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Features Page 6 ITic Blue Banner — Sen ing the Uni\ ersit\ of North C^arolina at Ashe\ille since 19H2 Thursday, April 19, 200] Perspectives recital hopes to redefine dance ideas By Maggie West STAff Writer During most dance perform ances, audience members sit down and be quiet. However, people who attend tomorrow’s break dancing recital will walk around and listen to their iPods while watching. “Dance performances are kind of homogenous,” said Connie Schrader, propam director of UNC Asheville’s dance department. “1 wanted to invite a new perspective about coming to watch dance.” The dance, appropriately titled “Perspectives: Concert Dance in a Happening Format,” will be held in the gym on Friday. The performance is comprised of two separate shows, one starting at 7:30 p.m. and the other at 9:15 p.m. “I wanted to re-examine the relationship between dance and music,” Schrader said. The recital is made up of four different tours, each lead by a guide. The tours will con sist of 25 audience members. Attendees are expected to bring a CD player, iPod, or other MP3 player in order to listen to the music the performers will dance to. “Dancers are used to being enveloped in sound,” Schrader said. “In the gym, this is virtu ally impossible.” Prior to the show, each patron must pick up a copy of the CD that contains the show’s sound track. After that, the audience members must either load it on to their MP3 players or bring it to the performance to play on their CD players. While the department is not charging for the CD, there is a $5 suggested donation. “You have to plan ahead early enough to get the music,” Schrader said. “The audience that attends will definitely be invested.” Schrader inspiration came after seeing Merce Cunningham perform at the Diana Wortham Theatre. At the show, audience members trad ed in something of value, such as keys or a credit card, in exchange for an iPod. During the performance, the patrons chose one of the six tracks loaded onto the players to listen to while they viewed the show. “During the course of watching one piece, you could change the music if you wanted to,” Schrader said. After seeing the show, the dance instructor said she wanted to do something that deviated from the conventional methods of more traditional dance per formances. “1 hope it will lead to an open dialogue and an exchange of ideas,” Schrader said. The performers in “Perspectives” are mainly com prised of members of UNC Asheville’s break dancing class. Unfortunately, this is the first and only semester the class will be offered. “Each spring we try to offer one street-style class,” Schrader said. Although the class is only a temporary feature in the dance department, it has been well- received by both teachers and faculty alike. “It filled up almost immediate ly,” said Joe’tse Adams, break dancing class instructor. Because of how quickly it was filled, senior students make up the majority of participants. “Break dancing is one of the most creative forms of dance and it’s a great workout,” said Maurice Legendre, local break dancer who helps assist Adams in class, and member of the dance troupe Hunab Kru. “Although the class only meets once a week, it is super challeng ing,” Adams said. “We expect people to come to class already warmed up.” While all of the students get a SEE Dancing p.xge 71 WNC Farmer’s Market attracts tourists, locals with its mix of variety and service r I'fleese .Vi- .^j tn»-' I kk: ' I. h I. a 99 It’s a personal shopping place. When you go to a big store, you don’t talk to any body. When you come here, it’s one on one. N/V\cy Carlson Mountain Sunshine Farms owner These are field-packed. They pick them, they put them in boxes down in Florida and bring them straight here, and we buy them. Kevin Jarvis Jarvis Produce Mkgan Wildman- Staff Photx;rapher At top, James Robinson, 40, a worker at Mountain Sunshine Farms sells one of their 200 different kinds of cheeses, which come from at least 17 different countries. The WNC Farmers Market is open seven days a week, from 8 p.m. to 6 p.m. year and closes for only four days throughout the year: Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. Still going strong after 3 0years in business anything on the market. “Through the years, we’ve had so many regular customers that we’ve had some grandchildren of regulars come by,” said Coates, a native of Madison county. The familial atmosphere of the market brings locals back, accord ing to Carlson. “It’s a personal shopping place. When you go to a big store, you don’t talk to anybody. When you come here, it’s one on one. I mean, we give out samples of cheese all day long,” Carlson said. The market is located near Biltmore Estate, 1-26, 1-40 and I- 240. This location is prime for attracting the tourist sect of the clientele, according to Sparks. Aside from Mountain Sunshine Farms, the Carlsons have a shop called The Big Cheese, located downtown in the Grove Arcade. “Downtown has changed over the past few years: more tourists are now focusing downtown, so why not get those customers also?” Sparks said. The market consists of two main retail buildings, called A and B. Across from the buildings is Jesse Israel and Sons Garden and Nursery Center. At the bottom of the hill, there are open-air cover ings for wholesale fanners who wish to sell directly to the public. Several tailgate markets spring up during specific times at various locations around Asheville, such as French Broad Food Co-op, Greenlife Grocery and Bier Garden. However, the WNC Farmer’s Market is open seven days a week, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., according to Carlson. The market only closes four days out of the year: Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s. “It’s becoming more than just a late spring, summer and fall business,” Sparks said. “It’s beginning to be an all-year busi ness.” By Meredith Wagner-Hoehn Staff Writer Since opening in 1977, the .Western North Carolina Farmer’s Market has more variety while still maintaining diverse cus tomers and a reputation for health ier, cheaper food, according to long-term vendors. “We have a good quality, local product, and we’re well-priced. We’re not a big conglomerate,” said Nancy Carlson, who with her husband, has run Mountain Sunshine Farms in the market for over 20 years. “Western North Carolina has one of the nicest farmer’s markets in the states.” At the market, you can find any thing from produce, to meat, to souvenirs. Mountain Sunshine Farms has 200 different cheeses from at least 17 different countries, including Tibet, Canada, France, Greece and Switzerland, according to Chris Sparks, long-time employee of Carlson. They also sell baked goods, birdhouses, dried snacks, Amish butter, local honey, eggs, sausage, ham, jam and jellies. “The Amish use no hormones for their cows and no pesticides on their land so you’re getting more of a natural product,” Sparks said. “We have Amish yogurt cheese which has the live yogurt culture.” The Carlsons carry cow, goat, sheep, yak and buffalo cheeses, while constantly reassessing their selections, according to Carlson. Their most recent addition is raw milk white cheddar cheese. “Sometimes it’s just cheeses we’ve tested and we like, some times it’s because of customers’ requests,” Sparks said. Although some products, such as a portion of Mountain Sunshine Farms’ cheeses, come from great distances, a decent quantity comes from local areas as well. “We’ve got squash coming from Georgia and strawberries from South Carolina,” said Kevin Jarvis, son of proprietor Ken Jarvis of Jarvis Produce. “It’ll eventually become more and more locaJ. The middle of May on through August we have mostly local stuff. And when I say local, I mean like even Eastern North Carolina; that’s still pretty local.” The products’ fresh quality beats that of a grocery store any day, Jarvis said, as he pointed out some fresh tomatoes from Florida on display. “What you get at the grocery store, that are from California and stuff, they pick them green and they ship them green. When they get closer to the East Coast, and they take them to places and they gas them,they’re able to ripen them so that they look red, but inside there’s no juice,” Jarvis said. “These are field-packed. They pick them, they put them in boxes down in Florida and bring them straight here, and we buy them.” Groceries often store their pro duce, along with other products, in warehouses. Although they keep the temperatures low enough to keep the produce good, by the time the consumer gets hold of it, it has lost a lot of quality flavor, according to Jarvis, a native of West Asheville. Another reason to choose the farmer’s market over a grocery store is availability; the market has some products that the gro ceries don’t have, according to Jarvis. “This is like side meat, which is from the same part of the animal as bacon, but bacon is smoked and this is cured. So, you take it, and get it cold, you don’t have to refrigerate it just get it cold and then you slice it and just fry in smaller pieces and put cooked beans on top of them and then it seasons it,” Jarvis said. “You can use just a couple of strips of it and season a whole pot of beans, and you really can’t get it a lot of places. You just can’t get it in the grocery store.” The side meat that Jarvis indi cated was from nearby Hickory. Jarvis also pointed out Sourwood honey, which is col lected by local James Bateman. The Sourwood Tree is unique to this area and creates clear, sweet honey, according to Jarvis. The reduced prices are anoth er benefit to the farmer’s mar ket, according to Sparks. , “The reason I started carrying spices is because I went to the grocery store because I was going to cook a ham for Thanksgiving or something, and I wanted to get cloves, and they had an itty-bitty jar of cloves that was like $8,” Jarvis said. “Here, we can carry like 2 ounces for $2.50.” The WNC Farmer’s Market customers are split between tourists and locals, according to Jolene Coates of Coates Produce, the first people to put Pet of the week: Dino deserves a second chanfl By Daniel Hartis Staff Writer For the last year, Dino, year-old pit bull terrier, stayrfj the Asheville Humane Soci8[ evidence to a crime he commit. “He was seized from his 0 because he was not given | food, water or shelter,” said u Friedman, assistant manager Asheville Humane Sool County Pet Adoption Cen®J Animal Shelter. “He’s liveilf the entire time.” Dino’s former owner coni^ the trial brought against hiffll times, leaving Dino under twj of the shelter for over according to Friedman. “He just became availaW| adoption about a month > Friedman said. “We had t® J that full year for his owner ownership.” Many hesitate to adopt pi especially older ones lik® according to Friedman. “Not a lot of people adopt an 11-year-old Friedman said. “And he y bull, so he’s got two Strikes^ him. But he’s been our fa\ Animal shelters nation^ abound with pit bulls ® ^ breeds generally though' SEE Pet of the Weei^ 1 Green Games get campi conserving By Hannah Doyle Staff Writer Campus dorm residents stj ed conserving water and posJ on Monday for Green GameJ competition measuring win| dorm saves the most eneJ over the period of a week. Mills Hall won Green Cans in October, reducing its enell consumption by 20 percej according to Katie BlanchaJ Reid, junior environmej studies student. “A lot of people in Mills «f| really into it,” Blanchard-k said. “I heard people talk: about shutting the elevatj down and stuff, so that wasprJ ty hardcore. They got thecoJ petition going, which is whatj intended.” A chocolate fountain pg| awaits the winning dorm. “Without some sort of posiiJ incentive, sometimes it caiilf difficult to convince peopltj try to reduce the impact of tj ecological footprint,” saidSiJ Solaka, sophomore environml tal chemistry studj “Rewarding people for environmentally-responsii efforts is much more effecli in changing people’s attiiif than making them feel guiltyj their poor decisions.” UNC Asheville’s Physl Plant determines the winii dorm, comparing the eaeJ consumption from the previ| week to this week’s. “Many people are unawaJ the impact of their choices.f the only way to create chana to educate them,” Solaka sJ “The purpose of the compelilij is to raise awareness importance of individuals ul ing sustainable lifestyle cll es. Every little bit of eBa saved, or wasted, adds] tremendously.” One of four co-chairsl Active Students for a Heif Environment, BlanchardM said she hopes Green Gii increases students’ concen| the environment. “ASHE has a main goal oil ing to raise environmental:!^ sciousness on campus,’ said. “We want people torel that it’s not just a shower, cl not just having the room i| SEE Green Games pil
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