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Moran: A Dancer With Vision
BY NANCY ELLIS
Staff Wrttar
Leisa Moran is full of life and vi-sion.
Her career as a dancer has
been plagued with injury, but
although her physical activity has
been limited, possibilities for the
future seem to have expanded. She
is searching for and finding new
ways of expression within the con-fines
of her body, but also beyond
actual dance performance into other
areas of life.
Leisa's life as a dancer encom-passes
almost her entire natural
life. She began her first classes at
age five-half-hour lessons in tap,
ballet and jazz. At that early age
dance was mostly creative move-ment,
but within two or three years,
Leisa was at the studio every day,
finding out what dance really was,
and loving it. The studio was in
Beckley, West Virginia, and her in-structor
was Jerry Rose. Her career
has led her from Beckley to the North
Carolina School of the Arts, the Cin-cinnati
Ballet, the University of
Wisconsin, and to Greensboro,
which threatened to be the end of
the road for her where performance
was concerned.
Leisa came to UNC-G last year at
a graduate student and teaching
assistant, in response to a notice she
read on a bulletin board in Madison,
Wisconsin. This past summer she
remained in Greensboro, teaching
classes and working with Emily
Adams. A fall in the studio put her
into the hospital for her third knee
operation. This time she was en-couraged
to "hang up the shoes."
The possibility of dancing again was
highly questionable.
Naturally, the idea of "never
again" is distressing to anyone, ex-pecially
to a person whose life is
based on dancing. Leisa's love for
the art seems to be overflowing,
and contagious. She learned dedica-tion
and professionalism from the
start with Jerry Rose. The first ma-jor
triumph came for her at age
eleven, when she won a scholarship
at a ballet festival to study at North
Carolina School of the Arts. She
went off to train in Winston-Salem
for three or four summers in a row,
and loved the experience. She was
excited by meeting people from dif-ferent
places—her first roommate
there was from Japan—and she lov-ed
the intense training.
In her own estimation, she began
to add artistry to her technique dur-ing
her years with the Cincinnati
Ballet. She entered the company in
an overwhelming rush, with two
weeks to learn three major ballets.
She points out that accomplishment
as a highlight of her career: the con-centration
and intense rehearsal,
and the great feeling of success
when she was ready to perform on
schedule. She also found a new
family in two weeks. Although the
company did not totally escape the
jealousy and competition often pre-sent
in dance companies, Leisa
found a lot of encouragement and
team spirit as well. She talked of
"rooting each other on from the
wings," and attributes competitive
attitudes among dancers to in-security.
She said, "1 love giving the
time and dedication it takes to
become a dancer."
Unfortunately, her three and half
years with the Cincinnati Ballet end-ed
abruptly. Her first knee injury
had come at age fifteen. In Cincin-nati
she first injured her Achilles'
tendon. Because of the tendonitis in
her right foot, she danced with
almost all of her weight on her left
leg, and the left knee went again.
She was carried out of the studio,
Leisa interested in injury preven-tion.
She realized that although
most athletes have trainers,
dancers are on their own. At the
University of Wisconsin at Madison,
her understudy took her place; she
found herself out of the company.
Dance is a business as well as an art
form, and an injured dancer is of no
use.
It was this experience that got
she developed an independent ma-jor:
ballet instruction with an em-phasis
on injury prevention. She
brought that knowledge to UNC-G
as part of her assistantship. And
here she found herself in surgery
once again.
Luminaires Night Planned
BY ERIC HAUSE
Nfw.Kdil.:r
On Wednesday night, when the
sun goes down, thousands of
candles across campus will be lit,
marking the beginning of the an-nual
UNC-G Luminaire Display.
This event, sponsored by Alpha Phi
Omega, Gamma Sigma Sigma, and
EUC, has a long tradition at UNO
G and marks the beginning of the
Christmas season for many.
1984 will be the fifteenth year the
Luminaire Display has been in ex-istence.
In 1970, Kim Ketchum,
then-president of Alpha Phi Omega,
visited the University of Northern
Arizona where luminaires were
displayed every Christmas. He
brought the idea back to UNC-G
with him and approached Elliott
Council with a proposition: why not
line all major thoroughfares on cam-pus
with candles at the end of Fall
semester?
The first display was held on
Reading Day of 1970. Alpha Phi
Omega provided $100 of their own
money, with Elliott Center funding
the remainder. That year some
4,000 candles, placed in paper bags,
lined the sidewalks and avenues on
campus, beginning a tradition that
has become one of the highlights of
the Christmas Holiday in
Greensboro.
Terry Weaver of Elliott Center
remembers many of those years
when thingB didn't go quite as
smoothly as they were planned, due
mainly to the weather. She
remembers one year when, "it was
so cold, the candles wouldn't burn
right." It has rained twice, and
snowed once. ("Of course, we
always hope for a little snow," she
said.) She also recalled one year
when it was so warm that people
were wearing shorts as they were
placing the candles.
This year, some 3,600 candles
spaced four to five feet apart will
line the walks and drives along cam-pus.
Volunteers will help set up the
display, starting at 11:00 a.m.
Wednesday. Around 7:00 p.m., the
candles will be lit and outside lights
will be turned down. There is also
a bonfire planned, to be held in the
quad.
Weaver pointed out that great at-tention
is paid to safety and fire
hazards. She also said that anyone
who sees an unlit candle could light
it. To assist in cleanup, students
out after the display could push the
bags to the curb to allow the
Physical Plant to get them the next
day.
Co-ordinators for this year's
display were Marlene Midgette,
President of Alpha Phi Omega; and
Missy Elvein of Gamma Sigma
Sigma. Member of these organiza-tions
helped assemble the kits and
place them around campus.
Goldman to Resume Teaching
BY KAREN CARPENTER
Staff Writer
Dean Bert Goldman has resigned
from his position as Dean of
Academic Advising to resume his
role as full-time professor in the
School of Education.
"This is my fifteenth year in the
office as dean. I feel that I want to
go back and teach full-time."
Goldman has been at UNC-G for
twenty years.
While Goldman wants to resume
full-time teaching, he does not want
■to leave UNC-G or the city of
Greensboro. "I find the University
a very enjoyable institution to work
in. The student body is a very ex-citing
group to work with. And my
family and I find Greensboro a very
attractive city to live in."
Dean Goldman will use his own
experience as Dean of Academic
Advising to help him teach graduate
courses in the field of higher educa-tion
administration. During the past
fifteen years Goldman has broaden-ed
the academic opportunities at the
University. He assisted in the
establishment of the Upward Bound
program. Upward Bound is a col-laboration
of UNC-G and A & T
University. He brought to UNC-G
a grant that enabled the Universi-ty
to establish the Special Services
office.
Due to Goldman's efforts, gifted
and talented youngsters are able to
attend summer camp at Piney
Lake. He expanded the opportuni-ty
for incoming students to pre-register
in the later part of June
each year. Goldman also developed
a co-operative education program
which gives students the chance to
go to work for a semester and go to
school for a semester. Industrial
and government firms provide
students a job related to their field
of study. Goldnflh is currently try-ing
to give more liberal arts
students the same opportunities.
Dean Goldman coached the mena
varsity tennis team to the con-ference
championship two years,
and all twelve years that he served
as coach, the team had winning
seasons.
Another of Goldman's ac-complishments
is writing a four
volume set of books entitled Direc-
However, Greensboro was not the
end of the road for Leisa Moran as
a dancer. She went through some
difficult weeks. Her career has in-cluded
a lot of pain: physically, men-tally,
and emotionally. But she has
also learned strength and patience,
and is grateful to her family for all
their support. Her belief is "what
the mind conceives, the body
achieves." So she began to find out
once more what her body could
achieve. Those attending last
week's concert by the UNC-G
Dance Company witnessed Leisa's
achievement. She danced the pas de
deux "Whoever You Are" with
Jack Arnold, and it was very well-received.
hand to where I am." She likes the
spontaneity of dance, and she savs
she feels a "stirring" inside before
a performance, that becomes a
warm glow.
Sometimes before a performance,
Leisa says she can feel her mother's
energy, which gives her a serenity.
She has learned a lot from her fami-ly,
especially her brother, who has
Down's syndrome. "He has taught
me so much...to keep my eyes and
ears and heart open...[and most of
all] love and acceptance of all
creatures." Having worked as a
volunteer with handicapped
children, she is interested in
creative dance as therapy. "Move-ment
is a human need," she claims.
tory of Unpublished Experimental
Measures. Three of these volumes
have been published and the fourth
volume is in the process of being
published now. Returning to a full-time
teaching position will allow
Goldman "much more time" to
devote to future writing projects.
Dean Goldman looks forward to
his return to full-time teaching, but
will miss being the Dean of
Academic Advising. "The office has
been an exciting place to work in
because of its service in each of the
six professional schools and in the
College of Arts and Sciences. It has
presented a very rewarding set of
challenges over the years. I look for-ward
to the challenges of being a
professor in the classroom. That
certainly has many rewards."
Dancing the piece was a "dream The future for Leisa Moran is not
come true." "I don't know when yet clear. "I have so many interests;
I've ever had a performance mean I know 111 never be bored," she
so much, for so many reasons," she said. She is now working on a
said. She had not anticipated being Masters degree in education, in
able to dance in the concert. She supervision of curriculum. Jerry
had to learn to dance all over again, Rose recently opened her mind to
concentrating on the body from the several possibilities. Working as his
waist up. And what she found most assistant, she became acquainted
' 'symbolic'' about this concert was with the duties of a ballet mistress,
that the first person she danced for, which usually include teaching
after a five month absense, was classes and rehearsing dancers,
none other than her very first cleaning up their performance of
teacher, Jerry Rose. Rose gave the the choreographer's work. She
two dancers the choreography and wants to study the classics, and is
challenged them to make it their interested in approaching dance
own. For Leisa, the result was "the roles from a philosophical rather
epitome of who I am. It said than psychological point of view.
everything." This involves studying the
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steel rod through the center, but ed to "do the best I can do with
also having supple limbs like a tree. what I have left." And it seems that
Her goal in a performance is "to what is left is the abililty and will
take the audience in the palm of my to do many great things indeed.
INDEX
Opinions page 2
Lovefeaat page 3
Basketball page 4
Get your stamps! parr 4
The Grumbler page 5
A Senior Remembers page 5
Studio Theatre Review page 6
'84 in Photographs page 4
Etretrai page 7
Sport. Shorts page 7
Flexible Flyer page 8