... Uwawi NOTTINGHAM AN AUDIENCE of gratifying numbers was treated to a brief curtain raiser, demonstrating how much the Salidummay company had been able to achieve in just one week working with local youngsters. The traditional song form Salidummay is today often associ ated with protest, and Uwawi (Lullaby) is a continuous narrative in a prologue and four parts which tells in song, dance and ...

... Dance Umbrella THE PLACE The work of choreographer Michel Kelemenis has a natural affinity with romanticism yet his style is modernist. Though the opening duet image was the least interesting of three works, overall there was a depth which, if it did not always engage the watchers in the way that Kelemenis might wish suggested a choreographer in transition, and one to watch. A ...

... Robert Hartford The Demon WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA Anton Rubenstein, pianist, academic and composer was Tchaikovsky's teacher. The Russians regarded him as more of a European on account of the influences he absorbed and his opera, The Demon, was a great success throughout 19th Century Germany and France. Now, it is only known in Russia and even there it is something of a rarity. Rubenstein's ...

... Caesar's artists cash blow By HELEN GOULD ARTISTS owed fees for scrapped dates at Caesar's Palace in Luton were warned this week that they are unlikely to see a penny of their cash. Club proprietor Clive Preecc is scuttling his company, Starbar Ltd, at the end of this month, beating a winding up petition by a Luton staff agency by one week. Accountants are currently assessing the size of the ...

... Saucy show angers vicar AN OUTRAGED Welsh vicar is urging his flock to boycott a sell-out show by a sexy Chippendale-style dance troupe because he believes it will corrupt their morals. The Reverend Jeff Waggett, chaplain of the Blacngwynfi branch of the Royal British Legion, is calling for a ban on the show by the Swansea-based Centaur group, booked for the Afan Valley Legion club for January ...

... New launch for Jackson BLACKPOOL talent show host and organiser Bernard Jackson is to launch a new competition in South Shore. For the past seven years he has fronted the popular Star Search con test in the Theatre Bar at the Queens Hotel, South Promenade and fea tured in a Channel 4 special on some of the older and odder acts from the annual out of season event. Now he is moving to the Gables ...

... Industry, gets 'natty' with Lord Birkett, president of Britain's first Fame- style School of the Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. A wise move, if the whispers prove true, given that the record industry has shov elled £1.1 million into school's development and could prove a worthy ally for the noble Birkett who was moved to stoutly defend the contro versial government-backed project ...

... Manager back on the right track after ordeal A rUKivYfcK Aberystwytn Arts centre man ager who won substantial damages from a bank after attempting suicide when he was wrongly suspected of stealing nearly £3,000 has landed a top Gwynedd council job. Hugh Edwin Jones was exonerated after the money was found at the Aberysrwyth branch of the National Westminster Bank more than two years after it ...

... Worthing puts block on the circus THE CIRCUS will not be visiting Worthing this year but the sudden change in the local council's policy on this vexed issue has not emerged as the result of found moral scruples but, rather, because of falling box-office receipts, writes Eric Joyce At their recent meeting, members of Worthing Borough Council made it clear that their deci sion not to go ahead ...

... Hands on CROSS Hands near Carmarthen could be getting a major new entertainment complex. A £100,000 plan has been unveiled to transfer the rundown public hall into a theatre/cinema with leisure facilities. ...

... The Pilgrims To Mecca WEXFORD FESTIVAL OPERA GLUCK is most commonly associated with the sober side of opera, yet he tried his hand at comedy too and, for the year devoted to exploring Mozart, Wexford put on a Gluck opera that clearly inspired Die Entfuhrung. The story used by Gluck in La Rencontre imprevue ou Les Pelerins de la Mecque is that of an escape from a harem and an all-forgiving ...

... Ballet du Rhin SADLER'S WELLS THE ARRIVAL of the unknown Ballet du Rhin has turned out to be a surprise delight, with a second programme of 20th century works complementing the earlier 18th century Fille mal gardee, and underlining the quality and versatility of the dancers. Most successful was Oscar Araiz's Carnival of the Animals, with its style of anthropomorphism, and of non sense yielding ...