Annex Dance Group Depends On Energy, Interest, Not Size

Males can belong to only one Radcliffe organization--the Dance Group. Although the Dancers are the only 'Cliffe group that does not solicit members, twelve women and three men use it as the only University outlet for this newly popular creative art.

Although the group produces its own program, it is still under the wing of the Radcliffe Athletic Association. This relationship harks back to the days when dancing was merely a quaint form of exercise.

But the group has grown out of its athletic incubus into an ambitious and individualized organization. Most of its members take dancing lessons in Boston. Others teach modern dance during the summer. But for all, the Dance Group offers the only opportunity for public

The group has an ambitious performance schedule. Later in the year, it hopes to co-sponsor a program of dance symposiums with other colleges. Tonight, the group is presenting its fall term attraction: a concert with the Radcliffe Cheral Society. English and Hungarian performance during the school months. folk songs will be performed, as well as interpretations of Negro spirituals.

Active as it is, the Radcliffe group is small stuff compared with dancers at other women's colleges. At Bennington, for example, modern dance is on the curriculum. Smith and Vassar also have active groups. The 'Cliffe girls' interests seem to go in other directions, however, and their dance group has to make up a comparative deficit in number with energy and serious absorption in its art.