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This Saturday Night at 7:30 PM! Full of Hot Air (and that’s a good thing) All tickets only $7.50! Granted, you normally wouldn’t want to spend your Valentine’s evening with a guy who’s full of hot air unless he’s whispering sweet nothings in your ear. While OPAS JR can’t promise that, we can promise that Fred Garbo will give you shivers anyway when he teams with ballerina Daielma Santos to create a dazzling, colorful world of inflatable inventions that will boggle your mind. It’s a stage spectacle not to be missed. And with $7.50 tickets, you can even afford to bring a date. OiXW _A FOR THE YOUNG AT ARTI Thrtt DecruUt of Prrforming Arti entialton j enUftain | inspii OPAS Jr Generously Supported by: The OPAS Guild Supporting the arts since 1973. Belly dancing: fun and healthy workout By Kate Santich KRT CAMPUS FRED GARBO INFLATABLE THEATER CO. Saturday at 7:30 PM Rudder Auditorium TICKETS 845-1234 www.MSCOPAS.org ORLANDO, Fla. Directions to the “Bellydance Your Bliss” class are a tad unusu al: Cut through the sports bar, pass the big screen TVs and take a right toward the pool tables. Then it’s through the double doors and up the stairs, into the Victorian decor of a once-abandoned Church Street Station office. Do not stop for liquid refreshments. Belly dancing may be blissful, but it’s not easy. “You leave here exhausted, but you’ve got a big smile on your face,” says Anita Landon, a 44-year-old Deltona, Fla., mas sage therapist who happily makes the weekly commute to study what may be the world’s oldest form of dance. "In a soci ety where women are always trying to hold everything in, you have to learn to let it go.” On a recent Wednesday night, techno-infused Arabic music thumping, Landon and a half- dozen other women at the fledg ling Blue Lotus Center undulate to the rhythm, jiggling — and often giggling — as they do. “Up and down and out and back ... Good,” the teacher says. her voice soothing and girlisk, not at all like your average aero bics instructor. “Step, step, step and shoo-fly and shoo-fly I’m just making up the namesof these moves ... Now, twist washing machine ...” A striking, curvaceous woraai with (lowing mahogany-coli hair, she goes by the Gaelic nan* “Bhrigha” and has a shimmy ta puts amateurs to shame. She also lias a bachelor’s degree in the; arts from Rollins College license in massage therapy ft the state and a husband named Greywolf who teaches the drum ming class that follows her own. “It's just something I’ve warn ed to do since I was a little gii watching 'I Dream of Jeannie' she says during a break, as panti ng students gather around a water cooler. “You never saw het dance, but she had a cool cos tume, and you kind of imagined she danced in the bottle." 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