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THIS WEEK: · Oct. 27- Nov. 2, 2009 Obama vs. Fox News; Can the President play favorites? OPINIONS PAGE 5 ro • •I THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www.caro n a n o n n e . c o m Parents have no business on Facebook LIFE PAGE 16 WUAG voted among the Triad's best Shawnee Becker Staff Writer UNCG's own WUAG has been voted Greensboro's best college radio station by News and Record readers. They have also come in with an honorable mention at third place in the Best Station overall category, beating out commercial competitors whose frequencies allow for a broader listenership. ALL DANCE PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY The Martha Graham Dance company, pictured above, performed in Aycock Auditorium last Saturday. The company is considered one of the best in the world. General manager Jack Bonney says of the vote "We have won the Go Triad! best college radio station in the past- we actually won first in '05, '07, and now '09 and second place in the even years- '06 and '08. But we are much happier, more excited and surprised to come in third behind Rock 92, and WKZL . People genuinely voted for us because they think we are one of the best radio stations. And to be competing with commercial stations, when we have such a low frequency- You can only hear WUAG for about 15 miles behind the city, and some of these bigger stations you can hear in Burlington, High Point, and even Winston- so for us to only be heard in Greensboro and still be in third is pretty impressive." John Sanford Friedrich Staff Writer The ghosts of a dead genera- - tion danced for the hundreds of people attending last Saturday's performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company in Aycock Auditorium. Unlike writing, painting or sculpture, dance is a very ephemeral art form - nothing is left of each dance except an empty stage when it is over. This made the performance of pieces which first debuted between a century and 60 years ago all the more uncanny. Beginning with examples of how dance was conceived of and produced over a hundred years ago, when Martha Graham was a student, the audienc;e can see just how much the art form has evolved in the last century. Incense was first premiered in 1906 by Ruth St. Denis. Dance has grown to be a very sparse and raw art - there is very little for the viewer to see but the body and its motions. It was not always this way, as in Incense employed a variety of props that would seem more in place with theater, including one female role who was draped in shrouds and wielding a hand-fan, a male with bronze ringlets and the principle THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL. XC ISSUE 10 role, a kind of priestess, who was ritually burning incense at an altar, despite how nervous the people who manage the theater must have been at the notion of a real fire on the wooden stage. Being a harem-slave to a Sultan is not - the type of subject matter you'd expect to see as the basis of a dance today, but in the performance of one of Graham's oldest pieces Tanagra we see the playful but clearly seductive motions of just such a dancing slave. Wearing bells on her ankles and very little else, Jacquelyn Elder swayed and teased the audience all while retaining some feisty independence. The critics of 1926 may well have found this scandalous. Unfortunately this was merely an excerpt from a longer choreography, and this CONTAaUS the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: FAX: 336-334-57 52 336-334-3518 audience was not able to see how she ultimately -expresses or resolves her captivity. Martha Graham is considered _to be the woman who put the "Modern" in Modern Dance and this was made evident during her groundbreaking piece Lamentation. A person who is drawn to creating dance as an art form is someone who revels in the possibilities of the human body, its freedom and grace. Lamen-tation is not only disturbing in its own right, but must be even more repugnant to a dancer. Sitting on a public-style bench for nearly the entire piece, the dancer struggled and writhed beneath a purple tube of clot_h that left only her fingers and face exposed. Stretching the prison around her, she is ultimately un- DIREOORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E Sf?orts Life 2-4 2 5 5-7 8-10, 19 10-13,18 14-17 able to escape but does succeed in showing the audience her agony and create an emotional bond. A stationary and frustrated piece like this did clearly break with the notion of dance as a work of mere beauty or entertainment. As Fascism spread across Europe and the world readied once more for war, Graham's Steps in the Street captured the pessimistic attitude that all freedom-loying people must have felt at the time. Specific to the history of the art, in this piece Graham has over a dozen identically blackclad female dancers perform like a single mechanized unit. Some individuals would fall out of maneuvers and the rest would follow as blindly as a good soldier. Strings of women carrying out the same sharp and at times violent motions created quite a scene and is important to note because while not rejecting aesthetics, Graham here rejected the notion that female's bodies must be employed to make weak movements. -• WUAG is an almost entirely student-run organization, the only exception being Bonney, who came to the station several years ago. There are both two and three hour radio shows all run by student DJ's. The late night shows and weekend shows, called "specialty shows", cover everything from French music to sports to music about US presidents. Earlier this decad_e, three young choreographers were commissioned by the Martha Graham SEE MARTHA ON PAGE TWO ON THE WEB AT: "The station has gradually changed;' Bonney said. ·~we've changed frequencies three times. SEE WUAG ON PAGE TWO ::: ' ·. =~·: - ::;-
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Title | The Carolinian [October 27, 2009] |
Date | 2009-10-27 |
Editor/creator | Boschini, John |
Subject headings | University of North Carolina at Greensboro--Newspapers;College student newspapers and periodicals-- North Carolina--Greensboro;Student publications--North Carolina--Greensboro;Student activities--North Carolina--History |
Place | Greensboro (N.C.) |
Description | The October 27, 2009, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Original publisher | Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
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Full text | THIS WEEK: · Oct. 27- Nov. 2, 2009 Obama vs. Fox News; Can the President play favorites? OPINIONS PAGE 5 ro • •I THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www.caro n a n o n n e . c o m Parents have no business on Facebook LIFE PAGE 16 WUAG voted among the Triad's best Shawnee Becker Staff Writer UNCG's own WUAG has been voted Greensboro's best college radio station by News and Record readers. They have also come in with an honorable mention at third place in the Best Station overall category, beating out commercial competitors whose frequencies allow for a broader listenership. ALL DANCE PHOTOS COURTESY OF MARTHA GRAHAM DANCE COMPANY The Martha Graham Dance company, pictured above, performed in Aycock Auditorium last Saturday. The company is considered one of the best in the world. General manager Jack Bonney says of the vote "We have won the Go Triad! best college radio station in the past- we actually won first in '05, '07, and now '09 and second place in the even years- '06 and '08. But we are much happier, more excited and surprised to come in third behind Rock 92, and WKZL . People genuinely voted for us because they think we are one of the best radio stations. And to be competing with commercial stations, when we have such a low frequency- You can only hear WUAG for about 15 miles behind the city, and some of these bigger stations you can hear in Burlington, High Point, and even Winston- so for us to only be heard in Greensboro and still be in third is pretty impressive." John Sanford Friedrich Staff Writer The ghosts of a dead genera- - tion danced for the hundreds of people attending last Saturday's performance by the Martha Graham Dance Company in Aycock Auditorium. Unlike writing, painting or sculpture, dance is a very ephemeral art form - nothing is left of each dance except an empty stage when it is over. This made the performance of pieces which first debuted between a century and 60 years ago all the more uncanny. Beginning with examples of how dance was conceived of and produced over a hundred years ago, when Martha Graham was a student, the audienc;e can see just how much the art form has evolved in the last century. Incense was first premiered in 1906 by Ruth St. Denis. Dance has grown to be a very sparse and raw art - there is very little for the viewer to see but the body and its motions. It was not always this way, as in Incense employed a variety of props that would seem more in place with theater, including one female role who was draped in shrouds and wielding a hand-fan, a male with bronze ringlets and the principle THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL. XC ISSUE 10 role, a kind of priestess, who was ritually burning incense at an altar, despite how nervous the people who manage the theater must have been at the notion of a real fire on the wooden stage. Being a harem-slave to a Sultan is not - the type of subject matter you'd expect to see as the basis of a dance today, but in the performance of one of Graham's oldest pieces Tanagra we see the playful but clearly seductive motions of just such a dancing slave. Wearing bells on her ankles and very little else, Jacquelyn Elder swayed and teased the audience all while retaining some feisty independence. The critics of 1926 may well have found this scandalous. Unfortunately this was merely an excerpt from a longer choreography, and this CONTAaUS the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: FAX: 336-334-57 52 336-334-3518 audience was not able to see how she ultimately -expresses or resolves her captivity. Martha Graham is considered _to be the woman who put the "Modern" in Modern Dance and this was made evident during her groundbreaking piece Lamentation. A person who is drawn to creating dance as an art form is someone who revels in the possibilities of the human body, its freedom and grace. Lamen-tation is not only disturbing in its own right, but must be even more repugnant to a dancer. Sitting on a public-style bench for nearly the entire piece, the dancer struggled and writhed beneath a purple tube of clot_h that left only her fingers and face exposed. Stretching the prison around her, she is ultimately un- DIREOORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E Sf?orts Life 2-4 2 5 5-7 8-10, 19 10-13,18 14-17 able to escape but does succeed in showing the audience her agony and create an emotional bond. A stationary and frustrated piece like this did clearly break with the notion of dance as a work of mere beauty or entertainment. As Fascism spread across Europe and the world readied once more for war, Graham's Steps in the Street captured the pessimistic attitude that all freedom-loying people must have felt at the time. Specific to the history of the art, in this piece Graham has over a dozen identically blackclad female dancers perform like a single mechanized unit. Some individuals would fall out of maneuvers and the rest would follow as blindly as a good soldier. Strings of women carrying out the same sharp and at times violent motions created quite a scene and is important to note because while not rejecting aesthetics, Graham here rejected the notion that female's bodies must be employed to make weak movements. -• WUAG is an almost entirely student-run organization, the only exception being Bonney, who came to the station several years ago. There are both two and three hour radio shows all run by student DJ's. The late night shows and weekend shows, called "specialty shows", cover everything from French music to sports to music about US presidents. Earlier this decad_e, three young choreographers were commissioned by the Martha Graham SEE MARTHA ON PAGE TWO ON THE WEB AT: "The station has gradually changed;' Bonney said. ·~we've changed frequencies three times. SEE WUAG ON PAGE TWO ::: ' ·. =~·: - ::;- |