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Page Four, PHOENIXLocals in Last RitesFor Peace MovementM u rra y L o u is D a n c e C o m p a n yDance GroupsBack In TownSpurred by the success of theirfirst joint season at the BrooklynAcademy of Music in January,1972, the Murray Louis DanceCompany and the Nikolais DanceTheatre will share a second seasonat the Academy, February 15 - 25.The Louis and Nikolais Companieswill open the Academy%u2019s springschedule with performances onFebruary 15, 21 and 25 at 7 p.m.,February 16, 17, 20, 22, 23 and 24 at8 p.m., plus matinees on February18 and 25 at 2 p.m. and February 22at 1 p.m.Each company will appear in sixworks from its own repertory,including the world premiere ofone work by Louis and one byNikolais.Murray Louis has scheduled thepopular %u201cHoopla,%u201d with music bythe Lisbon State Police Band,which had its premiere at theAcademy last season, as well as%u201cProximities,%u201d %u201cContinuum%u201d andanother work as yet undetermined.Alwin Nikolais has announced arevival after two years of%u201cTower,%u201d as well as the perennialfavorite, %u201c Tent,%u201d and also%u201cF oreplay,%u201d %u201cScenario%u201d, andanother work from the repertoire.Nikolais%u2019 new dance carries theworking title of %u201cLittle Kingdom,%u201dusing, as always, a score of his owncomposition.W a s h in g to n P h o to sB y P e te r D ra g oCapulets ftM o n t a g u eContinued from Page 3accusations, dire predictions %u2014finally explanations: A phone callfrom the Amtrack New York officeto the Trenton station advising matthey had received word (fromplace still unknown according toDick Cook of the quasigovernmental agency) that a bombhad been placed on train 2-5.The search lasted an hour. Whenall was finally clear %u2014 nothingdiscovered on board %u2014 handbags ofsome re-entering passengers weresearched. Peter Drago%u2019s box ofOreo cookies was found empty %u2014ripped off during the search.Marcella and Martin Conner joinedthe South Brooklyn group. Missingthe Peace Caravan at Penn.Station, they caught up with thefamiliar crowd at the Trentondelay.Dick Cook assured the skepticalpassengers that the threat hadbeen real, %u201cWe get hundreds ofrequests for special trains %u2014refuse most %u2014 but always put onthe peace trains. Many of our menare with you. We would never doanything to stall.%u201dMovement again at 9:50 %u2014passing the river, the buildings ofPhiladelphia-Wilmington, Del., thebare trees and damp ground of thecountryside, the row houses ofBaltimore, and Washington at last%u2014 two hours late. The peace groupsform behind their banners andstart the long march through thecapital%u2019s streets. Diverted fromcontact with the inauguralcelebrants the group must take thelongest way from Union Station tothe Washington Monument.Washington is grim %u2014 greyerthan four years ago during the firstNixon inaugural week end. Excavations for a new subway, thedome of a new museum ready forunveiling, the slabby luxe of newgovernment buildings, add to thesense of a city bereft. With noamblers, no ramblers, it appearsto be a town of positions %u2014 theinaugural line or the protest. A 10-year-old boy on his way to theofficial spectacle wears a largetechnicolor button imprinted withNixon%u2019s visage. Dressed up couplesemerging from an inaugural fetepoint fingers downward deridingthe passing protestors. Cadets intight formation move icily downthe streets.The anti-war people are grimmer too. The frivolity comes fromthe wilder signs, the gayer flags ofthe S. D. S. and P. L. P. who stayseparate from the larger group.Their threats ot mild disruptionbring them few converts. Few arein it for fun anymore.About 100,000 people convergedat the Washington monument onJan. 20, 1973, to once more demandthat the focus of the country beturned away from destruction.Carol Bellamy noted more thanonce that four million dollars wasbeing spent on Nixon%u2019s triumphalscene. Four million dollars andWilliamsburg Brooklyn was inturmoil that day.Because of the Trenton delay,South Brooklyn and the rest of thepassengers from 2-5 missed the%u201cMarch Against Death%u201d from theLincoln Memorial to theWashington Monument. The groupcame directly to the monumentand rested on PHOENIX pages onthe damp grass.%u201cSign Now,%u201d the theme of theday, flashed from placards up anddown the hill. %u201cInaugurate Peace%u201dwas the slogan second inpopularity.Bella Abzug began the speechmaking. Her strong counterinaugural speech was the first ofmany pronouncements by anti-wargovernment representatives andfunctionaries of the Peace Committee. After a while the wordsbegan to drone on and on. Thelisteners began to depart. Rhetoricseemed unnecessary, superfluous.The congregants knew the reasonsfor their appearance. As FatherFailla said, they would rather haveheard the music of the dissidentswho refused to play at thePhiladelphia Orchestra inauguralconcert. They would rather nothave been droned at for theircongregating.The mild January day turnedcold. American flags surroundingthe monument were turned upsidedown. Some were replaced byCuban, by Vietnamese standards.Some U.S. banners were burned, itwas said, by the S. D. S. who wereunable to recognize the straight onmood of the demonstration. Ayellow car, said also to be part ofthe S.D.S., was not allowed to movethrough the crowd to the speakers%u2019place at the bottom of the hill.Before the end of the speeches,before the appearance of the indefatigable Pete Seeger, the groupfrom South Brooklyn left the rally.The trek back to the station tookthe quicker, diagonal path, whichwas forbidden on the forwardmarch.The empty scuzzy kitch crinklecrepe state floats passed by %u2014M assachusetts, New York,Missouri %u2014 their slogans %u2014 1776 %u2014Excelsior %u2014 like parodies, likesatire.M k m m s m mThe station was alreadycrowded. Protestors plodded backearly from the demonstration,content to have been checked offand counted. They were hangingaround on benches at newstands,at lunch counters.At 5:15, armed with liquidrefreshments, the South Brooklyncontingent boarded the going hometrain. The cars were half empty,suggesting that many protestorsfound an earlier way out.Between sips of apple, peach andport wine %u2014 and a bit of JackDaniels, South Brooklyn began tosing. As the railway cars movedpast Baltim ore, Wilmington,Philadelphia; through the darknight, old show tunes, folk songs, asocially significant love call, wererendered. A young fiddler playedhis tunes. Pepperone, friedchicken, slices of bread, werepassed around. A card game wasplayed in the adjacent lounge.Passersby joined the group, left fora while, returned. The train movedon. The passengers continuedsinging, playing cards, sleeping.No one talked about the war, thedemonstration. They had journeyed %u2014 stood up %u2014 been counted%u2014 taken a day out of time. Did itmatter?Lunck-Dinnet- I A frica Night at YW CASak4Sun Brunch iM PH ^ 151B t - a o i c i g R H e i g h t sAfrica comes to BrooklynSaturday, Jan. 27, when the YWCApresents Afro Night in MemorialHall, 30 Third Ave., at 8 p.m.Admission is $1.50.Featured will be the HUSNIYAHDANCE TROUPE%u2019S production.346 Flatbush Avenue NE 8-4552o w n e d a n d o p e ra te db y the M ich e l fa m ilya Park S lo p e la n d m a rk since 1910,o ft G ra n d A rm y P la zaLUNCHEONDINNERC O C K TA IL LO U N G E B A N Q U E T FACILITIESfree parkingclosed M o n d a y s%u201cJourney To The Motherland,%u201dand a show of African fashions andhairstyles. Diana Baird if theAmerican Museum of NaturalHistory will present an exhibitionand demonstration of Africandesign in jewelry and textiles.Authentic African cuisine will beavailable at a nominal charge.The entire production wasknown teacher of African dance.Ms. Ray recently returned fromGuiana where she represented theUnited States in the Carifesta, acelebration of the arts presentedannually by South American.supervised by Ernestine Ray, wellCentral American, NorthAmerican, and Carribean Islandnations. She had the opportunity toperform in the National Arenabefore thousands of people whereher combination of Urban andEthnic Dance was well received.& 1 T T o T H is y e A R ?visit 50UVLAK.S m /v\\ owT a g u %u00a3. St .; i mmr a *Eat, Drink And Be Merryl*%u00bb< ie i . i i m _ in s.9*%u00a3B H ttvt & B*raukM SWaiettr f _____