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Radcliffe's dance department will sponsor a concert by Charles Weidman and company at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Rindge Technical High School auditorium.
The program includes "Flickers," a parody of the silent film era; "A House Divided," a Lincoln portrait; and "Fables for Our Time," a dance interpretation of James Thurber's stories.
In 1947 Mr. Weidman was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, with which he created the ballet "Fables for Our Times." It has been produced on Broadway, at New York City's Golden Anniversary celebration, and on television.
A native of the midwest, Mr. Weidman began his dance career with the company of Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn. Following a period of study at the Denishawn School in California, Mr. Weidman and Miss Rita Humphrey formed a concert group of their own in New York.
This aggregation has appeared with the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Cleveland Symphony. Weidman has also staged dance routines for "Americans," "I'd
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