Eugene
Jimmy Thackery and the
: Drivers (blues) at Good Times
19 30 p m $6
The Daddies/Caveman
Shoestore (rock) at John
Henry s 1 u p m so
Hitting Birth/Completely Grocery/Anal
Solvent (alternative art rock) at the WOW
Hall 9 30 p m $6/7
Leftover Salmon (Polyethnic Caiun
Slamgrass) at Taylor's 9 30pm $5
Alligator Wine (psychedelic) at Rick s
Down Under 9 30 p m
Food Not Bombs Benefit w'The
Sugarbeets/The CrawdadsAost
DogWaikcr T Ryan as host at
Oelbert s Cate 8 p m $2
Sonny Rhodes (blues) at Good
Times 9 30 pm $6
Caliente at John Henry's 10 p m $6
Jambay/ Unshakable Race (tunk/reggae) at
the WOW Hall 9 30 p m $5/6
Alligator Wine (psychedelic) at Taylor s
9 30 pm
jFiddlln Sm and Unci* T and
Johnny (bluegrass jam) at John
iHenry's 8pm $1
l|
Kan Roborts (classical Quitar) at
the WOW Hall 7 30pm $8/10
; Rooster's Blots Jom at Good
Times 9 30pm $1
;
I Rontmoyor/Ro-Shom Bo plus
guests at John Henry's 10 p m $2
1 High Stmt (acoustic rock, former
; ty Local Hero) at Good Times 9 30
| p m $2
The Clorai Glrti/Janltor Joe plus
guests at Jortn Henry s lupm w
Inks taka (reggae) a! Good Times
9 30pm S5
The Austin Lounge Lizards (blue
grass), 8:30 p m $3. and John Fohi
(acoustic). 11 p.rn #1. at Jonn nenry 5
Unit Women (Colorado rock) at
Good Times 9 30 p m $6
Tlw Guardians (country) at John
Henry’s 10 p m $2
P octet PlayteM* Theater presents
“Glengarry Glen Ross" March 1 —3 in
Room 102 Villard Hall at 5 p m
Poetry ate Fiction Reading w/ University
Kidd Tutorial Students March 2 in the
Maple Room ot the EMU at 7:30 p m
Court*«y PtKito
Th0 Dance Ability Prelect la a modem dance program that brings able-bodied and disabled dancers together with Contact Improvisation
By Ming Rodrigues
Emerald Contributor
A major evolution i* going on in con
temporary dance. Stereotypes that encour
age isolation and separatism in the dance
world are breaking down m a big way.
thanks to the DenceAbility Project, a mod
ern-dance program that brings together
able-bodied dancers with those who are
blind, deaf or in wheelchairs.
Six years ago. a Eugene-based dance
company called Joint Forces brought
together an international group of dis
abled and non-disabled people to experi
ment with new possibilities in artistic
expression within the dance form known
as Contact Improvisation.
Since then, the project, under Joint
Forces co-director Alito Alessi. has earned
worldwide recognition for its pioneering
work in the field of dance and disability.
But this is not about therapy or oven ere
ativity. It's about attitude and a way of
looking at life.
"It's not about changing people to
become better or getting disabled people
to move more like able-bodied people,"
Alessi said. "The philosophy is really
about finding common ground — a place
where people con learn a lot about and
from one another
"It's about exploring and uprooting mis
conceptionsona prejudices that both able
bodied and people with disabilities have
about each other, to learn to value differ
ences and see beauty in a lot of different
ways than we are generally used to."
Contact Improvisation is a dance form
accessible to all. Partners find and experi
ment with a point of physical contact
between them using the natural forces of
gravity, momentum, friction and balance
There are no technical movement patterns
to learn. mid no preformed mental images
to guide or limit the dancers.
Whatever their rooming limitations, the
dancers "are aide to use what limy have in
their own movement to affect somebody
else and to bring aiiout a change in them
selves," Alessi said. "At best, dance is a
blurring of the physical and mental
boundaries of the performers,"
Presented by Joint Forces and the Uni
versity dance department, the sixth annu
al Dam uAbiliiy Workshop will bo held at
the UO Gerlingor Annex March 5-7
On March 5. 7-9 p m., there will he a
presentation of “Common Ground," the
awurd-winning documentary on a previ
ous DanceAhility workshop with a
demonstration and a question and answer
session. On March fi ft 7, 11 a.m.-ti p.m.,
an experiential workshop will be hold
Turn to DANCE. Page 8
Tracking the latest
The Grammy*:
Eric Clapton
triumphs with
six awards
LOS ANGELES (AF) — Grammy voters affirmed
with ballots what rock fans said with spray-paint cam
in the 1960s: ‘ Clapton is God."
The graffiti that once appeared on London walls
became the theme of Wednesday's Grammy cere
monies as Eric Clapton collected si* trophies, includ
ing album of the year for Unplugged and record and
song of the year.
The 47-year-old British guitarist picked up his first
award of the night for "Tears in Heaven." a melan
choly tune written after the death of his 4-year-old son
fmrn a fall out a 53rd-floor aoartment window in 1991
"I fuel so guilty about taking so many of these. I'm very moved
and very shaky and very emotional.” Clapton said after accepting
his final honor of the night. "And I want to thank a lot of people,
but the one person I want to thank is my son, for the love he gave
me and the song he gave me.”
Clapton also shared best rock song honors with writer |im Cor
don for Clapton's acoustic version of his 1970 classic "Layla "
The other big winner of the night was the music from the l)is
s
ney movie Hrntily and the Beast. which churned lour
Grammy*.
Arrested Development won the coveted best new
1 artist award and best rap performance by a duo or
group for the single "Tennessee."
AH Hoy/. II Men's smash hit "End of the Road" was best
:SgK R&H group performance, and it also won the K&B song
writing award. Also in K&B. Chaka Khan won female
vocaI performance for "The Woman I Am" album and
▼ Al Jarreau took male vocal honors for his Heaven and
Earth album.
The rap solo performance trophy went to Sir Mix-a-l.ot for
"Baby Got Back, and the Kod Mot until t'eppers were in« naru
rock performance winners for "Give It Away."
U2 won a group vocal rock performance Grammy for the album
Achtung Baby, which also earned a non-classical producer of the
year award for the team of Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno.
Other winners included the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, who died
in a plane crash in 1990, for rock instrumental performance in
"Little Wing,"
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