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MUSIC CALENDAR
Thursday, Nov. 13
Polyphonic Spree, Sleepy Jackson, Corn Mo;
Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts; 18+, $10, 9 p.m.
Big Metal Rooster; The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2 Massachusetts; 21+; $3
X-Ecutioners, DJ Z-Trip, DJ Q-Bert, Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 E. 6th St.; All ages, $16.50, 9 p.m.
Early November, Count the Stars, Copeland,
Hidden in Plain View (early show); The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire; All ages, $9, 6 p.m.
Starlight Mints, La Guardia, Ghosty; The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire; 18+,$8, 10 p.m.
Friday, Nov. 14
Primetime Heroes; the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire; all ages, cost TBA, 10 p.m.
Sellout; The Jazzhaus, 926 1/2
Massachusetts; 21+,$5, 10 p.m.
Vendetta Red, S.T.U.N., Armor for Sleep,
Christianson (early show); The Bottleneck, 737
New Hampshire; All ages, $11, 7 p.m.
Pete Schmidt, Tanner Walle; Abe & Jake's Landing, 8 E. 6th St.; 18+ , cost TBA, 9 p.m.
Saturday, Nov. 15
Prometheus, Severset, Third World Sin, Hollowspace; Groundwork Coffeehouse (in Leavenworth), 509 Cherokee; All ages, free.
New Amsterdam, Murder By Death,
Straylight Run, Format; The Bottleneck, 737 New
Hampshire; All ages, $8, 9 p.m.
The People, Be/Non, The Capsules; The Hurricane (in Kansas City), 4048 Broadway; 21+, cost TBA, 10 p.m.
■ Decision, The Uprights, The Corpse, The Blackouts, Hymns of Saturn; El Torreon (in Kansas City), 3101 Gillham Plaza; All ages, cost TBA, 6 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 16
Ultimate Fakebook, The People; The Replay
Lounge, 946 Massachusetts; 21+, $2, 10:30 p.m.
Bruce Cockburn; Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts; All ages, $30 to $37.50, 8 p.m.
Monday, Nov. 17
KU Opera: Featuring "The Crucible"; Murphy Hall; All ages, $7 to $10, 7:30 p.m.
The Conversation with Civella; Benders (in Kansas City), 118 McGee; 21+, $3, 10 p.m.
Tuesday, Nov. 18
Smile Empty Soul, Stereogram; The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire; All ages, $9, 6 p.m.
Ratdog; Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts; All ages, $34.50, 8 p.m.
Cheap Trick; The Beaumont Club (in Kansas City), 4050 Pennsylvania, 18+, $20, 8 p.m.
Wednesday, Nov. 19
Mindless Self Indulgence, Tub Ring; The Beaumont Club (in Kansas City), 4050 Pennsylvania; All ages, $16, 8 p.m.
Grain and Demise; The Granada Theatre
1020 Massachusetts; 21+, $5 to $8, 9 p.m.
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Dance as a sport is gaining worldwide acceptance BY ERIC BRAEM
Eric Braem/Kansan
Gustavo Sudre, Rio de Janeiro sophomore, and Christina Turk, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, practice the tango's corte step during a KU Ballroom Dance Club Monday review session in Hashinger Hall. They say they find the sport to be a fun way to exercise and appreciate the sense of class associated with ballroom dance.
The social dance unit of gym class in primary and secondary school probably turned you off. Your adolescent, sweaty hand was forced to touch a member of the opposite sex's equally damp hand. And then, the worst of worst, as the rotation of partners progresses, you end up with the source of your fear of dance, that guy or girl who had a crush on you but you thought was disgusting. Gross! You grinned and bared it though, clomping around to a square dance or waltz, wondering what it had to do with physical education.
Now that you're in college and probably aren't afraid of holding hands, you may discover that ballroom and Latin rhythm dancing can be a fun way to spend a night and are actually a decent workout.
You get in shape quick, says Christina Turk, an extremely energetic Kansas City, Mo., freshman, who has been attending KU Ballroom Dance Club meetings for about a month. "From the sternum on down, I am sore," says Turk — who seems to enjoy the class of ballroom dancing and impressing her friends — at a Monday practice session in the Hashinger Hall dance studio. Every Monday she discovers she's sore somewhere after the club's large Sunday lesson in the Kansas Union Ballroom, which usually lasts more than an hour longer than the 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. schedule would suggest. Turk says she struggles with balance, but she's learning fast. "I'm a very klutzy person," she says.
Ballroom dancing is demanding sport, but you don't need extensive training or a great body to be a good social dancer, says Mallee Morris, a professional dancer from the Champion DanceSport Company, which instructs the club on Sundays. She
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