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Local band to give Dy JAMES BURRUS SenkxWriler The Accelerators are gearing up for a national tour in support of their new eponymous album on Profile records. But, before the band members take off for Florida, Texas and the West Coast, they will play one last time in the area. The Accelerators are the headlining band at Saturday's North Campus Last Blast in the Lower Quad of Olde Campus. The Raleigh band will be on the road six weeks headlining medium to large-sized rock'n'roll showcase clubs, as well as some halls, said Dick Hodgin, the band's manager and chief producer. After that string of dates the band will do some dates in the Northeast, climaxing the tour with a show at The Ritz in New York City, one of the most prestigious showcase music clubs in the country. To coincide with The Accelerators upcoming tour. Profile shipped the band's first single, "Stayin' Up in the City," to album-oriented stations on Monday. Hodgin said Profile is "sinking a big chunk of money" into the record by hiring nine independent record promoters to work on getting Dance performance to University talent and Gy KIM DONEHOWER S&f Writer Recently, Duke University gave its annual spring dance concert of student and guest works, featuring choreography from a variety of guest artists and visiting artists-in-residence. The University of North Carolina has approximately 22,000 students to Duke's 10,000, yet there has not been a single dance perfor mance group here since 1980. The newly formed UNC-CH Dance is hoping to fill that vacuum, and will present its first performance this Sunday afternoon. The idea for a performance group originated last year in Marian Turner's intermediate modern dance class. "There was more interest in a performance group than there had been in the past," said Turner, the University's full-time dance instructor who teaches jazz, modern and ballet classes. "1 decided to take a chance on it ... I hope that it will eventually become a student-run organization." Word about the forming group went out to dance students and others with dance backgrounds, and the club held its first meeting and elected student officers at the beginning of this semester. "It's a wonderful outlet for students and a step forward for such a big university," said Kim Pendergraph, club vice-president and assistant artistic director with Elisa beth Johnson. "There's so much talent here at UNC, and this provides an opportunity to exercise it." The concept of a dance perfor mance group is not new to UNC, and there was a time when the entire dance program was much more comprehen sive. Lisa Yount, a UNC graduate and part-time dance instructor here, recalls "when 1 was here in 77 through 0, there were three dance instructors here, the classes were packed ... we did a full-length modern 'Nutcracker'; at one point they were considering starting a dance major." STORAGE New Modem Facility Village Self Storage 515 S. Greensboro St. Carrboro 942-7725 Franklin Chapel Hill 933-1323 Elegant Dining Casual Price Fresh Seafood, Chicken, Steaks Reservations accepted for Graduation. dm f ' 1301 East JdlSLSS Mi the single on the air. In four weeks, Profile will send out another single. This one is the slow and pretty "What is Real," which will be sent to contemporary hit radio stations like G-105. Gerald Duncan (lead singer, songwriter and rhythm guitarist) formed The Accelerators in 1983 along with drummer Doug Whelchel. The band released an album on Dolphin Records titled Leave My Heart, which received numerous praises from critics. In 1985, though, two members of the band decided to end their music careers. Duncan recruited bassist Mike Johns and lead guitarist Brad Rice to take their places, and this is the band's current lineup. The band's debut record on Profile has been out for about eight weeks. Johns has mixed feelings about the record. Although he says he likes the songs, he thinks "the record could have been a lot heavier." Hodgin, Don Dixon and Rod Abernathy produced the record. Johns was also disappointed that some of the songs he wanted to appear on the album did not make it. "The record company didn't hand down orders or anything like that," The performance group then, the Carolina Dancers, involved students and their teachers, with both profes sional and amateur dancers. Eventu ally, Turner said, the group ceased to be affiliated with the University and became a local professional modern troupe which is still in existence. "The group was never funded by the University, and money had to come out of everyone's pockets," Turner said. "When the productions started to grow in scale it just got too expensive." One reason Yount sees for the re forming of a performance group now is a renewed interest in artistic dance forms after the burst of popularity for aerobics. "When aerobics came in people started moving away from dance the aerobics classes here were packed but now, this com munity especially is starting to be more aware . . . aerobics still has its place but its not taking away from the dance classes anymore." UNC-CH Dance has received University recognition as an official group, but has yet to be granted funding. Its first performance will be an informal affair in the women's gym. Turner hopes the group can expand next year to offer another informal performance in the fall, with a "more sophisticated presentation" in the spring. 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The song appears on the album and was scheduled to be the band's first single shipped to radio stations. Hodgin and the band, though, convinced the record com pany to hold it. "It's like nothing else the Acceler ators do and we didn't want to introduce them as some kind of novel thing," Hodgin said. "We wanted to go with our hard rocker ('Stayin' Up in the City)." Appearing along with The Accel erators will be Kansas residents A Picture Made. The band's first EP will be released in a couple of weeks. Opening the party at 1 p.m. will be local rockers Desperate Remedy. showcase creativity workshops next year, to get some new ideas," she said. Turner also hopes the troupe will eventually incorporate more student choreography. This Sunday's show will include three works by Turner, a modern piece and two "more unfinished" works from her intermed iate jazz class. Yount and Pender graph have each choreographed one piece for the performance, and graduate student Wendell Hansdorf will also have a number in the show. "It's a program of diversity, with both modern and jazz," Turner said. "(The program) uses folk music from Burundi and music by George Crum, Bach, Rubaja and Hernandez, as well as Thelonious Monk and music sung by Etta James." The members of UNC-CH Dance are hopeful this performance will spark interest and support for the new group. "It's possible for interest to grow, and I hope people will be supportive because it's a great outlet for the students and can also be an enjoyable outlet for the audience as well," Turner said. "We have a lot of talent here, there are a lot of students who have had a lot of dance experience and they should be per forming, because that's what dance is all about." "Dances at the Gym" will be presented this Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Women's Gym. Admission is free. 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Brooks, who has appeared off Broadway and in many regional productions, has a wonderfully trained voice that carried her through "Goodnight My Some one" and "Will I Ever Tell You" beautifully. Other roles were commendably filled: little Winthrop, played by Michael Kennedy, sang the rousing "Gary, Indiana" with a hoarse voice and the adorable lisp, and Marion's mother Mrs. Paroo was played by Elizabeth Brumsey with a fantastic red-headed temper. Tom Kosis, portraying Tommy Djilas, was a pleasure to watch on stage. His dance steps and move ments clearly shone out from the The LAST paper this semester is Thurs., April 21 Classifieds accepted no later than noon, Wed, April 20 AMERICAN y? CANCER 968-FAST 968-3278 Fast, Free Guaranteed npliuprv! I One & One 'Two 12" Pizzas with on. topping I SO i The perform Saturday afternoon at North Campus' Last Blast Kelly Rhodes Theater ensemble dancers. The strenuous dance that accompanied the song "Shipoppi" definitely separated the professionals from the amateurs; Kosis and his partner, Wendy Piper (playing the squeaky-voiced Zanetta Shinn) were splendid. Many of the single-faceted char acters were well-done, such as the vain Eulalie Mackecknie Shinn, played by Eyleen Barry; her hus band, the tongue-tied Mayor Shinn, played by Irwin Charone; the music man's honest pal Mar cellus Washburn, played by Tim Caudle; and picky Mrs. Squires w ith the feather in her hair, played by Sally Hesse-Nice. Conductor and musical director McCrae Hardy and the fine orches tra were also outstanding. The costuming, done, by Tracy Wigent, was pretty and fitting for the 1912 setting of River City, Iowa, even in the choice of slightly less-than-bright colors. The performance was not com pletely flawless, despite the obvious best efforts of the talented cast. 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The last scene was thrown into such con fusion that I wasn't even sure if the audience was to applaud the play ers or if they were lining up for a final rendition of "Seventy-Six Trombones" that was needed to cap off the building excitement of the play. The overall production was enjoyable. The story itself can't help but make anyone smile and tap his feet or clap in time. The North Carolina Theatre staff did an admirable job of putting together an extremely talented cast and only needs to tell the stage hands to be very careful. IT! v Friday Sat & Sun 7:30 1:30 0 3:30 0 5:30 9:30 7:30 0 9:30 lovers story PiCTURES Release i I Friday Sat & Sun 0:30 1:45 0 5:00 0 0:30 V
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