Focus on the Arts

The final Senior Symposia Focus for the year was a week-long effort directed toward The Changing Arts. "We tried to get away from the format of the other two Focuses in order to make this one a freewheeling, festival type of thing," said Bruce B. Piatt '69, a member of the program committee. Beginning May 17, the Focus combined performances by guest artists with workshops at which they discussed their art with members of the college community.

For three nights La Mama Plexus, the parent repertory group of Cafe La Mama in New York, presented Andy Robinson's Last Chance Saloon. Directed by Ellen Stewart, the group combined elements of mixed media and experimental theater and dance in a production visually dazzling and grotesquely comic. On Wednesday afternoon Miss Stewart and her troupe led a drama-dance workshop.

Other performances of the week included Edward Albee's The Zoo Story, directed by lan Alsop '69; a classical guitar concert by Peter Segal; and a jazz concert by the Gary Burton Quartet, followed by Nat Hentoff, who commented on the jazz and rock scene. Still other sessions featured photographer Gary Winogrand, author Stephen Geller '62, and a poetry seminar with Profs. Alex Laing '25, Ramon Guthrie, Thomas Vance, and Robert Siegel. The closing event was a poetry reading by Prof. Richard Eberhart '26, Dartmouth's Poet in Residence.