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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com


Latin@ event to
showcase diversity

Love explored in'Fall'

Annual performance
fuses many cultures
into Pangea theme
By JOEY STEINBERGER
For the Daily
At the 12th annual Latin@ Cul-
ture Show, University students
will perform dances, poetry,
monologues
and piano piec- 12th Annual
es. But unlike Wn
previous years,
the cultural acts Culture
are not just from ShOW
Latin America.
They're from all Tomorrow
over the world. at7p.m.
The theme Lydia Mendelssohn
of this year's Theatre
show is Pan-
gea. In accor- From $6
dance with that
theme, Latin@ Culture Show will
have other University groups such
as the Amala Dancers - a West
African dance group - and the
Persian Student Assembly repre-
sentingtheir respective cultures.
"Although the emphasis is still
on our culture, we wanted to
embrace a theme that our music
wasn't created out of thin air,"
said LSA sophomore Ramiro
Alvarez, one of the show's pro-
ducers. "It was created from the
influences of the Arab world and
the West African world."
The "@" ending is meant to
represent the Spanish language's
masculine "o" and feminine "a"
suffixes. When spoken, it's called
the "Latina and Latino Culture
Show," a title meant to make the
show gender inclusive.
This language choice high-
lights an important part of the
show's mission, which is to

reduce stigma and raise aware-
ness about marginalized groups
such as undocumented students,
stereotyped as "illegal immi-
grants."
"We want to display the inter-
sectionality of the lives we lead,"
Alvarez said. "On top of being
Latino on campus, you can be
Afro-Latino, who face their own
stigmas in the Latina world. You
can be a member of the queer
community and be Latino, you
can be undocumented and be
Latino. Unfortunately, a lot of
these in societal norm views are
stigmatized."
This year, the Coalition for
Tuition Equality will be pre-
senting a monologue on undocu-
mented students at the show. In
addition to raising awareness
about these groups, the students
who organize the show also give
back to their community, locally
and worldwide.
"We're sponsoring a little girl
in Mexico until she is 18," Alvarez
said. "She is 5 now and ... we're
going to keep up with it every
year and show where she is at."
The group is also working
with a student in the School of
Social Work to bring 40 stu-
dents from Detroit high schools
to Ann Arbor. The students will
learn about applying to college
and financial aid packages. The
Latin® Culture Show is subsi-
dizing tickets for the high-school
students so they can attend.
Students from the show also
did community service in Detroit
recently. While there, they saw
two 7-year-olds who were tal-
ented breakdancers and recruited
them to perform their moves at
the show.
Because Latin culture is so
diverse, there will be an eclectic
range of dances in addition to the

Persian and West African styles.
New York Salsa, Bachata -- atype
of Dominican dance - Mexican
folkloric and other styles will
be performed. The final act is a
secret Brazilian-inspired dance.
"The people who take part (in
the dances) try different things.
We have our Latinos who are
Dominican and they grew up
dancing Merengue and they're
really good at that, but they try
something different like Mexi-
can folkloric," Alvarez said. "We
do have some (people) that join
what they're best at and they
really shine through that during
the show."
The Latin@ Culture Show has
grown immensely since it started
12 years ago.
"We've gone from humble
beginnings," Alvarez explained.
"It started off in the basement of
the League on that little stage. It
was an hour and it was free. Now
it's at the Mendelssohn Theatre
and has almost five hundred peo-
ple in attendance."
The Latin@ Culture Show
aspires to be like Indian Ameri-
can Student Associations' Cul-
tural Show, which has become
one of the largest student-run
cultural shows on the continent.
Reaching that goal will be a chal-
lenge for the Latin@ Cultural
Show because Latina and Latino
students are a small minority on
campus. One of the great ben-
efits of the show is that it helps to
unite this small community.
"I've taken classes specifically
to meet more Latinos," Alvarez
said. "You're so eager to meet
more people that look like you,
that you can speak your native
language with, that you can
complain about the same things
with. This show really brings us
together."

By LAURA KAYE
Daily Arts Writer
NBC's popular television show
"Will and Grace" has remained
close to our hearts - but is it
intriguing
because homo- Next Fall
sexual rela-
tionships are Tomorrow,
underrepre- Frday and
sented in the Saturday at 7
media, or is it p.m., Friday
something else? at11 p.m.
Just as this
show brought Studione,
homosexual- Waigreen
ity to the fore- Drama Center
front, the play Free
"Next Fall" also
grapples with a homosexual rela-
tionship and how it is just like any
partnership between two people.
The student organization
Basement Arts is presenting
the dynamic play "Next Fall,"
which concentrates on two men
in a relationship: One is a devout
Christian, the other an atheist.
The play revolves around the
struggles between sex and reli-
gion, but more universally, the
play emphasizes the conflict that
surrounds any relationship.
After a devastating accident,
Luke is placed in the hospital in
critical condition. The play shifts
from the hospital setting to flash-
backs of Luke and Adam over the
course of their five-year relation-
ship. Luke comes from a family of
born-again Christians and even
though he wants to inform his
parents of his sexuality, he feels
ashamed. This creates a constant
discord between him and Adam.
Inordertodistinguishbetween
the switching time sequences,
the set is designed to perform a
180-degree flip, where the hos-
pital, painted in a dull, cold gray,
miraculously turns into a lively
yellow-colored apartment. This
bright color matches the change
in atmosphere, as well as emotion
and time. The costumes also aid
in establishing a distinct separa-
tion between the periods in the
play. For instance, Holly, a friend
of Luke and Adam, is an optimis-
tic and vivacious individual, so

"Next Fall" uses its revolving stage to delve into religion and relationships.

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ressed in a bright yellow. Manganello said. "These charac-
ool of Music, Theatre & ters bring light to really terrible
junior, Jon Manganello, circumstances, and my job as a
tow's director, explained director is to find the moments
"Next Fall" is a major of happiness so that the tragic
ement in theater regard- moments really stick out and
mosexuality. While other shine."
dealt with homosexual Many of the comedic elements
nships or themes focusing are played out in the flashback
:e crimes, victimhood, or scenes through the witty and
"Next Fall" speaks of char- highly expressive speech of the
who face issues that all characters.
ts face, highlighting how One of the most poignant ele-
exual couples deal with ments of the production concerns
of the same problems as the hospital's newly implemented
ouples. rule, allowing only family mem-
bers into the hospital rooms. As
Luke's partner, Adam has no legal
connection and cannot visit him
ay marriage at the hospital. However, Luke's
parents, who have practically
akes center disowned their son, can walk in
. freely. This brings up the issue of
stage With gay marriage and how it affects
those involved.
sement Arts. "There are a lot of people out
there who don't understand why
gay people are fighting for the
word 'marriage,"' Manganello
nganello further empha- said. "But in specific instances
how the play is not over- like this - where there's that
ed with sorrow, even legal bind that separates part-
:Luke gets in a devastating ners from husbands -there
nt. is , something very rimportant
e attitude we had during about the word and idea of mar-
ocess is to show how the riage that you cannot get with
very much a tragedy, but it just a partnership or a relation-
illy, if not more, a comedy," ship."

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