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Caliente heats up Eugene dance scene
The 11-piece local band
plays WOW Hall Saturday;
there will be salsa dance
lessons before the show
By Natasha Chilingerian
Pulse Reporter
Latin music fans can kick up their
heels to the rhythms of local salsa
band Caliente at WOW Mall Saturday.
The group's name, which means
"hot" in Spanish, is the perfect adjec
tive to describe the sounds they create.
"It's the rhythm of salsa that attracts
people to it," keyboardist Jeroll John
ston said. "It's a complex style, but ac
cessible enough that people all over
the world are enjoying it."
The 11-piece group has gone
through many phases since its forma
tion in 1987 by band leader and lead
singer Eemell Lopez and former Lane
Community College music students
Enrique Rios, Alejandro Gonzalez and
David Bender. They began as a Latin
jazz combination band, but around
1993, pianist Julio Jauregui turned
Caliente's music into real salsa.
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"He became very involved in learn
ing salsa and teaching it to us," Lopez
said. "He was the one who made
Caliente a salsa band."
Caliente has since performed along
the West Coast and in Mexico; in
1997 it released an album, "Voices
Morenas" ("Brown Voices"). The
group has endured several member
turnovers, and today's lineup includes
two former members of the Cherry
Poppin' Daddies — trumpet players
Dana Heitman and Sean Flannery.
Regardless of the members,
Caliente has stayed true to attracting
an audience of dancers. Lopez said
their audiences have grown from just
moving around to demonstrating true
salsa moves at their shows.
"When we started out, the audience
would move, but not with the right
steps," he said. "Now people with ex
perience come to our shows, and we
like to think that we contributed to
their interest in learning to salsa."
When it comes to the music,
Caliente stays true to traditional
forms. Lopez said "salsa" is a term
used to define all Latin American mu
sical styles. This includes the slow,
sensual "cumbia" style from Colom
bia; the upbeat "merengue" from the
Dominican Republic and the synco
pated "son" from Cuba. Johnston
said they also like to throw in a few
cha-chas. All salsa tunes are based on
a rhythm called "clave," which is also
the name of a percussion instrument
— two wooden sticks that are
knocked together.
"We do an authentic job and use
traditional instruments," Johnston
said. "We're not avant-garde. When
we hear other Latin music, we say, We
like that song, let's play it!'"
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The local 17-year-old salsa band Caliente will ignite an audience of dancers at WOW Hall
Saturday. Its current lineup includes two former members of the Cherry Poppin' Daddies.
Caliente's current configuration
uses seven different instruments: key
board, bass, timbale, congas, bongos,
trumpet and trombone. Singers
Lopez, Freddy Vilchez and Allison
Rickenbaugh complete the ensemble
by harmonizing lyrics in Spanish.
"The singers are dynamic people,
but the/re not flashy," Johnston said.
For audience members who^re
aching to dance on Saturday but
don't know how to move, Johnston
will teach a half-hour pre-concert
salsa class.
"It will give people an opportunity
to have a dance to do during the
show." she said.
WOW Hall publicist Bob Fenessey
said the venue's floating dance floor
will give attendees an opportunity to
dance the night away to appealing
music without the morning-after
aches and pains. The floating floor is
actually planted firmly on the
ground, but has a dance-friendly
give to it.
"Caliente puts on a show for the
whole family," he said. "It's great mu
sic to dance to and also great music to
listen to."
WOW Hall is located at 291 W.
Eighth Ave. and tickets are $8 at the
door. Johnston's workshop will take
place at WOW Hall from 8:15 p.m. to
8:45 p.m. and is free with ticket pur
chase. The show will directly follow
the workshop.
Contact the Pulse reporter at
natashachilingerian@dailyemerald.com.
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‘ Faust/Faustus ’ film
explores old myth
Leon Johnson will discuss
his film, ‘Faust/Faustus
in Deptford’ at 8 p.m. today
By Ryan Nyburg
Senior Pulse Reporter
The annual Colin Raugh Thomas
O'Fallon Memorial Lecture in Art and
American Culture will deal with is
sues of damnation, psychic crisis and
spiritual bankruptcy.
The lecture, which is sponsored by
the Oregon Humanities Center and
takes place today at 8 p.m., will fea
ture Associate Professor of Art Leon
Johnson discussing his film
"Faust/Faustus in Deptford."
The 15-minute film, based on a se
ries of performance pieces enacted by
Johnson and theater arts Assistant
Professor John Schmor, draws from
the two central sources of the Faust
myth. It depicts an encounter between
16th-century author Christopher
Marlowe's Dr. Faustus and Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust on their
way to damnation.
"It's a beautiful meditation on the
Faust myth," said Schmor. "Our per
formances were mostly guided by in
stinct and guess."
The piece was performed across the
country and eventually in England.
While there, Johnson and Schmor
had the performances documented
on film. The result according to John
son, is part travelogue and part liter
ary reinterpretation.
"We shot it in various contexts on
various locations," Johnson said. "We
performed it at a number of beautiful
sites in England. We would arrive at a
site and reinterpret the performance
based on what the site suggested."
The sense of improvisation was fu
eled by the different personalities of
the two characters, Johnson said. He
added that while both are in essence
meant to be the same person, Mar
lowe and Goethe took different ap
proaches to the character. This meant
that the performance had the dynam
ic of two different people dealing with
the same experiences.
"John, who played Faust, had his
performance rooted in a European
style, very upper class and well read.
His character has resigned himself to
his fate," Johnson said. "Faustus is
more of an emotionally driven char
acter, someone who is not willing to
take his damnation sitting down."
After the film was completed, it was
screened at a number of international
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