[ThisWeek] Mad Hot Ballroom at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-

Mad Hot Ballroom (PG)
Friday, October 14
7:00 pm
Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16
4:30 & 7:00 pm
$5/adults, $2/children under 13
(see Review below)

Coming in October: Turtles can Fly, March of the Penguins
Check KPAC¹s web site for dates & times. http://www.kenworthy.org

Regular Movie prices:  $5 adult, $2 child under 13
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .

Moscow-Pullman Daily News Election Forum
October 20 at 6:00 pm
free

Ladies in Lavender (PG-13)
October 21
7:00 pm
October 22 & 23
4:15 & 7:00 pm
$5/adults, $2/children under 13
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Tickets now on sale for-

Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert
Thursday, October 27
7:30 PM
Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student

The Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre is pleased to announce that Darol
Anger's Republic of Strings featuring Scott Nygaard will appear in concert
on Thursday, October 27, at 7:30 PM.

"Darol Anger is the quintessential improvising violinist," says Dr. Billy
Tayler of CBS Sunday Morning.  Eric Fidler of the Associated Press says,
"Darol Anger has been obliterating musical borders for years, but never to
better effect.  ... the Darol Anger Fiddle Ensemble creates rich, lusciously
textured, complex and quite beautiful music."

Renowned for his versatility and depth, Darol Anger has helped mastermind
the evolution of the American string band with his groundbreaking groups The
Turtle Island String Quartet, Fiddlers 4, Psychograss, Newgrange, Montreux,
and the David Grisman Quintet.  Michael John Simmons of Amazon.com says,
"Harmonically complex, rhythmically rich arrangements.  You might call this
improvised Afro-Scandivanian Irish old-time string band music, but it would
be equally true, and much simpler, to just say they play great music."

The concert is sponsored by local businesses Advantage America Mortgage and
Hayden, Ross & Co. and is funded in part by the Idaho Commission on the Arts
and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Tickets for the concert are on sale at BookPeople of Moscow.  Tickets are
$16 for adults and $12 for seniors, children, or students with ID and can
also be charged by phone to 208-882-4127.  There is a $.50 per ticket fee on
all charge card orders.
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Moscow Community Theatre presents
Noodlehead
Original musical by Lisa Kliger
November 3 - 5, 10 - 12 at 7:30 PM
November 6 & 12 at 2:00 PM
$11/adult, $9/student or senior
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This week¹s review-

MAD HOT BALLROOM

Directed by Marilyn Agrelo.
Running time: 105 minutes.
''Mad Hot Ballroom'' is rated PG for some modest sexual references.

As reviewed by Walter Addiego writing for the San Francisco Chronicle

The sight of 11-year-olds carefully executing the fox-trot, the merengue and
the rumba is, on the face of it, comical. But the beguiling documentary "Mad
Hot Ballroom," about a dance competition involving fifth-graders in New York
City, evokes more than just laughter.

The contest depicted is organized by the American Ballroom Theater and
involves kids from more than 60 public schools. Following a 10-week training
session, youngsters from each school are divided into teams of five pairs of
dancers for a grand competition, with finals at the World Financial Center
in Manhattan. The prize is an outsized trophy that's taller than some of the
contestants.

The kids, from schools in Tribeca, Bensonhurst and Washington Heights, are
from varying economic and ethnic backgrounds (most of the children at the
Washington Heights school, for example, are members of low-income immigrant
families from the Dominican Republic).

Watching the kids dance is irresistible, but director Marilyn Agrelo is
sensitive to the full complex of emotions invoked by the competition. The
children experience the joy and pain of immersion in a discipline and
express mixed feelings about encountering the opposite sex. Those eliminated
during the competition, and of course that's most of the youngsters, are
unable to hide their wounds. (The film briefly acknowledges the issue of
exposing the dancers to potentially crushing defeat but overall assumes that
the competition is a good thing.)

Social problems are looked at glancingly -- one girl opines to a friend that
when it comes time to find a mate, she wants a guy with a job, not a drug
dealer -- but this isn't a political tract. The draw here is the good fun of
seeing pint-size couples swinging and swaying to music by Frank Sinatra,
Peggy Lee and the like, as well as the Latin sounds of Lucia Mendez and the
Pochy Familia.

As reviewed by Jami Bernard writing for the New York Daily News

At last, the cure for depression!

This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is
one of those movies that make the world a brighter place.

>From Washington Heights to Bensonhurst, 68 public schools teach kids how to
swing, fox trot, tango and more. With each new dance, they learn about the
culture that spawned it - and as they learn the music, steps and appropriate
dance-floor attitude, they receive an education so full of possibilities it
makes the heart sing.

Director Marilyn Agrelo followed students from a few of these schools right
up through a citywide competition where some of them are truly good and
others make up for a lack of virtuosity with passion and a newfound sense of
self.

The beauty of this inspiring documentary is how the discipline and fun of
dancing transforms the kids. A teacher breaks into proud tears while being
interviewed: "I see them turning into these ladies and gentlemen!"

Through dancing and competing, the children get comfortable with their
bodies and with the roller coaster of triumph, disappointment and
sportsmanship. The short boy learns to smile as if he means it when he's
paired with a girl who towers above him thanks to one of those unfair
juvenile growth spurts.

The structured contact of ballroom dancing, coupled with its social
formalities (there are lessons in making eye contact and bowing graciously
to partners), also fortifies the kids for the next stage of their lives,
that dance of a different kind - puppy love.
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Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre
508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho
For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org
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PAMELA PALMER, Volunteer
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Film and Events Committee
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre

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