Tenth St. Danceworks Brings A New Show To The Stage. By Margaret Regan TENTH ST. DANCEWORKS' spring concert might look like déjà vu all over again, but it isn't, not really. True, the More Strings Attached concert, Thursday and Friday evening at PCC Center for the Arts, enlists the Tucson Symphony Orchestra String Quartet to play live music. The quartet also played for Tenth St.'s Strings Attached, one of last season's most enjoyable dance performances. The powerhouse Isaacs/McCaleb & Dancers makes a return trip from San Diego to dance in the show, just as the troupe did for the spring 1995 performance. Tenth St., of course, will headline. And there will even be a repeat of some of last year's dances, including Kevin Schroder's trio "Nocturne" and artistic director Charlotte Adams' duet "My Love." "It was such a success last year and so well attended and people liked it so much," said Adams last week in the studio, as she kept an eye on dancers rehearsing Schroder's work. Tenth St. was eager to solidify the new audiences brought in to the dance by the musicians, she said, adding "Working with Nancy McCaleb was such a good experience. It was such a joyous concert, we thought, 'Let's do it again.' " Still, she hastened to add, there's a lot that distinguishes More Strings Attached from last year's version. There will be two premieres: McCaleb, artistic director of the California company, has set a brand-new dance on the Tucson troupe, "Desert Sextet," danced to Vivaldi's "Concerto Grosso in D Minor." Adams herself, fresh from a one-semester stint as a visiting professor at the University of Nebraska, has choreographed a new duet for herself and Tenth Streeter Thom Lewis, "One More Time," set to Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik." "Plus Nancy McCaleb's company will do two new (to Tucsonans) pieces," Adams said. "Both are border pieces, about cultures mixing. 'Serpent's Tongue' will be danced by the whole group of six or seven dancers. It includes dance, music and spoken text." The other McCaleb work, "Zona Rio," inspired by the lively cultural combustion in Tijuana's old town, will be danced to original music. Even the reprises of last year's pieces will be tweaked a bit, and performed by a different cast of dancers. Just a week before showtime, Adams and Schroder were giving dancers Paulette Cauthorn and Chieko Imada some almost-last-minute direction, adjusting some rolls here and turns there. In its new incarnation, Schroder said, "Nocturne" is different. "Charlotte liked my piece a lot," Schroder explained, "and wanted me to repeat it. It's technically complex and this year it feels a lot more free." After rehearsal, the panting dancers brought up another reason they're eager to re-do the Strings Attached concert. They said they particularly relish the chance to perform once again to the live music of the string quartet, which will play on at least four of the evening's six pieces as well as offering up musical interludes between dances. Live music offers surprises that taped music never can, they said. "When you work with live musicians, there are changes in the music," Cauthorn said. "Someone's late, or someone's ahead of time. It keeps you alert, alive, on top of it." More Strings Attached, a concert by Tenth Street Danceworks, the Tucson Symphony Orchestra String Quartet and Isaacs/McCaleb & Dancers, will be at 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, May 9 and 10, at The Pima Community College Center for the Arts Proscenium Theatre, 2202 W. Anklam Road. Tickets are $10, with a $2 discount for students and seniors, available at the door or from Dillard's outlets. For more information call 795-6980.

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