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Students will receive a taste of world culture during the 49th
annual Folk Dance Festival featuring folk dancing from Mexico, the
United States and Europe April 28 in Candler Physical Education
Center.
Kinesiology Professor Emeritus Nelda Drury founded the festival
in 1958; however, she does not help organize it anymore.
Drury said the festival helped'promote,folk dancing in San
Antonio.
“When we started, there wasn’t a lot of groups,” Drury said, add-
ing, “we started many of the groups, Polish, Israeli, German.”
Drury said lately folk dancing has diminished thanks to the
growing popularity of ballroom dancing.
One reason for the decline is TV shows such as “Dancing With
the Stars,” she added.
Drury said folk dancing helps people understand cultures from
around the world.
“When you hold hands and dance with them, you will under-
stand them; it brings down barriers,” Drury said.
She said the festival will receive more publicity since it was
scheduled to coincide with Fiesta.
The main event is the concert beginning at 6 p.m. in the audito-
rium of McAllister Fine Arts Center.
Students from Adams Elementary Ballet Folklorico dance in the plaza near the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center March 27, 2006.
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The concert will feature Hungarian dancing by Csardas of
Austin, Asian Iq^lian by-Arathi School of Indian Dance and Clogging
by Fire on the Mountain Cloggers.
The concert is free to district students, faculty and staff, and
children under 13. General admission costs $15.
Kinesiology Professor George Ann Simpson said the festival pro-
vides people the opportunity to share cultures.
“It is a mixture of instruction, performance and honoring those
who have contributed to folk dance,” Simpson said.
The'festival will include the “Dance Around the World” youth
concert at 4 p.m. in the auditorium of McAllister."
The festival begins at 10 a.m. in Candler with a flamenco work-
shop presented by the San Antonio Dance Umbrella.
The courses are divided in four categories: initiation, beginner,
intermediate and advance.
The classes are free for district students and children ages 8 to
12. TUtition for the public begins at $15.
The guest instructor will be Carmen “Chiqui” x from San Juan,
Puerto Rico. Linares learned flamenco under some of Spain’s most,
renowned dancers before settling in the United States. Linares will
receive the Texas Dance Award.
The award is given to teachers or performers who helped
enhance folk dancing, Simpson said.
For more information, call 733-2763.
“Working with the ACCD policy and resolving legal questions are
the tricky parts,” Weiss said.
Essentially, the record label and publishing company, formally
called 2nd Floor Publishing, would be a subsidiary liaison between
outside musicians and the district board of trustees.
MUSB 1301, Legal Aspects of Entertainment Industry, taught by
Martin, is a class designed to teach students to sign, develop, record,
promote, publicize and sell music.
The students in the legal aspects class are divided into three
groups: policy, publishing and record label, all of which are respon-
sible for coming up with a working business model and the support-
ing documentation to start a corporation.
The policy group is making sure district guidelines are met by
any outside company in dealings with the record label.
The publishing group is responsible for legally acquiring copy-
right interest from songwriters and maintaining the mechanical
Interpretation is key for the members of the speech team,
who received multiple gold and silver awards at the Phi Rho Pi
national tournament in Houston April 9-14.
The speech team, through the department of theater and
speech communication, as a team received a top individual
events sweepstakes award (gold) and an overall sweepstakes
award (silver) in the middle school category.
Teams members included Joseph Holloway, Laura Cabaniss,
Brittney Knouse, Ines Zrinski and Ojiyoma Pinnock.
During the tournament members had to get up at 6 a.m. and
be in competition from 8 a.m. through 7 p.m.
Pinnock said for one individual- competition, members have
to go through their skits up to eight times through the week.
“It makes it stressful,” Pinnock said. “Sometimes, you come
out of a round thinking you could have done better, since you’ve
done it (the skit) so many times.”
Holloway was recognized with the Bovero-Tabor Award for
being the top speaker at the tournament, which included more
than 650 participants.
To receive the award, a speaker must accumulate the larg-
est number of sweepstakes points during the tournament. This
marks the first time the speech team won this award.
“Stuck,” the show entered for interpreter’s theater, placed
first (gold) at the tournament out of 20 other theaters. The show
was written and directed by Jolinda Ramsey and Misty Popovich.
Holloway, Pinnock and Zrinski were cast members and received
the gold awards.
In interpreter’s theater, members must endure a 28-minute,
1 Act play that surrounds one theme, but must use a variety of
literary genres.
“I liked the interpreter’s theater,” Pinnock said. “It was
something that we all did together, and we were able to bond
during it.”
Last year was the first time this college earned a gold award
in interpreter’s theater. Individually, Holloway received a Student
Fellowship Award,- voted on by the students at the tournament,
and three other gold awards in program oral interpretation, poet-
ry interpretation and dramatic duo interpretation with Pinnock.
The dramatic duo interpretation is an abridged version of a
source of literature, including prose, poetry or drama, involv-
ing the portrayal of two or more characters presented by two *
individuals. The maximum time limit is 10 minutes ’including
the introduction.
Holloway and Pinnock performed a version of the entire play
“Womb Man Wars,” which portrays a father’s difficulty in raising
his daughter because he would rather have a son.
Pinnock received two silver awards for prose interpretation
and dramatic interpretation. Cabaniss received the bronze award
in prose interpretation and Knouse was next out to the semi’s
round in communication analysis. •
“I’m proud of our team,” Pinnock said. “We put a lot of effort
into everything. We were proud to make our coaches proud. I
can’t wait to do it again.”
Ryan Johnston contributed to this story.
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Courtland Records expanding to add publishing company
rights to published works.
The record label group is responsible for producing and dis-
tributing compact discs as well as maintaining Internet distribution
services.
“This is a great learning opportunity for students to see exactly
what the music business is like in the real world,” Martin said.
On May 1, the class plans a roundtable symposium to present
its business model to board members, the Center for Technology
Transfer and faculty in the radio-television-film department.
The Center for Technology Transfer is a national organization
that helps find research, funding and patent information, as well as
offering marketing opportunities and technical assistance to allow
prospective businesses to form better relationships with companies
and private investors, according to the Web site http//:www.ttic.
nal.usda.gov.
If the students have done their jobs correctly, this college will
be on its way to having a fully functioning record label. Eventually,
Courtland Records and the 2nd Floor Publishing Company plan to
enlist the help of students in RTVB 2431, Audio/Radio Production 3,
to record CDs on campus.
Also, Weiss wants to enlist the help of visual and graphic arts
students to design artwork for CDs.
The label is accepting three-song press kits from bands seeking
label representation.
Starting a record label requires the right mix
of music, marketing and manpower.
Courtland Records, this college’s record label,
was founded in August 2006 and is named for
the street on which it resides.
The record label is the brainchild of radio-
television-film professor Fred Weiss, who coor-
dinates the music business program.
Last year, Courtland Records accepted demos
from bands and had songwriters approach them,
but the label was not yet in a position to negoti-
ate contracts and provide the necessary legal
protections to ensure a proper business-client relationship.
“We were real careful not to do anything we legally couldn’t do,”
Rowland Martin, a music business lecturer, said.
Before anything transpires between a record label and a musi-
cian, the label must‘first be set up as a corporation able to fulfill all
legal and financial responsibilities.
- The problem is if musicians want to be represented by the record
label, and the record label represents the Alamo Community College
District, then the district and label must work together as one cor-
poration, Weiss said.
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