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Bellydancer teaches exercise, feminity
By RICK THAEMERT
Staff Reporter
The enchanting beauty and fluid grace of the Arabic heroine, Shechezahara, is difficult to recruit inside four bare walls in her small basement. But Janet Powell is try-
Powell, a Lawrence graduate student, teaches two belydancing classes in that they practice the grace and bertage of the dance, as well as fascinating, often misunderstood.
Her ornamented finger cymbals clink to the bongo-laden Arabic music. Her body, too, is in harmony with the music as she is dressed in a pair of slikers like dizzyingly rapid shimmers.
"Middle Eastern dancing (as professionals call it) runs the gamut; its power." Powell said. "It makes you feel greedy, and it makes you feel feminine."
MODELING HER bellydancing costume, including flowing gold silk and lace, she is a red-haired Cleopatra. There are no jewels in her naval, no bells on her toes, but the hundreds of gold coins tinkling around her hips sound her every move.
She said, many bldyendants found it a way to trim down and stay fit because it uses every part of the body and demands physical temperance.
Powell is smooth, light-footed and extremely nimble as she demonstrates the tance to her students each Thursday evening.
However, no matter how unrestrained her movements, her head remains perfectly
Two beginning bellydancers, Shelly Wasson and Lucy Whidley, Topeka freshmen, said they liked the dance because it felt fun. "I wouldn't have given would give them to 'sparkle open,'"
"THE DANCE IS just an inherent exercise," Powell said.
Powell said the dance unfortunately is often associated with slackness and low self-esteem.
She said the dance originated in the Middle East as a ritual during pregnancy. Many of the dance steps, such as the shimmy, hip thrust, stomach undulation, pelvic roll and dancing on the knees, were muscle exercises that made childbirth easier.
Today, because of the sexual revolution, such terms probably contribute to the negative sexual image the dance evokes, she said.
Even the traditional "bare stomach" costume of the bellydance was at one time considered immoral in this country, Powell said.
"THE SHIMMY can really look gross if the posture isn't good." Powell said. Lazy belydancers who do the dance incorrectly form the reputation of the dance, she said.
She explained that there usually were three sections to a bellydance: a gay, fast section that portrays love for life by approaching members of the audience; a slower section that offers a more serious look at life and features floorwork, or dancing on the knees, back or stomach, and another more lively section.
"TRADITIONALLY, and according to the experts, the dancer should enter with the veil on during a full performance," Powell said, wrapping herself in the opaque, white fabric. "The veil is an extension of the body," she said. "It can look like something floating."
Powell said that interest in bellydancing was growing and that people were becoming more professional-minded about it.
"I'm surprised Arabic music hasn't caught on more in the United States," she said. "Arabic music is lyrical, it hands-on and interactive." And with your soul's "Powell said the driving rhythms and floating meiodes provided an excellent background for anyone to express themselves."
Because the dance originated in the Middle East—once considered the crossroads of the world—she said the dance today was a melange of cultures and dance ideas, including folk steps, ballet and modern dance.
Many types of people show an interest in the classes, including blacks, Oriental, whites, the young and the old. About one-third of the class are University of Kansas students.
KU Police said that the lock on the door to the room had been broken since last Tuesday night and that the department of security around the buildings had planned to fix the lock yesterday.
Some men even beldance professionally, she said, although there isn't much demand for them except in the big cities.
POWELL SAID she could even foresee that become popular among men, a
Drafting tools and equipment valued at $470 were taken from a room in Marvin Hall sometime between 5:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday.
Because the lock was broken, police watched and checked the room periodically. They found it undisturbed during a check at 9 p.m. and returned at 9 p.m. and found it ransacked.
Drafting tools taken
Police have made no arrests.
Local man charged with drug violations
A Lawrence man has been charged with possession of heroin and marjuana in connection with a traffic violation early Saturday morning.
KU Police arrested Terence Mode, 2401
w. 25th St., when he ran a stop sign at
Missouri Zone parking lot.
When police searched Mode's
found bags of heroin and marijuana. Mode
was taken to the Douglas County jail.
Lawrence police dropped the firecracker.
Mode posted a $15,775 bond and is scheduled for arraignment April 22.
Duncan said, though, that the Senate's attempts to lower the LER had been extreme and definitely wouldn't be approved by the House.
Finance ...
"STEINEGER proposed that we add another $10 million to $13 million in new state money," he said. "Apparently the good senator is unaware of where that state money comes from, because that's tax money too."
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He said Steingeron had not offered a method or financing other than new state money, but he said he would take action.
"The mood in the House," he said, "is to do anything you want within reason to that bill, as long as you put only $8 million in new state money into it."
DUNCAN SAID the host probably would agree to other Senate requests on the bill.
"If I lower your property taxes $100 and increase your income taxes $100, I fail to that that's any kind of relief," he said, referring to money at a different time of the year.
Duncan said the taxpayer eventually would pay the difference, even if not in cash.
Duncan said he would agree to a Senate amendment to restrict school districts from switching money from general funds to capital funds.
If a legislative decision isn't made on the school finance bill this year, Duncan said, the state will have to do something.
Timetables for the summer session will be available during final examinations, Mt.
Berman said, "The school boards say, 'We'd like to give you an increase, but we don't have the money—we shifted a large budget to digital improvements for bricks and marbles.'"
State Sen. Arnold Berman, D-Lawrence,
said the school districts' ability to shift
money from one fund to another upset
teachers.
"Those 44 are the real problem," he said, "because they're stealing money out of general funds when they have the ability to raise it locally."
"Teacher contracts could be delayed until May," he said.
He said the switching wasn't necessary because each district had authority to levy fees.
HE SAID THAT 140 districts in Kansas levy nearly the maximum amount allowed and that 114 levied about one-half of that amount, he said, 44 districts make no levy, at all.
Enrollment for summer classes will be June 10, although enrollment in classes starting after June 18 can be done on the first day the class meets.
second will start July 9 and end August 6,
and the regular eight-week session begins
Before last summer, there was one continuous session. The system was changed to add more flexibility in training and shorter intensive study classes.
Open house to focus on alumni services
KU has increased the number of courses to see whether students need the wider selection in the summer. Ralph Christopherson is an academic for academic affairs, said yesterday.
Advocates of shorter summer sessions said that some classes could be taught better if they met for a longer time each day but for fewer weeks.
He said summer enrollment would be equal to or more than last summer's because of the "modest expansion in the program."
THIS SUMMER, the first shortened session will start June 13 and end July 9; the
CHIRISTOFFERSON also said summer school was set up to be as flexible as possible. As with last summer's session, students had a week session and two four-week sessions.
May graduates will have a chance to get an inside look at the KU Alumni Association at Senior Open House from 2 to 5 p.m. on Thursday in room 403 of the Kansas Union.
More courses and a flexible scheduling system will be offered in this year'ssummer program at the university.
KU plans expansion in summer session
The open house is an attempt to give May graduates an opportunity to learn about the services of the Alumni Association, B. J. The director of the association, said recently,
Persons attending the open house will receive free memos and refreshments.
You're graduating. What happens then?
What happens to all the people you knew in school? What happens to all the groups and activities you were involved in? Where do all the graduates from the Class of 77 go? There's a way to stay in touch. not just with the past, but with the present and future as well.
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The University of Kansas Alumni Association invites all recent graduates and seniors to
Open House
Wednesday and Thursday
Stop by, have some refreshments and pick up your free KU memorabilia. Meet the people, find out how they help you stay in touch, find out about the activities and programs they coordinate, learn about the services they offer.
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