Dancer, Gymnast To Teach at UO
- May 26, 2024
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Updated: May 28, 2024
Dancer, Gymnast To Teach at UO
Bruce King, dancer, choreographer and teacher, and Ernestine Russell Carter, former member of the Canadian Olympic team who now teaches, will be guest faculty members at the University of Oregon's ninth annual summer workshop in physical education, June 22- July 10.
King, faculty member of the New Dance Group of New York City, who has performed annually on tours of the U. S. and Europe, will teach contemporary dance techniques.
Mrs. Carter, a former competitor in national and international events, will provide instruction in floor exercise, apparatus and tumbling.
Other workshop instructors, all members of the faculty of the UO School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation's Department of Physical Education for Women will include Jessie Puckett, associate professor; Dr. Frances Dougherty and Janet Wood- ruff, professors, and Lois Youngen, assistant professor.
Courses will include basic movement and conditioning activities, field hockey, gymnastics, tumbling, track and field, tournament tennis, individual and dual sports, prob lems in dance composition and contemporary dance techniques.
The program is designed for women teachers on the junior and senior high school and college levels, but men are invited to enroll in all dance areas. From one to six hours of credit may be earned at the workshop.
March 15, 1964
Rule of the Bones: Exercise Theory and Program for Correct Body Usage
Bruce King Dance Concert, American Theater Lab, 219 W 19th (924-8402)
NYM 1974 May
Four Artists Slated for Summer
Four distinguished artists in dance. drama, photography and literature will be on the University of Oregon campus this summer for the university's sixth annual Summer Academy of Contemporary Arts.
The 1964 guest lecturers will be Bruce King, dancer, choreographer and teacher; John Kerr, television, stage and film star; Arthur Sinsabaugh, photographer and teacher; and Earl Birney, poet, novelist, critic and teacher.
Each of these artists will present a two-week course, sharing their views and interests with students and visitors. At the end of each two-week session, the artist-in-residence will give a public performance
involving his own specialty. Dates of courses and the lecturers are Bruce King, June 22 July 2; John Kerr, July 6 16; Arthur Sinsabaugh, July 20 July 30; and Earl Birney, August 3 12.
Academy fees for university credit or audit are $33 for each two-week session. Visitors may attend any session for a $8 fee per two-week session. As a dancer-choreographer, King has toured throughouticals and was a member of solo concerts, has been a featured dancer in summer mus the United States with his the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Kerr first achieved fame for his performance as Tom Lee in the Broadway play, "Tea and Sympathy." For this role, opposite Deborah Kerr, he received the Antoinette Perry Award, the Donaldson Award, and the New York Drama Critics' Award as the 1953 season's best supporting actor.
Sinsabaugh, an associate professor of art at the University of Illinois, has had his work exhibited at the Chicago Exhibition Momentum, the Milwaukee Art Institute, the New York Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Birney, head of the Department of Creative Writing at the University of British Columbia, has received a number of distinctions and awards for his writing. (Eugene Register-Guard 1964 June 7)
Modern Dance Not a Separate Art
Modern dance hasn't yết become a separate art form, rather, it serves as an influence on related fields, That's the opinion expressed by an exponent of and partici- pant in modern dance who's now on the University of Oregon campus. He is Bruce King, first guest lecturer in the 1964 U of O Summer Academy of Contemporary Arts.
"I feel that at this period, modern dance is doing the ex- perimenting, and that the experimenting is feeding into the more popular forms of entertainment," said King in a talk with reporters. He is slightly built 35-year-old bachelor with black curly hair and a permanent 5 o'clock-shadow, As he talked, King played with his French poodle, Moon, who was as immaculately clipped as King was immaculately dressed.
"The influence of modern dance has been tremendous." he said. He cited American musicals-such as "West Side Story" which have adopted modern dance into their formal. King himself became interested in dance in his home town of Oakland, Calif. early in life, but didn't really get into modern dance until sometime later.
"At that time there was no outlet in the public school sys- tems there... I was really from the very beginning left with my impulses. I had no structure in which to work out I was ick to improvise.
"I feel this is important because it's the way people started modern dance-it was an impulse. The structure was not there -it had to be created."
King said that until he saw a ballet company do a one-night stand in Stockton, Calif., where he was attending college, "I thought That Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire were the best dancers in the world."
When he finished college, King went to New York to study, and eventually to teach. He has worked with Merce Cunning- ham and with Hanya Holmes, both Important names in the field of modern dance.
In addition to frequent solo tours, he teaches at the Adelphi University Children's Center.
King will finish his two weeks as guest lecturer on the U of O campus Thursday with a lecture-demonstration. Open to the public without charge, it will be held at 3 p.m. in the main University Theatre building. (EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sun., June 28, 1964)
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