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AL HUANG and SUZANNE PIERCE

with the UNIVERSITY DANCE THEATRE..

JOHN F. KENNEDY THEATRE

Choreography by AI Huang

Costume design by Suzanne Pierce

A Cloud Passed

Suzanne Pierce

PROGRAM

JULY 20. 21. 22. 1967

Adolf Brunner

Renee Bushnell. Sandra Johnson, Joan Kelly, Mary Ellen Madsen, Mimi Wisnosky,Diane Lam, Sylvia Nolan, Bonnie Oda, Sylvia Yamada

Cicada Song

AI Huang

Gaga u-Huang

Inspi.red by the metamorphosis of the 17-year locust. The life-like shell, shed by theCicada, remains silently crying long after its ephemeral life. The middle part of thescore is composed of natural cicada sound (no+ electronic).

New .and Curious School -of Theatrical Dancing*

Choreography by Carl WolzScenic Design by Edgardo De la CruzCostume Design by Lois Ginandes

&nst Krenek

I. Nancy Donaldson, Georgia Engel. Lois Ginandes, Jacqueline Kellet,Sabra K. McCracken. Becky Walker, Earlene Williams, Mimi Wisnosky

II. Joan Kelly, Lacey O'Neal

III. Carl Wolz

IV. Entire Cast

Conductor: Ernst KrenekViolin: Susan HeePiano: Hai-LuenCeleste: Mona SenPercussion: Robert DeMello, Gary Dunn, Donald Caneva, Glenn Nosse. RaymondShigeoka, William Steinohrt, Rodney Uyehara

* This is the name of a book on dance by Gregorio Lambranzi published at Nurem­berg in 1716. The author writes in his preface to the book: "If this work is receivedwith favour, I shall give to the world further new and extraordinary creations toprove the extent of the knowledge I have acquired, and of which there is an abun­dance to impart to others."

INTERMISSION

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Butterfly Dream

AI HuangHuang-Sussilo-Moor

The paradox of dream and reality. Chuang-tzu the Taoist philosopher frequentlydreamed that he was a butterfly. Troubled by his dreams, he sought enlightenmentfrom his master, Lao-tzu. The great man mused: "How do you know that at thismoment you are not a butterfly dreaming you are a man."

Dan eJions and Sunflow rs

Suz nne Pierce

O. Vaporous Heart!

I. Cry, want

AI Huang

II. Inner monologue

Suzanne Pierce

III. ush - p~rishabl

AI Huang and Suzan Pierc

Yin and Yang

AI Huang and Suzanne Pierce

INTERMISSION

Hans Haug

Jimmy Giuffre

Gr h m-Rhodes

Stefan Wolpe

C r Rhodes

The oriental cosmic symbols of the dual forces. liThe circle divided into the lightand dark, and above and below, a right and a left-the world of the opposites inceaseless alteration..... ("I Ching")

Yu Ko Chou Wen ChungScenic Design by Edgardo De la Cruz

Sylvia Nolan, Bonnie ada, Sylvia Yamada. Renee Bushnell. Joan Kelly, MaryEllen Madsen

Music adapted from "Yu Ko" for Ch';n by Mao Min-chung (c. 1280). "Yu Kolt means"Song of the Fisherman." The fisherman here is a symbol of the man who is in har­mony with nature. The dance is inspired by the element of water-a symbolicfeminine mystique of the Orient, particularly that of the court harem and thegoddesses.

Sleep's a Shell, to Break and Spurn-GoetheAI Huang, Suzanne Pierce, Carl Wolz, Joan Kelly

Bruno Maderna

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AL HUANG was born in China, spending most of his youth In th¢.' ~uraf C9u:~t;rYs·id.~:~ I

The beauty ,a'nd drama of nature, together 'with hi's' early exposur'e' 'to .' P.el<j'~g 6p~ra,,' "formed the basis of. his concept in theatre.' He received his B.A. in Ar~hitectl:Jral, D,e­sign at University of California-Los Angeles and M.A. in Choreography fro'm' Ben-'nington College. He has performed with Sammy Davis, Lotte Goslar, and was fea­tured in the movie' I Flower Drum Song." He was soloist for three seas~ns at Ja~o.b'sPillow International Dance Festival and Choreographer for the Perry, Mansfietd ,The- "atre, Colorado, Bennington Concert Tour, Contemporary Dance, Inc., New _'York, andthe Lotte Goslar Show in Hollywood. He has been on the Dance Faculty at UCLAsince 1963 and was Guest Artist-Teacher at Rockford College (1963), at the North­west Dance Symposium (1964, 1965) and at Wayne State University, (Sur1(mer, 19661.

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SUZANNE PIERCE, wife of AI Huang, has been leading soloist with AI Huang Com­pany since 1963. She ma jored in Dance and Drama at Boston Conservatory', J 'RockfordCollege and University of California-Los Angeles. Since then she has performed .with Lotte Goslar in Hollywood and at the Rockford Theatre Festival; she has" com- .pleted a dance role in the film "My Fair Lady." In 1962 she was Make-up Artist .~nd ';,Assistant, Costume Designer for the Yale University production 'of' Brecht's "Cau-' 'casian Chalk Circle," and has worked with make-up artist Vincent Kehoe, SMA, inNew York, and subsequently on her own in Connecticut, Illinois, and California. Shehas been Costume Designer and Make-up Consultant for AI Huang Dal'Jce Company .since 1963. '

AI and Suzanne made their duo-concert debut on a West-Coast Tour, Winter, 1965They toured the United States, Summer, 1966, including debut performances at theAmerican Dance Festival in New London, Connecticut, and the New York City DanceFestival. Last year, as Ford Foundation Research Scholars, they were studying in theareas of theatre movement, make-up, costumes in the Republic of China, finding asynthesis of the symbolic oriental theatre and the realistic Western theatre. f:'.s visiti~g

professor at the Drama-Dance Departments of the College of Chinese Cufture, Mr.Huang conducted seminars for dance teachers and professional dancers. He wasawarded a medal of hono from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Chinafor his work and contribution in the field of dance education. The couple performedand toured Hongkong, Thailand, Malaysia l Singapore, Korea and Japan before re­turning to America, where they are Artists-in~residence at the University of Hawaiithis summer, choreographing and performing at the Festival of the Arts of ThisCentury.

Productio Staff

S age ~Aanager: Katharine Hartzell

Lighting Design: R. W. Ward

Sound: John Van der Slice

Costumes: Fujie Kajikawa, students of Drama 150, and the dancers

Publicity and Promotion: Gary Toyama, Takeo Miji

Dance photographs by Mr. Si-chi K'o will be on exhibit j'n the Kennedy Theatre Lob-by and at George Hall, July 16-23. ' '.