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IT NCE JUDITH MARCUSE DANCE COMPANY O n November 9 & 10 the J U D I T H M A R C U S E D A N C E C O M P A N Y leaps on to the stage of the Playhouse with two world premieres! In recent years the Marcuse Company has dazzled audiences from Hong K o n g to Amsterdam and from Singapore to Tennessee. O n November 9 & 10 the company comes to the Vancouver Playhouse with new works by N e w Y o r k ' s Jennifer Sargent and Vancouver's L o l a M a c L a u g h l i n and two pieces by Judith Marcuse herself D A N C E A R T - A n A l l i a n c e of A r t F o r m s . The J U D I T H M A R C U S E D A N C E C O M P A N Y , known for working with artists in other fields, has drawn together the talents of local visual artists in a major fund-raiser. DanceArt. In an event curated by Diane Farris, the artists have contributed a variety of works ranging from jewelry to sculpture, from ceramics to paintings, to be available for sale at the Diane Farris Gallery on Sunday, November I I , 1-4 pm. OWLS, ANIMALS AND CLOWNS FROLIC AT T H E PLAYHOUSE; The J U D I T H M A R C U S E D A N C E C O M P A N Y presents their young audience programme, Ookpik and the A n i m a l s , in a special afternoon matinee for the whole family. The program consists o f a series of short comic vignettes, a ballet pas de deux and audience participation in rhythm and movement games. The feature of the matinee is Ookpik and the A n i m a l s , a fantasy ballet based on a poem by Canadian writer Dennis Lee. O o k p i k and the A n i m a l s appears at the V a n c o u ver Playhouse on Saturday, November 10 at 2:30 pm. For more information, please call the Judith Marcuse Dance Company at 985-6459. ANNA WYMAN THEATRE DANCE A n n a W y m a n announces the creation of a new, untitled 30 minute piece and confirms a tour of the Soviet U n i o n for June 28 to July 17, 1991. i think a lot of people - perhaps everybody w i l l be able to identify with my new piece", says W y m a n . " i t ' s all about what people do around tables in nightclubs, restaurants, boardrooms and cafes. About how they move and emote and how they act out their lives in an essentially artificial, though humanly necessary atmosphere. "I think it really communicates the particular humour, energy, and drama of a very typical human situation. It's around 30 minutes long, but there's so much variety and colour in it that I think people w i l l end up wishing it was longer. "The Russian Tour has got us all very excited. We got the invitation several months ago, and it was finally confirmed in October. 1 adore the opportunity to perform my new piece in a country where the tables really are turning, where there's a new freedom of expression in every area o f the arts. Imagine, just a short while ago an artist as central to modern dance as George Balanchine was forbidden in the Soviet U n i o n . A n d here we are going to perform works that people over there have starved for for years. So we're going over there to feed them. "I w i l l probably also be taking a new work by Cornelius Fischer-Credo. He's created a piece with the w o r k i n g title C l u e j h a t I like a lot. It's a black comedy, a surreal murder mysterj'. A n d then I'm going to take Walls, a work I created last February. It's all about the physical and spiritual walls that we impose upon our intimate and social lives together - the Beriin Walls, the barriers of " I " and ' T h o u " that we must all overcome on ihe road to self discovery. " W i t h these three works and perhaps one or two others we w i l l be travelling to Moscow, Leningrad, and Kieve. The company is also planning a trip to Montreal in early July 1991, and to the International Arts Festival in Tokyo, Japan for two weeks in July/August, 1991. A n d then there are a couple of tours planned for the early new year, for Western Canada in January and the Northwestern United States in February. So you see we are a very busy dance company in the coming year. " W e have been at it for 19 years now, and I feel like we can go on forever. A n d why not? I feel great, I love what I am doing, the dancers are enthusiastic, so what's stopping us? Vancouver and B . C . and Canada have been very good to the A n n a W y m a n Dance Theatre. We're ready to dance anywhere in the world. " For further information concerning these and other upcoming performances, phone 662-8846. 10