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Briefly. ■■ Rainforest brought to life with Andes Manta
Rachel Cruz
International Film Se
ries presents six films
The third annual Cape Fear Interna
tional Film Series will host its third film
of the spring semester next Thursday. Mar.
1. These intemational films are sponsored
by WHQR, Cafe de France, Caffe Phoe
nix, Tokyo Deli, the Italian Heritage So
ciety and the Cape Fear Language Col
laborative. The series plays on Thursday
nights in the Warwick Center Ballroom at
6:30 and 9 p.m. The film “Aimee and
Jaguar” is a German drama about two fe
male lovers and, like all of the intema
tional films, is free to students and $4 for
general admission.
Poetry Reading and
performance to be held
tonight
The Leadership Center is holding a
poetry reading tonight at 6 p.m. in the
University Union Living Room. This
reading is part of Literacy Awareness
Week. Faculty members including Nan
Graham, Rebecca Lee, Janet Ellerby and
Kathleen Gould will be reading their po
etry and students are invited to share their
orignial work as well. A performance by
the UNCW Theatre Club of excerpts from
“Alice in Wonderland” and other
children’s stories will take place in Cen
ter Stage at 6 p.m. tomorrow. Refi-esh-
ments will be served at both events and
admission is free.
Dance Company to hold
master classes
The Parson’s Dance Company, which
is recognized as one of best in the coun
try, will offer free classes Mar. 9. This
dance company helped choreograph por
tions of the 2(XX) Summer Olympics. The
Wilmington Concert Association is spon
soring the classes in Contemporary Ameri
can Dance as part of their 71st season.
Participation in the class on Mar. 9 at 7:30
p.m. is free for UNCW students and fac
ulty and $15 for the public. For more
imformation contact Doris Levy at 395-
4062.
Staff Writer
“This music is so spiritual,” said
Wilmington resident Debra J. Napp Satur
day evening during intermission at the Andes
Manta performance. “It really awakens me.”
Napp, who became enchanted with South
American music while living in New York
City would watch performances for “hours
on end” by groups set up in the subway tun
nels. After hearing alx)ut the brothers of
Andes Manta coming to Kenan auditorium,
she quickly bought a ticket and experienced
what she had been missing for a long time—
the unusual, captivating melodies of west
ern South America and the powerful feeling
that each tune creates. She wanted to see
again the live music that had been causing
her to forget her destinations and stand stiU
even in the middle of the busiest subway sta
tions.
Audience members, like Napp, were so
immediately hypnotic by the panpipes,
flutes and drums that spontaneous feet tap
ping, head bobbing and clapping simply
could not be ignored.
“I wanted to get up and dance,” said
sophomore Diana Wu. “I Uked that Andes
Manta was a whole orchestra of handmade
Lisa Weingarlen' The Seahawk
Members of the Andes Manta group show young
audience members how to play their South Ameri
can instruments.
instruments, but played by only four jseople.”
Andes Manta is a group of four brothers
originally from Ecuador invited to UNCW
to be part of the Arts in Action series. The
group, who has been touring together for 15
years, plays melodies from countries up and
down ttie Andes mountain chain. Songs from
Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador
gave audience members a look at a part of
the world some
times forgotten.
Sometimes
peaceful and har
monious, some
times thunder
ous, each song
was unique and
full of passion.
They incorp»rate
over 35 tradi
tional instru
ments, most of
which have been
made by hand to
produce sounds
like rushing wa
ter or bird calls to
incredibly deep
pipe tunes.
The talent of these men is not what one
would naturally consider—^it is more of an
ingrained passion set in since childhood that
makes these performances so fun to watch.
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Dance-A-PaIo(m tofeature local dance gfvups
Katie Trapp
Staff Writer
The UNCW Department of Art and The
atre and the Wilmington Independent Cho
reographers are collaborating to bring a spe
cial performance to UNCW titled
‘T)ance-A-Palooza.” Although they played
at Thalian Hall two weeks ago, there’s a sec
ond chance to see this talented modem dance
group.
This program is a “mix of things you
would never see in the same show,” Execu
tive Director Marie Davis said.
Other groups performing include the
UNCW Dance Team and the Drum and Drill
team from the Boys and Girls Club of
Wilmington. Two other dance companies
including the Southeast Dance Theatre, who
will be doing jazz work, and Danceworks n,
who will be performing a Swing-era num
ber, will also be performing, In addition, the
work of local choreographers Traci
Dinwiddle, Bonnie Dixon, Karen Jaggers,
and Suzanne Palmer will be featured.
The purpose of this performance is
to “give an opportunity to people who teach
dance to bring in student enrichment,” Davis
said.
The show takes place
tomorrow in Kenan Au
ditorium at 8 p.m. Tick
ets are free to UNCW stu
dents with a valid I.D and
cost $8 for the general
public and $5 for faculty
andstaflF.
The Wilmington
Independent Choreogra-
frfiers, established in 19%,
focuses primarily on
modem and contempo
rary dance. For those who
are unaware of what mod
em dance actually is, it is
not “modem” in any way,
Davis explains. This
genre of dance took place
during the Modem Dance
Movement in the I940’s.
Its creator, Martha Gra
ham, believed that ballet
was artistic, and all other
dance genres were just
“popular dance.” She cast off all traditional
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Members of Parson’s Dance Company,
shown here, will be offering a free master
class to students and faculty.