The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, February 17, 1983, Page 2, Image 2
Thursday, February 17, 1983 Daily Nebraskan Ha n no i nn nrnnn n . si n no f1 I fl f t . . s&im s ,r ) z mere m mum & mm n o m e ou By PejMjy Polacek When Blurata Natyam is performed by Nivedita Rangnekar Saturday, Lincoln residents will get a chance to see an exquisite ana complicated dance torm 01 India which dates back 1 ,800 years. Rangnekar will dance seven different acts to taped music for her solo performance, wliich lasts more than an hour. The performance is sponsored by the India Association. Bharata Natyam. an intensely religious and philosophical dance, is a demanding dance to perform. It gives dancers an unlimited potential to express their talents. Siva, the supreme god of Saivism , and the god of destruction and reproduction in Hinduism, orginated the dance and passed it on to liis son . His son passed it on to Bharata, who expressed the natyam, or dance, to the world. The dance consists of 108 complicated poses, or karanas. Many of these'are extremely difficult to perform and require intense training from childhood. Poise and yoga flexibility are also needed to perform the dance. Each hand gesture used in the natyam conveys a specific meaning to the audience. Police Report l as..., '' The UNL Police Department received the following calls and complaints from 7 a.m. Tuesday to 7 a.m. Wednesday. 12:42 p.m. - Ladies watch reported stolen from Abel Hall. 1 :22 p.m. - Attempted burglary report ed at Coliseum. 1:24 p.m. - Radio antenna repoited stolen from car in Parking Area 3 by Harper-Schiamm-Smith residence halls. 4:19 p.m. - Security alarm malfunc tion repoited at Nebraska Center for Con tinuing Education on East Campus. 4:58 p.m. - Two stop watches reported stolen from Nebraska Union. 6:12 p.m. - Security alarm reported ac cidentally sounded in Administration Building. 7:00 p.m. - Hit-and-run accident re ported in Parking Area 36 by Dental Col lege; light pole struck. 8:14 p.m. - Suspicious man reported, to be following two female students from state Capitol onto campus. Man gone when office arrived. 9:56 p.m. - Injury reported at 13th and R streets; person fell into manhole. 1:26 a.m. - Report of loud party at 464 N. 16th St.; settled by officers. What's the best Hood type? L J 7XCoo4 A regular donor. o o 0 0 0 O o o o 0 O 0 O O 0 0 0 0 0 O II 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (I 0 0 O 0 O 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 O 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O O O o U UJ L)J h v l J , j LJ V J l""" mill JF"1" pwswawm .umwuuw fce MAIN BANK 14TH S M 6 BLOCKS SOUTH OF THE STUDENT UNION! n f 1 -' ll ,ir-- -rvT t r fO'Pf rf V? HVinn k City Bank & Trust Company of Lincoln 14th and M Streets Prions: 477-4481 Lincoln, Nebraska 6S503 ttsmbsr F.D.I.C. 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 O 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 There are also four speeds for feet rhythms from slow to very fast. Some of the dances describe the gods, some express devotion and others are essentially used to create as many forms of beauty as possible through poses and rhythms. The central and most elaborate dance in the Bharata Natyam is the Varnam. It combines the pure dance form with emotions to indicate the song's meaning. Sarma Paritala.a UNL math graduate assistant, helped organize Ranghekar's performance at UNL . He said people haven't seen anything like this in Lincoln. "We want to present Indian music and dance to the community to expose people to our culture ," Paritala said . Programs will be distributed at the performance that briefly explain the signif'cancc of each of the seven dances. Explanations of the dances between every other act are played to aid the audience. The program will begin at 7 30 pjn. in the Great Plains Room of the Last Union. Admission is S 2. Tickets will be available in the unions Thursday and Friday and also at the door from 6 :30 pjn. to 7:15 pjn. the night of the performance. Brown, Hubbard are featured speakers at Big Eight Black Student Conference Television talk show host Tony Brown and nationally recognized lawyer Arnette Hubbard will be keynote speakers for the 1983 Big Light Conference on Black Student Government, which begins at 9:30 a an. Friday. "They were both pretty well known," conference chairwoman Cynthia Gooch said. "Both of them were on Lbony's 100 most influential black Americans." Brown's Public Broadcasting Service television series, "Tony Brown's Journal,", is the longest running black affairs television series and has received its third Emmy nomination in seven years. Brown also publishes a quarterly magazine by the same name, which examines black history and culture. A newspaper column written by Brown has been in syndication for four years. Brown founded and coordinates the annual Black College Day, arid was the First and founding dean of the School of for black lawyers. Currently in private practice, she has worked with the Chicago Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and has tried more than 50 cases dealing with basic constitutional rights. She earned her bachelor of science degree from Southern Illinois University and her juris degree from John Marshall Law School in Chicago. She will speak at 7 pjn. following the Ffiday(dinncr and Brown will speak Salurjay at 7 pjn. Tyrone Crieder, the national youth director of Jesse Jackson's Chicago-based PUSH, will ipeak about the first national black student conference. Saturday's workshops and facilitators include Organizational Motivation (Kenneth Gilreath, UNL), Black Sexuality (Clorinda Nelson, Emporia State), Blacks and Politics (Michael Combs, UNL), Pan Africanism (Daniel Bornah-Wiafe, UNO), Black on Black Crime (Marvin McLarty, Omaha) and Finding a Job (Gwen Combs, Communications at Howard University. He also began an annual careers conference uinlj. to aid blacks in getting jobs in journalism. Friday's workshops include Black Brown was selected "Man of the Year" Greeks and Campus Disunity (Norris in 1980 by the Ministerial Council on Race Williams, University of Oklahoma), Relations, and was named to the top 50 Education and Racism (A-Jamal Byndon, National Black Newsmakers of the Year by Omaha, and Matthew Stelly, UNL), Blacks the National Newspapers Publishers and the Legal System (John Robinson, Association in 1982. 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