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Great effects give ‘wrinkle’ to production By Jason Hardy Assignment Reporter Most students associate throbbing brains, flying horses and time travel with the side effects of final exams. This weekend, however, they can experi ence the same phenomenon without study ing a bit. The Lincoln Community Playhouse Children’s Theatre will defy dimensions //_ tonight with its pro •• duction of Madeleine Its gonna L’Engle’s “A Wrinkle d In Time.” The story be more of was adapted for the J stage by Omaha resi an event dent Ron Zank and has never before been per then a formed. 1 ff With tonight’s per SrlOW. formance, Lenette Nelson Schwinn, Scott Raymond director of the produc actor tion, be fulfilling __ a five-year dream. “I wanted to do this about live or six years ago, but 1 was sort ot held up by finances,” Schwinn said. She said she was both excited and ner vous about putting on a show she’s been thinking about for half a decade. “I’m anxious to make sure it will happen the way I want it to happen,” Schwinn said. The play’s story follows three children as they travel through time in search for their father. Along the way they encounter numer ous mystical characters and forces of immense evil. No Nintendo needed for these kids. Scott Raymond, a senior at Lincoln Northeast, plays Calvin O’Keefe in the show. He said the crazy plot line meant crazy sets. “We’ve got throbbing brains, motion lights and even a flying horse,” Raymond said. “You’ve gotta go for that.” Schwinn said the stage adaptation close ly mirrored the book, partly because of the extravagant special effects. “Obviously there are some limitations when you do something on stage,” Schwinn said. “But I do think the script follows the book really well.” Raymond said the special effects com bined with the talent of the actors was sure to offer a grand event that would appeal to peo ple of all ages. “It’s gonna be fun. I’m a sucker for big sets and lighting,” Raymond said. “It’s gonna be more of an event than a show.” He said he hopes people will get the same thing out of the show that he got out of it. You have your normal day at school and then you go to the Playhouse and get lost in it,” Raymond said. Admission to “A Wrinkle In Time” is $ 13 for adults and $9 for j. Performances are beinj h TtaasdaypidbctZ^tcMM o March 8. Thursday, Friday and Saturday shows start at 7 p.m. Additional shows are ^ held on Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. The Lincoln Community Playhouse Children’s Theatre is located at 2500 S. 56th St. Correction The day for Tom Garver’s lecture “Steam Locomotives and the Good Life: The Photographs of O. Winston Link” was listed incorrectly at the beginning of an A&E story in Wednesday’s newspaper. The.lecture is Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Sheldon Gallery | Auditorium. I t JayCalderon/DN JUNIOR KIRK UNDHOLM (left) and freshman Sarah Eurek are reflected in a mirror while learning to dance. About 75 people showed up for the UNL Dance Club's first session at Mabel Lee Hall Tuesday. ByLjzaHoltmeier Staff Reporter These days, everybody’s doin’ it. —A1 IJacino “ScenU)£a V^oman.” Jmrnmni din “SwiripR.*iHboicP Schwarzenegger did it in “True Lies.” Whether it’s the tango or die swing, every body’s dancin'. In the past few years, America has wit nessed a resurgence in the popularity of social dance. Across the United States, dance and swing clubs are throwing open their doors. Bands like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Royal Crown Revue are reviving ’40s music with a’90s ed Lincoln yfcrueter m&haMfiy® ;nan ftopes some of the craze - Dance club helps members will spill over onto the University ofNebraska Lincoln campus. » Brackhan has started a social dance club which meets on Tuesday and Thursday nights from 9 to 10 in Mabel Lee Hall Room 304. “This is not an unusual club by any means,” Brackhan said. “Fifty to 70 percent of colleges have ballroom dance clubs.” The club held its first class on Tuesday night More than 70 students attended to learn the basics of the tango and the swing. “I thought it was fun,” said Kim Hannagan, a junior English major. “Fve always watched ballroom dancing and ice dancing on TV This is one way to learn more about it.” “It was perfect,” added Sergey Azamlyuk, a visiting scholar. “I think (Brackhan) is the best instructor.” Brackhan started the class by introducing herself and outlining her goals for the club. She said she planned to offer the class throughout the semester and sponsor monthly social dances where club members could show off their progress. If there is enough interest, Brackhan said, she would consider starting a performance team. She plans to visit Brigham Young University in Utah over the summer to see how they run their programs. BYU currently has the number one ballroom dance team in die nation. After a quick introduction, Brackhan taught the women’s and then the men’s part of the swing. Because women outnumbered men, each man had two dance partners. After the couples had danced the swing to both country- and iazz-stvle music, Brackhan 1*4* to Be taiBB Shi began witt'a*sun plified version w^k A coupta|hraafp straight across the TOor. Then, sne aaaea ar variation, emphasizing the cat-like style of the dance. Finally, she let the couples move in a circle around the floor so the men could prac tice leading their partners. The club is the culmination of five years of dreaming for Brackhan, a graduate of the UNL dance program. Commitments at Brackhan’s This year, Brackhan said, she finally had the time to donate her energy to the UNL cam pus. Brackhan said her teaching for the club would be different from her studio teaching. “I plan to go at a faster pace with the uni versity because you don’t know how long the students will be around,” Brackhan said. Some of the dances to be included in the class are: | ■ The fox trot: This is an American dance that originated in 1913 with a vaudevillian named Henry Fox. Fox would bring out a | number of chorus girls during his show and trot them around the stage. ■ The American swing: This dance originated in the 1920s because of die popular ity of jazz and swing music. I ■ The rhumba: This Cuban dance also ^ originated in the ’20s and emphasize! the Cuban movement (steps are small and fla|with no movement above the waist). 1