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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1978
Art forms from ballet to belly
Dance team entertains here
By PAT DAVIDSON
Battalion Reporter
The only woman ever to have es
caped from a straitjacket while hang
ing by her feet from a burning rope at
the top of the New Orleans Super-
dome performed at Texas A&M Uni
versity Wednesday as part of a
unique dance team.
Lea Geeslin, who is listed in the
Guinness Book of World Records for
that feat, joined Terrence Karn in
performing a variety of dance forms
including Middle Eastern, contem-
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porary, ballet, jazz, and belly dance
forms here Wednesday night.
Their show also included mime,
magic, the rhythm of hand drums,
and the music of their accompanist,
Hal Tyson, on the piano.
The program was sponsored by
the Memorial Student Center Arts
Committee. They also gave three
presentations to theater arts classes.
Among the highlights of their per
formance Wednesday night was a
Russian dance and hand drum play
ing by Kam. Geeslin did a number of
belly dances including one with a
snake and another with swords. The
show also featured a Texas A&M stu
dent, Omer Tuncata, playing the
wooden spoons.
“This audience was sober and still
responded,’’ Lea said after the per
formance. “This is the first time we
ever played for an audience that
wasn’t drunk. And they watched.
They really came to see this.”
the world to two music appreciation
classes. He played instruments from
India, Egypt, Morocco, and Balkan
countries. He gave musical examples
of how rhythms and drum playing
are similar throughout the world.
For instance, Indian and South Afri
can rhythms have a similar time
structure, he said.
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She said people usually come be
cause it is a part of a university pro
gram, or just to see the belly danc
ing.
During the day. Lea and Terrence
led a stage movement class in theater
arts. Students participated in all
types of stage movements, dance,
and warm-up exercises, Karn said.
Karn presented a lecture and
demonstration of hand percussion
instruments and drums from all over
Instruments were distributed
among class members and several
got a chance to play Middle Eastern
drums, Karn said.
Part of the demonstration was de
voted to the classical drums of India,
the Tabla. “These are the type that
me must learn to sing the notes be
fore they can play them,” Karn said.
He performed on the Tabla drums in
Wednesday evening’s show.
Greeslin, who grew up in
Huntsville and received her B.A. in
dance from Sam Houston State Uni
versity, has studied dance since she
was 3. Although she says she is de
voted to dance in its purest forms,
she said she has discovered many
ways to liven up a performance.
These include mime, magic, and
comedy.
“Art better be entertaining, or you
better get out of the business, ” Gees
lin said. “An artist shouldn’t be
characterized as starving.”
She said she sees dance as a way to
make people have a good time.
“We like to make people laugh,”
she said.
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