Arts
The following is a brief list of
events this weekend. For more
information, call the venue
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CONCERTS:
Duffy’s Tavern, 1412OSL (402)
474-3543
Sunday: Drive by Honkey
with Swearing at Motorists $4
10:30 (alt rock)
Duggan’s Pub, 440S. 11th SL
(402)477-3513
Friday: FAC with The Heart
Murmers $3 (blues)
Friday & Saturday: The Rex
Band$49p.m. -1 a.m. (rock)
Knickerbockers Bar & Grill,
901 OSL (402) 476-6865
Friday: Project Wet with the
Fonzerellies 9 p.m. (alt rock)
Saturday: The Aaron Zimmer
band with Mylow 10:30 p.m.
18+$5 21+$3 (alt rock)
Pla-Mor Ballroom, 6600 W.O
SL (402) 475-4030
Sunday: Sandy Creek and
Cactus Hill 8-12 p.m. (coun
try) Dance lessons 7- 8 p.m.
$5 All ages show
Royal Grove Nite Club, 340 W.
ComhuskerHwy. (402) 474
2332
Friday & Saturday: Ceed with
Code Zero (rock)
The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery auditorium 12th and
R streets (402) 472-2461
Friday: JaquesThibaud String
Trio
The Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
(402)435-8754
Friday: Joanna Connor $6
(blues)
Saturday: The Nick Holt Blues
Band $5
THEATER:
Lied Center for Performing
Arts, 301N. 12th St (402) 472
4747
Friday. Aeros
Mary Riepma Ross Film
Theater, 12th and R streets
(402)472-5353
Saturday and Sunday: YiYi 3
and 7 p.m. Students: all shows
$4.50
GALLERIES:
Doc’s Place, 140 N. 8th St (402)
476-3232
All month: Photographer Jim
Reece
Noyes Art Gallery, 1198.9th St.
(402)475-1061
All month: April Stevenson,
Bob Stevenson, Gabrielle
Moscu, Mina Zczerbowska
and Glenda Deitrich
The Sheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, 12th and R streets
(402)472-2461
All Month: Irving Greines,
Gontemporary Prints and
Photography and African
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AEROS consists of fonner gold medal-winning Romanian gymnasts. The group formed in 1998.
AEROS introduces a new art form
BY BILLY SMUCK__
They performed with Destiny’s Child at
the Grammys Wednesday night, and on
Sunday, AEROS will be showcasing their
gravity-defying acrobatics at the Lied Center
for Performing Arts, 12th and R streets.
In a show scheduled for 7 p.m., AEROS
will feature 20 well-known gold-winning
Romanian gymnasts who incorporate their
athletic backgrounds into an unusual form
of artistic entertainment.
Praised as a truly unique show and the
first in its genre, AEROS is not dance. Rather
it is a form of entertainment that unites
these athletes who use strength, equilibrium
and harmony to revolutionize the dance
scene.
The troupe, consisting of 12 women and
eight men premiered in the U.S. only a
month ago, making their Jan. 11 debut in Los
Angeles, kicking off a 60-city and 26-state
tour that ends April 16.
Originally titled “The Next Step,” the
company was created in 1998 by choreogra
phers Daniel Ezralow, David Parson and
Moses Pendleton, who collaborated with
Luke Creswell and Steve McNicholas from
STOMP, all of whom have, in the past 20
years, literally thrown away dance conven
tions.
AEROS performer Cristian Moldovan
said he was skeptical when approached with
the idea of performing on stage.
“The first time I heard about the idea, I
wasn’t impressed,” Moldovan said. "I’m used
to competing and doing my work. I wasn’t
interested in performing on stage.”
Along with the other athletes, Moldovan
warmed up to the idea after the first few per
formances received an overwhelming audi
ence response.
Moldovan said the reaction was very
positive. It didn’t take long before they real
ized they were a part of something fresh that
was about to take off.
"All of the sqdden it became clear that we
were pioneers in a unique form of entertain
ment,” Moldovan said. “This was the only
show of its kind.”
Moldovan said the transition was diffi
cult for the athletes because they were
accustomed to performing one to two
minute routines, as opposed to an hour
“All of the sudden it became '
clear that we were pioneers in
a unique form of
entertainment. This was the
only show of its kind.”
Cristian Moldovan
AEROS performer
and-a-half stage performance with one 15
minute intermission.
Since the show is much longer than com
petition, more stamina and a longer span of
effort is required, Moldovan said.
It also was different because they were
performing in front of an audience and not a
judge, Moldovan said, requiring the athletes
to adjust to a different relationship with
audience members.
“We not only perform to show the audi
ence what we can do,” Moldovan said, “but
we also want them to know what we feel on
stage.”
Folk singer
focuses on
real issues
■ Dave Moore adds a touch of
reality to the songs he writes
and will perform tonight.
BY CRYSTAL K.WIEBE
Another lesser-known
musician is coming to Lincoln.
Folk singer Dave Moore will
perform a house concert at 857
N. 42nd St. at 7:30 tonight for the
Lincoln Association for
Traditional Arts. Limited seating
is available by calling 466-4775.
The Iowa-born Moore’s
musical interest began at age
21, when his mother jokingly
gave him a harmonica for
Christmas.
Now the musician’s reper
toire also includes the guitar
and accordion.
A 1985 government grant
allowed Moore to hone those
accordion skills under legend
FredZimmerle.
Moore became his own
songwriter.in 1986 and has
since released three albums on
Iowa’s Red House Records.
Still, Moore has received lit
tle acclaim outside of the folk
world.
He was a regular on
Garrison Keillor’s "Prairie Home
Companion” National Public
Radio program, where he often
performed with fellow folk
musician Greg Brown.
LAFTA board member Patty
Hogue said like a lot of folk
musicians, Moore’s sound was
hard to define.
Hogue said she liked
Moore’s music, though, because
of its variety.
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The Jacques Thibaud Trio will perform the at the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery on Friday.
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String trio brings unique sound
■The group performs songs
not usually heard in concert at
the Sheldon Gallery tonight.
BY MAUREEN GALLAGHER
Names can certainly be
deceiving, and the Jacques
Thibaud String Trio is a case in
point.
Despite the French name,
the trio is actually from Berlin
and will be performing at the
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery
auditorium tonight at 8 p.m.
The trio, brought to town by
the Lincoln Friends of Chamber
Music, will be performing three
pieces tonight, including
Arnold Schoenberg’s String
Trio, Opus 45.
Joe Kraus, president of the
Lincoln Friends of Chamber
Music, said that the
Schoenberg Trio was a rare
treat.
“This is a piece that is not
typically heard in concert,”
Kraus said.
Schoenberg used the 12
tone technique in this trio, a
way of composing in which
there is no pitch center and all
the notes are equalized in
importance, Kraus said. This
technique creates a tense
sound in the music.
String Trio, Opus 45 was
written after Schoenberg suf
fered a near-fatal heart attack in
1946, and this piece depicts the
onset of his illness, his heart
attack and his miraculous
recovery.
In addition, the trio will per
form pieces by Beethoven and
Mozart.
Tickets are $25 for adults
and $5 for students. UNL pro
fessor Clark Potter will present
a lecture about the concert at
7:30 p.m. in the auditorium.
The Jacques Thibaud String
Trio is made.up of Burkhard
Maiss on the violin, Philip
Douvier on the viola and Uwe
Hirth-Schmidt on the cello.
The trio, which formed at
the Berlin School of Art in 1994,
takes its name from French vio
linist Jacques Thibaud.
Thibaud, born in 1880,
devoted himself to chamber
music and died in a plane crash
at the age of 73.
In contrast to the serious
nature of their name, the trio
revealed their humorous side in
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Montes'
writing
revisited
■The professor has found
that characters in her stories
return in herfurther work.
BY SEAN MCCARTHY
When Amelia Maria de la
Luz Montes writes about a
character, don’t expect that
person to go away.
Instead, expect the charac
ter to loom around in the cor
ner and pop up in another
story. To Montes, a University
of Nebraska-Lincoln profes
sor, her characters are like
spirits.
“They come over and tap
my shoulder,” Montes said.
One particular character
already has been featured in
iwu licuon
anthologies:
“Hers3” and
“Circa 2000:
Lesbian
Fiction at the
Millennium,”
both pub
lished by
Alyson Books.
lhey can be monies
found in the
UNL authors section of the
University Bookstore.
The latest anthology,
“Circa 2000,” features the
short story "R is for Ricura.”
The story is about Ricura, a
confident 16-year-old, and her
mother as well as an intriguing
neighbor named Pepita.
Montes said she felt close to
the character.
“She’s in the world partak
ing of a banquet of pleasurable
sensations,” Montes said, “but
she is also coming to under
stand her own pleasures.”
This is Montes’ second
semester at UNL. She teaches
both Introduction to Late
American Literature and
American Novels Since
Dreiser. Before coming to
UNL, Montes earned her
bachelor’s degree in Spanish
and English at Loyola
University in California and
earned her master's in English
and Ph.D. in American litera
ture at the University of
Denver.
Stephen Hilliard, acting
chair of the English depart
ment, said Montes brought a
great deal of experience in
Chicano literature to the
department.
"She’s a most welcome
addition to our department,”
he said.
Montes grew up in Los
Angeles. Her family emigrated
to California from Mexico. She
learned the language and the
culture of Mexico in her
household while she went to
American schools. Each day
was an exercise in living a dual
culture, Montes said.
“When I look back on my
childhood, it was like leaving
Mexico and walking into the
United States,” she said.
Initially, the character
Ricura was part of Montes’
master’s thesis. While she was
developing the short story for
her degree, she kept tinkering
with the story after she
received her master’s degree.
She later sent Ricura’s story to
Terry Wolverton, one of the
editors of the “Hers3” antholo
gy
"Circa 2000” and “Hers3”
both feature lesbian fiction by
lesbian, bisexual and straight
authors. While Montes said
she professed a love/hate rela
tionship with anthology
series, she felt proud to be in
both.
“They serve as important
voices to be seen and heard,”
she said.
When it comes to drawing
inspiration, Montes said she
relied on reading other short
stories or poems for inspira
tion. Short story writer Beth
Nugent and authors Carlos
Fuentes and Pablo Neruda are
some of Montes’ favorite writ
ers. To combat writer’s block,
she faced the task like a bas
ketball player would.
"You may not want to play
basketball that day," Montes
said, “But you put on your jer
sey, you start exercising and
start bouncing the ball.”