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Pulse Editor Jacquelyn Lewis jacquelynlewis@dailyemerald.com Thursday, October 10,2002 Oregon Daily Emerald Online Look for "Selling out" with columnist Mason West at www.dailyemerald.com Searching for a good, cheap time? Once again, you’ve completed the long pilgrimage to Oregon Hall to pay your tu ition bill, and it’s time to reflect on how it sucks to be broke. You’re probably reading this paper because it’s free, and free things are good — with the excep tion of hug bites and “Married... With Children” reruns. Despite a lack of money, you can still find an abundance of amusements in Eu gene that won’t wipe out your checking account. I’ve put to gether a list of fun, arts-related activi ties that cost $5 or less to help you make the most of those dimes and quarters lying be tween your couch cushions. If you’re in search of live music, a good bet is to shake off that Saturday mom Peter Hallinan Better than beer-bong ing mg uaiigover anu wariuer uowniown to the Saturday Market. In addition to food and crafts, the Market Stage showcases different bands each hour. You can al ways find an eclectic mix of hippies and college students dancing without a care in the world. The featured band this Sat urday at noon will be Dromedary, a duo that blends together styles ranging from Celtic to jazz. Loo lung for a slightly more formal ven ue in which to dance? The Rumba Room at 100 E. Broadway offers Latin dancing every Wednesday through Saturday nights. After munching on some of their Mexican food, you can take salsa dance lessons at 7 p.m. Wednesdays for $4. On Friday nights, Gerlinger Hall offers another venue to bust out those dance moves you’ve been practicing in front of your bedroom mirror. It’s $4 for stu dents, with lessons beginning at 7:30 p.m. and general dancing that goes from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. The band Rasputina will perform at - Gerlinger Lounge on Oct. 20. At 87 a ticket for University students, the per formance doesn’t quite meet my 85-or under criteria, but the price is still less than that of a movie ticket. The group likes to call itself a “pseudo-classical, hard-core ‘positive-goth’ cello band,” and comprises three cellists and a drummer. Their style is not for everyone, but it is certainly intriguing and far from ordi nary. To get an idea of what the group sounds like before shelling out $7 for a ticket, check out their Web site at www.rasputina.com. If you’re just looking for something to pass the time between classes, the Lav erne Krause Gallery in the School of Ar chitecture and Allied Arts showcases in teresting art exhibits. These range from traditional pieces of artwork to more eso teric displays. It’s worth a look, and it’s free. Or, if you’re grabbing a bite to eat in the EMU, take your lunch upstairs to the art gallery located down the hallway from the ballroom. The EMU Buzz Coffeehouse is anoth er good venue for free, live performanc es. From 9 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. Mondays is Open Poetry Mic, a fast-paced verbal Turn to Halliitari; page 12 L0V€, tragedy and bcllld I he tugene Ballet Lompanys rendition of‘Romeo andjuliet’ has dancers, intense music and dramatic fight scenes Jacquelyn Lewis Pulse Editor Sparks will fly; love and tragedy will collide at the Ilult Center this weekend. Sword fighting, masquer ades and world-class dancing will kick off Eugene Ballet Company’s 2002-03 season when the company presents “Romeo and Juliet” Satur day and Sunday. The ballet company’s managing director Riley Gannan said the uni versal theme of “Romeo and Juliet” will appeal to a wider audience than most ballets. “In a way, it’s a classic of its era — the pinnacle of narrative ballet,” he said, “and the story is such a knockout.” Gannan said even those who are not ballet fans will enjoy the pro duction, especially its edgier as pects — rivalry and combat. “It’s something that people can relate to — even bad-ass boys,” he said. “This is something a bad-ass boyfriend can do for his girlfriend, and he might even like it.” The ballet boasts riveting sword fighting, which the dancers learned from fight director Christopher Vil la. Villa has lent his expertise to more than 300 productions, includ ing the Oregon and Utah Shake speare Festivals. He also teaches sword fighting as a guest artist at colleges and universities across the country. Gannan said the addition of sword fighting transforms the ballet into much more than just dance. He pointed to the tale’s many layers — a love story wrapped in violence. “It makes it a seamless narra tive,” he said. Eugene Ballet Company spokes woman Kelcey Boyce said the dancers themselves make the bal let noteworthy. “We have a really exciting guest artist,” she said, adding that David Makhateli is “one of the world’s best male dancers.” Makhateli, who will perform the role of Romeo on Saturday, is a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet. He performed with the Eu gene Ballet last season in “Don Quixote,” and he will make a guest appearance with the Bolshoi Ballet after his “Romeo and Juliet” per formance. The Eugene Ballet’s own Hyoung Turn to Ballet, page 12 Band brings its ‘theories’ to WOW Hall The boundary-crossing instrumental group Taarka returns to Eugene on Saturday Aaron Shakra Pulse Reporter Superstring theories are relatively recent developments in the field of physics. They came about as a way to bridge both classical and quantum systems into one unified and consis tent set of rules explaining the operation of the universe. There are many string theories, and Taarka is the name of one of them. All of this is just to say it also happens to be a band name, and Taarka, the band, will come to town Saturday. They’re playing at the WOW Hall at 9 p.m. with The Sugar Beets. Posters advertising the show around town have labeled the music as “seismic gypsy hypno-jazz,” but the instrumental band’s sound is quite inde scribable. During their last show in Eugene — ' Turn tq Band, page 11
