Arts & Entertainment
Show will include Indonesian music, dance
By Gretchen Boehr
Senior Reporter
An Indonesian Cultural Exhibition
will be at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Saturday, featuring dance,
music and costumes that represent
the many cultures of Indonesia.
The free exhibition, sponsored by
the Indonesian Student Association,
is open to the public. It will begin
at 7 p.m. in the Centennial Room of
the Nebraska Union.
Musicians from Grinnell College
in Grinnell, Iowa; Lawrence, Kan.;
Lincoln and Omaha will perform au
thentic Indonesian music and dances.
The program will include five na
tive dances: Javanese, Tari Indang,
Configuration, Jaipongan and Mod
em Balinese. A film, Gamelan mu
sic, traditional costumes and Indone
sian folk songs also will be included.
• The Javanese dance features
controlled movements. Every move
ment is meant to mirror emotional
control valued in Javanese society.
The three distinct styles of Java
nese dance represent three categories
of Javanese characters: female, re
fined male and strong male.
• The Tari Indang dance is per
formed by a Minangkabau man be
fore he leaves his homeland. The
dance is performed to a song based on
a traditional poem that reminds Mi
nangkabau men not to forget their
homeland.
• The Tari Konfigurasi is a con
figuration dance with a mixture of
Kecak dance from Bali and Western
contemporary dance. It expresses the
young Indonesian’s openness and
broad view of the world. Tari Kon
figurasi is popular with young Indo
nesians because it allows freedom of
movement and music.
• The Gamelan Ensemble is rep
resentative of instrumental groups
throughout the Indonesian islands.
The instruments used by the en
semble arc representative of Java in
particular. The central Javanese
Gamelan are tuned to two types of
scales, which are not standardized, so
no two Gamelan sets are tuned alike.
The instruments arc made from
bamboo, wood or metal and each has
its own design and ornament.
• Thecostume show will stress the
vast differences of dress in each re
gion.
A wedding dress from the South
ern Sumatra region, skirts with batik
designs and different styles of hats
will be featured. Both men’s and
women’s clothing will be modeled in
the show.
Musicians polish up their Gamelan music in preparation for the Indonesian Cultural Exhibi
tion. ..
• The Jaipongan dance is a tradi
tional Sudanese dance from West
Java. It is fast paced and twisting; the
movements are explosive. The dance
expresses the dynamic nature of
Sudanese people.
• The modem Balinese dance is a
contemporary dance resulting from
innovative ideas in movements and
music. This dance was created by
youth in the 1980s who adapted
movements from traditional dances
ot Han isiana.
• The Indonesian folk songs dem
onstrate the unique tones, rhythms
and instruments of each part of the
country and the close tie between
culture and environment.
iAmericana’ art to showcase at gallery
By Robert Richardson
Staff Reporter t
The Haymarket Art Gallery will
feature paintings in walcrcolor,
acrylic and ink by Mike Bristol start
ing Sunday and running through
Not. 26.
The first thing visitors will notice
as they wander through the gallery is
the many farm scenes and the simple
nature of Bristol’s paintings.
“It’s typical enough. I try to do
Americana because a lot of city
people have that type of back
ground,” said Bristol, of Cordova.
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To Bristol, Americana depicts
typical rural America.
The paintings offer simple scenes
of farmhouses and wooded areas, but
there arc some with great detail.
The paintings arc finished quickly
or they don’t gel off the ground.
‘ ‘ If a painting goes over three days
you better not go much further with it.
You lose the spontaneity,” Bristol
said.
Many Nebraskans need only look
out the window to sec the scenes that
Bristol paints, but he goes to greater
lengths by traveling to The Stuhr
Museum in Grand Island at least once
a year to get ideas, he said. He also
uses his own recollections of growing
up.
“Smell has a lot to do with recall,
like a musty room. A lot of my work
comes from something that will spur
that recall, but some of it is my own |
imagination,” Bristol said.
The most interesting of the 20
rural paintings is the one with a light
house and an ocean with spray com
ing off the rocks.
“I’ve always wanted to do a light
house scene. There is something
about water that people like. It’s kind
of relaxing,” Bristol said.
Now 24 years old, Bristol ow ns his
own studio in Cordova. He graduated
from Exeter High School in 1484,
where he became interested in art
during his sophomore year.
“We got a new art teacher and I
was interested in a little bit of every
thing, but mainly photography,”
Bristol said. “He pushed me to try
painting.”
Bristol still is able to use his pho
tography skills because he prelers not
to sketch.
“I don’t like to Like the time (to
sketch). I uikc lots of photographs.
That is my sketchbook,” Bristol said.
From his photographs Bristol be
gins the process of transforming a
white piece of paper into a work of
art.
In the last four years Bristol has
turned out about 450 pieces of art, but
he has only kept one.
“I can’t afford to keep my art
work,” Bristol said. “I have to sell it
to make a living. I kept one piece
because it had sentimental value.”
Bristol said he is comfortable with
his work.
The gallery will have a reception
for Bristol from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.
Haymarket gallery celebrates
' anniversary with open house
By Robert Richardson
Stiff Reporter
Lisa Cyriacks said she is thank
ful for many things. One of them is
that the Haymarket Art Gallery,
119 S. Ninth St., has been around
for 22 years, the gallery director
said.
The gallery' is celebrating the
beginning of its 22nd year today
and Saturday, with several special
events including a two-day open
house and a 10 percent discount on
art.
In December 1968, Pat Martin
opened the gallery in the basement
of the Lincoln Hotel.
In 1972, when the Lincoln Ho
tel was set to be demolished, the
§ allcry was moved south across O
treet to the Kelso building for
about four months, Cyriacks said.
Then the gallery was moved to its
present location on Ninth Street.
“Volunteers formed a grbccry
cart brigade to move the an to its
present location,” Cyriacks said.
The gallery has grown not only
in size but also in services. Up
stairs there are eight rooms. Six
are studios for which the gallery
charges a minimum of $35 per
month rent to artists working on
projects, and two arc classrooms.
“We do try to meet community
needs. The classes we offer arc
mostly for children,” Cyriacks
said.
The classes include pottery,
drawing, watcrcolor and art his
tory.
“If I have enough requests for
an adult class, I will try to find a
teacher, otherwise I will refer
people,” Cyriacks said.
At any one time the gallery
houses art from over 150 different
artists from Nebraska, Kansas,
Iowa and Missouri.
“We started with artists from
the Lincoln area and now it’s re
gional, with artists from some sur
rounding stales,” Cyriacks said.
•Some of the media in the
gallery are acrylic, watcrcolor and
ink paintings, pottery, jewelry and
blown glass.
“Wc have fine arts and fine
crafts. When you buy an artist’s
work you’re investing on his be
coming famous in 20, 30 or 50
years.
The gallery has a strong founda
tion in its board of directors and in
its volunteer help, she said.
“We arc fortunate to have the
amount of volunteers that we do,’’
Cyriacks said.
The board of directors, formed
in 1971 when the gallery became
non-profit, makes internal deci
sions about the gallery. It, along
with the many patrons, sponsors
and volunteers, keeps the gallery
running.
“The space we have is suffi
cient but there arc plans on the
drawing board to improve the
lighting facilities.
“It has the potential to be what
ever the people involved want it to
be,” Cyriacks said.
Adaptation of Japanese
play shown at Sheldon
By John Payne
Staff Reporter
Japan’s “Gonza the Spear
man” will play this Sunday at the
Sheldon Film Theater. Director
mofe
Masashiro Shinoda’s film is an
adaptation of the 18th century
play. “Gon/.a the Spearman” tells
the story of a young samurai’s af
tecuon for his master’s wife. With
Gon/.a’s master away, rumors of
adultery spread, and the two arc
Forced to flee.
“Gonza the Spearman” show
cases the talents of Shinoda s wile
Shima Iwashita, who plays Osia,
wife of Gonza’s master. Cinema
tographer Kazuo Miyagawa also
has received high praise for his
work in the film.*
“Gonza the Spearman” will
play Sunday only, with screening
times at 2:30,4:45,7 and 9:15 p.m.
Admission price is $4, or $3 with
student ID.
International Student Organization plans
ethnicrfood banquet and culture show
By (Jretchen Boehr
Senior Reporter
Ethnic foods from five countries
will be featured in the International
Banquet on Sunday at the East Cam
pus Union at the University of Nc
braska-Lincoln.
After dinner a culture show of
dancing, singing and traditional cos
tumes from Japan and Indonesia will
be presented.
The banquet is being organized by
the International Student Organiza
tion and the meal will be prepared by
UNL students from India, Japan,
Pakistan, Palestine and Malaysia.
The menu will include Chole, a
spicy bean dish from India; a rice dish
from Japan; beef curry from Paki
stan; Baklava, a dessert Trom Pales
tine; Kufta, a beef dish from Pales
tine; and a chicken dish and dessert
from Malaysia.
Rajiv Joshi, president of the Inter
national Student Organization, said
the banquet will expose Americans to
different cultures.
"The whole objective is to get
more interaction between American
and foreign students,” he said.
"It gives all students a peck into
each others’ cultures and allows them
to get to know one another better.”
Joshi said this is the eighth year for
the banquet and ticket money just
goes to pay lor the lood and use of the
union.
Last year 400 people attended the
banquet, Joshi said, and most of those
attending were not students but
people from the Lincoln community.
The culture show will feature tra
ditional dances from the Japanese
Student Association, Vietnamese
Student Association, Hispanic Cen
ter and a group of students from India.
American groups also will per
form a rap dance and Greek dance.
And soloists from Korea and India
will sing traditional songs.
The 6:30 p.m. banquet is open to
the public and tickets are $9 on sale
today at a booth in the City Campus
Union and at the International Educa
tion Services office.
A limited number of tickets will be
available at the door.
