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Contributions: Letters, articles, photos and oather printable by Rob Gascoigne matter are welcome. Please contact the editor to discuss suitability. he theme for this week is “”. Confessions of I’ve got nothin’. Officially, I am not Publisher: a Serial Dancer 17 a dancer; I try to stay out of it as Blitz is published each Monday of session by T much as I can. Unofficially, if you UNSW Source. put enough beers in me, I’ll burn it up. So, yeah, my experience is limited but I’ll give The views expressed herein are not you a pointer to the most amazing dance necessarily the views of UNSW Source, sequence I have ever seen. unless as expressly stated. UNSW Source accepts no responsibility for the accuracy of The Bollywood film Devdas is an overly long any of the opinions or information contained but beautifully filmed melodrama. About an in this issue of Blitz. Any complaints should hour-and-a-half into it, there’s a song called be addressed to the Communications You Should “Dola Re Dola”. Aishwarya Rai, the most Manager, PO Box 173, Kingsford 2032 beautiful woman in the world (Julia Roberts’ be Dancing 19 words, not mine), shimmies and sways across the screen accompanied by about Printing: President’s Letter 4 one hundred women in gold saris. It’s almost Printed by Agency, Seven Hills. Rates and as if they reinvented ecstasy. Check it out. Enquiries should be directed to Soap Opera 5 8825 8900. Fortunately, there are people with more of Google Stalking 8 an idea involved with this magazine. This Blitz Team 2006: Editor: Rob Gascoigne week Alex has profiled one of Australia’s The Yardstick of Stupidity 9 most enduring dance troupes: the Bangarra Reporters: Alex Serpo, Flick Strong Dance Company. For decades, Bangarra’s Designer: Justin Theng Puzzles 10 been one of this country’s proudest cultural Cover Design: Justin Theng icons and they continue to inspire and lead Cover Photo: Bangarra Dance Company by example. Flick has isolated some of the Red Riders 11 Voxpops: Hilda Cheng ways novice dancers can get involved in What’s On 12 dance programs both on and off campus. Communications Manager: Have a read to get some pointers. You’ll be Marina Spurgin, 02 9385 7731 surprised at how easy it is to get involved. Comics 16 We’ve also had a lot of input this week from Advertising & Sponsorship Coordinator: a collection of students that have a strong Charlotte O’Brien Reviews 20 with dance. D2MG, UNSW’s hip 02 9385 7331 hop society, has contributed an article about Bonjour Tristesse 21 their own particular category of dance. Marketing Manager: Donna Wiemann

Of course you can’t have dancing without Classifieds 22 music. Appropriately, there are a couple of music interviews this week. I was lucky Vox Pops 23 enough to sit down with Al from Red Riders (in my opinion, one of Sydney’s best bands) and Alex has a chat with UNSW’s Orchestra Society.

Enjoy Week Eleven (if possible).

 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine  President’s Contact is a student enquiry Report and referral desk that is run by student volunteers. Drop into Contact with your inquiry, big or small, we’ll know where you can find the answer.

eeling a bit stressed? A great way to let off steam is to put on some music and boogie. This week Contact gives Fyou a run down on where you can do just that around campus.

Dance Studio The Source has a fully equipped dance studio available for students to hire out, and he Source runs a number of it’s free! The Studio is located on Level 2 volunteering programs. These of the Blockhouse. Simply book with your programs give students an student card at Source Reception (Ground opportunity to learn new skills, T Floor, Blockhouse). meet new people, and give something back to their community. CASOC Sports Association One of the Source’s newest volunteer The Sports Association offers a wide range There are several clubs on campus programs is Outback Assist – a program of classes at excellent rates for students (I dedicated to dance – from salsa to hip hop that takes 15 UNSW students to outback recommend their classes – so much to cheerleading. Go to www.guild.unsw.edu. Northern Territory to live and work within fun!). Check them out now and get organised au/casoc for more information. To find out a remote Aboriginal community. The for next session! The Sports Association is more, visit CASOC on Level 1, East Wing, second Outback Assist team will partake located in the Sam Cracknell Pavillion (on the Quad Building. in this program over the coming main walkway) holiday period.

Outback Assist is completely student run - volunteers spend an enormous amount Contact: Level 2, East Wing, Quad building. 10am-4pm weekdays during session, or of time raising money from sponsors and email [email protected] website www.contact.unsw.edu.au). through fundraising events. Last year, the Outback Assist team managed to raise enough money not only to undertake the program, including purchasing enough materials to complete their major project, but also to put some money away to secure the program’s future.

The 2006 Outback Assist volunteers will be holding fundraising events at various times over the next couple of weeks. This week, there are two events that are NSW IT Services has removed happening to raise funds to support this the $1.00 daily access fee for program. These are: using UniWide, UNSW’s wireless • Fundraising Trivia Night – 6.30pm Unetwork. Previously, users were Wednesday in the Cougar Club Bar (tix charged $1.00 for their first connection $10 students, $15 for adults) to the service each day they used it. Subsequent connections on the same day • Movie Night: The DaVinci Code were not charged. – 8.30pm Friday at the Randwick Ritz (tix $10 for everyone) Now that this fee has been removed, users are free to use the UniWide wireless If you are interested in either of these service to access resources on UNSW events and want to book tickets, or even networks such as primary UNSW web sites, if you’re not and you want to support the myUNSW, eLearning/WebCT, and UNSW Outback Assist team, contact Georgie, Library online resources. However, users the Outback Assist Coordinator, at accessing off-campus resources over the [email protected]. Internet will continue to be charged a fee of 10c per megabyte, as external network And if you see the Outback Assist team traffic attracts a tariff which must be passed trying to raise money in other ways, help on to users. them out if you can.

Kirstin Hunter President For more information, visit the UniWide web site at: www.uniwide.unsw.edu.au [email protected]

  Blitz Blitz Magazine Magazine This Tuesday at 7:30pm in the John Clancy Auditorium, SOAP, the UNSW Society for Orchestra and Pipers, will be performing three pieces of seminal classical music. Alex Serpo spoke to Daniel Meoli, President of SOAP, about the upcoming concert and his experiences as a musician.

Tell me about SOAP? How is SOAP different to other societies? SOAP is a student organisation that has been around for about Basically it is available to 20 years. Students play in two everyone. Music is something ensembles: the orchestra and everyone can appreciate and the pipers wind band. understand and it’s available for people who enjoy playing music and listening to music. It’s a very What music does SOAP play? large society and you get to The orchestra plays your know people who share a similar standard orchestral music in interest. a classical arrangement. The pipers play anything pretty What makes these concerts a much. We also have your worthwhile experience? standard concert repertoire. I think concerts are something you have to go to. A lot of people Who can join SOAP? think concert music is something Anybody. If you have an interest that is for students who are in playing, you can join to play different, but really, everyone can with SOAP, but you can join also appreciate it. It is very different, if if you have an interest in music you’re someone who likes music, and would like to listen to our it’s good to broaden concerts. Students who join can your horizons. come to all our concerts for free.

SOAP will be performing Mozart’s Impresario overture K486 and Piano Sonata K331 as well as Reger’s Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Mozart. Tickets are only $5 ($10 non-student price). On May 22, the Pipers Wind Band will be playing with the Kansas State University band in the Science Theatre at 7pm.

To join SOAP contact Daniel Meoli on 0434 873 051. Membership is $25 for a student [$6.50 a concert] or $40 for a non-student. Tickets are also available for both the May 16 and the May 22 concerts now through Daniel.

  Blitz Blitz Magazine Magazine Blitz Magazine  Dance is everywhere, from dark dirty pubs and clubs to the most expensive and elaborate theatres. It permeates across the cultural hierarchy and unites disparate cultures. Dance is a way of expressing who we are, where we came from, and what we believe in. And, as Alex Serpo discovers, it’s a demonstration of a raw physical aesthetic and impressive athleticism.

ance in Australia is a Western Australia’s Buzz, and Unaipon, a famous indigenous mix-matched tapestry South Australia’s Australian Australian who features on of many different Dance Theatre. However dance the fifty dollar note. Francis Dinfluences. Dance in Australia is more than just a approaches the works of the schools teach everything: tap, collage of global influences. As company with great care. jazz, funk, hip-hop, , Irish a country, Australia has a unique “They are not just dance for and even Bollywood dancing. form of dance. dance sake,” she says, “they Styles from across the globe. are extremely significant, some Professional dance in Australia Based in Sydney, we have [performances] deal with social has traditionally emphasised a uniquely Australian dance issues, some deal with those styles of dance with a company Bangarra, performs cultural issues.” European origin. Notions of “high and creates dance works culture” generally pertain to inspired by the stories and The process is ‘very research ballet and contemporary styles. cultures of indigenous based’ for Francis. She cannot But this has been changing. Australians. create a dance work until she is certain of what the work is about. Out of this melting pot of dance Francis Rings is a professional Francis has travelled extensively styles, a number of uniquely choreographer and dancer who around the world. She has Australian professional dance worked on Bangarra’s latest studied at New York City’s Alvin companies have emerged show Clan. Clan features two Ailey American Dance Theatre, across the country. These works, one of which, “Unaipon”, one of the world’s most include Victoria’s Chunky Move, is based on the life of David

 Blitz Magazine reputable dance academies, 5.30am to 6.30pm six days and she was featured in Bulletin a week for seven years. Half Magazine’s 2004 “Smart 100”. way through his second year of training; Li discovered that From her experiences, Francis ballet was his passion, and so iterates that Australian dance would do additional training is ‘unique around the world’. outside hours. Li recalls that ‘To Australian dance styles are strengthen my jumping ability, characterised by a ‘unique I strapped sandbags onto my rhythm’ and ‘expansive dancers’. legs, hopping four levels of Here, at least, Australia is at the staircases, one-legged, up forefront of exploration in this and down, up and down at five art form. o’clock in the morning before everyone else was awake’. It is also notable that the subjects He went on to dance with the of Bangarra’s pieces are uniquely Houston Ballet for sixteen years. Australian. Frances, for example, has combined this unique Dancing is an art form that Australian dance style with the requires dedication and story of a famous Australian in vocation. Yet few of these Uniapon. David Uniapon was dancers have attained the a Ngarrindjeri man from Point social status of artists from McLeay in South Australia. He other disciplines. History writes was an inventor, writer and their names smaller than Dali, theologian. During his lifetime Frost or Wagner. Perhaps this is he invented and patented many because the art of dance is more inventions, as well as writing an fleeting, however it is no less extensive ethnographic work on able to express the values of a Indigenous culture. culture or the passionate artistic expression of an individual So what does it take to put human being. together a professional piece of Australian dance theatre? Starting in May, Bangarra Frances explains that dancers Dance Theatre embarks on its work the same number of hours most extensive tour of regional as any ordinary worker, ‘the Australia in the company’s NODDYS ON KAMPUS day normally starts at ten and history. The twelve week tour finishes at six’. However the work presents the spectacular BLOCKHOUSE - LOWER CAMPUS (BESIDE ROUNDHOUSE) is ‘not light work; it’s physically double bill show Clan crafted by NSW UNIVERSITY. ANZAC PDE KENSINGTON 2033 intense, you have to be as fit as choreographer Francis Rings PHONE: 9663 3496 or 9385 7767 HAIR BY N.O.K any prime athlete’. In addition to this, after pre-production the schedule hots up considerably.

Much of the work for a professional dancer comes in reaching the highest physical standards the professional dance demands. Audiences are ever hungry for new thrills with and, for many, it is the aesthetic that intense physiques and physical skills produce that keeps them coming back. To get an idea of the physical exertion some dancers endure, you need look no further than Li Cunxin, Featuring once a principal Dancer with the Live performance by Starky Australian Ballet. XBOX 360 Challenge Li’s journey from rural peasant Spin the Wheel of Love at the to world-class dancer was Love Lounge to WIN recorded in his autobiography, Mao’s Last Dancer. When he A festival of free food, giveaways was eleven, he was taken from & a chance to WIN great prizes school and stretched and pulled in all different directions to test his flexibility. Li was chosen because he was the only child Uni Bar who did not complain. In fact, he remained completely silent while Wednesday 24th May they tore his hamstrings. 10:30am onwards From here he travelled to the Dance Academy. In order to become one of the world’s best dancers, he trained from

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 Blitz Magazine By Alex Serpo expression, and a learning The reality is, however, that I am applying for a job as a copy environment where creativity and standardised testing such as the editor!” I would protest. To which originality are encouraged. HSC and IQ tests measure an they would reply, “Yes but the For those of you who have extremely narrow range of skills last candidate had an IQ seven just begun your university However, even though we and neglect the most important points higher than you”. Again career, it’s likely the HSC is have escaped much of the life skills. These include passion I would protest; “But he wasn’t still fresh in your mind. dehumanisation of the HSC, for a craft or profession, people wearing any pants when he standardised testing still skills, motivation, concentration, came in, and he doesn’t speak he HSC, as with all continues to play an important maturity, worldly experience, English!” At this point security standardised testing, part in the way we are evaluated patience, or creativity. would sadly usher me out the tests a very narrow in society. Indeed, there are door. range of skills, and at entire organisations dedicated Imagine a world in which T to the idea that intelligence standardised testing was as This may sound ridiculous, but the end of the day, reduces all students to a number. The good can be measured in this way. important as organisations like organisations such as MENSA news is, you have likely been told For example, MENSA, the MENSA make it. A job interview and tests like the HSC work in that university is a better learning largest, oldest, and most well might run like this: “I’m sorry this fashion, desperately clinging environment. After three years known high IQ society in the Mr. Serpo, we cannot offer you to their high IQ’s and UAI’s, at UNSW, I firmly believe it is. world accepts members who this job, despite your wealth hoping it will save them from the University allows students more score within the top 2% of of experience. We are a little big bad world. There is no use in freedom of intellectual any approved standardised concerned with your ability to being proven smart with a stupid intelligence test. match colours and shapes”. “But yardstick.

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To win one of these passes, tell us which of Louis Nowra’s plays depicts a group of mental patients putting on a production of “Cosi Fan Tutte”. Email your answer, along with your full name and surname, student number and contact phone number to comps@ source.unsw.edu.au with the subject “Capricornia”. Blitz Magazine 10 EPs are so non-committal, despondency that comes from nobody expects too much from being in your early twenties and them, but an album is a big having no particular direction, commitment. It’s part of your and longing for things that are legacy. just out of your reach. Also they are a little bit crap and that’s what is so endearing. What was it that made you It’s like they’re trying to be a want to be a musician? Were stadium band, but just failing there any acts in particular at it and becoming something that inspired you? entirely different at the same From watching Video Hits as a time. They’re a slacker Bruce pre-teen to playing in this band, Springsteen. I’ve just always really loved music, and luckily enough, it’s Your live sets are pretty always come pretty naturally to extraordinary (within eighteen me. I’ve always loved the idea months of forming, Red that through music the geek can Riders was supporting become the hero, like Buddy Franz Ferdinand and The Holly or The Ramones. It’s Shins), what can audiences this opportunity to completely expect from you at the Come recast yourself in any way you Together Festival? want. So the bands I always admired and inspired me were Oh just the usual stuff: spandex, bands like Weezer, The Cure, latex, Xanax, Cocaine, K, The Smashing Pumpkins, David fireworks, pyrotechnics, midgets Bowie, outcasts remaking dancing to the Twin Peaks themselves, or turning their theme, jumping through flaming difference into something hoops while sailing high above a people want. sea of molten lava, and sharks. Lots of sharks. That, and if there’s time, some songs played What are you listening with a little bit of talent and a to now? whole lotta gusto. I can’t stop listening to The Replacements. It seems to perfectly capture this kind of

Over the Queen’s Birthday weekend, over 50 Australian and International acts will converge on Luna Park for the third Come Together Festival. One of those bands is Red Riders, one of Sydney’s most impressive up-and-coming Win indie acts. Rob Gascoigne sat down with guitarist and singer Al Grigg to find out what’s in store for the Festival. Tickets! You’ve told the story a Come Together Festival think that there’s a lot of facets thousand times but quickly to what we do, but they all come and Shock of the New tell us how the band under the banner of guitar- got together. music. Plus all this talk of post- The Sydney Symphony’s Shock of the New Adrian met Matt when they were crunk-slut-disco rubbish from III: Rhythm and Ritual will be held May 24 and 14 and Matt was on exchange people trying to sound like more 25. Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti weaves Taiko from New Zealand. I met Adrian than just guitar bands, is kinda drumming, Tibetan chanting, didgeridoo and at a Black Rebel Motorcycle depressing. thrilling classical music into a kaleidoscope of Club gig at the Metro. Then surprising and energising sounds. because Matt and Adrian had After two studio EPs (Red Blitz has two double passes to give away to kept in contact, he called up Riders and The Plan A), you’re Rhythm and Ritual. To win one of these passes, Matt and was like “move here working on an album. Is the tell us what form of Japanese drumming will be and play bass in my band” process different when you’re featured at the concert. and Matt was like “Uni sucks working on an album? and my girlfriend’s gone off to The Come Together Festival will be held over join the Israeli army, so sure.” Yeah completely. This is an the Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend, uniting Tom was coming home from album. An ALBUM. EPs are just more than 5 a photographic trip of New little snippets of a whole, but 0 local and international acts at the Luna Park for two days of fantastic movement. Zealand and met Matt on the albums, the best ones anyway, same flight. Matt suggested he are like worlds that you can get lost in, and that is what we’ve Blitz has two double passes to give away to join the band. Fate or a load of the Come Together festival. To win, tell us the bollocks? Maybe both. always wanted to make. So it’s taken us a while to whittle our names of the Red Riders’ EPs (see the whole canon down to 15 or so adjacent interview). How would you describe songs that work together to Email your answers, along with your full name and surname, your sound? make the particular statement student number and contact phone number to that we wanna make. It’s I really just want to be facetious [email protected] with the subject “Shock of the New” and say guitar-music because I also fairly daunting because or “Come Together”.

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Teamss of of8-10 8-10 people people, and NUTS Play: The Last Five Years lo , and ts of great prize lots of great prizes.s. C Comeome along along and Pottery Studio Inductions suppor and t an excit 8pm support an excitinging Source Source program program. Shack Tutoring Tickets . NUTS Presents “The Last Five Years”, available on t 12.30pm -1pm Tickets available onhe the Library Library Lawn Lawn Wednesday on a musical by Jason Robert Brown. Learn how to use the Source Pottery 3.30pm – 6pm on Wednesday lunch tlunchimes. times. Cougar Visit www.last5years.net for more Studio from our Potters in Residence. HSC tutors for English, Maths and Cougar C lubClub Bar Bar $10 information and to book tickets. Pottery Studio, Level 2, Blockhouse Sciences required urgently. Don’t $10 Figtree Theatre Free miss out n this rewarding experience Email [email protected] or $10 Students/$12 Adults, NUTS Ultimate Frisbee sign up at Blockhouse now! 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Bondi musician Declan Kelly’s music has a relaxed street feel with a UniBar, Roundhouse also selling tickets for a showing of New College Musical: combination of funk, soul and reggae Free “The Da Vinci Code” to raise funds for The Pirates of Penzance our trip to the Philippines. beats. Library Walkway Library Lawn Happy hour 7:30 pm $13 a box, $1.50 each Free A hilarious, entertaining tale of a misfit 5pm – 7pm bunch of pirates and their quest to Unibar, Roundhouse extract revenge upon a Major General Ping Pong Bar Bingo and his daughters! 1pm Beginners Salsa classes Phone 93811750 for bookings, or 11am Unibar, Roundhouse tickets on sale at the door. 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Thurs ay Learn the Lingo Coffee Meeting Capoeira S.A.L.S.A. UNSW Finance Society AGM 18 May d 2pm - 4pm 6pm - 7pm 12pm Come chat with students from Dance Studio 1 Quad 1001 around the globe. Individual lessons are $10 or Three Thoughtful Foods Coffee Republic lessons are $23 D2MG Hip Hop Foundations Food Cooperative Free (Absolute Beginners) taught by John 10am - 6.00pm Buddhism Talk in Chinese D2MG Beg/Int Hiphop taught by Roundhouse 6pm - 8pm 12pm - 1pm Mel Free Our talk is carried out by Venerable Blockhouse 3pm - 4pm Neng Rong from Hwa Tsang $8/class or $35/5 classes for Ping Pong Blockhouse Monastery. Contact Boon at 0422 members; $10/class for non-member;

$8/class or $35/5 classes for 866 515 or visit www.unibuds.unsw. Sign up with us for just $10 a year! 11am members; $10/class for non-member; edu.au for details. Roundhouse Free Sign up with us for just $10 a year Level 3 Squarehouse Pottery Studio Inductions Free! 12.30pm -1pm Queer Girls S.A.L.S.A Social Soccer Learn how to use the Source Pottery UNSW FilmSoc Extreme Studio from our Potters in Residence. 12pm – 2pm 3.30 - 5pm Japanese Screening The studio is free for student use. If you’re a Queer girl come along Unigym Level 1 Pottery Studio, Level 2, Blockhouse for some free food, drink and $2.50 per game 6.30pm Free conversation! Part 3 of FilmSoc’s Extreme Queerspace, Applied Sciences 920 Shack Tutoring Japanese Month features ‘Audition’, Free the story of a girl who made it in the D2MG Commercial Hip Hop 3.30pm – 6pm Big Bad World by performing an taught by Victor UNSW students volunteer only unspeakable evil. Chess 1 hour per week. HSC tutors for Robert Webster 306 1pm - 2pm 12pm - 3pm English, Maths and Sciences required Free for members, $5 for Blockhouse It’s a mating game. www. urgently. membership and admission $8/class or $35/5 classes for UNSWChessClub.cjb.net Email [email protected] or members; $10/class for non-member; sign up at Blockhouse now! Sign up with us for just $10 a year! QUAD 1049 (12-2pm) & QUAD1001 New College Musical: Roundhouse AIR Room (2-3pm) The Pirates of Penzance Free for members. $2 for non- Free Compass Workshop: Stress and members 7.30 pm time management tips (first years D2MG Beginners Breaking New College, UNSW only) $9 Concession (except Wednesday Quad Performance Space: taught by Hideboo 2 - 4pm D2MG showcase [Student’s Night], $7 Concession), 4pm - 5pm $13 adults This workshop will look to assist you 1pm Our classes will introduce to you the in stress and time management in foundations of bboying. your first year at uni. First years only Come and support young artists. NUTS Play: The Last Five Years Quad Performance Space, Quad Blockhouse Quad 2008 Food Court $8/class or $35/5 classes for 8pm Free members; $10/class for non-member; Visit www.last5years.net for more Friday Arvo Sessions with DJ Sign up with us for just $10 a year! information and to book tickets. Cadell

Campus Bible Study talk - The Figtree Theatre $10 Students/$12 Adults, NUTS 4:30 pm Forgotten Person of the Trinity? Compass Workshop: Beergarden, Roundhouse Relaxation and Meditation Member $2 discount 1-2pm Free Join us for a bible talk on the 4-5pm Holy Spirit. For more information This weekly session will look Happy hour about CBS, visit http://www. at strategies of relaxation and campusbiblestudy.org meditation. F ida 5pm – 6pm 19 rMay y Mathews A Location to be advised upon The happiest hour of the day! Free registration UniBar, Roundhouse

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1-2pm 4pm - 5:30pm The RSA course is a competency will close at We need students for cast, tech crew, Conducted by accredited coaches. based 6-hour program with a band, scriptwriting, costumes, videos Beginners are always welcome. Certificate of Attainment issued 6pm due to the and Front of house – all welcome. Village Green on completion of the course. You Moot Court Room Level 10 Law Free for members will learn the skills and knowledge Motion City Towers (room 1039) required to responsibly serve alcohol. The certificate is essential to any Happy hour Soundtrack gig. UNSW Bridge Club position that involves serving alcohol 5pm – 6pm to the public. Participants also receive 1pm - 2pm UniBar, Roundhouse a Handbook for future reference. Visit Spocksoc Screening - Quantum Quad G048 www.source.unsw.edu.au for more Leap Beergarden Band; information 5pm - 11:30pm D2MG BBQ Mark Wilkinson 10am – 4pm Dinner is $5 for half a pizza and a Roundhouse 2pm – 3pm 5pm can of drink. More details at www. CLB Courtyard Local muso Mark Wilkinson pops in spocksoc.unsw.edu.au Ping Pong Free for members, $2 for public, $1 to the Beergarden with his David Gray Quad G031 for all drinks inspired sounds to help you ease into 11am Free for members, membership $5 your Thursday. Roundhouse Beergarden, Roundhouse Free Free

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Buddhism Talk in English New College Musical: Week n The Pirates of Penzance 7pm - 9pm 20 -21 May e d Feel free to join us. Non members are Saturday 7.30 pm equally welcome. Contact Adeline at New College, UNSW 0404 637 818 or visit www.unibuds. Gangstas, Hos & Eskimos $9 Concession (except Wednesday unsw.edu.au for details. [Student’s Night], $7 Concession), Room 256 Robert Webster Building Saturday 8pm – 2am $13 adults Free! A massive party held by the Waterski- Wakeboard Club, Underwater Club, Outdoors Club and Ski & Board Club. NUTS Play: The Last Five Years New College Musical: 1st hour free beer, wine, champagne. Saturday 8pm The Pirates of Penzance First 2 hours discounted spirits Figtree Theatre 7:30 pm ($3). Theme is Gangstas, Hos & $10 Students/$12 Adults, NUTS New College, UNSW Eskimos! Tickets sold this Wed, Thu, Member $2 discount $9 Concession (except Wednesday Fri 12-2pm on the Library Lawn. All welcome! [Student’s Night], $7 Concession), “From Script to Screen” Plan B, Kings Cross $13 adults Filmmaking Workshops” $10 presale Outback Assist Fundraiser: The Da Sunday 9am-5pm Outback Assist Fundraiser: The Vinci Code Screening Experienced graduates will be taking Da Vinci Code Screening “From Script to Screen” students through Cinematography, 8pm Filmmaking Workshops” Come8pm and see the Da Vinci code Editing, Writing, Producing, Directing. Come and see the Da Vinci code Saturday 9am-5:30pm For information email unswcinesoc@ in its first week of release and help Graduates will be taking workshops thein its Outback first week Assist of teamrelease in theirand help hotmail.com or call Eren on the Outback Assist team in their in cinematography, editing, writing, 0413194007 or Igor on 0401639853. fundraising efforts. Tickets available producing and directing. Email fromfundraising the Outback efforts. Assist Tickets table available on the Cine & Editing @ COFA / All else @ from the Outback Assist table on the [email protected] or call main campus, rooms TBA Library Lawn on Wednesdays. Eren on 0413194007 or Igor on RitzLibrary Cinema, Lawn Randwick on Wednesdays. UNSW Students $10/Guests $15 Ritz Cinema, Randwick 0401639853. $10 Cine & Editing @ COFA / All else @ $10 main campus, rooms TBA UNSW Students $15/Guests $20 NUTS Play: The Last Five Years

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By Katrina Orpilla

As I step out of the room and into the cold, dark night, I pull the hood of my jacket over, half covering my sweaty face; I am exhausted. I don’t mind the waiting; in my head I go over everything I learned that session which, generally, translates itself into a physical manifestation – right there on the station platform.

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Katrina will be teaching Freestyle hip hop classes next semester on-campus. Keep checking www.d2mg.com and www.hiphop.org.au for info and updates.

16 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine 17 Everyone has their own special dance. For some it’s sashaying across a ballroom accompanied by a gorgeous Latino, while for others it’s the bright flashy lights of Dance Dance Revolution at the Roundhouse arcade! Flick Strong investigates some different styles of dance out there and how to get involved.

he idea of moving integral part of their day-to-day list of styles. A quick internet one’s body to a beat lives. Dancing is also a great way search will give you information is intrinsic to human to keep fit whilst having a ball, on partnered classics including T life. Every country and much better than slugging away retro, ballroom, latino, ceroc, every culture has incorporated on a treadmill for hours! There tango, jive and swing dancing. dance as an integral part of their are countless opportunities There are also the founding lives. You only have to look at to get involved in dance, be it standards of ballet, modern, the popularity of Dancing with learning to Samba or simply tap, jazz, hip hop, and funk from the Stars to see that there is dancing socially to meet new beginner to advanced levels something very appealing about and different people. offered at a variety of schools. shaking one’s booty. There’s a diverse cultural buffet To start off, you need to pick a from belly dancing, African, For many of us, our only contact style. What sort of dancing gets Butoh, Indonesian, bollywood, with dancing is a brief drunken you going? When selecting a streetfunk, Salsa, to Burlesque, flirtation. A few vodkas, and style you might consider trying Brazilian, and Tahitian, even suddenly you’re Lord of the a few different classes and pole dancing and striptease for Dance (or Lady, I guess), jerking instructors before you make a the adventurous. The choice is your hips to and fro, not quite on final decision. There are many yours. the same beat as everyone else. classes available in the Sydney For some however, dance is an metro area and an exhaustive

18 Blitz Magazine Some instructors teach the students to practice their new The dancing itself “has an erotic toes! Just remember, no one classic partnered using found skills outside class. Jean- edge to it which attracts all kinds cares what you look like, just let a solo approach so you can Luc from Dance Central dance of women”, and, according to loose! learn all the steps first without school in Surry Hills says that Bobbi, it is an almost entirely worrying about stepping on many of the students do dance female activity. The attraction Here on campus we have some anyone’s toes. Try the Eastern classes as their main form of she says is that “it’s sexy, fantastic student clubs that offer Suburbs Community College for exercise because “it is more aerobic, strengthening and it social dancing as well as very a course in Solo Latin or select fun than regular fitness options promotes a healthy self esteem”. cheap classes. Look out for from a range of other styles like the gym”. There are also For participants, pole dancing is clubs like Salsa, D2MG and the (you get a discount for any on- new and interesting forms of also as much about fitness as it cheerleading society for different campus courses). dance popping up all the time. is about the sexy dancing. Bobbi dancing opportunities. Last According to Jean-Luc, at the claims pole dancing improves year they joined forces to put on Different instructors will provide moment Funk and Hip Hop are posture, upper body and core eXtreme, a dance extravaganza very different experiences popular styles, as well as exotic strength and it is also an aerobic held at the Roundhouse, so keep depending on their teaching styles such as Bollywood exercise. an eye out for similar events approach. Not everyone will and Burlesque. this year. What better time to suit you, so if you’re not having Don’t consider yourself pole practise your new found dance fun and not keeping up with the A new dance style which has dancing material? Not a problem skills than Thursday nights at class, talk to your instructor and, recently become very popular is according to Bobbi, “It’s a the Roundhouse? The music if they’re not helpful, try someone pole dancing. All over Sydney, very unpretentious and fun is free and you aren’t at a loss else. Remember, the key to women are signing up to learn environment where girls are for potential partners! If you getting the most from a dance how to gyrate their way up and supportive of each other and all are too shy to let loose in front class is to listen and observe down a pole. Particularly popular ages, body shapes and levels of everyone, you can hire the your instructor very carefully. for hens’ nights and girls’ nights of fitness are welcome. Pole Source’s dance studio for free Don’t stand up the back and out, pole dancing is not just dancing is not sleazy at all but and have a boogie in private. talk to your friends. Move to the for strip clubs. According to we do teach ‘sexy’.” front and make sure you can see Bobbi from Bobbi’s Pole Studio, While it is a little trite, the best and hear your instructor. Dance pole dancing is “a dance sport If formal lessons aren’t your advice is to dance like no one is challenging and you might incorporating the use of a vertical thing, there are plenty of free is watching. You have so much not always be able to keep up pole for momentum and also ways to get dancing. After all, more fun that way! So get your but if you’re completely lost and as a brace for lifts, turns and all that is required for dancing dancing shoes on and get out frustrated, you should try a class inversions”. Pole dancing is a is a beat and your body! Darling there and shake your thang! pitched at a different level. great exercise. Bobbi’s classes Harbour plays host to the are designed to suit all types Bacardi Latino Festival every For many people dance of students from beginners to January. This is the perfect time lessons and workshops are advanced. They include warm- to groove the night away while only a small part of the whole up, pole instruction, dance sipping cocktails and getting to experience. Many schools offer routine and then cool down and know complete strangers and social dancing and encourage run as an 8 week course. trying to avoid stepping on their

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18 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine 19 Harris, Ben Keith, Diana Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) DeWitt…), there are no egos, escapes and takes Hunt’s wife and no show ponying. There hostage, Hunt embarks on an are no obnoxious personalities, illegal mission to stop him. no guitar riffs behind the head, no stage diving… and it’s M:i:III starts with promise amazing. but rapidly descends into implausibility. The corny lines There are a number of and funky gadgets live up to highlights throughout (check the Mission Impossible brand, Reviews out Larry Cragg’s broom solo in but the plot seriously loses its Harvest) but the pinnacle of the way. One highlight includes

Reviews film for me is, after the crowd Hunt managing to calculate the Film: Neil Young: has left, Young sits alone on a algebraic equation for jumping stage and sings one more song Film: Mission off a high-rise on a rope and Heart of Gold to an empty auditorium. He Impossible III swinging onto the roof of finishes, puts his guitar back in another. ou’d be forgiven for his case, and slowly walks out approached the screening of thinking Heart of in silence. It’s a beautiful ending The film is co-written and M:i:III with hesitation. In movie Gold is going to be a to a fantastic concert. directed by J.J. Abrams of TV land there are two types of documentary; the first shows Lost and Alias fame Y I’m still not quite sure what movies to approach with and like his TV shows, M:i:III is two minutes being interviews I caution: remakes and sequels. with various musicians. What separates this film from a thoroughly entertaining, if not just regular concert DVD. Although, to simply wait for the next dumb director Demme (Silence Of the Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) has Lambs, Philadelphia) supplies it was pretty amazing to see plot turn! Hoffman is fantastic as on a big screen due to the settled down. He’s been training the cold-blooded Davian and the instead is an hour and a half new recruits for the IMF but concert spectacular. Young perfection of the production, scene in the Vatican puts Dan editing and mixing, as well as has been in retirement and is Brown to shame. To quote one presents his new album, ‘Prairie about to marry the love of his Wind’, to an audience that the concert’s set (with huge, critic as he left the cinema, ‘well visually stunning backdrops). life. The action begins at Hunt’s that was less crap than I thought swallows it up. The songs were engagement party during which written and recorded in the it would be”. I concur. All in all, I loved it. I’ve always he is contacted by an undercover weeks after discovering he had had the opinion that Young agent (Billy Crudup). Hunt finds Flick Strong a brain aneurism; and so the came along and destroyed himself immediately drawn songs explore Young’s mindset, some of the magic that Crosby, back into the covert world, jet loves, and his confrontation Stills & Nash had… but now I setting to Germany to rescue a with his own mortality. have this urge to revisit and re- captured agent (Keri Russell). When things don’t go to plan and Even with a band of up to 25 evaluate my decision. hardened weapons dealer Owen people (including Emmylou Associate Reporter Tom Hogan

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20 Blitz Magazine By Rob Gascoigne people in the audience but, This event’s been on my mind music should be popular and in all sincerity, I have never this week. Francoiz toured I’m glad she is getting the was seventeen, visiting experienced anything like it. recently but, regrettably, it was recognition she deserves, but Parisian relatives, when I first There was a wonderful intimacy a very different experience. Her I do miss having her as my heard Francoiz Breut’s voice. in her performance. Petite and reputation has risen considerably own secret joy. Maybe you’ve I I’d never heard of her but, bird-like, her porcelain features a in Sydney, largely due to her experienced the same thing. It’s from that blissful moment when flush of freckles, she slinked her amazing second and third like there was this one special she first sighed into my ear, way into the spotlight, sighed into albums. This time around, place you used to go that she has been one of my most the microphone and just oozed transfixing as it was, the venue nobody knew about and now constant joys. beauty and grace. The memory was packed and that sense of that other people are there, that gives me intimacy was largely gone. It sense of connection has sort of There is no artist I know of goose bumps. was not aided by a handful of been severed. quite like her. Her voice is bastards who spent the show extraordinary. It is intimate, exotic With the room practically empty, arguing with one another. It Francoiz, I will always treasure and tender, while at the same there developed an interplay made me a little sad. Now that what we (by which I mean “I”) time delicate and vulnerable. It’s between audience and artist. I she is popular, she is no longer had. But the relationship’s a almost as if sex was distilled into was able to gush while she, in my own. little crowded now. Of course, I a sound. Suffice it to say, fractured English, spoke with still love you, but it’s changed. I’m smitten. us. And then, about one hour Granted, I am being a wanker. Bonjour tristesse. into the show, she looked down, I am fully aware that she was Francoiz is the subject of one of smiled, pointed at me and never “mine” and I am most my most treasured memories. announced to the room “zis is certainly not her “nomber one In 2004, she played the Metro. my nomber one fan”. I still gloat fan”. It’s not like she was ever There were maybe twenty about it today. unknown in this country. Good Creative film makers register now!

The writer or director must be how to enter a UNSW student to enter and U film fest ‘06. you must submit your film entry by August 18, 2006. Make a film under Take your first step to the red carpet. 8 minutes long registration is $5 that creatively at source reception Blockhouse, lower campus includes a ‘U’. (pick up your free DVD tutorial).

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20 Blitz Magazine Blitz Magazine 21 Big Room for Rent Womens’ Soccer International Students’ Seminars Great, clean, friendly house. $130pw + exp. Players needed for Eastern University Games ISS presents Returning Home Seminars 15mins walk to uni & Kingsford. Bus at door. at Coffs Harbour during the mid semester for international students. The Preparing Call Sarah 0416 975 096, Dan0424 654 353 break, Dates 2-7 July. Any interested players to Return Home Seminar will be held on or Dan 0415 205 542. call 0413238963 Gigi or email gigitsang9@ Wednesday 5 July from 2 – 4 pm in the Red gmail.com Centre Room M032. A Seminar on Preparing to Stay in Australia will be held on Friday 7 Need somewhere to live for 6 months? July from 3 – 5 pm in the Physics Theatre The Da Vinci Code Fully furn. room in two bdrm apt in Randwick (K14) - share with one other. Move in 22 May (6 Watch “The Da Vinci Code” for a measly $12 months only). $160 per week incl. elec. at the Randwick Ritz to help MSAP send vital To register, email international.student@

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22 Blitz Magazine If you could dance What was the first with anyone, who dance you learnt? would it be? Who taught you?

Jana & Tristan Joel Lei Min 1. Johnny Depp 1. Mick Jagger, David Bowie 1. Elmo 2. Holky Polky by Big Bird 2. In primary school with all 2. Heel-Toe Dance from the girl germs. Playschool’s Noni.

Melissa Donut UV 1. Wentworth Miller 1. John Travolta from Pulp Fiction 1. Meg Ryan 2. Preschool in China, the first 2. Robot Dance taught by myself 2. Tuea-Tuea by my we learnt was pretending with a mirror teacher “!Xbole” we were squeezing cow udders and planting trees

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