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Emerald (jJ) J J Your entertainment, dining and arts guide to the UO community February 21,1997 Volume 98, Issue 101 i-3..,.Jt.I_vscraaiw WENDY FULLER/Emerald Scott Vogel provides hands for Michael Govier, ■ who talks to Ryan Honey in ‘Arms Expert’ Members of the all-student comedy troupe Absolute Improv work hard at being spontaneous M. Chandler Melvin and Cameo Morningstar scope out dolphins In the game Slide Show.’ WENDY FULLER/Emen By Nicole Krueger Entertainment Editor A cigarette hanging from his lip, Michael Govier clumsily attempts to strike a match. But his eyes and his hands just don’t seem to want to work together, and he fumbles with the matchbook for a while before Ryan Honey finally snatches it from his hands. Actually, Honey snatches it from Scott Vogel’s hands. The game is “Arms Expert.” Honey is playing a defense attorney who is coaching the defendant, Govier, before his trial. Vogel is playing the defendant’s hands. He crouches behind Govier, who is slightly shorter than him, and per forms the character’s hand motions while Govier delivers the lines. Arms expert one of the many games WsK played by Absolute Improv, a self-run WK group of 14 Univer Wm sity students who V will perform improvi ■ sation tonight at the ■ Actors Cabaret of I Eugene. ' In theater, improvisa tion, or improv, is acting IMPROV ■ WHEN: Feb. 21 at 10 p.m., Feb. 22 at 8:30 p.m. ■ WHERE: Actors Cabaret of Eugene, 996 Willamette St. ■ COST: $4 at the door i without a script or a pre I planned idea. The actors are given an on-the ■ spot scenario or character, and they must then act out a scene. The scenes must be acted according to the guidelines of what ever improv game the actors are playing. H For example, in the game "Arms Expert,” one person must provide the HH arms for another, who then plays out a scene with a third. In “Touching Game,” Turn to IMPROV, Page 7 Jibliminis Jibliminis will perform the clos ing set of a bene fit concert for Project Saferide Feb. 22 at WOW Hall. Portland’s Doris Daze and Hummingfish will also perform. The show will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are $5 $10 on a sliding scale. Profits will help install a wheelchair lift in the Saferide shuttle van. KRVM Benefit Eight musical acts will perform at a benefit con cert for radio sta tion KRVM at WOW Hall Feb. 27. Chris Williamson and Tret Fure, Mary McCaslin and Steve Gillette and Cindy Mangsen are among the performers. The show will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20. Flamenco dancers to visit WOW Hall Clarita and the Arte Fla menco Dance Theatre will perform “The Music and Dances of Spain" at WOW Hall Feb. 23. The show will include a variety of Spanish dances as well as flamenco. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m., and the doors will open at 7 p.m. Tickets are $7 in advance and $8 at the door. Wild bands to play at Wild Duck Critters Buggin and The Fabulous Hedgehogs will perform this weekend By Remzi Bajrami Freelance Reporter At last, here’s something for those who thirst for some different kind of music: two bands from two big music cities that are just too weird to describe. Critters Buggin and The Fab ulous Hedgehogs will perform at the Wild Duck Music Hall Feb. 23. Brendan Relaford, general manager and owner of Dog house Entertainment, said both bands are kind of weird. “They both play a real eclec tic form of free-form jazz/funk/fusion that’s really interesting,” he said. Critters Buggin is a Seattle instrumental band. “The Critters are an extreme ly unique, eclectic, rhythmic oriented band. They play psy chedelic grunge jazz,” said Ben Samrick, national music coor Tum to CONCERT, Page 8 CONCERT ■ WHO: Critters Buggin and The Fabulous Hedge hogs ■ WHEN: Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. ■ WHERE: Wild Duck Music Hall ■ COST: $5 for students, $6 for general admis sion, $7 at the door Type-0 Negative Type-O-Nega tive will perform at WOW Halt Feb. 21 at 9 p.m. with Sister Maching Gun and Drain. Tick ets are $12.50. “Be There” is a weekly column highlighting the week's top local entertainment events.
