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Thursday, November 3,1994 Page 9
‘Cinderella’ glides into Lincoln
with Russian Prince Charming
By Paula Liylgnt
Senior Reporter
Although the Ice Capades boasts
a 54-year-old history as America’s
premier ice show, it is a foreign
home for one skater.
Vadim Shebeco, a native of
Moscow, joined the Ice Capades
two years ago and stars as Prince
Charming in the current produc
tion “Cinderella ... Frozen in
Time.”
[Under the direction of Dorothy
Hamill, world and Olympic fig
ure-skating champion, the Ice
Capades will skate into Lincoln
this week.
Shebeco will perform with 1988
Olympic Silver Medalist Elizabeth
Manley, who plays Cinderella.
Shebeco said he, unlike Manley,
never competed as an amateur ath
lete. He moved into the profes
sional world of figure skating when
he was 18 years old.
He competed professionally in
a few international competitions
in Russia before he heard about the
Ice Capades.
The skater said he noticed how
(Hamill improved the company’s
image and decided he wanted to
join the show, so he sent a tape of
his past performances.
Shebeco soon was on his way to
fc... America, with few regrets.
“Ice skating is not popular in
Moscow. It was popular 10 years
ago,” he said. “Now, people have
to pay for ice skating, and they
didn't before.”
Shebeco does miss his family
back in Moscow, but he gets to see
them on occasions. His mother
came to see him last April, and his
father is coming to see him this
season.
bneoeco said ne reit great about
living in America.
“Working with the Ice Capades
is a great opportunity,” he said. “I
can show more of what I can do.”
The Ice Capades also allows
him to see the United States. Out
of the 30 towns in which the com
pany stopped last year, Shebeco
named Seattle, San Diego and San
Francisco as his favorites.
“San Diego was really roman
tic,” he said “I liked the ocean
because it was warm and enjoy
able.”
Lincoln may join his list of fa
vorite cities.
“I went downtown, and I loved
it,” he said. “I want to go and
explore and investigate it now.”
Shebeco may not have much
time to tour Lincoln because of his
rigorous practice schedule. No
matter how many times he prac
tices and performs, though, he said
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Show: Ice Capades,
“Cinderella... Frozen in
Time”
At: Pershing Auditorium
Times: 7 p.m. today, Friday
and Saturday; 2 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday
Tickets: Between $20 and
$5.50, available through
Ticketmaster
be could never let his performance
become boring.
“It’sa lot of acting. You have to
do the same thing day after day
with the same emotions,” he said.
Shebeco said he would stay with
the Ice Capades for a few more
years. He plans on participating in
a professional competition next
year.
“Cinderella... Frozen in Time”
opens at 7 p.m. today at Pershing
Auditorium. Additional perfor
mances are at 7 p.m. Friday and
Saturday and 2 p.m. on Saturday
and Sunday.
Tickets are $20, $10.50 and
$5.50 for the Thursday perfor
mance and $20, $14.50 and $9.50
for the other shows. Tickets are
available through Ticketmaster.
Elizabeth Manley, left, stars as Cinderella and Richard
Swooning as Buttons In Dorothy Handll's Ice Capadss
‘Flintstones’
lacks punch,
fat Barney
By Ony Brnttz
Staff Reporter
There’s not many new video releases
this week, and none too spectacular —
one cartoon which goes to live-action
with a big budget, one remake for the
kids to enjoy and one failed attempt at
CD-ROM horror. The pick-of-the-weck
is an Academy Award-nominated ac
tion-mystery from 1985.
MTbe Flintstones” (PG, available 11/
4) — John Goodman was perfectly type
cast for Fred Flintstone, but there must
have been a brain meltdown somewhere,
evidenced by casting skinny Rick Moranis
as barrel-shaped Barney Rubble and Rosie
O’Donnell as his skin-and-bones wife
Betty.
Some great special effects help the
transition from animation to live-action,
and kids will like the film, but the adults
probably will be playing pitch in the
kitchen.
Black Beauty (PG) — You know
the story. Beautiful black horse forges a
special relationship with small child,
and they go through a series of adven
tures together. _
The kids will get sleepy watching it.
Plav more pitch.
“Brainscan** (R) — Edward Furlong
(“Terminator 2") just cannot seem to get
a break.
First, “Pet Semetary 2,” which was
dubious at best, and “American Heart”
barely made it to the theaters at all. Now,
in “Brainscan,” he playsa lonely kid who
plugs into the ride of his life with a
virtual-reality game that turns into real,
horror.
Don’t rent this at all, send the kids to
bed early for no good reason and play
even more pitch.
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Dresher Ensemble pushes boundaries
■y Paula UvUnt
Senior Reporter
By dissolving traditional musical con
cepts, the Paul Dresher Ensemble continues
to break and defy artistic boundaries.
Paul Dresher, artistic director, said he
refused to let his music be tossed into a
record-store bin.
“Our work, in terms of what’s experi
mental, is basically asking questions of your
art form and trying to push the boundaries of
your art form, Dresher said. ,
The ensemble will perform this weekend ;
at the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Jazz, rock, classical and world music ]
show a commonality that Dresher wants to ]
bring into his creations, which he defines as |
“simply good music.” I
“You have to blend those styles together <
to make it convincing,” he said.
As a teenager, Dresher said he had a i
“voracious” appetite for many different types 1
of music.
“I’d find something, and I’d say, ‘This 1
music speaks to me at a deep level,’ “ he t
Show: The Paul Dresher Ensemble
At: Lied Center for Performing Arts
Time: 8 o’clock tonight
Tickets: $14 and $10, student
tickets are half-price; available at
the Lied Center box office
aid. “You have to find out what reaches
fOU.”
Dresher’seclectic tastes in music include
Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Bill Evans, J.S.
Jach and a variety of Indonesian classical
nusic. Dresher said the work he would
>resent at the Lied Center was heavily influ
:nced by Asian culture.
“Most people, when they look at that list,
ind nothing in common,” he said, “but I
end to disagree.”
He said he strived to break traditional
KHindaries and find a common ground for
vhat is now perceived as distinct styles.
“We storm the bastions of musical style,”
he said.
On stage, the Dresher Ensemble resembles
both a rock band and a classical chamber
ensemble.
It features Dresher on electric guitar and
also includes electric keyboards and percus
sion instruments as well as a violin, bassoon,
clarinet and piano.
The performers in his “dream ensemble”
have diverse backgrounds, he said, but they
manage to find a common ground. Many of
them have worked with him for several
years, he said.
Although his performers change from
project to project, Dresher said he wanted to
stay with his current ensemble.
Dresher* s work outside of the group car
ries him into experimental musical theater
and opera, chamber and orchestral composi
tions, live instrumental electric music per
formances and electro-acoustic taped scores
for theater, dance, video, radio and film.
The Paul Dresher Ensemble will perform
at the Lied Center at 8 p.m. today. Tickets
are $14 and are half-price for students.
Dresher also will speak at 9:30 a.m. today to
an Arts Today class.
Band combines Russian heritage and rock ‘n’ roll
if Jill O'Mtn
Staff Reporter
When Limpopo, a four-Igor Russian
combo, hits the Culture Center stage at 7:30
tonight, the audience will be hard pressed to
sit still for long.
The group, named after a river in Africa,
originally formed in 1984 when Igor (Yuri)
Fedorko, an accordion player, teamed up
with guitarist Igor Yuzov in Moscow. The
two combined their Russian heritage with
American and British rock V roll and
created the first incarnation of the mock
rock band.
Seven years and several musicians later,
four Igors united in California: Fedorko,
Yuzov, Igor Khramov, an accomplished
jazz trombone player and Igor (Oleg)
Bernov, a balalaika player.
“We’renotjustamusicalact—we don’t
know what to call ourselves,” said Bernov,
who has been playing the mega-balalaika, a
giant triangular stringed instrument, for three
years.
“It looks funny, and it’s not comfortable
to play, but it sounds like a gigantic bass or
acoustic guitar. It looks funky,” he said.
America also knows Limpopo as the
crazy band on the Kit Kat commercial,
Bernov said.
“We were playing at somebody’s party
here in Los Angeles when we found out
about the audition,” he said.
The band tried out for the part and was
hired almost immediately, he said.
“It happened so fast, all within a week...
And now we’re sort of being sponsored by
Hershey.”
The band, which plays everything from
comedy clubs to funerals, will be selling its
self-titled, self-produced compact disc at
the Culture Center, Bemov said.
Most of the songs on Limpopo’s 20
track record are rock covers or Russian folk
songs.
One of the songs, “My Husband the
Sailor,” an operatic cappella with accordian
interruption, is an original composition
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