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Lane Community College performers take to the stage for National Dance Week’s "The Works,” which honors literature.
Dance and literary texts unite
at LCC's National Dance Week
The Works’ kicks off the
events of National Dance
Week at LCC tonight
By Natasha Chilingerian
Pulse Reporter
Students at Lane Community Col
lege who have been inspired by litera
ture are performing a showcase of stu
dent-choreographed routines in "The
Works" tonight.
In the performance, which kicks off
a series of events at LCC in honor of
National Dance Week, dancers use
the art of movement to convey
themes drawn from the nonfiction
book "Privilege, Power, and Differ
ence" by Allan Johnson.
The book, which dancers read as
part of Lane Community College's
Reading Together Project, examines
societal separations based on gender,
economic status and race.
LCC dance student Emily Joyce will
dance alone and express her reactions
to the world.
"My piece is about moving through
the world with these realities that
abuse us every day, such as racism,
class separation and sexism," she said.
"And we get to a breaking point where
we can't take it all anymore."
Joyce will dress in street wear —
everyday pants and a tank top — and
perform modem moves to a spoken
word soundtrack drawn from a stu
dent-produced documentary titled
"The Arts and Culture Politics." The
documentary features interviews with
Eugene and Portland-based artists.
"It is relevant to the world and how
it relates to creativity," she said. "Cre
ativity is how we deal with pain and
find hope, joy and beauty."
Another student dancer, Richard
Myers, explores human advantages in
stead of burdens. Myers will recite pas
sages from "Privilege, Power, and Dif
ference" throughout his dance struggle.
"I think it will make people kind of
uncomfortable to see it," he said.
"They will look at their own lives and
their own privileges, but they need to
feel that and realize how many privi
leges they do have."
Following three nighdy performanc
es of 'The Works," LCC will host five
days of beginning and intermediate
dance classes in tango, ballet, salsa,
modem and West African idioms. Also
featured will be a discussion forum, an
open rehearsal, a lecture demonstra
tion and video showing, all of which
will promote dance as an art form.
Lane Dance Company will perform
in the open rehearsal. The group is cur
rently practicing a piece based on a sec
ond book, "Montana 1948" by Larry
Watson, which was studied in the
Reading Together Project. This novel
details a prestigious family that deals
with reputation-mining events such as
murder and sexual molestation.
"Both books chosen for the project
involve diversity, discrimination and
power in societies and families,"
Simoa said. "They highlight the core
value that Lane Community College
holds, which is to celebrate and ex
plore diversity."
"The Works" will be performed
tonight, Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.
in the Performance Mall at Lane Com
munity College, located at 4000 E.
30th Ave. Tickets are available at $6
for adults and $4 for students and
seniors at the door, or through the
Lane Ticket Office at (541) 463-5202.
All other events run from April 26 to
April 29 and take place in the Perfor
mance Hall and the Dance Studio.
For a complete listing of events and
times, call the Lane Ticket Office.
Contact the Pulse reporter at
natashachilingerian@dailyemerald.com.
SUNDBERG
continued from page 9
looking for or at when I'm doing this
ugly American ritual. I have filed my
taxes for five or six years now, and
every single year it is a weekend jour
ney into the true heart of bedlam.
The first couple of years I filed, I got
them done for me, but it turned out
Uncle Sam owed me money, so I did
n't even need to worry. But every year
thereafter, I have done them myself.
Every year thereafter, I received a letter
back from my government bitching at
me for every minute mistake I made
on all my forms. And last year, some
how, despite the fact that I followed
an Internet tax program to the tee, I
still got a letter back from the govern
ment. This time I owed them. Which
was strange because I made about as
much money as a street corner bum
with a sign. But confusion was not
why I didn't file my taxes this year.
In all honesty, I didn't file my taxes
because I was busy. I had things to do.
It simply slipped my mind. No harm,
no foul. Now that I've gotten this all on
paper — this torrid confession — I've
probably opened myself up to public
scrutiny. But I've decided to hold off on
the whole tax thing until I am at least a
functional member of society (i.e. I'm
out of college and I have a paying job).
At that time, anything I owe my gov
ernment will be paid in full.
But the question still remains: Am
I criminal? I have asked several people
over the course of a week this ques
tion and every person seems to have a
different answer to my conundmm.
Some people say yes I am a criminal,
some say I'm not, some pray for my
damned soul and some tell me I
should flee this evil empire while I still
have the chance. I don't know who to
believe anymore. So I turn to the only
man I can look to for true guidance
and support in my dark hour.
Willie Nelson.
As you may or may not know,
Willie Nelson, one of our last living
American outlaws, was dropkicked by
our government in 1990 for not filing
his taxes for six years. His golf course,
recording studio, ranch and pretty
much everything Nelson owned —
everything except his legendary Mar
tin guitar, which he still plays to this
day — was seized by the Internal Rev
enue Service. Nelson owed nearly $ 17
million in back taxes.
To get out of his financial quag
mire, he recorded and released an al
bum called "Who'll Buy My Memo
ries?: The IRS Tapes" and made some
Taco Bell commercials. By 1993, Nel
son was freed from his tax chains.
Of course, I'm not quite on the
scale of Willie Nelson, but my
predicament is similar. And as far as I
know, Willie Nelson never went to jail
for this, so in my mind, he was not a
criminal. In my simple monkey logic,
what separates criminals from the rest
of us are bars. And if Willie Nelson
wasn't behind them, he wasn't a crim
inal, therefore, neither am I.
If I am wrong, the IRS knows where
I live.
Contact the Pulse columnist
at carlsundberg@dailyemerald.com.
His opinions do not necessarily
represent those of the Emerald.
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