The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 130

1. TILLER 4 ESTABLISHED 1917 Hunters 'Deer Vs. Prey Dance I i 5 k. A' By CLARA HIERONYMUS Now that emergency measures are being taken to make War Memorial Auditorium fire safe, performances scheduled there this month will proceed as announced. This is good news for the community in many ways, one of which relates to the first appearance here of the National Dance Company of Mexico on Saturday, Jan.

19. The company's Fiesta Folklorico brings to Nashville 50 singers, dancers and musicians in a spectrum of Mexican folk songs, dances and costumes representing all regions ef that fabled country. In the two-hour repertoire is the justly famed "Deer Dance" those who've seen it in Mexico City would pay the whole ticket price just to see this one stunning number. It is a ritual dance, visceral and beautiful, originating with the Yaqui Indians, in which a male dancer represents the deer being hunted. The deer tries to escape the bowman, he symbolizes good pursued by evil and thoughts as well.

The dancer, always virile and as finely trained as an athlete, leaps high into the air, trembles, turns, and at length is brought down by the hunter. The Tall Man: Buford Pusser, shown here preparing for last fall's Buford Pusser Day at A a i I le. brings his show to War Memorial Auditorium Saturday at 8 p.m. Special guests are Jim Harless Brown and the Lancer Showcase. Pusser, former McNairy County Sheriff, became the subject of the film "Walking Tall" for his crime-busting efforts along the Tennessee-Mississippi border.

Mail order tickets are available from Buford Pusser, co Varnell Enterprises, 311 Church Nashville 37201. Dramatic highlight of the Fiesta Folklorico presented by the National Dance Company of Mexico is the Deer Dance, in which the dancer becomes a deer pursued by hunters. The Mexican dancers and singers will perform at War Memorial Auditorium Saturday, Jan. 19 at 8 p.m. 11 17k MARTIN and AlMTa nil UUIIHIfd also BANJOS 6RANT fliZfl Old ttukwv a.l'jlln Hi 26th WEEK! iliv LEE 111 SHOW TIMES 4:30 P.M.

5:30 P.M. 7:30 P.M. 9:00 P.M. 11:00 P.M. 1:00 A.M.

2:00 A.M. SIX "Music by LAMON RIDDLE CHANCE rus EZI RIDER PANDORA MUSETTE C0C0E SHANTEE EXOTICS NITELY HAPPY HOUR 1to7P.M 254-6616 I Sears I Sears or I 1 HOME IMPROVEMENT SEARS, ROEBUCK AND CO. The Hat Dance, the Michoacan Wedding, the mock bullfight from Guerrero, the dance of the Quetzales, merry mariachi music and numerous other festival dances and songs are included in the evening's performance. Although there are a fbew somber dances (not including a purely comic version of the hat the general feeling overall is one of festival, with all of it simply good fun for those who don't wish to see deeper ethnic and regional meanings in the numbers. The dancers are proud of their heritage, which for most of them is Indian.

The dances and music they perform in "Fiesta Folklorico" are largely based on their own regional rhythms but the dance-knowledgeable will discern influences of the flamenco, Morris dance, highland fling and other patterns. The fiesta usually opens with a dance of flowers and feathers dating from the Nahuatl culture of a thousand years ago in Mexico. For this portion of the program the costumes include an incredibly large and elaborate feather headress representing the emperor Moctezuma. Tickets are on sale at Cain-Sloan downtown and are available to student groups at a discount. Call Varnell Enterprises, 311 Church St.

for student arrangements. Curtain time is 8 p.m. HELD OVER! to I THE ALLEY'S ONLY 4:30 P.M.-5:30 -J js it Sis fr m-i 1 i A o- it' EARLY SHOWS P.M. 7:30 P.M. With ML'SSETT.

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