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j-' MifTT Mtti.ebDN TWO MEMBERS of the Oberlin Dance Company put on a performance for a group of University Foundations students Tuesday afternoon at the Johnny Carson Theater. The dance company from San Francisco will have a dance concert at the Lied Center on Nov. 7. Teachers in motion Troupe brings modern dance to the classroom By Ann Stack Senior Reporter The Oberlin Dance Company of San Fran cisco, also known as the ODC/SF, brought its combination of modem dance and teaching tech niques to Lincoln this week. ODC performed four times in the past two weeks for local elementary and middle schools and for freshman foundation classes. They will be performing for the general public Nov. 7 at 8 pjn. at the Lied Center for Peaforming Arts. They will also do a special premiere perfor ! mance this weekend of a new show (that won’t f be ready for another year) at the Wagon Train ] Project, 512 S. 7th St. Founded in 1971 by artistic director Brenda ; Way at Oberlin College in Ohio, the group relo cated to the Bay Area in 1976 as a contempo i rary dance outfit. “We call ourselves contemporary—people have this weird image of what modem dance i is,” Way said. “They come up to us afterwards and say, ‘Was that modem?! That was really neat!’ So we just call ourselves contemporary. It gets rid of that problem.” The 11-member troupe fuses post-modem dance with narrative structure, so that each per formance is in a sense telling a story. “I’m interested in the narrative of human dance,” Way said. “The narrative is open in dance — you can be that guy you’d never be.” ODC’s visits are sponsored by Arts Are Ba sic, an aesthetic outreach program in the Col lege of Fine and Performing Arts. The group came to UNL last year to per form for the freshman University Foundation classes, and is back because of the overwhelm ing response, said Jim McShane, director of the University Foundations program. “There are several things I found useful about their performance,” he said. “They’re very good at bridging gaps.” Way said the University Foundations classes are something new for her, as well. « u I’m interested in the narrative of human dance. The narrative is open in dance —you can be that guy you’d never be. ” Brenda Way artistic director “It’s extremely interesting,” Way said of the foundation classes. “You’re very seldom in a room with 200 people who aren’t there of their freewill.” __- __ ODC engages their audiences by various methods of teaching they incorporate into the classroom demonstrations. For example, McShane said, the dancers take gestures offered by students and turn them into a dance. “They take movements that are relevant to students and turn them into a dance,” he said. They also give a history of the dance and of their performances, explaining where the ideas come from—be it the ballet, basketball a- the kitchen. Way hopes that people come away from the performances feeling invigorated by the expe rience. “I hope they’re connected by the feeling of people moving,” she said. “I hope they think, I hope they feel (and) reflect. “Engagement. That’s my goal.” Rivalries force AOL to alter fees i NEW YORK (AP) — America Online introduced a flat-rate pricing {plan for its online computer service Tuesday in its most aggressive re sponse to the growing competitive threat of the Internet and rival online services. The nation’s largest online service also shook up its corporate structure, creating three separate divisions and naming the chief executive of Century 21 Real Estate to head its core online service. [ America Online stock initially shot up more than 5 percent on the news, but erased the gains amid a broader market retreat. It was trading un changed at $24.62 1/2 at late morning xm the New York Stock Exchange. In vestors have been waiting for the nation’s largest online service to force fully acknowledge the intense threat to its business. The company has previously warned it is having trouble keeping subscribers and that its financial con dition could be hurt by growing com petition from rivals offering unlimited use of the Internet for a single fee. Robert Pittman, the new head of the AOL Networks online service division, formerly headed up MTV Networks and is credited with coining the phrase, “I want my MTV.” AOL will encourage its customers to browse the Internet using the Microsoft Internet Explorer. Ironically, Microsoft is one of the company’s big gest online competitors with its own Microsoft Network. The America Online pricing plan matches the Microsoft Network’s rate of a flat $19.95 a month for unlimited use. Earlier this month, America Online offered the same rate but for only 2ft hours’ use, tacking on $2.95 for each additional hour users spent on line. Other Internet access providers also offer unlimited use for $19.95 a month. A second AOL plan, costing $9.95 per month, offers unlimited access to AOL’s own features for people with their own Internet access, at work for example. A third plan, for $4.95 per month, offers three hours of AOL us age per month, with each additional hour at $2.50. MSN has rapidly grown to 1.6 mil lion subscribers, making it the third largest online service behind America Online with 7 million members, and CompuServe, with 4 million. Pittman is no stranger to increas ing recognition of famous brand names. In his most recent job at Cen tury 21, he changed the way the real estate business promoted itself. Referring to the phrase he coined at MTV, Pittman said he plans to “le verage the powerful AOL brand, un matched ease of use, unique features, and competitive pice to get millions of people around the globe to say *1 Need My AOL.’” N.Y. mayor accused of TV favoritism CAMUS from page 12 The city began airing the Bloomberg News Service on one of its channels and announced it would add Fox News Channel to public access. Cote ordered a temporary stop to the action 17 days ago. This morning, city lawyer Loma Ooodman asked Cote to reject com ments in a lime Warner affidavit that Murdoch was a supporter of Giuliani and was “calling in his chits” when he asked the mayor to help. Giuliani has said he wants Fox and Bloomberg on the air in New Yoric because the companies would provide hundreds of jobs for New Yorkers. ; - Time Warner has accused the administration of backing Fox as a political payback for the 1993 en dorsement of Giuliani’s candidacy by the Murdoch-owned New York Post Opera Omaha celebrates arts The Lincoln Arts Council is cel ebrating National Arts and Humanities month by bringing Opera Omaha to Lincoln. Mozart’s “Cosi fan tutte (The School for Lovers)” appears tonight in the Lincoln Northeast High School Auditorium, 2635 N. 63rd St. Opera Omaha has also previewed this production in Blair, Crete, Scottsbluff and Columbus. The perfor mance opens in Omaha Nov. 13 at the Rose Blumldn Performing Arts Cen ter. Tonight’s 7 pjn. performance, a comedy based on mistaken identities, is in English. Margaret Barry,executive director of the Lincoln Arts Council, said at tending the opera is a wonderful op portunity for the people of Lincoln. “The Lincoln Arts Council is de lighted that Opera Omaha invited us to partner with them in bringing this event to Lincoln during National Arts and Humanities month,” Barry said in a press release. “What a great way to celebrate arts in our community.” Opera Omaha’s Hal France and Peter Clogg, resident music director, accompany the full-scale production. France, the artistic director and principal conductor gives a pre-perfor mance talkat 6:15. General admission tickets are $8 and $4 for students. To order tickets, call the Lincoln Arts Council at 434 ARTS (2787). Ticket-sale proceeds go toward events produced by Lincoln arts orga nizations during the 1996-97 perfor mance season. —Emily Wray , ■’ ■ \4 It’s almost time to get hectic. Phunk Junkeez, a band from Los Angeles, is headlining a concert at Sokol Hall in Omaha tonight. The six members of the band blend funk and rap into such songs as “Me and Yer Girl,” a song featuring the talents of guitarist Jeff O’Rourke and the “lyri cal nuisance,” Soulman. The Urge, a band from St. Louis, will be playing with Phunk Junkeez. The Urge is no stranger to Omaha— they will be playing for the fourth time in the city since March. They have per formed in Omaha this year with such bands as 311, No Doubt, tony Skaffa and Grasshopper Takeover. Hie band blends heavy metal gui tar with two trombones and a saxo phone. Mainstream listeners are catch ing onto this ska style, which is a form of jazz and calypso dance music char acterized by saxophones, brass and a heavy offbeat. Tickets cost $12.75* plus a $2.25 Hcketmaster charge. Hie show starts at 8 pm; the doors open at 7. -4.' —Patrick Miner