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Lincoln Journal-Star I Art 'Phantom of the Opera' set for Pershing stage 13H Books 10H-11H I Crossword 9H I Movies 2H-4H I Music 5H-7H I Theater Things to do 12H Travel 13H-15H oti Page 6H Lincoln, Nebraska 1 992 Journal-Star Printing Co. 4 COLO it I 1 I J. Nov. 15, 1992 Dancers to perform Friday The traditional and authentic American Indian Dance Theater will share its talents in an evening of dance and music Friday at 8 p.m. at Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N.

12th St. American Indian Dance Theater is the first to present the American Indian culture in a professional theatrical environment, celebrating tribal heritage in dance and music. Ceremonial and seasonal, the dances focus on the skills and stories of many tribes, demonstrating the power of dance central to occasions celebrate ing and validating life passages. Twenty-six champion dancers are selected from the most important festivals and competitions in the United States and Canada for the troupe, which represents 15 different tribes. Costumes are made of feathers, beadwork, buckskin, bells, furs and handmade turquoise and silver jewelry.

Dancers' faces will be painted with red, yellow and blue. Tickets are $20, $16 and $12 and are half price for University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Nebraska Wesieyan University students and youtn 18 and under. Tickets may be bought at the box office between 11 am and 5:30 p.m. weekdays or 0 minutes before the pertornv anee. Phone orders may be placed by calling 472 4717 or 80SM32-323L George Shields, a Southern traditional dancer, is part of the American Indian Dance Theater troupe which Will perform here Friday.

iiiirTfriTii 1H Publishers of book on Malcolm bring his words to life with CD By Pat Wecrtster Nowaday NEW YORK The idea to publish a book on Malcolm came to Charles Melcher and Nicholas Callaway a year ago when the African American community was embroiled in controversy over how the late civil rights leader would be depicted in a Spike Lee movie on his short but explosive life. Melcher, 27, and Callaway, 38, thought that people should be provided an undistilled view of the evolution of his provocative philosophy on race relations and revolution. The generations that did not get a chance to hear or see Malcolm they believed, should be given a chance to judge the man for themselves. "Spike Lee has a very strong political agenda which may or may not be the same as Malcolm X's," Melcher said. "When there was so much original material and recordings of Malcolm available, we thought it was a shame that whole generations would picture the actor Denzel Washington when someone mentioned Malcolm rather than the man himself." And so, through their small publishing house in New York's Greenwich Village, Callaway Editions, Melcher and Callaway developed "Malcolm Speaks Out" the second BoundSound publication that couples a book and an original compact disc in one package.

The multimedia publication is filled with excerpts from speeches of the fallen black leader, undiluted and sometimes raw with the bitterness, passion and hope that consumed the nation during the tumultuous 1960s civil rights struggle. For Callaway, BoundSound means publishing a book of the highest-quality photographs on the finest stock that is intimately intertwined with a CD of the sounds behind those photographs. Like an opera and its libretto, neither exists comfortably without the other. It is a product, they said, that See WORDS on page 16H JjljlW 'A.