Trippin' on dance

By NATALIE CHRISTENSON
HORNET STAFF WRITER
Published October 28, 1998

Dale Scholl Dance Art opens this evening with its fall program, "Trippin."

The performance is set to the music of the late '60s and early '70s and is designed to take the audience back to a time of freedom and love.

Dale Scholl Dance Art uses dance styles that range from jazz to ballet and modern to folk in its program that will be performed in the CSUS Solano Hall Dancespace.

Scholl, Lisa Hermann and Eric Vianelle choreograph the dance to rock and roll music legends such as the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles.

The music conveys the messages of the era, which focus on freedom, love, openness and drugs.

"I believe the audience will be able to experience that time in history," said Scholl.

Melissa Moore, a dance major at CSUS who has been in the professional company for two seasons, described one of the pieces as psychedelic.

"During 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' we imagine catching things floating in the air," she said.

Fog and psychedelic lighting will complete the dance's hippie-like theme.

Scholl, a CSUS dance professor, has been teaching and choreographing dance in the Sacramento area for almost two generations.

She admits that she usually feels some pieces in her shows could be better but "with this show I really like all the pieces," she said.

The dancers have been working for months, practicing Monday through Thursday and sometimes spending four to five hours at rehearsals.

Additional performances are scheduled for the weekends of Oct. 29-31 and Nov. 6, 7,13 and 14. Curtain time for all shows is 8 p.m. and ticket prices are $15 general, $12 students and seniors and $8 for children under 12.

Tickets can be purchased at the door. To ensure seat availability call 451-3732.