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I 7 Visual Arts, G2 More than 200 photos by Garry Winogrand, including this one of Muhammad All. hana In the Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery me ai ine university of Texas, where Winogrand taught In the mid-1970s. Section Austin American-Statesman Thursday, October 12, 1989 Sharir Dance Company stays on its toes with hew works d. i i i II "fe 111 SHARIR DANCE COMPANY By Sondra Lomax Special to the American-Statesman Yacov Sharir isn't worried about the seven-year itch.

As the Sharir Dance Company enters its seventh season, he remains faithful to the artistic goals that have brought his company national recognition, consistent growth and increased funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The 1989-90 season promises to be Sharir's busiest, as he expands touring and continues to present guest artists and other companies. Sharir's company, which is the company in residence at the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas, will perform an average of two engagements per month, including six local events. A recent performance in Tulsa received rave reviews, and the company is scheduled to perform in Monterrey, Mexico, in two weeks. Tonight the company opens its senting different programs to attract new viewers.

Our best supporters are the people buying tickets." Sharir's company is on a roll, yet he resists the temptation to push ahead too fast. "Fast growth could jeopardize the rooting system of our organization," he said. "We want to build a whole institution to support, present and create new dance, not just present the work of one artist. This city will relate well to an institution dealing with the issues of presenting new dancenew music." To promote new music, Sharir received a "Meet the ComposerChoreographer" grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Past recipients of the prestigious award include the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Martha Graham Dance Company and the New York City Ballet.

Sharir will use the award to commission a score by Pauline Oliveros to be premiered See Sharir, G5 When: 8 tonight, Friday and Saturday Where: Capitol City Playhouse Admission: $6 to $9 Information: 472-2966 or 476-5185 Austin season with Personas Gratas (Good Friends), a collaborative production featuring guest choreographers Ricardo Garcia and Heywood "Woody" McGriff, with guest performers McGriff, Tina Marsh, Diana Prechter and Jimny Turner. Personas Gratas exemplifies Sharir's commitment to presenting local independent artists to foster the growth of dance in Texas. All the guest artists have performed with Sharir, and each contributes artistically as well as helping to build audience support. "Our performances are always well-attended, and that's a gift," Sharir said. "I feel lucky that we can reach out to new audiences by performing in different theaters, pre 'i Jj I Staff photo by Taylor Johnson Sharir Dance Company members Charles that resident choreographer Jose Luis Bus-Santos, front, and Andrea Beckham re- tamante has reworked for this weekend's hearse Mezzaluna, a collaborative piece season opener at Capitol City Playhouse.

MAIN EVENTS TODAY ren't you just a little curious as you walk down the streets of your neighborhood, what the inside of other people's houses look like? Like a fingerprint, no home is exactly the same, and every one tells a story, from how it is designed to what records are nearest the turntable. Those who express too much curiosity about a stranger's home often end up in jail, but this weekend you can stroll for 12 years now. You can join the anniversary celebration when the troupe performs "Happy Birthday Austin" at 9 tonight at Esther's Pool, 501 E. Sixth and at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday at the Paramount Theatre.

The show tonight at Esther's is a preview of the weekend extravaganza, which will feature Kerry Awn, Margaret "Chi Chi LaBamba" Wiley, National Lampoon Comedy Competition winner Amos Ewlng and "The year In Review." The Paramount shows include guests Liz Carpenter and the David Perkoff Band, with Cactus Pryor and John Henry Faulk dropping by Friday only. Tickets range from $8 to $12 Friday and $8 to $15 Saturday, and are on sale at UTTM outlets; call 477-6060. Rained-out new age: Last week's Treaty Oak, a new-age music and dance tribute to the ailing tree, was rained out. The performers will try again at 8 tonight at Zilker Hillside Theatre. It's free.

Dia de la Raza: "A Return to Reverence," from 6-9 tonight at Mexic-Arte Gallery, is an evening of music, poetry and dance honoring International Day of Solidarity with Indigenous PeoplesDIa de la Raza. Indian, Black and Central American issues will be discussed. Looking for Company. Stephen Sondheim's musical comedy about marriage, Company, opens at 8 tonight at Musical Stagel The play, revolving around an unattached 35-year-old man whose friends are all couples, won a Tony Award In 1971. Tickets are $8 Thursdays and Sundays, $10 Fridays and Saturdays; call 452-6688 for information.

A bunch of characters: The motley crew at Esther's Follies has been tickling Sixth Street audiences and keeping a sharp satirical eye on Austin Margaret Wiley will be among the Esther's Follies regulars honoring the troupe's 12th year through Saturday. around and inside 11 beautiful homes and enjoy their personalities. These homes also are as interesting for their shape and structure as for what's inside. Five are historic, and tell a story about a neighborhood the Travis Heights area, to be exact. That tour is part of the Live Oak Festival, which raises funds to fight oak wilt.

Six other homes, all in West Austin and open for tours this weekend, are brand spanking new, or newly remodeled, and you can get inside them as part of the celebration of Architecture Week by the Austin chapter of the American Institute of Architects. Clayton Stromberger i' I Jt -3 Wide Garage Sale of the year opens at 1 1 a.m. Saturday. You can expect a line outside the City Coliseum by that hour, but even if you come late Sunday there should be something to catch your eye. The sale is 1 1 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday; admission is $1.50 for adults, free for children under age 12. Rooms with a view: Get a look at the newer work of Austin architects during the American Institute of Architects Home Tour, from noon to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For $5, you can walk around in six West Austin homes, all built during the last five years and designed with a view of the Hill Country.

The homes tour is part of Architecture Week, which continues until Oct. 22 and will include the Proud Hands exposition at Laguna Gloria Museum, symposiums and lectures, more tours and the Austin Design Awards. Tickets and maps for this weekend's homes tour are available through Sunday at the Austin AIA office in 26 Doors Shopping Center, suite 205; call 452-4332. Tune me in to the ball game: They're calling it the "Bay Bridge Series," this year's World Series that pits the Oakland Athletics against the San Francisco Giants. The A's get a second chance at the championship after losing to the Los Angeles Dodgers last year.

The Giants, meanwhile, are In their first World Series since 1962. The thrills begin at 7:30 p.m. Saturday on KVUE-TV (Channel 24 Cable 3). SATURDAY Live Oak Festival: As the Treaty Oak struggles to survive, less historic oak trees across the city are being choked by oak-wilt disease. The Live Oak Festival and Travis Heights Home Tour, entering its third year, gives Austinites a chance to celebrate these trees while pitching in to fight their fungal enemy.

The free festival is from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday in Stacy Park In South Austin, and the lineup Includes Esther's Follies, a free speech and debate corner, the Austin On Tap dance troupe, children's games and an art auction. To reach Stacy Park, go west on Woodland Avenue from Interstate 35 or east on Annie Street from Congress Avenue. For Information, call Sheryl McLaughlin at 444-2610.

The Travis Heights Home Tour, part of the festival, is 2-6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $5, available at the festival. Day of the Dolphin: It's hard not to admire and love the dolphin, a sleek, graceful creature whose intelligence and friendliness often seem purer than ours. You can celebrate the dolphin, and take a stand In its battle against tuna fishermen, during the Dolphin Day Rally from 1-3 p.m.

Saturday at Whole Foods Market In the Brodie Oaks Center, Lamar and Ben White boulevards. On hand will be singer Bobby Bridger and representatives of Earth Island and Greenpeace International, including Ruth The Walter Tips House is among 5 historic homes in the Live Oak Festival Homes Tour. Smitkin, who recently shot footage of tuna fishing boats reeling In dolphin. Cans of boycotted tuna all except Miramonte and Deep Sea Tuna will be exchanged for Whole Foods coupons. Everything but the garage Itself: The final City- SUNDAY Bella Davidovich is the guest artist for the Austin Symphony Orchestra's program of Russian masterpieces Friday and Saturday.

FRIDAY Armadillocon 11: Science-fiction and fantasy fans from around the state will beam aboard the Wyndham Southpark Hotel for Armadillocon 11. Author Lewis Shiner is the guest of honor, and there will be the usual array of books and comics for sale, panel discussions, movies and videos, readings, games and art. Armadillocon is 5 p.m. to midnight Friday, 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday, and 1 1 a.m.

to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $25 for three days, or $8 Friday, $10 Saturday, $8 Sunday. An evening in old Russia: Hop on a troika and ride down to the UT Bass Concert Hall Friday or Saturday for the Austin Symphony's concert of music by top Russian composers, including Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky. Guest artist is pianist Bella Davidovich, who came to the United States from the Soviet Union in 1978.

Performances are at 8 p.m.; tickets range from $8 to $20. Call 476-6064 to charge. On the big screen: New movies in town are A Hungarian Fairy Tale, a satire on Hungarian bureaucracy; The Fabulous Baker Boys, with the Bridges brothers, Beau and Jeff, and Michelle Pfelffer as a jazzy musical trio; Look Who's Talking, in which Kirstie Alley's search for a father for her wise little baby leads to cabbie John Travolta; and The Music Teacher, with opera singer Jose Van Dam. i if 7 iL Vv' i museum, which Is open from noon to 5:30 p.m. Sunday, premieres with the Genesis Exhibit, a collection of more than 40 casts of dinosaur bones and prehistoric fossils covering 500 million years.

Admission is $2. Where're you Haydn the Handel, Hear works by Mozart, Monteverdi, Marenzio and J.S. Bach as the Austin Handel-Haydn Society performs at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church, 3525 Bee Cave Road. Admission is $5 adults, $3 students.

The Cosby show: Before his television commercials and hit series, most of us knew Bill Cosby from his stand-up comedy albums and the characters on Fat Albert. Cosby is still doing solo stand-up, and you can see him at the Erwln Center at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Tickets range from $15 to $20, and $10 to $12.50 for those ages 16 and under. To charge, call 477-6060.

The Bodeans: One of the leaders of lyrical farmland rock is back In town the Bodeans, who hall from Wisconsin. Liberty Lunch will provide a more Intimate setting for the band, which opened for U2 at the Erwln Center in 1987. Tickets are $8 at Waterloo Records, $9 at the door. The fabulous Thunderbirds: Aerofest, long a fixture of Austin Aqua Festival, returns to Bergstrom Air Force Base on Sunday, featuring a close look at modern U.S. air power.

The highlight will be the U.S. Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds, which will fly F-16 Falcons. On the ground you can ogle the frightfully big C-5A Galaxy and the B-52 Stratofortress. Aerofest '89 is from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

with no admission charge. Childfest '89: The other fest of the day Is at Temple Beth Israel, 3901 Shoal Creek as singer Joe McDermott, mimes, puppeteers and other entertainers gather for Childfest '89. Also featured will be a petting zoo, T-shirt painting, mask making, pony rides and mlnl-planetarium shows. The event is 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; admission Is $1.50, $1 for children.

The hip bone's connected to the. Welcome a new museum to downtown Austin the Texas Museum of Natural History, to be housed at 100 Congress Ave. The Bill Cosby has a laugh at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at the Erwin Center. Z3.