Rangeela Set for February 24-25

February 20, 2006 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Traditionally Rangeela, an international variety show at Calvin College,
celebrates the songs, dances, costumes and dramas of the many cultures that
make Calvin home.

This year, Rangeela, to be held at 8 pm on Friday, Feb. 24 and Saturday, Feb.
25, will celebrate the ways those many cultures come together with a show aptly
named Fusion.

Says senior Elikplimi (Eli) Agbenorku, the show's co-director: "We're trying
as much as possible to fuse different cultures. The theme came out of the
international students, who are very much a community here, wanting to show how
much they're learning from each other and how much they're interacting here."

Many of the acts in this year's show will combine the artistic expressions of
several countries.

One example is a dance piece, supported by drumming from Calvin's drum group
Sankofa, which combines Native American and West African moves. Another is a
Latin number that pulls together influences like salsa, meringue and reggaetone
(Latin rap) from several South American countries. Others demonstrate the
fusion that occurs between traditional cultures and contemporary and Western
influences.

The directors, Agbenorku and junior Yeong Lim, are sold on this year's theme,
intent on showing that in the age of globalization, culture is not a static
thing.

Agbenorku, though Ghanian, was born in the Ukraine and grew up all over
Europe, mainly Poland. An economics and math major at Calvin, he speaks Polish,
French, Russian and three Ghanian dialects in addition to English. Lim, though
Korean, was born in Japan and lived there and in Korea before his family moved
to the U.S. He majors in communications oral rhetoric and Japanese.

NOTE TO MEDIA: The Rangeela dress rehearsal will be held at 8 pm on Thursday,
February 23.

For the complete story, including pictures, see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2005_06/rangeela.htm

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Received on Mon Feb 20 09:40:02 2006