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Friday, January 24,1992 / University Daily Kansan
ENTERTAINMENT
HAPPENINGS
BARS
Benchwarmers, 1601 W. 23rd St.
Friday: Symetrix, 10 p.m. i:30
a.m.
Saturday: big-screen viewing of the KU-Nebraska game, 7 p.m.
Chip and Jeff's Live Acoustics immediately after the game
cover charge: $1
Sunday: big-screen viewing of the Super Bowl, 5:20 p.m.
Bogart's of Lawrence, 611 Vermont
Saturday: Nightcrawlers, 9:30
p.m.-1.30a.m.
covercharge: $3
Friday: Mustang Lightning/Uncle Tupelo, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
Monday: Open mike, 9:30 p.m.-2 a.m.
Saturday: Bo Diddley, 7 p.m.
advancedticket sales: $10
no cover charge
Tuesday: Dick Holiday and the Bamboo Gang, 10.p.m.-2.a.m.
power charge: $3
Wednesday: Idexplosion, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
cover char
Thursday: Gooneybirds, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
cover charge: $4
The Brass Apple, 3300 W.15th St.
Sunday: Super Bowl pre-game party
11 a.m. until game time
Tuesday: Karaoke Night, 9 p.m.
1:30 a.m.
no cover charge
Flamingo Club, 501 N. 9th St.
rday, Saturday: topless dancing. noon-14.m.
Monday: Poetry reading, 7 p.m.
cover charge: $2 or $3
Henry T's. 3520 W.6th St.
Henry S., 3220 W. 6th St.
Sunday: big-screen viewing of the Super Bowl
no cover charge
The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 MassachusettsSt
Friday: Idxplosion, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
cover charge: $3
Saturday: Lonesome Houndogs, 10 p.m.-2 a.m.
cover charge: $3
Thursday: The Idle Wilds, 10 p.m.
2 a. m.
wowcharge $2
The Power Plant, 901 Mississippi
Ages 18 and over admitted
Friday, Sunday and Wednesday:
music in the auditorium
Thursday: Ladies Night
Riverside Bar and Grill, 520 N. 3rd C+
Friday: Nite Crew, 9.p.m.-1.a.m.
cover charge: $2
Shiloh, 1003 E. 23rd St.
Friday: Overseeing, 9 p.m.-1 a.m.
cover charge: $3
Saturday: East B Street Band,
9 p.m.-1 a.m.
cover charge: $3
The Yacht Club, 530 Wisconsin
Tuesday: Karaoke night
9 p.m.-1 a.m.
no cover charge
ART EXHIBITIONS
Spencer Museum of Art
Sunday:
Public opening fiesta and
reception for Mexican Retablo
Painting: The Art of Private
Devotion, 1-4 p.m.
THEATER
1501 New Hampshire
Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
"Tries of the Lost Pormicans"
Performances are 8 p.m. and 2:30
p.m.
Lawrence Community Theater 1501 New Hampshire
$8-student, $9-general public
MUSIC
Crafton-Preyer Theater, Murphy Hall
Friday: Northern Sinifonia,8 p.m. Call 864-3982 for ticket information
SUA starts Friday night movie series
SUA will show movies that play on Thursday night at the Kansas Union again the next night at Hashinger Hall, coordinator. ELLett, Spectrum Flms coordinates.
Student Union Activities has started a new program Friday nights at the Student Union.
The movies will be shown at 7:30 p.m. and 10 p.m., starting tonight. Tonight only, both shows will be free. The series will run until Spring Break.
JOANNE ZINGO-HARGIS GATHERS her class at one end of the room and writes on the chalkboard. "dum dem schieben."
This is no ordinary class. This is beginning belly dancing.
"dum-dum-tek-a-tek"
"dum-tek-a-tek-a-tek-a"
Every Monday from 7:15 08:15 p.m., 15 women of all ages and physical shapes drop their worries and meet at the Lawrence Community and Vermont streets, to relax by belly dancing.
Belly Belles
Hargis, dressed in a black leotard with a thin black skirt tied loosely around her waist, puts a cassette tape of Middle Eastern nightclub music from the late '60s or '70s in the tape player and pushes the play button. It is now time for some slow muscle stretches.
As the music plays, Hargis leads her class in a series of stretches to loosen and relax their bodies. Relaxation is important, because whenpeople concentrate too hard, their bodies tense up,she said. Belly dancing is best done when relaxed.
"OK, now, do your favorite blonde routine." Hargis says, as members of the class move their heads from side to side. To keep the class relaxed, Hargis sometimes tells jokes in the middle of a routine.
Dancers have a ball and relax,too
Following Hargis' lead, the students move their heads, stomachs and hips with side-to-side motions called slides. Slides are the building blocks of circles, which are fundamental to the art of belly dancing, she said.
Hargis walks around the room helping members of the class learn the motions.
"Keep your shoulders and hips steady, and move everything in between," Hargis says. They do.
When the majority of the class has mastered the side-to-side slides, Hargis shows the class how to make full circles and do different foot and
"Are we having fun yet?" she asks.
The class chuckles, and she leads them to the blackboard to show them a basic rhythm. "Beledi." Appreciation of the music and culture of baly dancing is as important as the dance.
arm movements.
"I'll razz them for wearing T-shirts," she said. Some students danced "dance for wearing T-shirts" on stage, which must be made in advance.
Belly dancing tones the stomach muscles by isometrics, or working particular isolated parts of the body. Hargis said.
Belly dancing is not an intense workout for the muscles and it will not define muscles like a traditional workout. But continued bely dancers often lose muscle, which muscles that usually are not used, she said.
Some students do not care about working out.
"It's alluring," said Cynthia Munno, Perry
Grant. "I love it."
Some students agreed that they were attracted to the class because it was unusual.
"It 't's off the beaten path," said Stacey Hallar, Topeka senior.
"It looked exotic and exciting, and it's harder it looks," said Janet FitzGerald of Lawyer.
Tara Heilke of Lawrence said she took the class for fun.
"It feels good, and the stretching is really relaxing. "Helike said.
Story by Kris Belden Photos by Kristen Petty
Susy Roberdes (left) has been belly-dancing fortwo and a half years. Roberdes, Teri Frailey (behind Roberdes below) and Marie Price (behind Frailey below) ride together from Overland Park every Monday night to attend class. Frailey has been belly-dancing for 10 years and Price for two.
Though her students are all women, Hargis said that men could belly-dance too. Last year, a man took one of her classes.
Hargis has been dancing since she was 3 years old, and can dance a million steps, including ballet, jazz, and swing dancing.
Hargis is better known among her peers by her dancing name, Zada al Gaziyeh, meaning "gucky hugsy." She found the name in a card file and added it to her collage to fit it. Her college nickname was "Gypsy."
Hargis learned to belly dance in 1977 through the YMCA in Stratford, Conn. She studied under a Lawrence teacher and began to teach classes and attend nationwide belly dancing seminars.
Hargis said her husband, Rex, enjoyed her dancing and learned a skill of his own so he would not feel! left out.
"He plays drums in self-defense." Hargis said.
"He plays drums in self-dense," Hargis said. Hargis has performed at the Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs for 10 years and has performed in Dallas; Salina; Kansas City, Kan.; Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis; Sedalia, Mo.; Chicago; Evansville, Ind.; Paducah, Ken.; and Columbia, Mo. She wants to go to Egypt some day to see the club performers and the Egyptian national belly dancing company of Cairo.
The trend in Middle Eastern belly dancing is a more intricate dance with a greater level of difficulty. Harris said.
Hargis has a number of friends who belly dance. They sometimes meet, take classes and learn from each other, she said.
Anyone can belly dance, regardless of physical shape, she said. Hargis even taught and danced at the Renaissance Festival while she was pregnant with her second child.
Hargis teaches both beginning and intermediate belly dancing in the evening after working as a purchaser for AT&T during the day. She has been teaching belly dancing in Lawrence for three years.
Hargis said she stressed the basic mechanical movements in her classes, but that belly dancing was one of them.
"I can teach you the mechanics, but how you decide to express yourself depends on you and your physical type," Hargis said.
Top Twenty Video Rentals
1. "Terminator 2: Judgment Day"
**Instructor 2: Judgment Day**
2. "City Slickers"
3. "The Naked Gun 21/2: The Smell of Fear"
4. "Doc Hollywood"
5. "Thelmma and Louise"
6. "Backdraft"
7. "The Silence of the Lambs"
8. "What About Bob?"
9. "Soapid"
10. "Dying Young"
11. "FX2: The Deadly Art of Delusion"
12. "Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves"
13. "Only the Lonely"
14. "Mortal Thoughts"
15. "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey"
16. "For Justice"
17. "Dutch"
18. "Delirious"
19. "Toy Soldiers"
20. "Hudson Hawk"
Violinist to perform with Northern Sinfonia orchestra
Northern Sinfonia, a 23-piece orchestra from Great Britain, will perform at 8 p.m. tonight at Crafton-Preyer Theater in Murphy Hall. The group will feature a guest violin soloist and a guest conductor.
Kansanstaffreport
The orchestra is billed as the first chamber orchestra in Great Britain to sell its concerts on a subscription basis, the first to build its own rehearsal and administration center, the first to include chamber compositions for smaller ensembles in its repertoire, and the first orchestra in the world to release a recording of Beethoven's "Choral" symphony on the then revolutionary digital audio
tape.
Korean-born violinist Young Uck Kim will perform with the orchestra. He has been a featured soloist with nearly every major U.S. orchestra. Kim will perform Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K.219, by Mozart with Northern Sinfonia.
Northern Sinifonia performs regularly throughout Europe.
Although artisanal director Heinrich Schiff, an Ausliancellist, is the leader of Northern Sinfonia, Australian French hornist Barry Tuckwell will conduct the orchestra. Tuckwell frequently conducts the orchestra.
Tickets for the Concert Series performance are available at the Murphy Hall Box Office or at the Student Union Activities office in the Kansas Union.
Introspection runs deep through 'Grand Canyon'
Bv Kris Belden
Kansan reviewer
Some call it "The Big Chill" of the '90s. I think the movie "Grand Canyon" is more of a "thirtysome II."
Like "thirtysomething" "Grand Canyon" is about a group of friends in their late 30s who think too much about life, societal problems, marriage and the pursuit of happiness.
The movie, set in Los Angeles, also seemed to borrow some camera tricks from "thirtysomething," such as focusing on an object and then using the object as a transitional tool between scenes.
And like "thirtsomethong," the movie uses a lot of symbolism. One of the continuing symbols is the reappearance of helicopters. Police, medical and traffic 'copters, like watchful guardians,飞 over the City of Angels as gang violence and crime run rampant below. This irony contributes to one of the main themes of the movie: how messed up the world is.
Mack fixes Simon up for a date with one of his acquaintances and makes arrangements for Simon's sister to move to a different part of town.
Whenever the main characters, who are predominantly upper-middle-class and upper-class whites, leave their sheltered environments, they see how bad the rest of the world is, and they spend a lot of their time dwelling on it. This is another parallel to "thirtysomething."
The movie stars Kevin Kilne as the equivalent of "thirtysomething's" Michael Stedman, the central good
Ratings:
****Don't miss it
life and tries to make it up to him.
- Buy a few beers instead
* Wait and rent the video
* Decent entertainment
* Don't miss it
When Mack and Claire's teen-age son leaves home for summer camp, they begin to have marital problems and wonder what their purpose in life is, now that their only child is gone.
guy who thinks too much about things that are out of his control. Kline's character Mack is married to Claire, played by Mery McDonnell ("Dances With Wolves"). Like Hope Stedman of "thirtysomething," Claire is a "dogoer."
Mack's best friend is Davis, played by Steve Martin, who successfully produces graphic and tacky horror movies that reflect the violence in the world. Davis is a fun, materialistic guy who lacks the intensity of the other characters. Although the other characters change and grow, Davis does not.
The all-knowing character of the bunch is Simon, played by Danny Glover. Simon is an African-American tow-truck driver who comes from the "bad" part of town. Simon enters the picture when Mack's car breaks down and Mack is harassed by a street gang. Mack says that Simon saved his
Though Simon does not know what to think of Mack's generosity at first, he and Mack become friends and think about the problems of society together.
The film is controversial because it seems to promote stereotyping. For instance, the areas of town hardest hit by gang violence and crime are portrayed in the movie as being predominantly African-American neighborhoods.
Also, Simon and his date think Mack set them up because they are the only two African-American people Mack knows. In these two instances, the movie seems to create racial division.
But the movie has other scenes that seem to break down the Black-white barrier. It shows Blacks who are not from crime and gang-riden areas.
Mack and Simon's friendship shows that barriers between African-Americans and whites exist only because people put them there. If we see the characters in the movie as people and not as colors, there are no barriers.
For those of you who miss watching "thirtysomething," go see "Grand Canyon." It's guaranteed to make you think.