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WRITB PME PRESS% WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1990, PAGE 15 Dane is hot and spicy By Scott Laurle There's a relatively new dance craze sweeping Nor-th Anierica that has its roots on the north- east coast of Brazil. It is the 'Ljambada,' the titie of a lut son g accompanied by a 8peca.style of music. This cat- chy and- lighthearted Brazilian, Caribbean mixture combines theé rhumba, samba and sooea, with touches of salsa and reggae. The music usually features horns, percussion, synthesizer and in its original fanm, "sexy Portuguese lyrics.» *The dance has many steps sinilar to the merenue but it is danced with .bent knees, vi t somewhat of atango<1<>in the hen danced authentically, it McQuayPs photos on exhibition An exhibition of band-painted silver pnrnts by National Award- winning photographer Mary Ellen McQuay will be held at 1he Station Gallery, Henry and Victoria streets, froni Feb. 3 ta, 25. The opening reception ta meet the artist will-be held on Sunday, Feb. 4, from 2 ta, 5 p.m. Ail are welcome. The exhibition, titled 'Sacred Silences,', deals with the ancient Cets and the Standing Stone Circles, :which bave remained part of the British landscape for over 5,000 years. *These' megalithic structures stretch from Stonehenge and &vebury, tbe grand and inRpressive stone circles of southern England ta, the remote and elegant Callamisb Standing Stones and the Ring cf Brodgar @e.t on the haunting nioorland of Sctland's nMost western eand northern islands. McQuay made two extensive trips ta Britain te photograph the stones in their environnient. During the Moset recent trip in the flu af 1989,' she travelled ta the windswept Outer Hebnides and Orkney Islands of Scotland. Shoestring Performers to present 'Aibertine' 'Albertine i îve thnes,' tbe Chalmers Award-winnm la p laywrigi1 M1ichel Tremblay, will be presentod at 8 p.m. on Frn- days and Saturdays, Feb. 23 and 24, March 2 and 3 at the arts resource centre, Osbawa City Hall Complex. This second production of the Durbami Shoestring Performers' l6th season will b directed by Carolyn Wilson and produoed by Jeannine H. Butler. The play explores tbe life of Albertine from te perspective of her loss of independence as sbe entors -a senior cîtizens' care faci- lity, looking back over five decades of ber life. Albertine at ae 30 will be played by Anne Waler, at 40- by Susan Lowery, at 50 by Dorotby Little, at 60 by Joan Roantree, and at 70 by Mr Volmer. The part of, AlbertineWs sistor Madeleine will be played bY Patty Gilbolly. Tickets for 'Albertine i flve times' will be available i early February from Information Osb- aw: Oshawa City Hall Complex, adi Merle Norman Cosmetics, Oshawa Centre.- Advance tickets are $4, those purcbased on performance dates are $5, if available. For further information contact Butler at 576-6099. Her. Scottisb backgound and passion for a distat ancestry kindled an interest' in interpreting these large slent structures. Te artist will give a tour of ber exhibition on Sunday, Feb. 18 at 2 p.m., and a one-day worksbop on hand-painting silver prints will be held on Sunday, Feb. 25 from 10Oa.m. to,4 p. McQuay will also instruct a 10-week workshop on band-painting and black and white pbotography every Wednesday evening, Feb. 7 througb April 11, from 7:30 ta 10 P.m. bas a very sensuous style which is probably the reason it has become so popular in light of the «dirty dancing» phenomenon. It would certainly s;eem that touch dancing is sure y back.c inenai success i ]aisweri is efre extensively in nightclubs ail around the city. It was then picked up by the Bel- gians and the Germians, with the mugic moving rapidly into the top ton charts. It continued to spread rigbt across Europe and now, thanks to the =Mur Muýrray Dance school, North Amenica can also experience this «bot and spicy» Latin delight. Sylvianne Brown of the Arthur Murray Dance school in Whitby states that the dance is "a tropi- cal tango of sorts and is easy ta learn. «Wé toach you the basic stops and then howyou intorpret them is your own thing. Ite response so far bas been very good froin ail age groupe,» she adds. She invitos singles and cou- ples, froin teenagers on up, to visit ber downtown studio te see wbat the Lambada is ail about. PAU-LA LISHMAN'S ANNUAL SWEETHEAR&T SALE 30%- 501% OFF OUr -'89 collection of knit furs! 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