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An evening of dance with

January 9, 1967

Miss Carmen de Lavallade and her company will perform an evening of dance beginning at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, January 17, in Sherwood Hall, La Jolla. The performance is being sponsored by the University of California, San Diego Committee for Arts and Lectures.

Reserved seating for the single performance is $4.00 for the general public and $1.00 for UCSD students.

Miss de Lavallade thinks of herself as a new breed in the theater. She is not a ballet dancer, although she studies the classical ballet and she is not really a modern dancer, although s1le studies with . She is not an admirer of purely abstract dance but believes, rather, that the dance should tell a story. She has gravitated to roles that are strongly dramatic.

The dances she and her company will perform in Sherwood Hall include "Three Songs for One," with the recorded voice of Madeleine Gray as background; "Portrait of Billie," which follows the tragic career of the late Billie Holiday; and "The Captive Lark," which retells in dance the tale of the imprisoned Joan of Arc. Other numbers to be danced will include "Dear Quincy" by , "Michel V, by Michel LeGran, "Bachianas No. 5" by Villa Lobos and arranged by Lalo Shiffren, "Reflections in D" by , and a dance titled "Dedication to Jose Clemente Orozco."

Miss de Lavallade was brought up in Los Angeles and began her career at the Horton School of the Dance. She has appeared as a dancer in several films, including "Carmen Jones." In 1954, at the age of 23, she auditioned for and won a starring role in the Broadway musical "House of Flowers." Since the close of that show, she has had a wide range of appearances. She has appeared as soloist with the Ballet, with in Las Vegas, at the Radio City Music Hall, in the German composer Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Buranall at the , and with and his company in a program of ethnic dances that successfully toured Southeast Asia. On television, Miss de Lavallade is best known for her work in the "Porgy" dance sequence for "The Gershwin Years." Miss de Lavallade is also an accomplished singer and has appeared in a straight dramatic role opposite in "Odds Against Tomorrow."