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Show U. g0 arts & entertainment A & E editor: Melinda Taylor Phone: 626-7507 1u O Math biology puzzles dance By Melinda Taylor a&e editor-Signpost Throw in some math and biology, add a little music, top it off with character animation and puzzles and get the Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble. "We address a wide range of subjects through a unique blend of movement, props and theater from the story of flight told using Chinese puzzle pieces to tap dancers moving with live-animated figures," said Eric Stern, Weber State University dance professor who is on leave spring quarter touring with the ensemble in Hawaii and California. The ensemble has been touring nationally since 1989 and will perform in Ogden for elementary-school children May 1 5-1 6. A public performance will also take place May 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Peery's Egyptian Theater in Ogden. Karl Shaffer, Eric Stern, Christopher Jones and Scott Kim comprise The Dr. Shaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble. The diverse company will perform for more than 3,200 elementary school children in Weber County, grades two through six. "A lot of what we do is cross over into math, humor and the thinking process," Stern said. "It's fun, entertaining and great for families." The ensemble utilizes various dance styles as diverse as boxing, street and modern dance. In addition to performances, the group will give cross-curricular movement workshops for 1,500 elementary students in Ogden who will be taught by WSU student teachers. "The workshops exploremathematical-thinking skills through movement," Stern said. Tickets for the public show on May 15 are available at the Dee Events Center, 626-8500 or by calling 1-800-WSU-TIKS. Tickets will also be available at the door one hour prior to the performance. Admission is $7.50 for adults, $5.50 for senior citizens and students, and $3.50 for children. 5 r-vS kit .' rV nutL fr.tWfff'WJfft-B .-mrr-Ji-mrf LiMMtfi .uAi&-: t " 'Q Learn a little math and biology, and polish your thinking skills at The Dr. Shaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble's May 15 performance, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Peery's Egyptian Theater. Cost to attend is $3.50-$7.50. Bands, hypnotism, inflatable Aloha to Sunfest '97 toys By Tom Purdue a&e writer-Signpost Sun-tanned skin, music-filled ears, Hawaiian-style food and a midnight hypnotist await students May 14-16 when Sunfest '97 shines on Weber State University.The famous Beatles song "Here Comes The Sun" is the theme for this year's Sunfest, an annual celebration sponsored by WSU each spring quarter to help make the transition into summer from that long, hard, lonely winter. The fest will start Wednesday, featuring bands at the Stewart Bell Tower from 1 0:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and a luau at the duck pond from 8-1 1 p.m. Marriott Food Services will provide food for the luau. Torches will be placed around the perimeter of the duck pond to enhance the Hawaiian luau atmosphere. Thursday, the bands play on at the bell tower while an inflatable toy-fest, featuring a 30-foot inflatable slide and an inflatable joust match, runs from 1 0:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. That night, the motion picture "Footl(X)sc" will play at the Wildcat Theater. Be prepared to get a kxk at some funky 80s dance moves. Friday the wilderness recreation department will demonstrate their sports equipment. Winners of the competition will be awarded $500. The grand finale that evening will include dancing, inflatable activites, hypnotist Bruce McDonald, sub sandwiches and pizza in the Shcplicrd Union ballroom from 8:30 p.m. to 5 a.m. Cost to attend is $5. Some of tlx; bands that will be "battling" include Sandman, f anatic, A Sasquatch Named Yeti, Scepter, Melting Planet and Zero Suite. "Sunfest started out way back when it was a bunch of bands that played down at the duck pond," said Justin Miller, a WSU student 1 le said Sunfest has been slightly different every yc;ir, but tlx- hands have always been a major part of tlx; activities.Registration is still in progress for hinds wishing to perform at Sunfest. Tlx; deadline isTuesday. Entry forms can be picked up and tlx; $20 entry fee can be paid at tlx; WSU business ollice. If you need a break from studying or just want to have some fun, Sunfest '97 will warm your mind. And who knows, by tlx; end you just might find yourself singing, ". . . here comes tlx; sun, and I say, 'It's all right'." WSU musical groups remember Rosa Parks in upcoming concert By Greg Young a&e writer-Signpost Meditative music at its finest will be performed at the Weber State University Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Concert May 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the Shepherd Union building ballroom. The bands are under the direction of Thomas Root, associate professor of music at WSU. "This wonderful program has a deep variety of musical selections," Root said. "The variety of music is what makes it exciting and real for people with different tastes in music," he said. The musical selections at the concert will range from works of Aaron Copeland's to the powerful sounds of Ralph Vaughn Williams."Symphony in B Flat" will be one of the major compositions performed at the concert. This composition was composed at the request of Lt. Col. Hugh Curry, leader of the United States Army Band, and was premiered in Washington, D.C. in 1951 with Curry conducting. "Of Sailors and Whales," is a five-movement work that will be played at the concert also, based on five scenes of Melville's Moby Dick. A piece called "The Soaring Hawk," which was inspired by meditating upon the experiences of the life of a hawk, will also be performed. A landscape is originally painted in this full arrangement by Timothy Mahr, and a great perspective of life is rendered through this piece. Mahr said that as the hawk soars overhead, the textures and ! -I r r y la Thomas Root rhythms of the earth below become it's music. "I thoroughly enjoy playing in concerts," said Ariane Stevens, a saxophone and percussion player in the Symphonic Band. "I'm thrilled about the parts that I've learned for the concert," she said. One of the best loved and most performed musical pieces, "Appalachian Spring" by Copeland will be performed along with a piece called "A Movement for Rosa." The Rosa piece was composed and orchestrated on behalf of Rosa Parks who was arrested for refusing to give up her scat to a white man on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. This movement contains three contrasting sections which depict the life of Rosa Parks and her quest for social equality. "I think everyone will like the different variations of music at the conceit," said Pat Mcparland, a trumpet player for the sym-. phonic band. '"A Movement for See Rosa page 5 music & fun in the air May 12 WSU Faculty Chamber Music Recital, Marriott Allied Health Peery Lecture Hall M.H., 7:30 p.m., Free call626-6800 May 15 WSU Wind Ensemble, 7:30 p.m., $4.50$3.50 May 17 Beach Fest '97: K-9 Frisbee and kite flying festival, The Great Salt Lake call 250-1898 May 18 Wasatch Community Symphony Orchestra, First Presbyterian Church. Free May 19 WSU Combined Band Concert. UB Ballroom, 7:30 p.m., $4.50$3.50 |