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University Daily Kansan
Campus/Area
Monday, Sept. 23, 1985
John Lechliter/KANSAN
Elisa Miller, Lido Beach, N.Y., junior, will be appearing in David Bowie's upcoming musical, "Absolute Beginners," Miller won the opportunity to appear with Bowie because she won "Let's Make a Music Deal," a contest sponsored by Music Television.
People really do win on MTV. And Elisa Miller can prove it.
By Theresa Scott Of the Kansan staff
Bowie's kiss thrills student
of the three finalists.
Miller, Lido Beach, N.Y., junior, was a winner this summer in Music Television's "Let's Make a Music Deal." She received an all-expenses-paid trip to England to appear in a movie with rock singer David Bowle.
"I didn't believe it for my life," Miller said yesterday. "There were over 2 million entries and I was the lucky one."
Anyone could enter the contest by sending a postcard to the music video television network, which is based in New York. Miller, who had never entered an MTV contest before, said she sent in five posts because a fan left over from the 180 her sister sent in for another MTV contest.
Miller said she first knew she was one of 90 finalists when she saw her name on the television screen while watching MTV. About a week later, someone from the network called her and said she has been chosen as one
The contest, following a “Let's Make a Deal” team, called for the three winners to draw a number for a door. Each won whatever was behind his or her door.
Miller drew door No. 2, winning the trip, movie appearance, video equipment and $10,000 worth of Baby Ruth and Butterfinger candy bars.
"I didn't act too excited when I won," Miller said, "because one of the other girls wanted to win it really hard. They zank prize instead." Weird Al's car,
The other contestant won a trip to California to meet rock singer Tom Petty.
"I didn't get my hopes up high about winning," she said. "I didn't want to set myself up for a fall. I figured if I won the car, I'd just bring it to Kansas."
Miller said that although the prize she won was not worth as much as the trip to see Tom Petty, she thought her prize was the best.
"David Bowie was really neat," she said. "In fact, I'm writing him a letter right now."
Miller said even though she was just a background extra in the movie, she was made up for the part and got to meet Bowie, who also had a bit part.
"When I left, David Bowie gave me, a big kiss, right on the lips," she said "It was really a thrill."
The movie, "Absolute Beginners," directed by Julien Temple, is about wars during 1958 between rock 'n' roll groups in London. It will be released in March, Miller said.
Besides being in the movie, Miller can be seen now on MTV in a 4-minute commercial promoting the contest.
Anti-apartheid protesters to have appeals validated
Miller spent 10 days in England and brought back many mementos from her stay. But the most valuable thing she got out of the trip was the contacts she made for the future, she said.
She recently got a job at TV 30, a low-power UHF station in Lawrence, and is contemplating a career in the movie business.
By Jennifer Benjamin Of the Kansan staff
Seven anti-apartheid protesters appealing July convictions of criminal trespassing will appear at a hearing Wednesday in Lawrence Municipal Court to determine whether their appeals are valid.
The seven are Aimee Alderman, Olathe junior; Judy Brow, KU library clerk; Clark Coan, a 1979 KU graduate from Lawrence; Michael Fouber, Lawrence graduate student; Laird Okie, a 1883 KU graduate from Lawrence; Gabriele Otto, West Germany senior; and Kathryn Steger, Leavenworth senior.
Jack Klinknett and Barry Shalinsky, Lawrence attorneys, have been representing the protesters during their trials and appeals.
Klinknett said Thursday that he received a letter from Mike Glover, city prosecutor, indicating "the cases were not perfected correctly."
A person must file and sign a notice of
receipt and sign an appeal bond
within 48 hours.
Klinkett said he told his clients to sign the bond within the 10-day period, but a court clerk refused to let them sign.
Glover said Friday, "The protesters all came to sign after the 10-day period had expired. I sent a letter to their attorney saying that their bonds have been forfeited."
A $50 bond had to be paid for each appeal, Klinken said, and that money has been used to pay the protesters' fines.
If municipal court refuses to acknowledge the appeals, Klinknett said, he will appeal to Douglas County District Court.
Coan said, "The courts have gone out of their way to make it hard for us to appeal. They've installed several obstacles."
Six of the protesters, arrested May 3 and 9 during protests, calling for the Kansas University Endowment Association to divest from companies doing business in South Africa, are appealing one conviction. Each protester was fined $30.
Dancer to coach unique styles at KU
By Jill White Of the Kansan staff
Dancer-choreographer Bill Evans brings to KU this week what dance critics call a sensuous abandon and rhythmic subtlety uncommon among male dancers.
Students and audiences will experience Evans' unique teaching and dance techniques during five days of master classes and a public performance at 8 p.m. Friday.
Janet Hamburg, director of music and dance, calls Evans a master dancer, teacher, choreographer, lecturer and administrator with an amazingly varied and comprehensive background of experience and accomplishments.
Evans describes the cornerstone of his dance philosophy as a healthy miad-body connection.
Of the more than 100 works he has created for ballet and modern companies coast to coast, his most significant achievement is a universally recognized theory and technique of training dancers.
it's important to work mentally." Evans said in a 1982 interview with
the Boulder Daily Camera, a newspaper in Colorado. "Because if the mind is not as involved as the body, dancers develop involuntary, reflex habits.
"When the mind is somewhere else, things happen automatically, and that's the least desirable dance experience."
Evans, who has worked with the Winnipeg Contemporary Dancers the past two seasons, first as artistic director, then as resident teacher-choreographer, has choreographed more than 100 works.
He received the Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography and seven choreographic fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Since 1965 Evans has performed at least 25 weeks each year throughout the United States in classes, concerts and seminars.
He founded the Bill Evans Dance Company, which was a national touring ensemble for eight years, and established the Evans School, Evans Summer Institutes of Dance and Evans Summer Festival of Dance.
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Art critic Anne Marie Welsh says Evans' dance technique looks neither modern, classical, nor some eclectic mix of the two. Rather, it's as if he rethought the whole impulse toward movement for himself and arrived at some rather startling conclusions, she saws.
'Tickets for Evans' performance are available at Murphy Hall box office. All seats are reserved. Public tickets are $6. KU student tickets are $3. Admission to the master classes is $10. Class. A ticket for all four classes is $10.
Evans' schedule for master classes is:
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■ Monday — intermediate jazz.
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■ Tuesday — beginning tap dance, 3 to 4:20 p.m., and beginning jazz, 7 to 9 p.m.
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Thursday — beginning modern dance 4 to 5:20 p.m.
Evans' performance Friday in Hoch Auditorium will feature the dancer in a varied program that he and others choreographed.
All sessions except the beginning;
tap dance class will be in 240 or 242;
Robinson Center; the tap class will be on the Hoch Auditorium stage.
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