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Show ARTS&ENTERTAINMENT Friday, October 20,2006 Page 4 Fort film frenzy ARTS Brian Fetzer brings back The Salt Lake Freedom Film Festival V Anayat Fakhraic . The Daily Utah Chronicle The brown and red leaves not only indicate the coming of autumn and Halloween, but also the second annual Salt Lake Freedom Film and Storytelling Festival. Along with Freedom Motion Pictures, the Fort Douglas Museum will be sponsoring the event. The festival features a second showing of "Ghostly Guardians," Brian Fetzer's documentary about the ghosts who have been rumored to inhabit the old fort. The film explores the shadows and empty corridors of the haunted Fort Douglas Museum. In it, Fetzer interviews employees who say they have seen the ghost of Clem, a civil war soldier who endlessly roams the hallways. Some lucky students might remember Fetzer's portrayal of the great mathematician Albert Einstein in his math courses to explain the algorithm E = m e . This math instruc- tor is not just a number cruncher, though. Fetzer is also a director who integrates his fascination with filmmaking with his love for teaching. His new film, "The Music of Mathematics," focuses on new and inventive ways to teach children the art of math. "These children are just pushing buttons," Fetzer said. "And if all of them are just pushing buttons, then what are they really learning?" Fetzer hopes that the movie will help children learn more about math and its great thinkers. "The Music of Mathematics" will premiere at the festival on Oct. 28. Fetzer has led a long and distinguished career as a writer, singer, songwriter, storyteller, substitute teacher and -university instructor. "I was teaching in the drama department in 2002 when I came to the realization that I could make motion pictures," he said. After producing many of his own films with strong support from friends and family, Fetzer founded Friday, Oct. 20 Meet the author ^ Anna Campbell Bliss Free 6 p.m. Ken Sanders Rare Books (268 E. 200 South) Indie concerts Valencia $15 . \ 7:30 p.m. The Depot (579 W. 200 South) The Fall of Troy $10 in advance/ $ 12 at the door . - . 6:30 p.m. Club BoomVa (2701 Washington Blvd.,Ogden) Saturday, Oct. 21 LENN\E MAULER'Tin- Daily Ut<ili Brian Fetzer, artistic director of the Salt Lake Freedom Film and Storytelling Festival, rehearses a piece intended to frighten and teach children at the Post Theatre on Wednesday. Freedom Motion Pictures. "Agencies and publishers hounded me to com- promise the integrity of many of my pieces. When art and business clash, the artist usually goes out the See FETZER Page 5 Comedy show Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood $70 :•/'• 8 p.m. :-; Abravanel Hall (123 W. South Temple) Reggae concert allet with a -twist Cressa Perloff ,. Want to build a resume? Get a job. . I f you're a dancer, life's not quite so easy. Building a resume involves auditioning, rehearsing and performing dance as much as possible—usually unpaid. For 14 U ballet majors, an opportunity to do just that arose in the spring and will come to fruition this Monday when Utah Contemporary Ballet (UCB) makes its debut in the Black Box Theatre at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center downtown. Founded and directed by U alumni Annri Opitz-Kostick and Garrett Mockler, UCB started as an idea almost six years ago when both were ballet students at the U. They recognized that the career of a ballet dancer today does not draw solely from classical training, and that "dancers are becoming more versatile and dynamic/' Opitz-Kostick said. John Boyack, press manager for UCB, said that as contemporary ballet continues to develop around the world, "highlighting the new direction of contempo- rary ballet to the general Utah public" is an effective way to showcase these styles. So, UCB connected with Dance Theatre Coalition (DTC), a local nonprofit organization that supports local and emerging performing artists. DTC is "committed to diversifying the local arts scene," director Amy Caron said. The organization allows up-andcoming performing artists to get their "professional feet wet," founder Winnie Wood said, and the U ballet students who primarily make up the corps are getting to do so while still in school. Auditions were held in April with instructors' hopes of "(welcoming) capable dancers with classical training into a broader, more contemporary realm of advancement," Opitz-Kostick said. Drawing 14 of their 17 dancers from the U's ballet department, Opitz-Kostick and Mockler said they feel that "many of our dancers are just as qualified as the other professionals in this city." The choreographers also trace their roots to the U. Shayla Bott, who gradu- SceXJCBPagc5 PIIOTO COURTESY OF GARRETT MOCKLER &/-> Adrlanna Durtschl (top), Kallse Child (middle) and Lisa Hoyt (bottom) rehearse for Utah £-;-.'v-,. Contemporary Ballet's debut, which takes place Monday at the Black Box Theatre. ^. . John Brown's Body $15 U students and alumni star in Utah Contemporary Ballet 'The Dally Utah Chronicle . ._ ; - 9 p.m. r. Suede (1612 Ute Blvd., Park City) ' - v ', Spooky train extravaganza Haunted Canyon Limited Train $14 EP origami Ben Folds a cohesive album from disparate parts What does anyBen Folds body do after releasSuperSunnySpeeding a bunch of EPs Graphic, the LP solely for the Web, Sony BMG Music/ then having each Epic Records release make it into Three-and-a-half the top five Internet out of five stars albums (according to Billboard charts)? •••* Well, if you're Ben Folds, you combine them ah1 into an LP— hence his "new" solo album SuperSunnySpeedGraphic, theLP. By now, most everyone knows if he or she likes Ben Folds or not, so fans need not worry about the integrity or skill of SSSG, the LP. In retrospect, fans probably already know most of these songs...probably because all the songs were released before the summer of '05 and nobody's JUST a casual listener to Ben Folds. Nobody. •Why? Well, Ben Folds' music is unique, specific, not for everyone and yet, for everyone at the same time. I know it's crazy, but SSSG, the LP exemplifies these traits exuberantly, especially through the choice of songs included—the EPs in their entirety are not there. What the expectant buyer gets is a good assortment of moods and feelings from rockbased tracks, upbeat pop singles and melodious ballads. Quite a few covers make an appearance here as well, which not only places the listener inside the mind of Folds, but also adds spice to this record's assortment. Lyrically, the covers also mix things up. Folds' cover of Dr. Dre's "B****** Ain't S***" is especially moving. SSSG, the LP would make a great collection to any Folds fan, or even those who feel like being won over by relatable, emotional music. All of which makes me wonder what Folds is doing. Any fan isn't going to want to miss out on all the other tracks being left out, and SSSG, the LP just might be a little too experimental and peripheral for the rest of us. Or, as Folds explained it in the past: "A part of me that's still stuck in the old school wants a copy I can hold, break, scratch, throw away or use underneath a leg of my coffee table, something I can't delete...one wants validation of being sanctioned by the man. To be somebody. To be in THE STORE!" Well, I guess we'll be seeing you there. Jesse Peterson 7 p.m. HeberValley Railroad (4S0S.600W.,Heber) Indie concert Glass Candy, with Chromatics and Vile Blue Shades $7 in advance/ $8 at the door 9 p.m. .•;. Urban Lounge (241 S.500 East) - ..' Sunday, Oct. 22 Lecture 'The Mathematics of Sea Ice: Helping to Assess the • Impact of Climate Change , Free _ -.. . t 1:45 p.m. . Salt Lake City Library (210 E. 400 South) , , •', - Syrian film presented by Film Front "Nights of the Jackal" \ Free •* - 7 p.m. ' ' OSH Auditorium ' ' salubrious [suf?-\oo-bree-L//7s] (adj.) healthful or wholesome. favorable, conducive or contributing to well-being.- noun: salubrity |