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Some students have to be dragged kicking and screaming onto the dance floor. And some students just look like they're kicking and screaming.
Squad tryouts to be held to find 15 more dancers
But two weeks ago, five KU students formed a hip-hop dance troupe to show that dancing can be blissful, rhythmic and even artful, and they want students to share that experience.
Steve Puppe/KANSAN
"I wasn't catching the moves in my dance class the way I wanted to. I came home really frustrated and I said, 'Why not start a hip-hop dance troupe?'" said Eve Bradley, co-choreographer. "I've always wanted to do something funkier, more rap-oriented."
By Nicholas C. Charalambous
Kansan staff writer
Hip-hop troupe unites students
Bradley, a Shreveport, La. sophomore, and her friends formed the dance troupe Unity/Students United through Hip-Hop.
Eve Bradley, Shreveport, La.; Morris Harris, Kansas City, Kan.; Sande Beauboeuf, St. Louis, Mo.; Asahante Childs, Wichita, and Bridgeette Roark, Kansas City, Kan., formed a hip-hop dance troupe two weeks ago. The group will hold auditions for new members Monday night at Hashinger Hall.
The troupe will hold auditions at 7 tonight in the dance studio of Hashinger Hall. The first hour will be spent teaching a routine and the second hour will be try outs.
Anyone is welcome, Bradley said. "A lot of people associate hip-hop with African-Americans, and we want hip-hop to be associated with every type of race and background," Bradley said.
Troupe members say they hope to perform at Black Student Union
events and at Langston's, 806 W.
24th F, a local dance club.
William Lenoir, lecturer in dance, said classes in hip-hop were taught at universities on the East and West Coasts. Hip-hop dances are
"The validity is there," Lenoir said. "It's just not codified. And it's a bad, and there will be a new fad to take its place."
not structured, which makes them harder to teach, he said.
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Workshop series no longer limited to faculty and staff
Library seminars open to students
By Kimberly Crabtree
Kansan staff writer
"I was getting a number of requests from people saying, 'I'm not a professor, but I'm interested,'" said Cindy Pierard, coordinator of library instruction and reference librarian.
This year, the University of Kansas Libraries is including students in its instructional workshop series. The workshops have been offered since 1993 and were traditionally open only to faculty and staff.
The workshops are designed to make patrons more familiar with the resources available. This semester there are 11 topics, and most workshops are offered more than once.
All of the workshops are presented either in Watson Library or Summerfield Hall.
Pierard said that about 150 people had registered for workshops this semester. Last year, she said, the number registered was 77.
staff members and are not paid extra for doing the workshops, Pierard said. Financing for the workshops is included in the libraries' budget, and the workshops are free.
Space for the workshops is often limited. At the Clark Lab in Watson, for example, only nine people can attend.
Workshop presenters are library
The science and technology section of the basics of bibliographic databases workshop was offered Thursday afternoon. Paulette DiFilippo, reference librarian, and Bayliss Harsh, Watson tour coordinator and reference assistant, presented the workshop.
Both thought the workshops were meeting their original intent of helping people become comfortable with search and research methods.
Carl Burkhead, professor of civil and environmental engineering, said he attended because he was interested in and wanted to remember researching methods.
"Unless you use it, you lose it," he said.
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Feeling Minnesota leaves audience feeling disappointed
Review by Jeff Ruby Kansan staff writer
If the insultingly bad film *Feeling Minnesota* is directed toward our generation, then we're in worse shape than people say.
Keanu Reeves, who seems to get worse with every performance, begins his role as the hero, Jaks, by barking at a dog. It's easily his most convincing dialogue of the movie.
Newcomer Steven Badgelman wrote and directed this bleak motion picture that wishes it were Pulp Fiction or True Romance. Producer Danny DeVito, executive
producer of *Pulp Fiction*, should be ashamed for trying to pass off one-dimensional, humorless imitation as an innovative film for twenty-somethings.
It's one of those movies with writing so poor that even the good actors look bad, such as Get Shorty's Delroy Lindo and Full Metal Jacket's Vincent D'Onofrio.
The film opens with Red, a small-time crime boss played by Lindo, forcing Freddie, played by a bounty, cardboard Cameron Diaz (The Mask), to marry Sam (D'Ontrofi), a man she loathes.
Enter Sam's brother Jiaks, a good-hearted criminal whose odd
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name originated with a spelling error on his birth certificate. Within minutes of his arrival at the sham of a wedding, Jjaks and Freddie are messing around on a bathroom floor.
Soon Freddie convinces Jaks not only to run away with her to Las Vegas, but also to steal $10,000 from Sam. Naturally, Sam isn't too happy about this, and the remainder of the movie is spent with Reeves and D'Onofrio tackling or punching one another.
Dan Aykroyd and Courtney Love
play bit roles that could have given the movie some much-needed comic relief, but Baigelman was so intent on attempting to make his movie quirky and real, he simply forgot to add a few key ingredients: humor, believable characters and an interesting story.
What we get is a messy, unattractive film with no good performances or dialogue. Give the movie a vague title taken from Soundgarden's lyrics, add a supposedly cool, moody soundtrack and a few absurd comparisons to the Cohen Brothers' brilliant Fargo, and somehow, Feeling Minnesota is ridiculously packaged as a hip,
black comedy for young people
In other words, those of us who enjoyed watching John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson debate the sensuality of a foot massage also are expected to rush out and pay to watch Diaz tell Reeves how great it would be to someday wear a tiara.
To mention Baigelman's film in the same review with such fine movies is a crime, so I hope to dispel any notions that Feeling Minnesota shares anything with these films, other than the fact that it's viewed in a movie theater. Our generation is smart enough to know the difference. Shame on Steven Baigelman for trying to fool us.
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