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Wednesday, January 23, 1980 page 10 daily nebraskan G Ex-jock' turns to dance By Penelope Smith Derryl Yeagcr is a young dancer, choreographer and teacher from Brigham Young University who wants to show that dancing is a viable male art. Yeager is in; Lincoln r to set a recon struction of the grand pas de deux from Petipa's Don Quixote on members of the Nebraska Dance Ensemble for their Feb. 15-16 performance at UNL's Kimball Re cital Hall, Like, many male dancers, Yeagcr entered dance by accident. He started out in musicals at liis high school in Amarillo, Texas with a theater teacher who "happen ed? to teach ballet. Yeagcr said his inter est in dance also stemmed from a desire to be physically fit. "I was pretty overweight so I tried all kinds of sports. I was really a jock. I couldn't find a sport that was really chal lenging so I decided to take first jazz and . then ballet-from 'the'-theater teacher," he said. Found a place' .Seven months later Yeager, received a scholarship to the San Francisco Ballet School. On the way to San Francisco, he stopped at Salt Lake City to" sec the Uni versity of Utah's Dance program. He saw thc Ballet West Company perform and decided that it' was the place and the company for him. After attending the San Francisco Ballet ScmW, lie went to Ballet West and eventually became the. principal ; dancer. v..r''.$ " -Tf -.Last year, after" six years with Ballet West, Yeagcr went,,, ;to Brigham Young, where he tenches, choreographs, ;. ami dances. . - - f-y-" 5 -;; . i le said he is pleased with his move -to a . university atniosplvercv l fidve tlTfjbes'tlf. both worlds. The only thing that bothers ,' me is the red tape," he said,- , - . get to do so much more. With Ballet West I would just dance but the oppor tunities to choreograph were few and far between. Now I'm doing so much more than I ever did." . - Growing, experimenting Yeagcr is still growing and experiment ing with his choreography. He has choreo graphed many pieces that range from ballet to jazz to musicals. He was pleased to be asked to set the Don Quixote pas de deux on the ensemble. "It's a very virtuoso-classical pas de deux.. The male is able to choose a lot in his variation (in what he wants to do). It's a showcase more or less lor technique and virtuosity. It was chosen because it's also exciting and strong." Yeagcr said pas de deux like the Don Quixote do a great deal for dance. "I really enjoy doing it, it has really masculine music and it's very macho. I'm all for changing the image of the male dancer,", Yeager said. Wearing tights . . "The traditional concept is one of the effeminate male , dancer but people like Baryshnikov and'Nurcycv arc bringing the male dancer back to the forefront - We're not just guys who like to walk around and wear tights;? he said, "Ballet is very hard ; to do well. If you do it correctly it's very, very masculine," ' ' lie said that male ballet masters help to change the image of ballet. - "It's really interesting. When you have a ' male tcache all of a sudden things change, Now that JU teach at Brigham Young we have at least' two or three males in every ballet classed one men's beginning ballet 4, class." t " ' " '" ' Yeager gave the young dancers "or the ensemble the, chance to IcartiAvha't it 's like to be a professional working under pres sure; " -i '. , "I taught the jwholc thing to them' Sat--11 urday. they 'will !work on it Monday night and Tuesday we will refine it, touching matters of style. The pace doesn't bother " rue 'butitcmay bother them; I try "lor do:" what I can. As a professional you learn -something in one day. ?and if someone is ; hurt may have to perform it that evening, i "Dancing is likef reading music, in the V classroom situation' you're used to the .teacher showing you Jhe . steps and it's in -those memory plates recording (to where the recording is longer and longer and you can just lock it in." . V : 71 o y Photo by Colin Hacklev Derryl Yeager Hay Market schedules shows These shows are scheduled at the Hay market Art Gallery for 1980:: Jan, 13-27-Students of Anne Burk holder Hlaynjaiket instructor; paintings. Quartet - of's Doane College Students, Michael Hershe"y7 hist: drawings. ? ; ; Feb. 3i24-Carol iPcttiti Greenwood, Ne.; paintings. ; ' Anita Engbcrg, Lincoln ; pottery. ' : v,Mar. ' 2-23-Michacl Fowler, Lincoln; paintings. ' ;- Jerry Kcsslcr, Castana, ; la.; pottery. Apr, 6-27-Prof. Reinhold Marxhauscn, Concordia College,; Seward; lint eoljages, stainless reliefs, flcxcbrc sculpture?' : sv: April 6-20-Southeast Ait Masters (Southeast High School's Ait Club). May 4-25-"Sink, Inc." : - r.: Judy Grcff, Burwcll, Nc.; acrylic paint ings. Sammy Lynn.,GIcnvillc, Nc.; batiks and soft sculpture. " LaDelle Stonccipher; polymer. May 18-Haymarket Art Festival. (The art . fair in the. Parking Bldg. at 9th & O . Ll.tiiro IA A t t.v A. DM k imuu iv nni ill u i m;. ; June 7-29 VOf Special Interest to Men" Jim .Ryoiu Raylown, , Mo;j . paintings. .(' Drill Fiml- ' I ini'ilnnAttnnr . ! ' . i - - , W-...,rV..,.. William H. Browne III; decorative wild I - , i llllv11 Cl'lllllllilKT i i i i '...I . t: ,. ' .. , . Aug.-rro scheduling. vi Sept. 7-28-Barbara Kastncr,1 1 Lincoln; paintings. 1 : . t.. w :. ' ll-milim, fit nnn I !n;il' C;l.,n.......t. Oct . 5-26 -Chaunccy . . Nelson, Omaha ; haliks and paintings. Jo Diian-Nelson. Omalfa; scrigraplts? : Nov.:2-23-Riscilla'Steele,"Omaha;cn- JgravrngsY: ' i - - Dcc.-Christmasat llaymarket.. ; v. Opening Receptions arc on the first date of the show (Sun. 2-4 PM). Sheldon sales-rental puts art into homes - - ' The Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery has reorganiz ed and expanded its sales-rental program, putting more original works by regional artists on the walls of homes and small businesses. The gallery initiated the program Tuesday even ing with an opening exhibition of works by 30 artists. The program allows individuals to rent art works for a three-month period with an option to buy the works or return them in exchange for others. Although the gallery has offered a similar pro ; gram to corporations who wanted to borrow works from the Sheldon's permanent collection and a small-scale rental program through the gallery's gift shop, this is" the first large-scale offering to in dividuals, said Jackie Upsky, a UNL senior in charge of the program.' - For an initial registration fee of S10 and a rental ; fee, one can choose a framed, original oil painting, watercolor, acrylic, drawing, graphic or original ,. print..-. ' v. s " . ' . . ': The collection, which will change from year to year,-includes several styles - abstract, representa tional, landscapes and photo-realism. "We're offer ing high quality, original art with recent works in the collection each year," Lipsky said. The rental fees are based on the price of the art work. A renter pays $2 for every $100 value, plus an additional $4 for works valued from $100 t'o $400, $6 for those valued from $500 to $1,000, and $8 for those valued from $1,100 to $1,500. . After three months, if the renter chooses to pur chase the work, he pays a monthly charge of 10 per cent of the work's value until payments are completed. If he chooses not to buy, he may select another work from the collection. The works will be displayed in six exhibits each year. The opening exhibit has works representing each artist in the program. The other five showings will each feature one or two of the artists. , Holly wood's more believable version By Skip Volkmann Paradoxical as it may seem, Hollywood's version of a black hole in space seems more reasonable and believable . than what astronomers tell us about the celestial enigmas. After seeing the movie The Black lfok Kam-Ching Leung, UNL astronomer and Star Wars fan said, -"77k: Black Hole uses some technical-sounding words which make it impressive, but it is reasonably accurate in what it says about black holes." The movie could have been more sophisticated by explaining the kind of black hole the movie's space travel ers were trying to fly through, Leung said, since there are thought to be three different kinds. The only liberty taken in adapting the black hole theory to the big screen was to make the black hole visible. It is impossible to see a black hole because the gravita tional field around one is so strong that light can't escape it. In the movie, the black hole appeared as a swirling blue, green, and red vortex, much like the switl of water above an open bathtub drain. Correct terms A number of terms describing black holes were correct ly used in the movie, Leung said, though they were not explained fully. . -:. The ' term - "event horizon" was used to describe the edges of a black hole. It is the closest distance that light can come to a black hole without being pulled in. An "Einstein-Rosen bridge," a term coined in 1916, , also was used in the movie. It is thought to be the connec tion that a black hole makes with whatever is on the other side of it. "We are not sure what is on the other side of a black hole," Leung said. "It may open into another universe, perhaps an anti-universe where everything is made up of anti-matter and where time goes backwards." "It may open into another part of our universe, per haps at some time in the future, perhaps a time in the past. If this Is true, and we could make a spaceship strong enough to withstand a black hole's gravitational pressure then you conceivably could travel back in time and visit yourself when you were young. Then you could take thc. VOUI12 VOU With VOU for :i Irin sntn flir fntinv. ' I ., said with a smile. . "There are at least 'four black holes located within our galaxy," he said. ' Evolution of star . a niacK noie is uiougiit to be the result of the evolu tion of a star three or more times the mass of the sun. A star starts as a cloud of hydrogen and helium gas. As the cloud of gasses gets larger, gravitational pressure causes the interior to heat up.-When the temperature in the core reaches about six million degrees, the hydrogen undergoes nuclear fusion, and the cloud of gasses becomes a star. ; : - . The fusion processes combine hydrogen atoms to form helium atoms. Over millions of years the star's core changes to helium. If the star has enough mass, the core will contract and heat up to a temperature at which helium can be used to tuel the star. Although the core has contracted, the dia meter of the star actually has increased, and the outer temperatures arc cooler. Supernova "A black hole is formed when a star three or more imcs the mass of the sun dies. It dies as a supernova and the nward kick of the explosion squeezes the core be yond t he neutron limit. The contraction is so stve c that a dieto 71 CrnUCS 10 Cn.traCt Un,il il I an!lectricarcInrlaiiC b,,ack hoK bbek holes that have " f i h! r mS 3nd rVtatin b,ack holes, Leung said, tion i. JSV.re.rt? r0t?,U18 Star incrcascs i,s ratc X bv nS L Xf' thC. War an icc ter increases her 5s,1,c rotating b,ack ho,cs ,nust nm . : tr -"iiiing uijck noie iorms a ring, S IPSE 5 S ?a ecra,l was t0 "y Precisc,y through Einstein Rnvn nng',lt suPPJly wouldcross an tmstem-Roscn bridge and come out on the other side.