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Local band shakes up Gateway with music video premiere REGINA SQUERI Assistant Arts&Life Editor squeri.7@osu.edu With the return of students to campus, Gateway will be shaking things up with a new music event. Gateway will be hosting a music video premiere in its plaza for local band Nick D’ & the Believers this weekend. The Plaza Starts Shaking event was conceived when Nick D’ & the Believers approached Gateway looking for a bar in which to shoot their new video for yet-tobe-released song, “Room Starts Shaking.” The music video, which features band members and actors, takes place on the Gateway plaza and in World of Beer. “(Gateway) just seemed like a great natural fit,” said singer and keyboardist Nick D’Andrea. “Also, CD102.5 started doing the (Local ‘n Live) showcases over the summer, so it just seemed like good timing.” Drummer Joseph Barker said he was excited Gateway wanted to work together on the project. “We were looking for someone to collaborate with to do the video, because we could have done it at any bar but we wanted it to be more than that,” Barker said. “We wanted something like a promotional collaboration, something
Columbus’ only dance troupe dedicated solely to tap, Movement Afoot, will unveil its first evening-length performance, “Ph(r) ase 1,”on Friday and Saturday. Audiences can watch tap dancing along with Appalachian clogging, contemporary and Kathak dance as well as live jazz and folk music by local artists. “What sets tap apart from other forms of dance is the fact that we make sound with our feet as we’re dancing,” said Lauren Squires, director of Movement Afoot. “I think the relationship between the sounds you’re making in your feet and what the rest of your body is doing is one of the key differences between different styles of tap.” Squires is also an assistant professor in Ohio State’s English department and adviser of campus tap club, Buckeyes on Tap. Of the two major types of tap, Broadway and rhythm tap, Squires said she prefers to focus on the latter. She said she is driven to find the tiniest ways to produce the biggest sounds, and her choreogra-
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Nick D and the Believers members Kerry Henderson (left), Nick D’Andrea (middle) and Joseph Barker (right) pose for their single “Crown”. that would be good for us and the plaza with a projection screen the World of Beer patio where good for the bar.” for the music video premiere and patrons are encouraged to make The video showing will be Nick D’ & the Believers’ perfor- donations and buy raffle tickets. followed by a performance by mance. Love Your Melon is a nonprofit the band, with an opening set by “The Gateway was only re- organization that raises money for V!bes and a closing show by New branded in the past year with the pediatric cancer research chariThousand. new logo and all the new advertis- ties. Christiana Moffa, property ing, as well as the addition of the “We realize that free music and manager of Gateway, said this is Beer Garden and World of Beer,” free concerts, stuff like that is rethe first time Gateway has pre- Moffa said. “Prior to that, even ally appealing to students,” Moffa sented a concert of this size. It has though there was significant room said. “This gives them the opporalso never hosted a music video to do something like this, it just tunity to support local music for premiere. wasn’t marketed in that fashion.” free, but also to support a great V!bes will be performing on the Although the event is free, charitable endeavor that is very Beer Garden Stage. There will be Gateway’s charitable partner Love popular with their generation by a larger stage set up in the back of Your Melon will have a table by GATEWAY CONTINUES ON 6
Columbus’ Movement Afoot tap dance company presents first evening-length concert LAURIE HAMAME Lantern reporter hamame.3@osu.edu
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“We wanted to have our own stage and be able to do numbers that really show all you can do with tap dancing as a group.” Lauren Squires Director, Movement Afoot
phy explores sound and space in combination with improvisation, which is true to the history of the art form. “(In) Broadway tap or show tap, there is a little more emphasis on the body … doing kicks, using the arms, sequin costumes,” Squires said. “There are other styles that I’m more interested in, specifically how you can make complicated, elegant rhythms that are really producing a form of music with your feet.” Squires founded Movement Afoot in 2014 in order to present more tap dance within the Columbus community. With a goal to be established in the local dance world, Movement Afoot practiced for months for “Ph(r)ase 1.” While
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Movement Afoot dancers Sharon Ross, Lauren Squires, Janelle Maur, Holly Honroth, Janet Schroeder and Rachel Cooke show off their moves. performing mainly at festivals was enjoyable, Squires said, each performer would often have to bring their own wooden board to tap on, limiting what the dance company could do choreographically. This weekend, the ensemble will have a full stage. “We wanted to have our own stage and be able to do numbers that really show all you can do with tap dancing as a group,” Squires said.
Rachel Cooke, a first-year graduate student in clinical mental health counseling and member of Movement Afoot, has been tap dancing since she was three years old. She grew up practicing all forms of dance but said she formed a special connection with tap. “You get to make awesome, crazy rhythms with your feet and then feel those rhythms throughTAP DANCE CONTINUES ON 6
Before it’s nation-wide run, local band Kid Runner will celebrate its newest work in its hometown. Now, on the eve of the release show for the band’s fourth official release — an EP, “Body Language” — Kid Runner is ready for the world to hear its sound. “We’re the most excited about this release than we have been about any other release,” said vocalist and keyboardist Fran Litterski. “It just feels very us and it’s the peak of our collaboration.” The six-song, 20-minute project debuted on Aug. 12, and, so far, the band sees fans latching on to all different songs, with no clear favorites. During the creation of Kid Runner’s most recent EP, the band switched up the songwriting process. “Before, it was more step-bystep —so we would come up with melody ideas and then write our parts individually— whereas I think this time around we were like, ‘Let’s just kind of jam things out and see where they go,’” vocalist Drew Lizon said. Litterski also listed fewer samples and a more organic, jambased approach as ways that aided the creative process. Due to the more organic approach, Kid Runner increased the pace at which it cranks out tunes. “Everything came really naturally, none of the songs were forced at all and I think it really showcases all of our different writing,” Lizon said. Guitarist Kurt Keaner, bassist Scott Griffin and drummer Bobby Heigel round out the five-piece indie-pop band that has continued to evolve sonically. Lizon and Litterski see “Don’t Change Me,” one of the tracks on the EP as a showcase of the band’s diversity and ability to use each other’s talents. The lyrics of the track feature sentiments of not falling into the music industry’s hole of conventionality. Kind of like the single says, you can’t really categorize us in a certain way,” Litterski said. “You might put alt-pop on it, but some of these songs don’t really sound alt-pop.” Litterski echoed Lizon’s lyrics by mentioning that it’s difficult to define the lead vocalist. “Since we’re classified as this alt-pop, indie-pop band, Drew was talking about how a lot of people assume he’s going to be this out-
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