FEBRUARY 2013 WOW HALL NOTES g VOL. 25 #2 ★ WOWHALL.ORG Club Bellydance Bellydance Superstars On BDSS tours, we rarely have Productions’ new club-style tour time for our dancers to see how Club Bellydance is touring North Bellydance is advancing across the America and will be making a stop USA and Canada. This led to an at the WOW Hall on Tuesday, idea to create a shorter and smaller February 26! Bellydance Superstars show that Club Bellydance is a two- teams up with dance teachers and act performance concept that troupes in each city. and put on features select dancers from a combined show celebrating the the internationally renowned state of this art in North America Bellydance Superstars and locally- today. based premier bellydancers. Each local Bellydance Bellydance Superstars’ Sabah, community provides the fi rst half Moria, Sabrina, Victoria and of the show and the BDSS dancers Nathalie will showcase new the second half. We call it Club choreography and ideas designed Bellydance. for the intimate, club-style show. MEET THE DANCERS ballet and bellydance was added fusion isolation and individualism. just to name a few. Sabrina is also WHAT IS CLUB BELLYDANCE? Victoria Teel is an award to the show as a special feature. Moria has appeared in several certifi ed in and has been teaching After eight years of traveling the winning performer and instructor. Sabah began her professional Bellydance Superstars performance Vinyasa Flow yoga for 5 years. world as the Bellydance Superstars Beginning in 2006, she studied career performing in numerous DVDs - 30 Days to Vegas, Nathalie is a professional — over 800 shows in 23 countries — multiple dance styles including productions of The Nutcracker for Babelesque: Live from Tokyo, actress, dancer, choreographer and watching this dance art grow as Egyptian, Turkish, American 12 years. She has been a part of Tribal Fusions (Vol. 1 and 2), and instructor. She has toured a phenomenon around the world — Cabaret, Romani Gypsy and professional companies including Tribal LA: Live in Los Angeles, worldwide with the Bellydance we see that North American dancers Spanish Fusion bellydance, ballet The Ruth Page Dance Foundation The Art of Bellydance: Live from Superstars from 2007 to the present. remain at the forefront as both and jazz. In 2010, Victoria was in association with Ballet Chicago, Shanghai, Tribal Superstars, 3D Nathalie is featured in several teachers and performers. Perhaps chosen with 24 other dancers to Momenta, Chicago’s Festival Ballet Superstars (Vol. 1 and 2), as well Bellydance Superstars DVDs and that is because there are more belly participate in the world’s fi rst ever Company and The Alabama Ballet. as the new Bombay Bellywood: is also featured in various Persian dancers here than in the rest of the bellydance reality show, Project Tribal Bellydance Superstar Live from Los Angeles DVD. music videos. Nathalie was a world combined, or because women Belly Dance. She placed among the Moria Chappell travels worldwide She is also featured in two principal actor with the Avalon here have adopted it for many top six contestants. performing and teaching the instructional DVDs, Tribal Fusion Players’ Shakespeare Company for reasons — from health/exercise and Company dance director beautiful art of tribal fusion belly Fundamentals and Introduction fi ve years. lifestyle to amateur and professional Sabah became a member of the dance. Moria is heralded as an to Bombay Bellywood. Tickets are $19 in advance, performers. American adaptations Bellydance Superstars in 2006, innovator in costume design, stage Since beginning her training in $23 at the door. Doors open at such as the Tribal style have also and we quickly took advantage make-up and choreography. Her 1981, Sabrina has been a dedicated 7:00 pm and showtime is 7:30. added to the momentum of growth of her wealth of dance experience style, both feminine and fi erce, student of dance. She has studied For more information please visit by bringing new innovation and and especially her prowess in commands an intensity and with fusion dancers Kami Liddle, http://www.bellydancesuperstars. variety into the art. ballet. Her creative merger of precision that epitomizes tribal Rachel Brice and Heather Stants, com/club/ ★ INSIDE THIS ISSUE Why with a question mark Polecat P.2 On Monday, March 4, the CCPA and University of Oregon The whole set was recorded to two-inch tape (no loops), produced The Melodians P.2 Campus Radio 88.1 FM KWVA proudly welcome back Why? by the Wolf brothers, and mixed in Atlanta by Graham Marsh The Helio Sequence P.3 along with special guests Astronautalis and Dream Tiger. (Cee Lo Green, Katy Perry) with Yoni. Thus every song pops Salvador Santana P.3 Nipping at the ragged heels of their eagerly devoured Sod in exactly as it should, smearing genre with pointed intent until the The Ready Set / Outasight Tour P.4 the Seed EP (released on August 13, 2012), on October 9 Why? end result became an articulated work of unusual artistry and Bone Thugs-N-HarmonY P.4 unleashed their fi fth long-player, a meticulous work of morbid catchiness — a WHY? record, naturally. Delhi 2 Dublin P.5 fascination and offbeat romanticism dubbed Mumps, etc. Though Having started in music over 15 years ago as a battle rapper, North Mississippi Allstars P.5 there is a mysterious sickness (perhaps of the mind) that lurks Astronautalis’ roots are planted fi rmly in hip-hop. However, the Ott & The All-Seeing I P.6 about these thirteen songs, one might also imagine the title as sounds and styles on his albums are an animal not so easily caged, The Neighbourhood P.6 describing the band’s musically swollen state as they bring their and his latest release, This Is Our Science, is no exception. sound into glisteningly buff focus. Like previous records, Astronautalis uses that limitless Con Bro Chill & Wallpaper P.7 Yoni Wolf, brother Josiah and Doug McDiarmid approach to aid in his vivid storytelling, but Iration P.7 are in the pocket, the unbreakable where This is Our Science takes a turn rock core at the center of a spinning from tradition is in the subject matter. ball of sonic kaleidoscopie. And While previous records read like all the things we love about historical fi ction, documenting the lives of them are still true: the grinning the bygone, the footnotes, and the sun-warped choruses, that jangly forgotten, This is Our Science is Western lope, those confessionals pure autobiography. The resulting PAID cut with wry wit and crude details, album is neither a rap record, nor U.S. Postage U.S. Permit No. 303 No. Permit set dancing down the odd knots of a rock record; it is a work that Eugene, OR 97401 Eugene, Nonprofit Organization complex poetic daisy chains. It’s fi nally captures the vein popping just that ... well, all of it sounds intensity and high melodrama of better than ever this time around. Astronautalis’ famous live shows Part of that is due to how Mumps, — while all the while maintaining etc. was made. Far from their native the steadfast literary tradition and Cincinnati, the fellas spent a month masterful storytelling of his previous and a half in the Denton, Texas based studio albums. studio, The Echo Lab. They showed Dream Tiger is Liz Wolfe, a self- up with a pile of demos suspected to described dancer turned photographer be nearly done — some fi ve years in turned musician. The fi rst solo full the making — but their aspirations length record (self released) is coming evolved in the shadow of the great out this February, 2013, and will be University of North Texas music available on tour and digitally. school. Reaching out to a professor Liz currently tours as the fourth therein, they wrangled an ace crew of member of Why? green-and-white gunslingers to exact Tickets are $15 in advance, $17 at their wild schemes: a string quartet, an the door. Doors open at 7:30 pm and RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED Community Center for the Arts Performing 291 West 8th 97401 OR. Eugene, eight-person choir, woodwinds, horns. showtime is 8:00. ★ WOW HALL NOTES “The core audience of Polecat The Community Center for the Performing Arts is located in the Historic Woodmen of the World Hall (W.O.W. is, well, everybody. There is a Hall), 291 W 8th, Eugene, Or 97401, (541)687-2746, [email protected], www.wowhall.org, Box office sense of mass appeal attached hours Mon 3-6 PM, Tue-Fri noon-6 PM. 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