Friday. March l3. I970 Theater Dance Group Presents Outstandingly Unified Performance By RONNIE FULTON Last Friday and Saturday night ili Roberts Theater, the' Grinnell community was treated to an evening ot excellent dance and some very good choreography by the Theater Dance Group, for inerly known as Orchesis. The varied program provided an ex- citingshow for theaudience, The Theater Dance Group. as compared with last year‘s group, has learned to work and dance as a group. A college dance group with only a few good dancers could not have prowded such a diversified program, The pres ence of so many new males in -the performance, noted with great pleasure, is one factor re- sponsible for a more cohesive group, The first half of the program was choreographed primarily by students, “Organic,“ choreo- graphed by Giti Zarnegar, was one of the best attempts. The out standing piece of student choreography was ”Street Peo- pie,” danced to music by Cop- land. and choreographed by Dick Hartz, Harlz obviously has potenr tial as a choreographer, In this number he managed to create humorous character sketches of street vendors and young cou- ples. He knows how to shift the audience‘s attention from cou- pla, to individuals, to the group. The simplicity of the dramatic elements in this piece made the story easily understood. Another student piece, “Character Stud- ies From Theater,“ would have profited from a less complicated plot. l-lartz’ other example of choreography was his solo, “David at Gilboa.” This short, simple number succeeded in creating a mood of nobility. Hartz began the piece with very simple movements which he later de- veloped The shadow of his figure playing on the back wall added an excellent touch. Ofall the pieces choreographed by Mrs. Voertman, “Gnossiena nes," “Full Circle,” and “The Last Flower” were most success- ful “The Last Flower” contained more acting than dance; how ever, the audience seemed to enjoy the humor of the group's portrayal of such things as rab- bits and subways. In “Full Cir- cle,” the story of the jealousies of two women and a man, Mrs. Voertman displayed her ability to combine the serious and the comic. Nina Seidenman was an