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Outh Uincotn Journal Tuesday, July 18, 1978 8 1 I Girl from India i mixes cultures yti fr Renu, who will be a senior at Northeast High, began dancing while attending school at a convent in India. She said she was selected to take part in a simple school dance and has been interested in the art since. The American school system, according to Renu, is one of this country's big pluses. She speaks English without a trace of an accent, since it was the main language at the convent. Because of school transfers and the difference in seasonal school years, Renu is in 12th grade although she is only 15 years old.

Although most of her friends are older, she isn't allowed to date or keep late hours. She said she realizes she must go along with some of the requests and customs her parents honor from India. "The thought of a 15-year-old going on an unchaperoned date would be out of the question," she said. She has learned living in America with Indian parents requires her to adapt to both countries' customs. She enjoys the freedom and encouragement that allows women to attend college.

Renu hopes to become a doctor. "A girl would not be encouraged to become a doctor in India," she said. She spends Tier summer hours doing creative writing, reading and cooking. She prepares many of the family dinners and are usually done in traditional Indian style. That includes, in addition to many curried dishes, the technique of making "chapti." The pancake-like bread accompanies dinner and must be made "just right" so it puffs correctly, Renu said.

Right before your eyes, Renu Rawate can become a summer storm, complete with ruin, swaying trees and claps of thunder. Renu (pronounced ray-new) is not a magician or a weather machine, even though she has the energy of a small tornado. She produces her storm through dancing. Renu, a native of India, uses her dance as a reflection of her background. Although been in the United States for eight years, her Indian past is very much a part of the present.

The Thunder Dance, which she performed at Senior Diner sites this summer, is a semi-classical traditional Indian folk dance. Done to the music of Ravi Shankar, it starts slowly, quietly like the calm before the storm. As it progresses, her bare feet pound harder on the ground, making her ankle bells crash violently together. When the storm relents, Renu's dance again becomes slow and quiet. She explained the dance movements symbolize nature and the animals.

Her hands move quickly, like animals in flight at the peak of the storm. As it dies down her body sways more gently, like the trees, she said. She has learned most of her native dances in the United States. She took private lessons last year from the Sri Lankan dancers while they were in Lincoln. The sessions were long and tiring, she said.

Perfection was the rule. "It would often take an hour or more to learn one step." Renu Rawate's Thunder Dance has several moods, PHOTOS BY FRANK VARGA BEST BEATS Teen-agers offered advice about love 2. "King Tut" Steven Martin 3. "Miss You" Rolling Stones 4. "Two Out of Three Ain't.

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Gallaher alternates in leading the rap group with Kathleen Brewer, director of the department. Ms. Gallaher, a soft-spoken, articulate woman, is usually joined at the Wednesday evening session by a group of 10 to 20 teens of both sexes. Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt and sitting cross-legged on a large floor pillow, Ms. Gallaher begins the 5:30 get-together by explaining to the group that the reason Planned Parenthood started the rap group was not just to explain lot of pressure.

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