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Beat From The Street
LARISA KARR
News Editor
lakarr@unca.edu
Many stories lurk throughout Asheville, whether they are behind the
Vaudevillian Jazz Folk played by buskers around Pritchard Park, the colorful
business decorated with funky hand made crafts or the laughter from a patio
as locals and tourists alike enjoy delicious beer.
CATHY HUBBELL, 65, UBER
DRIVER, ORIGINALLY FROM
CONNECTICUT
So what brings you out here to
day?
“Trying to get a happy game go
ing and I have some friends from
out of town. I wanted to show them
the drum circle. But they take a long
time shopping, trying on clothes, so
I said, T’ll meet you here.’”
Yeah, yeah. So, what brought
you to Asheville?
“My brother was here first and he
said, ‘Cathy, you’ve gotta come to
Asheville’ and so, I did. So, it’s been
great. Since I got here, I found out
about a women’s motorcycle club. I
don’t know if they’re still together
but I was with that for awhile and
we got to be in a movie called My
Fellow Americans. In the movie,
we rescued the president and then
also, I think it was the biggest, best
thing for my heart. I mean, nothing
wrong with my heart, good heart
medicine. I joined a chorus called
Womansong and by the way, we’re
doing a concert on Oct. 6 and 7.”
OK.
“Or it’s the 7th or 8th.”
Oue of those days.
“Womansong is wonderful be
cause it has its own charity called
The New Start Program. Since
2006, we’ve given out more than
$153,000 away to women who
needed a new start, we’re out of
abusive relationships or — ”
That’s awesome.
“I know. It brings me a lot of joy.”
Yeah.
“So I like to get hacky sacks. I
love to play frisbee. When I was
young, I never thought that when I
was 65, I’d still be just as playful. I
like to teach people how to juggle,
too, you know and if I find someone
that knows how to juggle, if they
don’t know how already. I’ll show
them the passing thing, ‘One, two,
three,’ pass, ‘One, two,’ you know,
then ‘one, two,’ pass. Anyways, I
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Master dancer shares life-long experience
LINDA CUMMINS
Multimedia Staff
lcummins@unca.edu
Her first dance class taught her
how to invent movement. She in
vented a life out of it.
Ruth Barnes, professor and dance
program coordinator at Missouri
State University, shared the story of
her journey through dance Oct. 17
at the Sherrill Center.
“All children dance. I started
at the time with what was called
creative dance for children. 1 have
been told that is backward as far as
training. Whatever. There is no for
ward or backward in training. You
start with whatever you start with
and expand,” Barnes said.
Barnes was one of the speakers
brought in on residency to help
broaden dance students’ under
standing of what dance is, nation
ally and internationally, said Celia
Bambara, assistant professor and
dance program director.
“I’ve known Ruth a long time and
I believe she has an amazing range
of things she could bring to the stu
dent population,” Bambara said.
Barnes said her early training
was not marked by technique so
much as improvisation. She took
her foundational dancing lessons at
the 92nd Street Y in New York City
whose dance center was directed by
Doris Humphrey. Humphrey was
one of the first innovators of modem
dance choreography and studied the
theory of movement to create her
pieces. Formed in 1935, the 92nd
Street Y Dance Center hired leaders
of the modem dance movement to
teach, including Martha Graham,
Bonnie Bird and Humphrey.
“My mother had very strong
opinions about what was healthy
for young children and Humphrey’s
ideas were about, ‘How does a child
develop? What are we trying to en
courage in very young children?”’
Barnes said.
At that time, ballet schools would
not accept a child below the age
of 8 for a conventional ballet class
because their bones aren’t knitted
properly, the joints aren’t ready,
Barnes said.
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