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Performance mixes different dance styles ■ Central Datice Theater of Omaha combines clas sical and Pop-era dance. By Jason Hardy Staff writer ■ ty" \ When Bryon Heinrich founded the Central Dance Theater in 1998, he set out to offer quality ballet and dance performances while incorpo rating other Nebraska art representa tives. This Thursday, HeinHch will takd another step toward fulfilling his goal with a Central Dance Theater per formance at the Howell Theatre, located in the Temple Building, 12th and R streets. The show will include excerpts from “Sleeping Beauty” and a tribute to tn£ ’40s, featuring live accompani ment by the Omaha Big Band. Heinrich said including such an eclectic mix gave Central Dance Theater a chance to show its versatili ty “We always have half an evening of classical, to show our repertoire,” he said. “Then we show something new and innovative.” He said this particular show also included excerpts from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and featured a number of Lincoln children and two dancers from New York City. He said the variance in styles would lend itself well to audiences both well-versed in baljet and thos^ still relatively new to the art “If they’re not suited to the ballet, they may very well be suited to and more comfortable with the more Broadway or Pop-era type dancing that we’ll present,” he said. “We have entral ance Theatre :. WHERE: Howell Theatre, Temple Building, 12 and O streets ' * WHEN: Thursday, April 13 at 7 p.m. COST: $15:adult $8: student F THE SKINNY: Omaha v% dance company to bring lively, eclectic performance to Lincoln. a live singer involved, and the acting ability among these dancers are at a professional level. So you see charac ters in these dancers, and you see a story unfold.” Kevin Gibbs, a dancer in the,, show, said the piece offered him a chance to work with different dance elements. “It’s fun to have a variety of dance styles to perform in one show,” he said. “It land of has got me back into performing different kinds of dance.” Gibbs, who is included in a swing number, a jazz number and two duets, said he thought audiences would appreciate the differences among the pieces as much as he did. “I think so, because if they end up not liking ballet, they might like one of tiie other dance styles, like the jazz or swing,” he said. “It definitely keeps me interested.” Heinrich is hoping Gibbs is right in his assumption, as he is planning similar events for the future. “Our hope is that this will be suc cessful,” he said. “The way that we’re integrating the Nebraska Music Society is something that will keep us strong. It’s very interesting, and it’s educational at the same time, and right now we’re doing it at a very affordable level.” ; . . : : c 7 - 4 VJ,,» • —4t. jdHuukUv/. a.-. 1 .- r-' v—t*ss\ - I ‘Rules’ too predictable to satisfy audiences By Mike Callahan Jr. Staff Writer . .««' ; 1 f »-<i Most of us are just Starbucks drinkers wbo’ve never seen combat At least that’s how Col. Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson), a deco rated Marine veteran of 30 years, feels about us as he faces a court martial. ^ In William Friedkin’s “Rules of Engagement,” a court-martial drama, we don’t quite know who to root for. Col. Childers is sent to keep peace at a protest outside the U.S. Embassy in Yemen. The mission goes to crap as he winds up ordering his men to fire open ly at the crowd of protesters. Hundreds of civilians are killed. Early reports suggest the crowd was unarmed. Childers pleads with everyone, try ing to prove that the crowd was armed. Three marines were shot, and the colonel was sure the crowd was firing. But, the question is still at hand: Did Childers violate the U.S. military rules of engagement? The national security advisor (Bruce Greenwood, a little too pretty boyish to be convincing) panics, think ing that the United States would take international heat for the massacre. Suddenly, all evidence proving the crowd was shooting is gone. The sur veillance video vanishes. The only other marine with a view of the crowd, dead. The survivors ofYemen deny fir ing. Childers seems to be done for, sure to be sent to prison. But then Childers does something unreal. He hires his Vietnam-War-pal-turned-mediocre lawyer Hayes Hodges (Tommy Lee Jones) to defend him. Why so unreal? Hodges is retired from duty, a lush and even admits to being a half-assed lawyer. But, despite those lackluster intangibles, the viewer has a feeling Mr. Jones has some spark somewhere in him to save the boring court scenes from their graves. Really the film is quite predictable. But Jackson’s and Jones’ performances are stellkr, Jackson’s piercingly evil wide eyes mi die battle field are haunt ingly real, and Jones shows the heart of a Comhusker in the court room. The only thing that impedes the film from brilliance is unrealistic court room tempers flaring and the worst ending you’ll see this year. That’s not to say you won’t be happy with the result of the film, but it’s simply anti-climatic. The film more or less stops going. I love the decision of the jury in the end, but I wish it would have been exe cuted with at least a little suspense. It’s hard to like a movie that ends so Rules of Engagement STARS: Samuel L. Jackson, Tommy Lee Jones DIRECTOR: William Friedker RATING: R (graphic combat violence and profanity) GRADE: B FIVE WORDS: Samuel and Tommy save "Engagement". weakly, but I’m a sucker for individual achievement. 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