September 13, 1984 Page 6
ENTERTAINMENT
The University Daily KANSAN
At Prime Cut, bizarre hair is almost normal
Through the picture window, black leather, lit cigarettes and bizarre haircuts can be seen moving around the room. The scene looks more like a cut-out from a New York nightclub than downtown Lawrence.
"It doesn't always look like this in here," says
Barbara Loveall, owner of Prime Cut Hair Co., 1341 Massachusetts St. "I don't want people to get the idea that all we do here is these kinds of hair cuts."
But an increasing number of progressive hair styles are coming out of the local shop.
"PEOPLE REALLY FREAK out when our weird customers are in the shop at the same time as our normal customers," said Daren Karr, one of four stylishs in the shop.
Karr, one of his friends,
Karr has worked in the shop for the past
year. He loves to cut hair in styles which are
out of the ordinary, he said. He likes it so
much, he said, he'd like to move to New York so
he could do it all the time.
"I'm not afraid to cut anything off of anyone." Karr said. "I don't do a lot of mohawks here. I like to be a little bit more creative. People usually do their own mohawks anyway."
THE REACTIONS STEWART gets about her hair do not always make her life easy. Her social life has been upset, too. Stewart lives in Gertrude Sellards Pearson Hall. The other women in the hall are very cold towards her, she said.
makes my hair
Beth Stewart, Lawrence freshman, said
that most of the time, she likes the attention
her purple hair gets.
"Its fun to see people's reactions," Stewart said.
"I do a lot of cuts like this," Sullivan said. "Darren and I were at the Hawk's Crossing the other night. Between the two of us, we decided we had done practically everyone's hair in the place."
Lauren Sullivan, who has been cutting hair at Prime Cut for three years, styled Stewart's hair.
A certain amount of psychology is involved in giving someone a wild hair cut. Karr and Sullivan said.
"No one says anything to me, not anything." Stewart said. Her roommate is a friend from high school, so she keeps her from getting too lonely, she said.
"YOU HAVE TO FEEL out people to see how radical you can go." Karr said.
Stewart had her hair cut and colored purple because it sounded like a fun idea, she said. Her parents accepted the new hair style, and in fact, her mother said she liked the color.
"Sometimes you can work someone into a more radical look if you have enough time. I can take a Farrah Fawcett type and in a few months have her hair cut totally different, if she trusts me."
"sometimes you know someone isn't really ready for this, or sometimes I can't get a hold on what they really want. That's when I do a boring cut." Sullivan said.
boring cut. 'Survivor cuts'
"The these styles are just a form of expression," she said, and sometimes they can really bring a hidden part of a person's personality to the surface. Her little sister, Martha Sullivan, is a good example.
"Her cut has brought more of herself out," sullyman said.
MARTHA IS A senior at Lawrence High School, 2017 Louisiana - St. Her curly, strawberry colored hair is almost shoulder-length on top and is pulled over to one side to reveal the side and back of her head. Over her right ear and on the back of her head the hair is shaved to about one-fourth inch in length.
Martha said her friends didn't really treat her differently. She thinks that sometimes they might be jealous when they go out because of the attention she gets.
Sullivan said her customers did get stared at. In other cities the reactions are more severe, but in Lawrence people react by not reacting.
"LAWRENCE HAS THIS ATTITUDE that it is too cool to react to anything, but Lawrence isn't as cool as it thinks it is." Sullivan said.
Sullivan has her ideas for hair styles from various places. Sometimes a customer will come in and describe something that they have seen on someone else.
When she travels out of the state, she keeps her eyes open for different types of hair styles that she might be able to alter or duplicate for one of her customers.
Harvey Stafford, Wichita freshman, wasn't worried that his hair, which stands high on his head, would keep him from being accepted when he came to the University. "I was thinking, 'What happens if my
accepted when he came to the University
"I was thinking. What happens if my
father is on the list?"
THIN LINES OF HAIR ngzag across his head to form a spider web design.
"I was out in California this summer and saw a girl with a gun like this," Stafford said.
"Before this I had a crew cut. I don't consider myself punk." he said, "I call it hard core, which is new punk rock — fast, hard, politically aware.
Stafford is a painter. His work earned him a place in the KU Gold Show.
"I really want someone to ask me if I am punk so I can use a new line I heard. I want to say, 'No. I'm not punk! I am not ugly.'"
"I think my parents kind of write this haircut off to artistic temperament," Stafford said. "The first time I came home with my hair cut, my mother told me not to do that."
For Robert Myles Waldman, Overland Park freshman, the haircut was for his sanity than anything else. he said.
"I worked at Q104 radio station this
Above, seven of Prime Cuts' customers exhibit their haircuts. The customers are Martha Sullivan, 2017 Louisiana St.; Harvey Stafford, Wichita freshman; Robert Myles Waldman, Overland Park freshman; Lindsay Perkins; Leawood freshman; Ramona Curtis, 2221 Ohio St.; Beth Stewart, Lawrence freshman; Deanna Parsons, Essex, N.Y., senior.
Left, Darren Karr, stylist at Prime Cut, puts the finishing touches on Lindsay Perkins's new cut.
Story by David Lassiter Photos by Joe Wilkins III
summer as a disc jockey. When I was there I started listening to groups like the English Beat, XTC and Elvis Costello," Waldman said.
sure.
The haircut just followed his musical change. His hair is not radically short. In fact, it is longer than most. One jagged spike of hair drops over his forehead and rests on the end of his nose.
September Calendar
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Arnie Johnson Band. Johnny's Tavern,
401 N. Second St.
Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Kemper Arena, Kansas City. Performances through September 16.
City Light Orchestra. The Jazzhaus, 928
2 Massachusetts St., also playing
September 14.
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R.E.M. 9 p.m., Hoch Auditorium.
Tickets are $9 for students and $10 for general admission.
Gary and the Cruisers. Just a
Playhouse, 806 W.24th St.
Sue Malloy and Carol Dressler. Johnny's Tavern, 401 N. Second, also playing September 15.
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Desert Architecture exhibit opens at the University of Kansas Museum of Anthropology in Spooner Hall. The exhibit will run until December 12. The museum is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mondays through Saturdays and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays.
Renaissance Festival. Bonner Springs Weekends through October 7.
mation can
Band Day Parade. 9 a.m., from 7th and
Massachusetts streets to 11th and
Massachusetts streets.
Cider Days Arts & Crafts Festival.
Topeka, also on September 16. For information:
(913) 272/9290.
Carol Sloane. The Jazzhaus, 926
Massachusetts St.
Chocolate Exhibition. Hyatt Regency Hotel, Kansas City, also on September 16. For information call: (816)474/9969.
Yes. 7:30 p.m. Sandstone Center, Bonner Springs
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Visiting Artists Series: Linda Maxey, marimba. 8 p.m., Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall.
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R.E.M. musicians play music as they like it
By TODD NELSON Staff Reporter
The adjectives in the English language don't work well for R.E.M. They just don't properly describe the group's music.
pass player Mike Mills has been working on that problem. He recently summed up the R.E.M. sound in a few words. "I'd say it's 'not wasteful,'" he said. "We just try not to have anything boring in there."
"We're just doing what sounds best to us," R.E.M. is on the second leg of its tour after the release of "Reckoning," the band's second album. It will perform at 9 p.m. tomorrow in Hoch Auditorium. The dB's, a four-piece band from North Carolina, will open the concert.
CRITICS APPEAR TO have been anything but bored with R.E.M. The group's debut album, "Murmur," almost beat Michael Jackson's "Thriller" for first place in the 1983 Village Voice Pazz and Jop writers poll. Rolling Stone's critics' poll named "Murmur" as album of the year and R.E.M. as best new artists.
The band hasn't sought overnight stardom on the momentum of one big single. Mills said.
'Why play music that's easy and obvious?' he asked. We're not concerned with airplay. That's something the record companies worry about.
"I'm really glad we've gotten where we are the way we have. It's been a pretty steady growth. If it never got bigger, we'd be fine — we could still find plenty of places to play. As long as we keep trying, I'd hate to stagnate"
long to keep up," ReEM's follow-up to "Reckoning." R.E.M.'s follow-up to "Murmur." features stronger songs and a more direct sound. Mills said.
THE TITLE REFLECTS the position in which the band now sees itself, he said.
"The second album is a turning point. One group will have one good album, then go nowhere," he said. "It's also a plus on the other side." But I don't think any of us use it very much.
that any of us use.
R.E.M. intended "Reckoning" to be different from "Murmur" for several reasons, he said.
When making the "Murmur" album, the band relied on producers Mitch Easter and Don Dixon, who also produced "Reckoning," to create and sustain a mood that seemed to weave the individual songs together, Mills said.
"We WERE'NT REALLY sure what to do in the studio," he said. So the band used lots of overdubs, adding layers of acoustic guitars to some songs and intermittent piano parts to others.
But things were different with "Beckoning" because the songs were stronger, each intended to stand on its own, Mills said. The final product had fewer overdubs and sounded more like "Chronic Town." R.E.M.'s 1982 extended-play record
Reviewers of the new album have made much of the fact that singer Michael Stipe's vocals can be understood with greater frequency than on R.E.M.'s other records. But that was not necessarily intentional, Mills said.
"The lyrics are not poetry. Mills said,
"They're not meant to stand on their own
MORE IMPORTANT to R.E.M., he said, is the mood that the lyrics and music together evoke. The mood is what R.E.M. builds its songs around. Mills said. From night to night, the specific words that Stipe sings in concert might vary from the recorded version of the song, but the song's mood will be the same.
R. E.M. formed in April 1980, in Athens, Ga., where University of Georgia students, Stipe and guitarist Peter Buck were living in an abandoned church. They recruited drummer Bill Berry and Mills, also students who had played together in campus, to lead high school in Mascau, Ga. The group made its debut as a party for friends at the church.
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The dB's third album, "Like This," is scheduled for national release today. It is the group's first U.S. release, after two British releases, "Stands for deciBels," and "Re percussion."
TOMORROW NIGHT will be R.E.M. S third appearance in Lawrence R.E.M. played at Off the Wall Hall in 1981 and at the Lawrence Opera House in 1982
single
Members of both bands have been friends since 1861, when R.E.M. met the dB's in New York City. Mills said The bands will probably play some songs together tomorrow night.
For the Opera House show, Peter Hol-sapple, db's singer-songwriter and guitarist opened the show with a solo set. He later joined R.E.M. on stage for several songs, including "Black and White," the db's first single.
Art of University Dance Co. is a far leap from classical
By ERIKA BLACKSHER
Staff Reporter
The KU University Dance Company opened its 1844-85 season last weekend with eight dances, which were choreographed by students and faculty members of the company and performed for more than 400 people.
Far from the typical pink tutk. Far from the fluttering Swan Lake; dancers clad in simple costumes snaked and flowed across the stage in the Crafton-Preyer Theatre at Murphy Hall on Saturday and Sunday.
Janet Hamburg, coordinator of dance and artistic director of the company, said the performing group focused on modern dance
"MODERN DANCE HAS many different definitions," she said. "It expresses not one point of view, but many, giving it variety and texture."
Scott Williams, Tonganoxie junior and member of the company for a year, said the exploratory nature of modern dance allowed the performer to express messages and ideas.
"Modern dance is more theatrical with each move representing something different," he said. "Each piece presents a story or hidden message."
"Carvings," choreographed by Karla Flott, a former member of the company, was one of the dances performed Saturday and Sunday. The dance represented a primitive society performed by a quintet of dancers
"I wanted the audience to feel a sense of ritual," Flott said. "I wanted them to be pulled into that ancient world."
"DANSES ELECTRONIQUES a la Jazz"
another dance performed last weekend, comprised seven short dances that, when performed together, flowed into a whole.
Edward Mattilia, professor of music theory, produced the score for the dance.
Hamburg said, "The music amplified the texture and mood of each little dance."
Arielle Thomas, professor of dance, is new to the dance company this year.
These and the six other dances were introduced at the company's spring concert last year.
However, Hamburg said the rest of the performances planned for the 1984-85 acade demre year would be new material
Hamburg said Thomas would add her perspective to the choreography and a lot of new material to the company.
The dancers devote at least 20 hours a week to practice. The time demands and the quality of the productions qualify the performers as semiprofessionals. Hamburg said.
THE COMPANY, established in 1978, is a semiprofessional performing group. Although all 15 members of the performing company are students, Hamburg said, the group is considered semiprofessional.
The group was started to provide students with the opportunity to try dance as a profession, Hamburg said. The company is a professional training ground to see if they want to continue in the field, she said.
The company usually performs three or four times on campus each year and at the annual Kansas Dance Festival in Wichita.
MEMBERS ALSO WORK on their tech niques by taking classes from visiting artists. This year the visiting artists will be the Hubbard Steel Dance Company from Chicagc. They will be here for two days in April.
"It's definitely a goal to have an artist in residence," Hamburg said. However, the company's budget of $1440 for the 1984-85 year does not allow for that, she said.
A formal concert in Murphy Hall costs more than $2,000, she said. "As of now, we cannot do a December concert"
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In order for the company to have future performances, it will have to ask Student Senate for supplemental funds, she said
"The students work very hard," she said "and it makes it all the more difficult when we have to cancel a concert because we can't afford it."
"What we live for is to dance and perform."