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SECTION We want your ideas Have a comment, suggestion or story idea for Arts Entertainment? Please call City Editor Jeff Brumley at I I Advocate 1 I THURSDAY Entertainment 1 APRIL 24, 1997 Bamcimg overseas number Arts Flint Carlton Granville-based group heading for the former Yugoslavia It 1ft I ni The Granville-based Zivili dance company, pictured in performance above and below, will travel this summer to the war-ravaged former Yugoslavia this summer. (Jeff Gottschell photo) By BRIAN MILLER Advocate Reporter Carmelo Esternch, a Spanish professor at Denison University, has danced Eastern European folk dances for 13 years, but he has never done anything like this. In mid-summer, he will join other members of the Granville-based Zivili (pronounced zhee-veh-lee) dance company who will travel to the former Yugoslavia and perform in camps serving people who were driven from their homes by the war in Bosnia. Esterrich says he is excited, but also apprehensive, because he knows the people he will be performing for are in a difficult emotional state. I don't know if we are prepared psychologically for what we will be doing," he said.

It's going to be intense." Granville resident Melissa Pintar Obenauf, executive director of the troupe, said she saw the potential of using dance as a way to alleviate suffering of the people whose lives have been devastated by the war. The company will perform and share their dances in three countries that were former Yugolav republics Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia in the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, and in camps in neighboring Hungary. Many of the people in the camps are prevented from returning to their places of origin. In some cases their homes are gone, said Obenauf. In others their homes are in areas that have been designated for other nationalities under the 1995 Dayton Peace Plan, she said.

According to Obenauf, most of the people in the camps are Bosnians whose villages were ravaged by Serbs during the so-called ethnic cleansing, They have medical treatment and a roof over their heads," she said. What's missing is their spirits are dying," said Obenauf. Zivili is a 23-year-old company that tours througout the country and overseas, performing dances and songs from Croatia, Bosnia, Slovenia, and Macedonia. The troupe needs to be sensitive in what they perform, said Obenauf. Performing a dance of one ethnic group could touch off sensitive feelings in another group that suffered at their hands.

Any ruffling of nationalist sentiments, however, is a small consideration compared with the overall gain, Obenauf said. I think we will be forgiven a lot Design golf courses like Nicklaus with JN4 Tiger Woods may have broken Jack Nicklaus' 1965 Augusta record by a stroke, but when it comes to course design, the Golden Bear still has no equal. Nicklaus spends more than half of his time designing courses these days the rest is probably spent playing his new computer-simulator Jack Nicklaus The new version, which updates the 5-year-old game, provides some serious competition for Links LS, which is known for being the best game going. Jack Nicklaus 4 (or JN4) incorporates all of the latest bells and whistles 16 million colors and realistic golfer animations. But, what sets it apart is a second, separate program for designing courses.

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Flint Carlton writes a weekly software column for The Advocate. Lend a hand Licking County has an opportunity to make connections with children in the refugee camps in the former Yugoslav republics. Zivili will hand out kits for kids in the refugee camps they will visit. The kits will include items these children do not have access to. Children in area schools or youth organizations such as scout troops can participate by donating items for the kits and assembling them.

The kits will consist of a zip lock bag containing educational, recre ational, health and craft-related items, and a personal note or photo from the child donating items for or assembling the kit. For more information, contact Melissa Pmtar Obenauf, executive director of Zmli, at 587-0743. As part of his preparation, Esterrich is learning a Bosnian dance in which males try to find appropriate female matches. Despite culture shock and the language barrier, Esterrich says the trip will be a fascinating opportunity for the troupe to visit the countries where the dances they perform originated. Everbody's excited," he said.

radio waves 'La. concert halls. Sometimes it will be in small tight areas, and some of the time they will invite their audience to participate. Their itineray is subject to change at any time, Obenauf said, and may eventually include audiences such as paraplegics and quadraplegic3 and elderly people abandonee: as younger members of their families fled their homes. big birthday Sandra Mathern-Smith and choreographer David Beadle will perform "Anatomy of Memory" May 2 and 3 in the Third Avenue Performance Space, 1066 N.

High Columbus. They'll dance alone and together to live music composed and performed by Claudia Howard Queen. Ohio University Professor Fred Kraps designed the set, lights and projections. Beadle has performed internationally and currently serves as a dance professor at Meredith College, Raleigh, N.C. Queen composes for dance, musical theater and opera.

Her works have been performed throughout the U.S. and Europe. The creators bill their work as a collaborative improvisational event that melds dance, music, set, light and visual designs, each entity integrated into the whole." They promise several distinct looks into the links between memory and boundaries. Tickets, available at the door, cost $9 for adults and $7 for students and seniors. Performances begin at 8 p.m.

Iboth nights. The Ohio Arts Council and the Denison University Research iFoundation are helping to fund the work. Joe Williams writes for The Advocate. This column on the arts and entertainment runs every Thursday. WOSU-AM transmitting some rrt ml I i 'i.

yg.ni i .1 because we are Americans," she said. They will be overjoyed we are doing this," she said. Obenauf, whose roots are in Croatia, said she hopes to stop off in the village where some of her relatives live and do an improvised dance in the street. Flexibility will be a key to the tour, Obenauf said. She said most of the time they will not be performing in Joseph Williams broadcasting.

A rebroadcast of that first show was set to air from 9:30 to 10 a.m. today, Krebs said. In the early days, the station's 100-watt signal could be picked up more than 100 miles away, Banicki said. WEAO began broadcasting live coverage of Ohio State's home football games in September of 1924, Banicki said, and soon expanded to cover basketball, too. The station officially changed its name to, WOSU-AM on Sept.

1, 1933, Banicki said, to remind listeners of its link to the Ohio State University. It moved to 820 on the AM dial in March of 1941. WOSU-FM didn't come along until December of 1949. WOSU-AM adopted its News 820 moniker in 1980. 11 Collaborators improvise Denison University Dance Professor Happy 75th birthday, WOSU-AM radio, News 820.

Today marks that milestone for WOSU-AM, the capital city's first radio station. At 10 a.m. today, station staffers were scheduled to dedicate a time capsule outside WOSLTs lobby at the Fawcett Center for Tomorrow, Columbus. That capsule, containing recording equipment, logs, photos and other memorabilia, is slated to be reopened in 2022 on the station's 100th birthday. Ohio's Speaker of the House Jo Ann Davidson was expected to help commemorate today's birthday by presenting a proclamation commending the station for its years of community service, said Cheryl Krebs, WOSU public relations specialist.

WOSU-AM has hosted several special events to help celebrate the 75th anniversary, Krebs said, including an April 3 performance by the Capitol Steps, a troupe of political satirists, and a breakfast with National Public Radio personalities on April 4. According to Joe Banicki, WOSU-AMFM marketing manager, the station debuted on April 24, 1922, as WEAO, for "Willing, Energetic, Athletic, Ohio." That first broadcast featured recorded music, baseball scores, announcements and a speech by Ohio State University President William Oxley Thompson, who heralded the new era of radio Sandra Mathern-Smith, of Granville, explores memory and boundaries through dance with David Beadle, of Raleigh', N.C, in 'Anatomy of May 2 and 3 in the Third Avenue Performance Space, 1066 N. High Columbus. (Jef Gottschell photo).