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Layton, Benson to judge Shoemaker Literary awards One of Canada‘s most distinguished poets and a novelist from Stratford will judge the 1983 Dorothy Shoemaker Literary Awards Contest, origiâ€" The Ralph Bowen Quartet will be feaâ€" tured Sunday when the Golden Triangle Jazz Club presents another Sunday gig beginning at 2 p.m. at Waterloo Knights of Columbus. Featured in Bowne‘s Quartet, which comes from Toronto, are Bowen on tenor sax, flute and clarinet; Keith Blackley on drums, Bob Murphy on Bowen Quartet at Triangle jazz gig Labelied "specialists in the impossible", the Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan bring their family entertainment package to Centre in the Square Sunday. May 29 for yet another of their dazzling perâ€" formances. _ . en eesssc S The West has, for centuries, been fascinâ€" L0 7 Abnhedlsbais Mn Cap ie ated by the Orient â€" and the Chinese Acrobats offer more than a glimpse into this exotic culture. This spectacular proâ€" duction features some A â€"festival designed to bring together Canada‘s leading musicians and guest artists from various countries in a series of concerts will be held this summer at Kitchener‘s Centre in the Square June 20 to July 9. The Kitchener International Summer Fes tival will provide music students with an opportunity to study with the performers in intensive Music Institute programs and per form in evening concerts. A lifeâ€"long desire by Raffi Armenian, music director of the Kitchenerâ€" Waterloo Symphony Orchestra, to mount an annual production of Richard Wagner‘s operatic masterpiece The Ring of Nibelung has made the festival a reality. A relatively light program has been chosen for the festival‘s inaugural year featuring a jazz and brass profile. As it grows in scope, organizers plan to offer additional programs such as opera, operetta, chamber music as well as orchestral and choral proâ€" grams onl The Jazz Institute, a twoâ€"week program to be held June 20 to July 2 will â€" offer intermediate and advanced musicians an opportunity to work with leading figures in contemporary jazZ with special emphasis placed on developing improvisational skill and ' uo M enenaes e Wl Summer Festival brings Raffi‘s dream closer ||y REEHONC: Included in the sessions will be classroom, individual instruction and workshops conductâ€" ed by such jazz performers as clarinetist Phil Nimmons, popularly known as the "Dean of IPPUT REPERRTOCC RTUC ENC 1 IypHE pportunity to work with leading figures in The program is a recognized university ontemporary jazZ with s.pecyal emphasns credit course through Wilfrid Laurier Univerâ€" laced on developing improvisational skill and sity. Participants must be 15 years or older eightening students‘ awareness of the and have a minimum of two years playing usic. . experience. Cost of the program is $140 per Included in the sessions will be classroom, week. Accommodation is available if reâ€" dividual instruction and workshops conductâ€" quired. For additional information, contact d by such jazz performers as clarinetist Phil Anna Bier at Wilfrid Laurier University 884â€" limmons, popularly known as the "Dean of 1970. Chinese acrobats labelled PA m ‘specialists in impossible‘ Jazz and brass profile nally a Centennial project of the Kitchenâ€" er Public Library, and named in honor of its former chief librarian. piano and Steve Walâ€" lace on bass. Special guest will be June Kerâ€" koven, vocals. Poet Irving Layton will judge the poetry Admission for the event is $2 for memâ€" bers, $4 for nonâ€" members and seniors get in free. Doors open at 2 p.m., music begins at 2:30 p.m., snack foods are available and door prizes include Ip‘s and glass turkey. of the most stunning acrobats ever seen, seemingly impossible feats of daring and balance, Kung Fu and brilliantly costumed traditional dancing. The precision and grace of the troupe suggest years of trainâ€" ing and discipline, but their art was formed by centuries of tradiâ€" tion. Chinese acrobatâ€" ics are more than a series of stunts. Most of ’&W;c;_i; this show were created and perâ€" formed by the Chinese entries, and author Nella Benson will seâ€" lect the prose winners. The contest is sponâ€" sored by participating public libraries in the Midwestern Regional Library System, and it is open to all residents of the Region of Waterâ€" loo, and Perth, Huron and Wellington Counâ€" ties. Layton has had a long and prolific caâ€" reer, producing more than thirty volumes of poetry, the most recent of which is A Wild Peculiar Joy: Selected poems, 1945â€"1982. He was a recipient of the Order of Canada in 1976, and holds docâ€" toral degrees from Bishop‘s University and York University. Currently he is writer The Chinese Acroâ€" bats have been thrilling audiences worldwide for the past five years, going as far afield as Southeast Asia, Central and South America, England, Israe!, South Africa and Rhodesia â€" as well as Florida and Southern California â€" and with Liberace for two years in Las Vegas/Reno/L ake Tahoe. They spent more than 2,000 years ago and have always been an integral part of Chinese culture. Canadian Jazz" and trombonist Rob MeConâ€" nell. leader of the awardâ€"winning Boss Brass. There will also be nightly informal jazz presentations and frequent jazz concerts held during the twoâ€"week session. The two part Brass program from June 27 to July 9 will feature individual lessons, master classes, clinies and coaching of small and large brass ensembles, in addition to a workshop on composing. conducting and arranging for brass. The Brass Choir from June 27 to July 2 wil} explore the character and use of brass instruments with a repertoire ranging from 16th century Renaissance to 20th century compositions. The Brass Band, July 4 to 9 will focus on original music, bright marches, solo features and sacred music created for the traditional British Brass Band. Faculty members for thesession will include Wayne Jeffrey, a prominent music educator and Hor James, an internationallyâ€" renowned French Horn soloist and guest conductor from England. Students will be encouraged to participate in several concerts held during the Brass program. inâ€"residence at the Uni versity of Toronto. Benson was born in England, and was inâ€" volved with the theatre at a very early age. After the family emiâ€" grated to Canada in 1966, she joined the faculty of theatre arts at four successive uniâ€" versities. In 1976 she gave up teaching to devote herself fully to writing. To date, she has had nine novels published. The deadline for enâ€" tries is October 1, 1983, and the awards cereâ€" mony,. at which it is expected the judges will be present, will be held Friday, Nov. 25 at the Stratford City Hall. Christmas 1978 at Maâ€" dison Square Gardens in New York. Many who see the Chinese Acrobats of Taiwan marvel at their unforgettable demonâ€" strations of prowess and physical perfection â€" to watch them bring this ancient art form to vivid life as never beâ€" fore seen in this country is fascinating. Performances are at 1: 30 p.m. and 7: 30 p.m. and tickets are $12.50, $10.50 and $8.50. Victor Stanton Chronicle Special Richard Gere plays Jesse Lujack, a streetâ€"wise hustler who risks everything just to be near the woman he loves in ‘"Breathâ€" less." Movie review The current Breathâ€" less is a movie with a long history, most of it related to the movies. The picture, starring Richard Gere, is basiâ€" cally an updated and relocated remake of the first feature film made by Jeanâ€"Luc Goâ€" dard. Godard‘s A Bout de Souffie, made in 1959 and starring Jeanâ€" Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg, was based on an idea by another now celebrated French filmâ€"maker and movieâ€"lover Francois Truffaut and dedicated to Monogram Pictures, an American producâ€" tion company notable for its "B" movies in the crime and comedy genres during the ‘30s and 40s. The script writers of 1983‘s Breathless, L.M. Kit Carson and Jim McBride and the latter in his more dominating role as the movie‘s director blend these various elements into a stylishly executed and solidly entertaining picture that can be appreciated on several different levels. At its most straightâ€" forward, Breathless is Breathless a movie bonus WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1983 â€" PAGE 15 a crime story which focuses on the amoraâ€" lity of a smallâ€"time gambler and car thief and his romantic obâ€" session for a university student with whom he has had a brief holiday relationship. More a study of a character and his times than an action drama with plot twists, the movie has a predicâ€" tability from the outset that doesn‘t however, lessen the sense of inâ€" volvement one develâ€" ops while watching it. Gere gives a liveâ€" wire interpretation of the somewhat psychoâ€" tic crook that succeeds in making the characâ€" ter both frightening and likeable. It‘s a characterization that seemingly draws from the styles of screen performers as remote from one another as the early Marion Branâ€" do, Robert De Niro and John Travolta. Along with the switch in time and location â€" from Paris of the late ‘50s to Los Angeles of today â€" the nationaliâ€" ties of the principal characters have been reversed from what they were in the origiâ€" nal Breathless. In the 1983 version, Gere‘s character is American while his love interest is French. The latter role is played most appealâ€" ingly by debuting French actress Valerie Kaprisky. Love scenes between her and Gere are both explicit and torrid, somewhat reâ€" minscent in fact of those in Body Heat. Adding significantly to the movie‘s compelâ€" ling atmosphere is the excellently chosen soundtrack music, a collection of oldâ€"time rockers and New Wave numbers supplemented by the complementary original scoring of this year‘s Oscarâ€"winning ‘"best song"" composer Jack Nitzsche. Directed, photo graphed and edited with captivating fMair, Breathless can be fully enjoyed as nothing more than highâ€"energy escapism. The fact, however, that it does offer more to anyone interested in its cinematic roots â€" it is full of symbolism that is both in keeping with the style of the original and has appliâ€" cation to its contemâ€" porary environment â€"â€" is a rare and admirable