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<FONT FACE="Verdana"><B>This week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>Mad Hot Ballroom (PG)<BR>
</H2></FONT><B>Friday, October 14<BR>
7:00 pm<BR>
Saturday & Sunday, October 15 & 16<BR>
4:30 & 7:00 pm<BR>
</B>$5/adults, $2/children under 13<BR>
<B>(see Review below)<BR>
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Coming in October: Turtles can Fly, March of the Penguins<BR>
Check KPAC’s web site for dates & times. <FONT COLOR="#0000FF"><U>http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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</U></FONT><B>Regular Movie prices</B>: $5 adult, $2 child under 13 <BR>
KFS passes accepted year-round for Sunday movies!<BR>
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Next week at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre . . .<BR>
</B></FONT><FONT FACE="Courier"><TT><BR>
</TT></FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana"><H2>Moscow-Pullman Daily News Election Forum<BR>
</H2><B>October 20 at 6:00 pm<BR>
</B>free<BR>
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<H2>Ladies in Lavender (PG-13)<BR>
</H2><B>October 21<BR>
7:00 pm<BR>
October 22 & 23<BR>
4:15 & 7:00 pm<BR>
</B>$5/adults, $2/children under 13<BR>
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<B><I>Tickets now on sale for-<BR>
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<H2>Darol Anger Republic of Strings in concert<BR>
</H2><B>Thursday, October 27<BR>
7:30 PM<BR>
</B>Tickets $16/adult, $12/senior or student<BR>
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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.<BR>
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"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."<BR>
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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."<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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</U></FONT>Moscow Community Theatre presents<BR>
<H2>Noodlehead<BR>
</H2>Original musical by Lisa Kliger<BR>
<B>November 3 - 5, 10 - 12 at 7:30 PM<BR>
November 6 & 12 at 2:00 PM<BR>
</B>$11/adult, $9/student or senior<BR>
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This week’s review-<BR>
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</B><FONT COLOR="#800000"><H2>MAD HOT BALLROOM<BR>
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</B>Directed by Marilyn Agrelo.<BR>
Running time: 105 minutes. <BR>
''Mad Hot Ballroom'' is rated PG for some modest sexual references.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Walter Addiego writing for the San Francisco Chronicle<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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).<BR>
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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.)<BR>
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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.<BR>
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<B><I><U>As reviewed by Jami Bernard writing for the New York Daily News<BR>
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</I>At last, the cure for depression!<BR>
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This winning documentary about fifth-graders who learn ballroom dancing is one of those movies that make the world a brighter place.<BR>
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>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.<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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!"<BR>
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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.<BR>
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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. <BR>
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<B><I>Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
</I>508 S. Main Street, Moscow, Idaho<BR>
</B>For more information, call 208-882-4127 or visit http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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PAMELA PALMER, <B>Volunteer<BR>
</B>Mailto:ppalmer@moscow.com<BR>
Film and Events Committee <BR>
Kenworthy Performing Arts Centre<BR>
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http://www.kenworthy.org<BR>
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