of Wrath' Family Album: The Photographs of Horace Bristol, will be on display through March 29. |
UNL Theatre presents Look Back in Anger at 8 p.m. on Feb. 20, 21, 24-28.
The story by John Osborne is about an angry young man, Jimmy Porter, (Eric Harrell), who looks back because he has so little incentive to look ahead. The words pour out of him, a flood of satire and invective. The words are often cruel, but they are also vibrant and colorful. They sting the characters of the play, particularly his wife Alison (Sasha Statmore) and friend Cliff (Kyle Johnston).
Cliff is a soothing, natural counterpoint to Jimmy, easy and relaxed with the sad, natural intelligence of the self-taught. Alison is the most elusive personality to catch inthe uneasy polyphony of these three people. She is tuned in a different key, a key of well-bred malaise that is often drowned in the robust orchestration of the other two. In Jimmy Porter's boiling resentment at not being able to find himself in his own generation, he makes life impossible for those he most cherishes. Rounding out the cast is Alison's friend Helena and Alison's father Col. Redfern.
Though written in the 1950s, the UNL production has been contemporized reflecting the social issues and language of the 1990s. The play is directed by Karen Libman.
Tickets are $6 students, $9 UNL faculty/staff/senior citizen, $10 for all others and are available at the box office in the Temple Building.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago pounds the boards at the Lied Center for Performing Arts at 8 p.m. Feb. 20.
Chicago's premier dance company, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, has grown from a four-woman troupe that debuted at a senior citizens home in 1977 to a 22-member corps that boasts choreography by Twyla Tharp, Bob Fosse, Kevin O'Day and Margo Sappington.
The company, founded by Lou Conte, is a living archive for significant choreography - especially that of Twyla Tharp - and an innovative force in dance. The company combines theatrical jazz, contemporary dance and classical ballet technique to create an unparalleled artistic style filled with energy and technical precision.
In 1991, Conte invited Tharp to set works for the company. Her choreography was an instant hit for the company, which has added several pieces to its repertoire. Yet this is distinctly not an all-Tharp company.
The troupe has no big name all-star dancers. It's definitely an ensemble of soloists. Conte says he looks for dancers well-trained in ballet basics, with athletic and natural movements and a command of modern and jazz idioms. He is known for his devotion to his dancers; his is one of few companies to offer health insurance, contracts and a guaranteed annual salary with vacation pay.
In addition the company is serious about building new audiences for dance - community programs, master classes and residencies serve more than 17,000 students each year.
For its Lincoln performance, the troupe has chosen to dance "Lady Lost Found," "Link," "Sechs Tanze" and "I Remember Clifford." (All subject to change if necessary.)
Pre-perforrnance talks, delivered by Kit Voorhees, coordinator of education and outreach for the College of Fine and Performing Arts, begin at 55 minutes and 30 minutes before the performance in the Lied Steinhart room. These identical 15-minute talks are presented as part of the Lied's ongoing outreach and education program.
Tickets for the 8 p.m. performance are $24, $20 and $16. UNL, Nebraska Wesleyan University and Doane College students and youth 18 and younger with proper identification can purchase tickets for half-price. Target "Treatseats" discount coupons are available at participating Target stores.
Call the Lied Box Of fice at 472-4747 or toll free, 1 (800) 432-3231 for ticket availability. Box Office hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. weekdays. On performance weekdays, the Box Office is open from 11 a.m. through the first intermission. For evening performances on weekends, the Box Office opens at 3 p.m.
This is a Mid-America Arts Alliance program. Mid-America Arts Alliance is a non-profit regional arts organization whose partners include the state arts agencies of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri; Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, the National Endowment for the Arts and private contributors.
Wednesday Walks, presented the second Wednesday of the month at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery and Sculpture Garden, feature guided tours of selected gallery exhibitions. Free and open to the public, the walks occur between 12:15 and 1 p.m.
During each Wednesday Walk, the gallery's director and curator lead participants in an informal walk through the Sheldon Gallery as they discuss special highlighted exhibitions and answer questions. Following each Wednesday Walk, a brief discussion period will be held with gourmet coffee provided by The Mill.
The schedule of topics for the Wednesday Walks series for Spring of 1998 is:
General support for programming has been provided by the Nebraska Art Association, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the advancement of the visual arts in Nebraska through educational and cultural enrichment opportunities. Nebraska Art Association programs are supported in part by a Basic Support Grant from the Nebraska Arts Council, a State agency.
A new field guide on the geology of Niobrara State Park turned out to be much more expansive than its author originally intended. As a result, the new guide provides perspective also on river action and natural hazards.
Initially, NU geologist Robert Diffendal Jr. set out to produce a "small and not terribly ambitious" field guide focusing on the park's geology, similar to other state park field guides produced over the last 30 years by UNL's Conservation and Survey Division.
As Diffendal began that project, however, he became aware of other researchers' work in the park. For example, there were Ray Skelly and Frank Ethridge of Colorado State University, who were compiling information about changes in the Niobrara River. Also, CSD Associate Director Duane Eversoll was researching landslides in the area, and Bruce Bailey of the NU State Museum was involved in removing a largely complete mosasaur skeleton discovered during road work in the park.
"I decided I would get in touch with these people, and with Dave Watkins in the geology department for the section on invertebrate fossils, because they certainly knew more about those aspects than I did," Diffendal said. "So why should I write something by myself when we could have a far better product if they would write about their areas of expertise?"
The result is "The Geology of Niobrara State Park, Knox County, Nebraska, and Adjacent Areas - With a Brief History of the Park, Gavins Point Dam and Lewis and Clark Lake," now available from CSD.
"From the standpoint of the educational circulars dealing with state and federal parks," Diffendal said, "it's different in that its focus is principally on what's going on today. And while we treat the geology, mineralogy and paleontology, the work of the river and the landslide potential in the area are a big part of the focus."
Diffendal also noted the guide deals more completely than any other CSD or other government resource with the changes in the river brought on by construction of a dam and reservoir, as well as the impact of landslides.
The 28-page guide is available for $5, plus $2 for shipping and handling, from the Conservation and Survey Division, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Neb., 68588-0517. Nebraska residents should add city and state sales tax. CSD is part of NU's Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
- C.E. Flowerday, editor/publications, Conservation and Survey
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