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Brazilian dance band to samba through Eugene
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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).
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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
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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
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