How long dead?
Regarding “Grilled Cheese,” the Spotlight on The String Cheese Incident [August 3] by Ben Sellers:
Dude,
Jerry Garcia died in 1995.
Tom Lawless
tomlawless@earthlink.net
Dance lessons
Looking at the “Read This First” section from the August 3 edition, I was pleased to see a reference to a performance that we gave at the Blue Moon Diner’s 25th anniversary party on July 31. The author makes reference to “audience-pleasing hula [performed] by three grass-skirted dancers.”
I’m writing to inform the author (and hopefully some readers that read that) that what was witnessed is not Hula dancing. We performed authentic dance from Tahiti. This confusion happens a lot because in many of the tourist destinations you can easily see Tahitian performances in Hawaii (home of Hula) and vice versa, but they are different styles of dance. The islands are different, the language is different, the culture is similar (Polynesian) but Hawaiians and Tahitians make clear distinctions between their cultural and artistic contributions.
I love opportunities to spread the word about the beautiful Tahitian culture so if the author (or anyone else) is interested to learn the difference between Hula dancing and Tahitian Ori, please feel free to attend one of my classes. I teach every Saturday at 10am at the Belmont location of Studio 206.
Maâ•úuruâ•úuru (thank you!)
W. Aniseh Burtner
aniseh@earthlink.net
CORRECTIONS
In Harry Terris’ review of George Garrett’s Double Vision, we incorrectly identified the writer as Virginia’s poet laureate, which he was until earlier this summer. The state’s new poet laureate is Garrett’s UVA colleague Rita Dove.
In our zeal to refer to businesses by their proper names for last week’s “Best ofC-VILLE 2004” cover story, we mistakenly linked “Best Mechanic” winner C’ville Imports, located at 108 Lewis St.,with unrelated local parts company Charlottesville Imported.