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Arts ©Entertainment Tuesday, November 15,1994 Page 9 x. Intense sound has Lincoln band grooving Show: NORML Benefit with Throttle, Love Cabal and Think At: Le Cafe Shakes, 1418 0 St. Time: 8:00 tonight Tickets: $3 at the door By Jowl •traucfi Senior Reporter This Lincoln band approaches their thrashin’ brand of music full Throttle. Former University of Nebraska Lincoln student and vocalist for the band Throttle, Dave Simoncic said his band’s style of music got out a lot of aggression. “It’s not a happy bunch of crap,” he said. ‘‘You want to feel bad after you listen to it.” Drummer Lee Zeman added, “It makes you happy to feel bad.” Simoncic said the music that Throttle played helped set it apart from other bands. “We don’t do noisy crap and feedback crap,” he said. “And we don't dress in dresses like a lot of local bands do.” Throttle’s members were dem onstrating their intense sound in a basement when they were inter rupted by a Lincoln police officer window. Kevin Gude, the band’s guitar ist, said, “That’s usually our sign for break when the cops arrive.” Simoncic answered the door and the officer told him that they “sound pretty cool, but it’s too loud.” The officer’s sentiments seemed to echo that of downtown estab lishments. “Nobody lets us play down Dave SI monel c, lead singer for the band Throttle, singe during e rehearsal while guitarist Kevin Dude pim behind N Mm. The metal band will perform tonight at La Cafe Shakes, 1418 0 St. town,” Simoncic said. “They say we’re too loud.” Throttle was banned from play ing at Duffy’s Tavern after sta pling a flyer to a tree. “The bands that get gigs are the ecogroovies,” Zeman said. This band has a mature sound, with great lyrics and really thrashin’ instrumentation that be lies its members’ youth. “We’ve been around for about one-and-a-half years,” Simoncic said. “But about a year ago our guitarist, Brent Wilcox, died in a car accident up in Valentine.” Bassist Andy McClung said, “After the funeral there was a big misconception that we’d broken up.” The band did not play any shows for about three months. “We each had to deal with our grief in our own way,” McClung said. But Throttle is in high gear again and has seven gigs in the next two months, most of them out of town. “We’re trying to get out be cause nobody will let us play here in Lincoln,” Simoncic said. Zeman said that the concept for the band came up at a party. “We were all sitting around and somebody said, ‘Letrs make the heaviest band in town,’” he said. That was then, but now Throttle recently finished a demo tape and is in the process of releasing a CD. “The recording itself is basi cally done,” Gude said. “We just need to get them all pressed and packaged.” The songwriting on the new album is a conglomeration of everyone’s efforts, Zeman said. “Somebody will get an idea and then everybody will add to it,” Simoncic said. Courtesy of Qrsmercy Pictures From loft, Suy Pearce, Terence Stamp and Hugo Weaving star as thro# drag queens makliw tholr way across the Australian outback In thslr bus, Prisdlla, In *7110 Adventures of Prisdlla, Queen of the Desert.” Drag trio dares Down Under ■yJoed frauch Senior Reporter The Queen of the Desert took a slow, nomadic journey to get to Lincoln, but now that she’s here, enjoy this refreshing oasis in the wasteland of mainstream movies. The plot of the movie sounds a lot like what was going on up in Loma, but this film takes place Down Under. Three drag queens travel from Sydney across the Australian outback to perform their show at a luxurious resort. Their bus, Priscilla, breaks down along the way, and they have to perform at several small towns to make enough money to fix their transportation. The responses that they get from the locals range from reluctant See PRISCILLA on 10 Two dimensions capture fluid movement of dance By Paula Lavlgna Senior Reporter The three-dimensional image of the dancer combines the fluid movement of limbs, torso and head with the manipulation of space and time. This elaborate movement is captured in a two-dimensional form for“Inside the Dance: Draw ings by Terry Rosenberg,” an exhibit at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Sponsored by the Sheldon Gallery and the Wagon Train Project, “Inside the Dance” fea tures more than 50 large-scale drawings that span Rosenberg’s 12 years of capturing movement on paper. The majority of Rosenberg’s drawings are representative char coal depictions of a dancer or a group of dancers. Color has worked its way into some of Rosenberg’s more recent works. Daphne Deeds, Sheldon gal lery curator, said Rosenberg’s de pictions captured dancers within the performance instead of the more formal depiction where the artists was removed from the ac tion. “It’s a more active, spontane ous and intimate view of the world of dance,” she said. Deeds said she chose works that represented the several phases and compositions of Rosenberg s drawings. His works feature close-up and distant draw ings of solo dancers, duets and large groups. Rosenberg has captured the dance of the David Parsons Dance Company, the Bolshoi Ballet, the Ballet Theatre of Harlem and The Omaha Ballet. With a constant subject mat ter, Deeds said Rosenberg per sonalized his drawings by giving them distinct titles that included dancers’ names and performance dates and locations. Each draw ing has its distinct components, she said. Deeds said Rosenberg’s style of capturing dance was a unique twist on an ancient practice. Capturing dance in two-di mensions began in prehistoric times, she said, and an emphasis on depicting movement flour ished with the Futurist movement in the 1910s. “Terry has an unusual confi dence and presence with han dling charcoal on paper," Deeds said. “There is a kind of sensual ity and evocative feeling that comes out of that confidence." A dance performance by visit ing artists Marta Renzi and Marta Miller will be presented at 6 p.m. Thursday during a 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. reception in the gallery’s Great Hall. The exhibit will run until Jan. 29.