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ARTS Brazilian dance band to samba through Eugene Joel Nascimento penorms rnaay By Layne Lakefish Emeiald Entertainment Editor Welcome to Rio. Put on your dancing shoes and kick up your heels to the native sounds: the samba, the tango and the bossa nova, to name a few. But this is Eugene. Instead of sun showers, Eugene gets rain showers. And instead of sand and sea, Eugene has turf and timber. Fortunately, Eugene also has the Hult Center, where Joel Nascimento and the Brazilian Sextet will play in the Soreng Theatre Friday night at 7:30. Tickets can be purchased by calling 687-5000; $4 student discount tickets are available for a limited time. "This is the first show in our World Music Series," said Pat Cusick, Hult Center assistant marketing director. "We had a multicultural purpose behind this year's programming. We wanted to celebrate different cultural forms around the world. "I-ooking at Joel Nascirnento and the Brazilian Sextet, we said, ‘Here's a band that's real lv stellar.' They are taking the indigenous folk music, of Brazil and revolutionizing it." With that in mind. Nascimanto and the Sextet were invited to Eugene. And. as it turns out. they are kicking off their new tour right here. That means Eugene gets Nascimento straight from Rio. "This music is so expres sive," Cusick said. "It has a very primitive, primal beat. It's very playful and light. “Brazilian jazz has that irre sistible rhythm that makes peo ple want to dance. I think peo ple will find the show delight ful." Cusick is not the only one who thinks so. The Albuquer que | o u r n a I called J o o 1 Nascimento and the Brazilian Sextet’s music "a subtly devas tating super-music." The group brings their native music to life with three guitars, percussion, clarinet. Brazilian u k e I e 1 e and saxophone. Nascimento trained under one of Brazil’s foremost composers. Kadames Cnettali. and is con sidered the master of the bandolim (a relative of the mandolin). I «iurtr«> loel Nascimento and the Brazilian Sextet will perform traditional Brazilian dance music at the Hull (tenter Friday night. This combination of Bra zilian tradition and native sound makes Nascimento and the Sextet a logical opening to the Hult Center's World Music: series. In addition to the Friday night performance, the group will hold a free concert and demonstration in the llult Con ter lobby ul noon inursuay. They will give a short perfor mam tv followed hs an explain) lion of sanilni inusii a lira /.ilian musical form Native American dance troupe to perform at Hult tonight By Ming Rodrigues Emerald Reporter The Washington Post praised their performance as "a dance of elemental beauty and power that transcends the stage." Another critic called their show "a spectacular powwow" in which dancers "whirled and spun like butterflies pos sessed " American Dance Theatre, a 22-mem ber company of Native American Indian dancers, singers and musicians, will bring its artistry to Eugene for the first time tonight in a show at the Hull Cen ter. "This dance troupe is the first of its kind." said Pat Cusick. assistant direc tor of marketing for the Hult Center. "Their incredible performance is a trib ute and dedication to all Native Ameri can Indians." The show, part of the Hult Center's four-part World Dance Series, is intend ed to fuel the community's awareness of performing arts in different cultures. "We want people to discover whal other cultures have to offer," Cusick said. "American Indian dance on a Western stage will be quite a learning experience for those interested in its elaborate history." The company, formed in 1<)B6, repre sents 16 trihe<j from nine statos and two Canadian provinces. Skilled Native American dancers and musicians were recruited to create an intertribal troupe that would perform a range of authentic Indian traditions on the stage. A year was spent auditioning mem bers for the troupe, who range in age from 20 to 61. The company gave its first public performance in 1087 and since (hen has toured nationally and in ternationally. Dancers wear hand-made costumes, from simple buckskin dresses and leg gings to intricate ceremonial costumes made from layers of beads and feathers, as they move to music played on tradi tional instruments Other costumes are made from hollowed logs, clay pots, leather hides, gourds, deer hooves ami pieces of wood and bone. The troupe performs dances and mu sic from only 18 of the 430 trit>es recog nized by American Indians in the nation today. Most of the dances have a reli gious theme celebrating or affirming man's relationship with his creator and nature. Fifteen dances will be performed to night, with one intermission. Kach dance type is tied to a particular legend. The Amazing (’.rass Dance, for instance, in which three men simulate the rippling of grass through intricate footwork and twisting torsos, may have have its roots in the movements of young men clearing a space for tribal ceremony. The Hoop Dance, an awesome feat of coordination, concentration and creativ ity, features a solo by Cherokee Eddie Swimmer — the program's tour do forte, keeping as many as 42 hoops whirling simultaneously, Swimmer forms them into shapes representing ea gle wings, turtle shells, eggs and flow ers Tickets are $10. $12. S15 and $50 at the Mult Center, the EMU Main desk or by calling 087 5000 Student discount tickets are sold out BUSINESS BEAT S Acupuncture STUART QREENLEAF LIC. 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