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Arts & Entertainment Variety of bands perform Live music in Lincoln to please all tastes * Courtesy of Dali Records The Wild Cards IMBSi ...rtesy of Rounder Records Zachary Richard By Mick Dyer Staff Previewer J-lere is a run-down oflivc music in Lincoln for today through Oct. 31. ALTERNATIVE: Tonight, Such Sweet Thunder and the Rhythmic Penguins will play a double-header of power alternative rock at Duffy’s Tavern, 1412 O Sl Such Sweet Thunder of Kearney is first up. The band coils haunting melodies around furious drumming to create a sound that forces its way into souls and then gently coaxes people to dance. Alternative rock voodoo. The Rhythmic Penguins, from Fargo, N.D., follow up. The band played at the Drumstick 2 1/2 years ago and features that clean all American jingle-jangle guitar sound that all college students love today. In other words, the Rhythmic Penguins are the R.E.M. of North Dakota. Friday, the Millions and Miracle Legion will play at Duffy’s. The Millions, one of the finest specimens of a Lincoln band that’s ready to make an impression on the music scene at the national level, needs no introduction. The band cur rently is negotiating a recording con tract with several major music labels. Come and see the band play while it still has time to make local appear ances. Tell your children about the experience 20 years from now ... Miracle Legion is a straightfor ward pop band with an alternative edge. The band has released several albums and has a video on MTV right now. Some members of the Icelandic art-band, the Sugar Cubes, have been known to give surprise performances along with the Miracle Legion. Who knows what will happen when the Miracle Legion marches into town? Also Friday, three hard-core bands will play at Fastramp, 300 N. Second St. They arc Speed Wobble, S.O.S. and Misosogial. Good, high energy skate-and-thrash music. COUNTRY: Thursday, Sean Benjamin will play at 9th Street Blues, 421 S. Ninth St. Outstanding acoustic folk music. ^ Friday, Sean and Laurie Benjamin will play at the Mountains Bar and Grill, 311 S. 11th St. Scan is joined by his wife Laurie, whose passionate golden voice has overwhelmed audi ences for a long time now. This pair of performers is unforgettable. • Friday and Saturday, Joyce Durand and Paul Newton will play at the Sidetrack,935 OSt. The aydience sings favorite tunes along with Joyce while she pounds them out on the piano. Friday through next Tuesday, the Sandy Creek Band will perform at the Prospector, 640 W. Van Dom St. Picking and grinning-good blucgrass music. JAZZ/BLUES: Tonight, Zachary Richard will play at die Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St. Zachary Richard is widely known as a poet and musician in French speaking parts of the world. He’s a lot of things to a lot of people. To some, he’s the rebellious bad boy of Cajun music. To others, he’s the mastcrlul savior of it. To all, he is a hero. The fact is, Richard (pronounced Ri-Shard) combines a rock ‘n’ roll, pop, and rhythm and blues founda tion with rollicking Cajun and zydeco sentimentalities to create a compel ling sound that will infect all within earshot with the desire to abandon themselves in the bayou hootenanny. On stage, Richard is an aggressive performer. He throws all the tradi tional and contemporary musical ‘ingredients together in a steaming and screaming kettle, adds a little bit of magic and some of his dynamic personality. Thursday, Preston Love will per form jazz music at Julio’s, 132 S. 13th St. Also Thursday, the Wild Cards will perform at the Zoo Bar. The Wild Cards played at the Zoo last spring. The band was visually cool, wearing suits that harken back to the zool suit days and weaving some tight dance steps all over the diminutive stage. And the band was audibly hot, blending funk, jazz, Swing, Latin and blues elements into an irresistible sound that had the whole crowd percolating with the beat. Good stuff. Friday and Saturday, the Tony Brown Band will play reggae music at the Zoo Bar. Monday and Tuesday, Magic Slim and the Teardrops will play at the Zoo Bar. Magic Slim consistently has drawn a good crowd over the years when he plays his smoldering brand of South Side Chicago Blues. ROCK: Friday and Saturday, Bobby Curi ous will play at Chesterfield’s, Lower Level 24* N. 13th St. Saturday, Wrcx will play at the Mountains Bar and Grill. -1 Performance never lets go Momix’s illusions create unusual, humorous effects I By F.mily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter In the ease of the modern dance troupe Momix, seeing is not believ ing. Almost everything in Tuesday night’s Momix performance was an illusion created by light, shadow, sound, props and body. The effect is unusual, dramatic, humorous, sensual and often quite beautiful. In the surreal world of a Momix performance, anything can happen and nothing seems too bizarre. Any one with a preconception of what should happen at a dance perform ance might as well throw it out the window. Momix definitely breaks from the basic to startle and delight. The dancers’ performance is one of athletic grace and theatrical talent. Momix is a magic trick that grabs you from the start and never lets go. I Simply reading the program gives a hint to Momix’s uniqueness. Names of pieces appear like, “Kiss Off Spi kier Woman’’ (in which a woman is [dragged across the stage in a bag and [then emerges to wriggle around), [‘Spawning’’ (which is performed by Iwo women and two helium-filled balloons) and “Venus Envy’’ (in which a giant clam opens and closes revealing two women whose posi tions are ever-shifting). I Momix performed many of (he fcamc pieces Tuesday night that they ■sed in last year’s* Lincoln perform ance, as well as a few new ones. The ■udiencc that nearly filled Kimball ■tecital Hall, alternately laughed anti sal in silent awe as tne dancers per formed 13 pieces, each one different and creative. One of the most impressive pieces was "Skiva,” in which two dancers wearing snow skis amazingly contort their bodies. Their undulating upper bodies move in a sensual manner while their feet remain encased in the ski bools. Another impressive piece is ‘ ‘Cir clcwalkcr,” which uses a steel pipe configuration of circles that looks something like a portable jungle gym. Alan Boeding, who created the sculpture, moves in and around the prop, controlling the direction and speed of its rolling. The fun of Momix is that you’re never completely certain what you’re seeing and half of that fun is figuring out what everything is supposed to be. Even if you never discover Momix’s secrets, you sull can sit back and enjoy two hours of pure fantasy. . . Parental discretion is advised lor Momix’s performances because some of the pieces involve partial nudity. The two women dancers per form several of the pieces naked from the waist up, but it’s not used in an offensive manner. It merely accentu ates the beauty and skill of the dancer’s movements. Momix is scheduled for perform ances at Kimball Hall 8 p.m. Thurs day, Friday and Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday. Tickets arc $13 and $9 and are half price for University of Ne braska-Lincoln students and those 18 and under. Pre-performance talks will be held 30 minutes before each curtain time in 119 Westbrook Music Building. UNL dancers will demonstrate the process choreographers and dancers go through in creating a dance piece. High school play grows; changes; group now performs worldwide By Emily Rosenbaum Senior Reporter It seems fitting that the name of the stage production being per formed in Lincoln tonight has the word “dream” in it. “Toymaker’s Dream” started out as a play in a Tulsa, Okla., high school and was scheduled for three performances. That was in 1982. Since that first performance in Tulsa, the cast and crew of the show have been touring across the United Stales and have performed in Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Costa Rica, Panama and two tours of the Soviet Union. They also have received invita tions to perform in India, Germany and Romania. “We never expected anything like this to happen when we first started out,” said Andrea Jobe, choreographer of the show and one of the original cast members. As the show grew and changed,, a production company grew along with it. Impact Productions was started in the latter part of 1982 to produce ‘‘Toymakcr’s Dream” and still is handling the show. Jobe said the original cast, crew and the production company had almost no experience in putting on a professional stage production. But she said everyone knew what they wanted to accomplish with the show and they worked hard to achieve it. When Jobe first joined the show, she said, her only dance training was six months of ballet. Now she’s choreographing acro batics, karate and modem dance pieces, as well as ballet for the show. The story line for * ‘Toymaker’s Dream” originally was created by Colin Harbinson of Toronto, Can ada, and over the years has evolved into a high-technology stage pro auction witn compuierizca iire works, a digitally mastered sound track and a story told on stage by pantomime. When the cast performs the show in foreign countries, the soundtrack narration is translated to the native language. Michele DcLong, a cast mem ber for 3 1/2 years who is originally from Beaver Crossing, described the show’s story as an allegory of the gospel focusing on the creation of man and the earth. She said the toymakcr represents God, his son represents Jesus and the toys repre sent the people of the world. “What we have to share with everyone is much more than just a stage production,” DeLong said. “Toymaker’s Dream ’ ’ is being Cerformed tonight at 7:30 in Ne raska Wesleyan University’s O’Donnell Auditorium, 51st and Huntington streets. Tickets are available at Maranatha Christian Supply, 1265 S. Corner Boulevard, and the auditorium. Prices are $2 an advance, and $3 at the door.
