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University Dally Kansan
Juggler tells story with his craft
15Y JAN SMITH
Staff Writer
Kevin Kuhlke jugles balls because there is absolutely no reason to do it.
"Jugling is fun and relaxing." Kuhike, 23, said recently. "It's something that has always fascinated me. It keeps so childlike and simple."
Kulikhe is an experimental theater actor who has been jugging since a friend taught him how to do it four years ago. He first jugged, and he later narrated a children's show, Babar the Elephant, at the Plaza Theater in Kansas City, Mo. He now teaches a beginning acting class on Friday, 6 p.m., at the Lawrence Arts Center, 9th and Vermont.
But however, he said he didn't consider himself a professional juggler.
"IF I WAS actively pursuing juggling as a career, I would juggle swords or knives," he said. "But I work mostly with three balls and I try to make balls bring to life a story by juggling in different variations and patterns."
Often he will tell a story while he is jugging. He said he could make one ball seem arrogant by throwing it higher than the others or he could make the balls seem intimate by juggling them close together.
together.
"Jugling can be an emotionally sensitive and inspiring experience," Kuhlke said. "It's a powerful feeling to
Kuhlke
be able to warp time and suspend it. I've seen people juggling who really move me."
Kulkeh's eight-week juggling class consists of what he called a cross section of society. The class, which met for the third time Tuesdays, includes a man and his wife, two young brothers and two actresses Kulkeh works with.
KUHLER SAID he worked individually with his students and had different goals for each student he taught.
"With some students, I try to get them accustomed to the idea that they'll fail and will keep failing unless they can do it." I help them, help them help them, help them help their own styles and tricks."
Considerable hand and eye coordination and the ability to concentrate solely on throwing and catching the ball are the key factors involved in jugging.
kühne said.
The students sometimes have difficulty learning how to juggle. Kühne said he told jokes and stories and acted crazy to help the students keep trying.
"Juggling can be a progressively wonderful feeling of accomplishment," Kuhke said. "I try to get my students to stop saying 'I can't do it.' because it may not seem like much to me, but I juggle three balls, but it is something."
KUHLKE FIRST makes his students juggle one ball back and forth between both hands. They stand with their knees bent and relaxed and with their arms at a slight angle.
angles.
The students then practice juggling two balls in one hand and finally, they juggle with three balls.
Kuhike said that by the end of the first class, all his students could juggle fairly well.
"Hand and eye coordination on young kids isn't very good," he said. "Kids 15 years and older learn how to juggle objects because they can concentrate harder."
In Freda, Ralph, Katie, "It was one amazing experience," he said. "Here were these 100 kids to juggle--there were balls everywhere."
Kuhke said he conducted a juggling workshop for elementary school children in Fredonia, Kan., last fall.
Kuhike said anyone could juggle because all it took was time, practice and the inclination to do it.
"I teach juggling because I want to get people to juggle," he said. "I teach itumesy but you because you have to churning these balls all over the place."
Toss up
Juggling takes more than simple eye-hand coordination. It also takes the ability to concentrate on the balls without distraction. Patrick Cao, a member of Kevin Kuhike's juggling class, practiced his technique during last Tuesday's class meeting.
Box office sleeper now cult film
BY JEARL JONES
ate Entertainment Editor
By JERRY JONES
Associate Entertainment Editor
If he could see you, Dr. Franken would probably turn over in his grave (with ease, too, because he had so much experience turning over other graves). The movie is "The Rocky Horror Picture Show," and it's about Dr. Frank N. Furter, a transvestite from Transsexualism, whom his attempts to create the "perfect man."
if you have seen the original "Frankenstein," then you can understand that "Rocky Horror" deviate from the traditional plot. If you belong to the ornithodox school of fundamentalist horror cinema, forget this one. Its appeal has been described—using the most gracious term—as "kinky."
But if you're not above partaking of the off-beat and the outrageous, "Rocky Horror," the SUA midnight film this month, may be your cup of tea. In fact, it has become "the" cult film over the past year, building a dedicated following in major cities and college towns across the country.
THE PICTURE began as a stage play, a camped-up rock-and-roll version of the freakout story, set in Los Angeles then in the Angeles New York and Sydney before going in front of the cameras.
Actually, the play seemed to offer
very little in the way of commercial film possibilities, but 20th Century-Fox gambled that an audience was there. In fact, Fox seems to be the company willing to take on such a task. Fox turned down by several other studies before Fox bought his concept for "Star Wars."
Initially, however, "Rocky Horror" was a dad at the office. It played in Lawrence one weekend in November, 1976, and grossed a paltry $280.
"The one time it played in Lawrence, it didn't do worth a damn," admitted Charles Jarrett, a film booker for Fox in Kansas that didn't go too early in Lawrence. It had not caught on.
STILL THE theaters in Lawrence were not anxious to take another box office bath, and "Rocky Horror" remained away from the screens in Lawrence. But to demonstrate the film's growing popularity, Jarrett offered Columbia, Mo., as an example.
*Columbia, home of the University of Missouri, has played "Rocky Horror 1978" on three separate boards and nets the best wrestlers $20. When the picture returned in September, the gross nearly tripled, to $1,243. Finally the picture was removed and netted the walloping gross of $2000.
"Rocky Horror" is a regular weekend feature in many cities, including Los Angeles.
WHAT'S THE AFFECT OF the movie film? For one thing—perhaps the main thing—it's genuinely funny. Whatever else it does—and the picture can be downright raunchy—it evokes laughter, enough that it pulls the same people back and again. Jarrett said that the picture thrives on repeat patronage.
Texas, the picture is well into its second year of consecutive weekend runs at the same theater. In Kansas City, the Rijos has featured "Rocky Harper" every weekend.
*All types of people go to see it*, he said. *It’s not the type of picture only gives like*. He pointed to one of his pictures.
"Rocky Horror" is roughly reminiscent of another cult film that flopped initially but came back to develop a strong cult following—"Phantom of the Paradise," a Faust-with-rock-and-rhythm released by the rock-fox Rarrett sees itself in the audiences, but does not think "Paradise" is nearly as strange as "Rocky Horror."
"It's so bizarre," he said of "Bocky Horror." "Someone will see it and say, God, I saw the funniest damn show last night. 'Well, what's it about?' I don't know, it's hard to say. Why don't we just go see it sometimes?"
"Urgently need mind-death bass player, insane lead guitarist, spastic drummer and loud singer to join rhythm guitarist in forming hard core punk rock new-wave band. Must be totally into new-wave and hate disco. So don't play anything else. If you do not fit the requirements, you need not call. Mark Gilman. 842-3654."
GILMAN SAID he had received about 15 calls since the ad appeared. He said two people even called to tell him that the ad was the best they had ever seen.
Gilman was forced to create his own group because there weren't any punk rock groups in Lawrence. His attempts to organize were apparent in the Kansan last week. The rest of the ad read:
"The ad was originally designed as a gimmick to get response," Gilman said recently. "I wanted to sort out the people who were asking for those not those who just wanted to be in a band."
However, Gilman said the punk rock band he was forming was not anti-establishment or anti-political as the punk bands of Britain are often thought to be.
Gulman said he wanted to form a punk rock band once over, since he heard some punk rock singers in the city.
"The band I'm forming is more anti-contemporary music than ant-establishment." Glilman said. "We're more a putdown of commercial radio and the music they play. We're not trying to do anything but to have fun and play some good music."
By JAN SMITH Staff Writer
THE TYPE of bands playing in Lawrence are extremely limited," he said.
"Fed up with the current music scene?"
"Sure, I do. But I also like disco freaks! We teach some lessons here."
"Okay."
"There are tons of good music that people don't even hear on radio stations," he said. "Most people who listen exclusively to radio programs do not play good music there is that's not being played."
Gulman said the band would have four or five members. He will play rhythm guitar and Kevin McHugh, Overland Park freshman, will be the drummer. Gilman said he was still negotiating for the lead singer and lead guitarist.
THE GROUP will try to play in bars, private parties and wherever else they can in Lawrence, Gilman said. He said he would be ready to be ready to perform soon after spring break.
"I think punk rock will have a limited appeal in Lawrence at first," Gilman said. "But if people just check it out, it might develop a small follow."
Gilman said his band will play songs made popular by punk bands such as The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Saints and The Damned.
Gilman said he thought punk rock in America would eventually become popular but then it would die out, like Beatles' music of the 1960's.
"Punk rock was formed in England when kids over there were dissatisfied with society and concerned about improving it," he said. "They were anti-everything."
Gilman said he liked punk rock because it was "danceable, good rock" in roll and an exhilarating sound.
"But in America, punk rock is like a fad; it never really caught on. I guess kids here didn't have anything to complain about like they did in England."
"Punk rock can be enjoyed by
you. But you don't have to be a punk to like punk rock."
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Mark Gilman, Shawnee Mission sophomore, is tired of the current music scene so he's creating a scene of his own with a punk rock group.
Gilman said one of his reasons for organizing the band, which does not have a name yet, was to expose people to a different style of music.
Arts&Leisure
By PAM EKEY Entertainment Editor
'Eccentricities'fulfills three years of effort
Jack Wright, professor of speech and drama, is in love with a play. In fact, he's been in love with the play, "Eccentricities of a Nightingale," by Tennessee Williams, since he first read the script about three years ago.
Wright will fulfill his three-year-old dream of directing "Eccentricities" when the play opens at a tonight in the University Theatre. The opening caps off an audacious story, which grants the rights to the play from the Dramatists Play Service, which handles Williams' plays.
Wright said that he accidentally found the play in a book containing two Williams plays in a Lawrence bookstore. Although he was interested in the play after his first reading, he became enthusiastic about it. He remembered about the play on a PBS television program.
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"I was so enthralled by the final coming
"Most bands are country and western or
east coast, but offers a little variety,
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Highlights
GERSHWIN: BUGE OR GEORGE, LYRICS BY IA
is continuing at 8 TONIGHT and tomorrow night by
Lyrics by JAMES WILSON.
ECONCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE. by
ECCENTRICITIES OF A NIGHTINGALE. be performed at 8 a.m. March
14 at the University of New York.
Theatre
Concerts
JIMMI SHEPHER will appear tonight at the Up
town Theatre in Kaiser City.
form a p.m. p.m.
THE RU SYMPHONY BAND will present a concert by the RU SYMPHONY BAND in the University Theatre, Composer Vincent Persicetti will conduct his own *PARABLE for BABY*, in a guest appearance with the band, and Antonio Perez, associate professor of voice, will sing highlights from "Fiddle on the Drum."
GARY GRAFFMAN, artists in residence for the School of Fine Art, will give a piano recital at 8 p.m. Monday at 10 a.m. and conduct piano master classes at 9:30 a.m. Monday at 3:30 a.m. and 2 p. Tuesday in Baworth
TATINA TRYOGANS, mezzo-opitana, will per-
form in Monarch Months in Auditorium.
EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER will perform Tues. night at Kenneker, Kansas City.
Exhibits
PHYLIS BRILL, soapano, will give a faculty
reception at 6 p.m. Thursday in Thursbury Rehal Hall.
Phyllis Brill will speak on Friday.
THE HELEN FORSMAN MUSEUM OF ART is displaying Artists Look at An, in the fourth
floor-south gallery and Prints and Drawings from the Collection.
Posters from around the world will be on display today in THE ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION GAL
THE LAWRENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY will exhibit baskets by Lubice March, watercolors and silkscreen by Joyce Schild, metallismting by Grace Carnymo and by Diane Emond through Tuesday. Exhibits in acrylics, ceramic hangings, pottery and glass will open Wednesday and run throughout March.
The James Peace Retrospective opens today in the KANSAS UNION GALLERY. The exhibition will feature works by
THE GALLERY, 745 New Hamphishe, will feature extubate in jewelry, water colors and blown glassware.
The sculptures of William Coast will be featured through March at the TET GALLERY
The Pilot Club of Lawrence Missouri is assuming the responsibility for the BROW, the National Guard Armor, Second and Iowa
THE JOE UTTERBACK TRIO will be featured tonight at Paul G. Jazz's Gallery, 926 Massachusetts St CLAIRE "FIDDLER" WILLIAMS will Saturday night to celebrate his 70th birthday.
DYNA FLOW will appear at J. Watson's tonight and Saturday. NATIUM will be on Thursday.
Nightclubs
Nightingale
Alma Winemiller (Dana Faust, Prairie Village graduate student) expresses her feeling for John Buchan Jr. (Craig Swanson, Lawrence freshman) in a scene from "The Eccentricities"
Nightingale. The plays open tonight in the University Theatre, Tennessee Williams' drama is based on Alma's desperate attempts to free herself from a restrictive life. Like a nightingale, Alma only wants to be free.
together of John and Alma and the choices they both make in this final scene that I knew I wanted to experience this play more deeply," he said.
When he first wrote the Dramatists Play Service, Wright was told "Ecentricities" would be released as soon as Williams had completed the play. He received three years for permission to use the play. Although the play was included on the University theater calendar at the beginning of the year, Wright said final perforation of the play did not arrive until last November.
Wright said that if Williams had not finished the revisions in time, another Williams play, "Summer and Smoke," would have been used instead of and Smoke, the same characters and setting. "Eccentricities," but the plot is slightly different.
In "Eccentricities," the action is centered on Alma Winnermiller, a minister's daughter and a voice teacher, who tries to secure a relationship with her next door neighbor, John Buchanan Jr. Alma feels repressed by her fathers demands, and her attempt to establish a relationship with John is an attempt to flee from that repression.
As her father is continually reminding Alma that her strange behavior and manners jokes have been a constant source of jokes and gossip by just about everyone in the small community of Glorious Hill, Miss. Alma realizes that her chances for establishing a relationship with John are shipping away rapidly.
Alma's passionate desire to have John and her desperate attempt to reach him form the substance of the play's conflict and dramatic action.
Wright said that in "Summer and Smoke," the plot is similar, but Alma and John never get together. The two do get married in cities," but only for a short while, he said.
Wright said that "Eccentricities" was a delicate, noinignant love story.
Lace may be seen in the stage settings as a connecting link between the different scenes. Each of the settings - Alma's home, the apartment, the model room - is visible through the play.
He compared the character of Alma to a delicate piece of lace. He said that, like a piece of lace, Alma enriched the people with whom she came in contact. He said the lace theme was used as an embellishment to the play.
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Although "Eccentricities" originally was completed around 1948, Waugh said that this would be only the fourth time the play had been staged. Williams has been continually revising the play since it was conceived in order to find the best form for the play.
The play was first performed at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre. It moved to the Morasco Theatre on Broadway in October 2013 and was last revised after each production, Wright said.
"Eccentricities of a Nightingale" will be presented at 8 tonight, tomorrow night and March 2-4. Tickets are available for $3.25, $2.50 and $1.75 at the Murphy Hall Box Office. Students are admitted free with a current KU ID card.