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Dance concert to feature regional choreographers By Liza Holtmeier Senior Reporter It may be the most important event for regional modern dance in Nebraska. On Friday and Saturday, the Omaha Modern Dance Collective will present its fourth annual “Nebraska Dancing” concert, featur ing choreographers from Nebraska and New York. Taffy Howard, the dance group’s director, hopes changes in the show will draw a more diverse crowd. “We hope this year’s concert will be even bigger and better than last year’s,” Howard said. “We have a new category for the ‘Emerging Choreographer,’ and we hope that will draw a younger audience.” OMDC began in 1981 when a number of area choreographers real ized the lack of performance oppor tunities for new choreography. The artists organized a group, applied for grants and began teaching classes. They also started “Showcase,” the forerunner to “Nebraska Dancing.” Five years ago, Howard took over as the group’s director and changed the concert’s name. To increase the quality and range of the choreogra phy performed, collective hired adju dicators to judge the submitted pieces. This year’s judges included two Iowa State professors and the direc tor of the Nebraska Theatre Caravan, judging 21 works from choreogra phers across the state. This weekend’s concert will fea ture the choreography of University of Nebraska-Lincoln dance profes sor Charlotte Adams and theater graduate Lisa Mercer. UNL.studems Jude Hickey, Carrie Orsi and Rena Armendariz will be featured dancers in the program. Adams, whose choreography was also featured in last year’s concert, said the opportunity is an honor. “Choreographers like to get then work performed, but they have to pay for the performance space and the publicity,” she said. “It’s hard to mount a production on your own. OMDC does the pub licity, gives you the space, finds you a lighting designer and a set person. You don’t have to deal with all those other headaches.” Adams will perform in her own piece, “One More Time,” with her longtime friend and dance partner Thom Lewis. Set to Mozart’s “Eine Klein Nachtmusik,” the piece deals with two rambunctious friends dur ing a dance rehearsal. Mercer and Hickey will perform Mercer’s piece, “Chairs,” without music. She suggested the piece for Hickey after working with him dur ing a UNL Theatrix production. They performed it last spring at Project One, a formal student cabaret pro duction. In July the two traveled to Omaha to audition for adjudicators. “It was very humid and our chairs kept sticking to the floor,” Hickey said. “It was kind of scary, but as we continued, you could feel the reac tion froiRthp audience. I knew almost instantly that we had it.” “Chairs” deals with the destruc tive nature into which a relationship can progress. It depicts the games people play and the struggle for con trol and status. “It’s about the power of silence,” Hickey said. “You don’t have to focus on your mouth and your face.” The guest performances are “Ordinary Festivals,” by Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig, and “Climbing Blue Girl,” by former Creighton University dancer Kelly Holcombe. “Ordinary Festivals” was first produced as a collaborative effort with OMDC, University of Nebraska-Omaha’s The Moving Company and Lincoln’s Wagon Train Project. Local dancers, chosen in an open audition this summer, will per form the piece to Italian folk music. Holcombe performed her solo last March at a concert for the Creighton dancers. A graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts, Holcombe has presented her work at New York’s Jacob’s Pillow and Performance Space 122 and the Philadelphia Art Museum. “Nebraska Dancing” begins at 8 p.m. in the Lied Education Center for the Arts at the Creighton University campus in Omaha. Tickets are $10 for general admissiQp^J^Coj^nipr^andstu dents; and $6 for OMt)C members. Howard recommends making reser vations by calling OMDC at 402 551-7473 66 Choreographers like to get their work performed, but they have to pay for the performance space and the publicity. Its hard to mount a production on your own.r CHARLOTTE ADAMS UNL dance professor Networks won’t run ‘Voyager’ Star Trek fans may have to go without new shows By Brad Pardee Staff Reporter Like its three predecessors, “Star Trek: Voyager” has won dedicated fans that few shows can hope for. To the dismay of those fans, Voyager may not be beaming down to Lincoln in the coming season. Unlike “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” “Voyager” wasn’t syn dicated. Instead, it was part of the fledgling UPN network lineup. In the past, UPN broadcasting was carried on Omaha’s Fox network affiliate, KPTM Channel 42, and was relayed by Lincoln Cablevision on Channel 9. However, according to a KPTM spokesman, this year the station could not carry both UPN and Fox programming. For Omaha residents, Cox Cable’s 02TV will pick up the slack. 02TV is an Omaha channel that carries local and some syndicat ed programs. Lincoln residents may or may not be so lucky. Pappas Broadcasting, KPTM’s owner, is bidding on one of two upcoming Lincoln UHF chan nels. If the company secures the bandwidth, Pappas will create a sister station to KPTM that would carry “Voyager.” Lincoln’s two current tele vision stations - KOLN/KGIN Channel 10/11 and KLKN Channel 8 - have no plans to run the show. Presently, Lincoln residents can use an antenna to pick up “Voyager” from Grand Island’s KTVG, Channel 22. However, recent reports indicate that KTVG won’t carry UPN pro gramming after Jan. 1, at which time Lincoln fans of “Voyager” will have to either travel to Omaha or trade tapes with people there. Otherwise, they’ll have to boldly do what no Trek fan has done before - do without. East Park 3 to see improvements By Gerry Beltz Assignment Reporter Nope, nobody’s going out of busi ness. In fact, things are just starting to change. Although the East Park 3 Theatre, 66th and O streets, is closed Monday through Thursday, it is a sign of growth for Douglas Theatre Company. TTie East Park 3 will be expanding to six screens by Thanksgiving, said Doug Kinney, Douglas’ city manager. The three new auditoriums should be up and running by Friday. “That’s what we’re hoping for,” Kinney said, “with all fingers crossed.” The only immediate changes will be in the three new auditoriums, which will feature high-backed seats in a stadium-seating arrangement, larger screens and updated sound sys tems, he said. “We will have SDDS (Sony Dynamic Digital Sound), DTS (Digital Theater Sound) and DD (Dolby Digital) sound systems in the new auditoriums,” Kinney said. With the three new auditoriums up and running, the original three will be demolished and rebuilt, along with a new snack bar and lobby. But these new arrivals won’t be up and running until the end of November. “The only new arrivals right now are the three new auditoriums,” Kinney said. “When everything opens in November, there will be computer ized ticket sales, new concession items and, of course, cup holders built into the seats,” he said. Computerized ticket sales will allow ticket buyers to purchase advance tickets during open box office hours, and one of the new con cession items will be hot dogs, he said. “We’re planning on experiment ing with some new concessions items, but this will be the only theater in Lincoln with hot dogs at the snack bar,” Kinney said. 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