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By KATHY O’CONNELL
Battalion Staff
As the stage lights dimmed and
the audience hushed, the orches
tra began playing quick plucky
music that slowly built into a cres
cendo as the curtain rose.
The half-lit stage, designed to
look like the forests of Northern
Europe, created a mood of curios
ity as the opening scene of the
Houston Ballet’s production of
Peer Gynt” began.
“Peer Gynt,” sponsored by the
MSC Opera and Performing Arts
Society, is based on the Norwe
gian fantasy play by Henrik Isben.
The story line follows the life of
careless, happy-go-lucky woma-
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plant a go-aheadb lizer who encounters a series of
“ nfullfilled romances.
It also is the typical boy-meets-
jrl-and-falls-in-love story. She
ul Electro Coniji f or } 1 j ni as Jjg romances with
a newly married woman, a forest
nymph, a stuffy American be-
only thing resides nefactress, a seductive Egyptian
itside of moving,i dancer and a beautiful mad-
I never be another woman
Imagination was the key to this
ballet and it was evident as the
stage of Rudder Auditorium was
transformed into a raging sea, a
gloomy forest and a sultry desert.
At various scenes throughout
the play, the corps de ballet was
ostumed in everything from plain
townsmen to trolls, ghouls and
1840s Egyptian bodyguards.
The audience chuckled at the
o camels, which were actually
isturned dancers.
Perhaps the most beautiful and
render scene in the ballet was the
eunion of Peer, played by Wil
iam Piz/uto, and his true love Sol-
eig, played by Katie King, after
’eer had been chased out of town
or stealing the bride.
The audience applauded enthu-
iastically as the couple completed
pas de deux — a dance for two
iple — with grace and finesse.
Photo by Dave Einsel
Peer Gynt, played by William Pizzuto, teases his mother,
Aase, played by Susan Smith, in a performance by the
Houston Ballet last night in Rudder Auditorium.
The pas de deux is an essential
part of classical ballet. Special
moods are created through setting
and music to enhance the skill and
beauty of the dancers.
The relationship between the
male and female performers is
built up throughout the ballet to
arouse the emotions of the audi
ence. A ballet without a pas de
deux is like an orchestra without a
violin. It adds the final touch to
create harmony and unity.
Most stories end happily ever
after, and this is no exception.
However, the performers weren t
the only ones who had a warm
feeling inside their hearts as the
curtain fell.
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By GRETCHEN RATLIFF
Battalion Reporter
Getting courses approved for
heTexas A&M University catalog
:an require as many steps as a stu-
lent takes to register for those
nurses.
Dr. Charles McCandless, asso-
iate vice president for academic
iffairs, said the process starts
vithin the academic department
where faculty members want to
eld the new course.
McCandless said the process
ienerally takes between one and
fO years, depending on the sche-
iuling of committee meetings and
he publishing date of the catalog.
The course has to fit into the
cope of Texas A&M — what
nurses the University is and isn’t
authorized to offer, he said. For
example, fine arts and home eco
nomics are courses that Texas
A&M is not authorized to offer,
McCandless said.
“For the last two years, we have
made an effort to purge courses
that are infrequently taught from
the inventory,” McCandless said.
He said the University has re
moved more courses than it has
added in recent years, which is
unusual. He said this makes it
easier to get new courses
approved by the Coordinating
Board.
The procedure of dropping a
course from the curriculum is
| similar to that of adding a new
[course; both procedures begin in
[the particular academic depart-
i ment.
The academic department
wanting to add a course may or
may not have a curriculum com
mittee. If it does, the committee
reviews the request for the new
course. If approved, it is sent to
the dean of that college, who re
views it and decides whether the
use of college resources for
teaching the course is justified.
From there, the proposal is sent
to the University Curriculum
Committee which reviews all
proposed courses and curricula for
their contributions to University
objectives.
He said if it is a graduate course,
it must also be reviewed by a gra
duate curriculum committee.
Assuming that the new course is
approved by the curriculum com
mittees, it is sent to the Universi
ty’s Academic Program Council.
McCandless said this council pri
marily comprises the college
deans, the vice president of acade
mic affairs and the dean of faculty.
Dr. J.M. Prescott, vice presi
dent for academic affairs, presents
the proposed course to the
council.
The Academic Program Council
also studies the request, and, if
approved, it is sent to the Coordi
nating Board for State Colleges
and Universities. The board has
the final say on whether the prop
osed course will be added.
The governor appoints mem
bers to the coordinating board,
which reviews the requests for
new courses by all public-
supported institutions.
Coordinating Board staff mem
bers make the preliminary re
view, and pass the proposal to the
board for approval, McCandless
said. Because the board meets
once every other month,
McCandless said, its decision on
the request may take three
months. If the course is approved,
it will then be offered in the Uni
versity catalog.
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