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BABA YAGA ARRIVES
Oven Productions presents Baba Yaga, an eight piece women's band playing jazz, Latin and funk music. This Oregon band, well known west of the Rockies, will perform a hot and rhythmic dance concert at "Fat Glen's" on the CSU campus, May 12 at 9 pm. The eight instrumentalists (saxes, trumpet, flute, guitar, keyboards, bass, drums, percussion) are accomplished musicians in areas traditionally not occupied by women. This concert is part of Baba Yaga's cross country tour
to promote their recently recorded album, to be distributed by Olivia Records.
Baba Yaga is named after an herbal healer/witch of Russian folktales who used her powers to heal others and to protect
herself. The women in Baba Yaga say of themselves: "We gain strength from the growing effort of women to create new lives for themselves, and we hope our music reflects this. struggle for change." Most of the band's material is original and the task of selecting, arranging and deciding what they want their music to say is a shared process.
Jazz is a strong influence in Baba Yaga's work; They respect this traditional American music and its African heritage. They have described their music as "gentler and more cooperative than most jazz," and have attempted to break down the mystique surrounding the jazz soloist. Trumpeter Bonnie Kovaleff has said, "Too often it
LES BALLET TROCKADERO
Not from outer space, but from Broadway, the most astounding denizens of the ballet world are about to stage a close encounter with Akron in two festive performances postponed from March 3 and 4 to May 18 and 19. March 3 tickets will be honored May 18 and March 4 tickets will admit you to the fun on May 19. The extraterrestrials are the members of the Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. The name of the group is as much of a put-on as their approach to ballet.
The troupe is composed of gentlemen of the dance who do to Swan Lake what you wouldn't even do to a Thanksgiving turkey. That is, they stuff it with satire, since even the prima ballerina (?) is a muscular and hairy male dancer. What is most remarkable is that all of the dancers eschew the easy ballet slippers and work en pointe and often, in tutu.
On a football field, the athletic Trocks could comprise a formidable backfield. On the dance floor, they are men who deftly understand the higher arts of comedy.
According to Peter Anastos, co-artistic director of the Trocks, the reason for men dancing ballerina roles is not gro-
tesquerie, but pure entertainment. And because it is so, it can alter one's perspective of all that we may tend to take too seriously simply because it is labelled for us as "art."
WAIF-RADIO/CINCY
WAIF FM's "human-sexual matrix" of music, news,poetry, interviews, comedy, and "indoor sports" now airs on 88.3 FM Wednesday evenings from 8-9 pm.
During special "minimarathons" designed to generate increased sub. scriptions from listeners, the show will celebrate "The Best of Gaydreams"" three years on the air.
Songs by Patti Smith and local singer/guitarist Therese Edell, readings, by Beat author William S. Burroughs, a satirical interview with the author of a book about "straights," and the hilarious" Out of the Closet" comedy LP will highlight May's editions of "Gaydreams."
The program will continue its coverage of efforts to get human coverage of efforts to get human rights ordinances passed here and elsewhere. Two love stories involving people with extreme age differences, "Death in Venice" will be previewed, "Death" prior to its screening at an Oakley cinema.
The sexual rights of minors will be disucussed on a phone. in show Wednesday, May 17.
The program is designed to serve the informational and entertainment needs of Greater Cincinnati's gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and heterosexuals open to exploring sexual politics, feelings, and arts.
"You don't have to be gay to listen," says producer John Zeh, "but it helps."
becomes a battle to see how many technical skills can be shown off in one song, which is a very restrictive view of what actually happens when people are playing music." And flutist Nancy Cady feels that "women haven't listened to jazz because they didn't think they knew enough to understand it." The core of Baba Yaga has been together for almost 3 years and now includes: Bonnie Kovaleff, trumpet; Susan Colson, bass & vocals: Nancy Cady, flute; Barb Galloway, guiter & vocals; Patty Vincent, saxes & vocals; Jake Lampert, drums & vocals; Kiera O'Hara, piano; Chistine Bagley, vocals.
This Oven Productions event is co-sponsored with the CSU Women's Law Caucus and is open to the public.
The programs will include excerpts from Sylphides, Go for Barocco (Balanchine with a little boff,) and something only the Trocks could create. It is called Phaedra Monotonous.
INTEGRITY CLEVELAND FOUNDED
A chapter of Integrity, a social and religious group of Episcopalians and others, has been founded in Cleveland.
David Gallatly, interim convenor of the new group, says, "We are encouraging both straight and gay friends to join us on the first and third Thursdays of each month."
Meetings are held at Trinity Cathedral 8 PM. The entrance is from the parking lot on Prospect Avenue, just east of 22nd Street.
For additional information, call David Gellatly in Akron, (216)-867-3354, or in Cleveland call John Kelsey (216)-932-5635.