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Your entertainment, dining and arts guide to the UO community
February 21,1997
Volume 98, Issue 101
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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.
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