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SAILING -- Participants in the Lake Lemon Open Regatta brave the Sunday morning winds during the last competition of the year. The event was sponsored by the Bloomington Yacht Club and is the last racing event of the 2006 season.
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SAILING -- Participants in the Lake Lemon Open Regatta brave the Sunday morning winds during the last competition of the year. The event was sponsored by the Bloomington Yacht Club and is the last racing event of the 2006 season.
Sophomore Abby Williams studies in preparation for finals week in the Wells Library Sunday evening.
-- Junior Darren Granger talks about his life experiences and presents some of his poetry while opening for poet Saul \nWilliams.
COLLEGE DRIVERS COLLIDE -- A car accident Monday evening involving two IU students resulted in severe injuries to one. At the intersection of College Mall Road and Second Street, Micalah Miller, 20, and Joshua Freeman, 17, collided as Miller turned northwest onto College Mall. Reports say both vehicles were traveling at about 30 miles per hour. Bloomington Hospital treated Freeman after the accident for injuries to his right knee, head, neck and back.
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"My style is influenced by punk and ballet." -- Lynn Perry, senior
Competition for a photography exhibition is not something reserved entirely to big cities. Bloomington, too, features an exhibition of local photographers who applied for the display.\nThe John Waldron Arts Center has recently opened a new display that presents work from three local artists as part of the center's 2005 Gallery Season. The exhibition is also a part of Bloomington's Downtown GalleryWalk Season, which includes nine downtown galleries. \nLining the walls of the Flashlight Gallery are the drawings of Elizabeth Bays. Downstairs. The Rosemary P. Miller Gallery now hosts the work of local photographers Roger Pfingston and Michael Finger.\nBays, Pfingston and Finger, whose work was has been displayed there since April 22, were chosen from those who applied and submitted work to the Bloomington Area Arts Council during the 2004 call for entries. The BAAC accepts submissions each year by artists from Monroe, Brown, Greene, Lawrence and Owen counties. The artists must \nsubmit slides to the council as well as information about themselves and the work to be considered.\nMiah Michaelsen holds a seat on the council as the Gallery Director for the Waldron Arts Center. \n"We see submissions from a good number of artists," she said.\nMichaelsen said both amateur and professional artists have applied and been accepted. A panel of jurors reviews the work and decides what work will be displayed the next year. Once on display, the artists can have their work sold if they choose.\n"We have had people come in who want to buy a piece that is part of the exhibition," Michaelsen said, "They just have to wait until the show is over."\nIn addition to deciding which pieces will be shown, the panel of jurors also decides when and where the pieces will be shown. \nThe Rosemary P. Miller Gallery is a room on the 2nd floor of the arts center that typically hosts the work of two professional artists, while the Flashlight Gallery is a dedicated hallway on the third floor that is customarily used for displaying the work of "emerging artists."\nBays' art is currently on display in the Flashlight Gallery. Bays studies Shodo, a Japanese form of character writing likened to calligraphy. All the pieces exhibited are characters from the art of Shodo which she has learned from years of studying with masters in the art form. The art form aims to "condense all of human experience into a few intense seconds when the brush encounters the paper."\nPfingston is a photographer, poet, and teacher whose photos have appeared in publications such as American Photo, Camera & Darkroom, Orion and Shots. He has also had his work exhibited at The Gallery, located at 109 E. Sixth Street. His photos in this current exhibition at the Waldron Arts Center present depictions of land and seascapes in color from the Bloomington Area and around the world.\nFinger has been a photographer for over 25 years and his work that is currently on display chronicles the coexistence of nature and industry. Many of the photos were taken from different areas in Indiana and show the ruins of past industrial "hot spots."\nThe work of the three artists will be displayed until May 21.\nThe John Waldron Arts Center is located at 122 S. Walnut. The Rosemapry P. Miller Gallery is open Monday-Friday 11 a.m.-5 p.m and Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. The Flashlight Gallery is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free. For further information, call 334-3100.
When she was a student at IU, Margarete Disque majored in telecommunications, but she always dreamed of something more.\nOn the weekends, Disque attended Alternatives for Health, a school in Columbus, Ind., where she studied massage therapy.\nJust nine months after graduation from both IU and Alternatives for Health, Disque was able to realize her dream of owning her own business.\n"Being my own boss and not having to work for someone was always something I was intrigued by," Disque said.\nLes Champs Elysees Day Spa and Salon has become the manifestation of that dream. She now owns and runs the spa, 509 E. 10th St., along with some members of her family.\nDisque decided to hire her mother, Donna Disque, as general manager, and her grandmother, Mary Ann Baurle, as the receptionist.\nHer mother and grandmother helped Disque come up with the name for the spa.\n"Les Champs Elysees is the name of one of the most famous streets in Paris because of the beautiful buildings and upscale stores," Donna said. "That's the feeling we are going for here."\nMargarete said her mother was part of the inspiration for this venture. \n"I had always watched my mom and traveled with her, and business seemed like a great opportunity, especially for women," she said. "Women don't get recognized enough for their achievements in life, and I thought that this would be a great opportunity for success."\nThe spa opened in October 2004 when construction at 10th Street and College Avenue neared completion.\nAmenities include a full hair salon, manicure and pedicure stations and three back rooms where customers can receive normal spa services such as facials, waxing, body wraps and singles or couples massages. The spa also offers services that are less common such as pregnancy massages, reflexology and stone therapy.\nMargarete employs a full staff of specialists, including hair stylists, aestheticians and massage therapists, who are required to go through training on the hair products.\n"It's a really involved process," said aesthetician Jacqueline Simpson. "We have to have training on new products and how to explain them to customers."\nOne challenge the spa has encountered has been a lack of hair stylists.\n"A lot of them hop around from salon to salon, and many people in high school aren't being told about that vocation," Donna said. "And many times they are being told that they can't make money that way."\nShe said there is a great potential for hairstylists who are qualified.\nDonna said the spa is about making people feel better rather than just providing standard services.\n"It's not like you come in, get your hair cut, and the next person is in line waiting," she said.\nTo ensure the spa's customers don't feel like just another number, the salon offers a free treatment with any treatment the customer purchases. \n"Even if the customer just gets a haircut, we offer a complimentary service like a mini facial or foot soak," she said.\nLes Champs Elysees just experienced a wave of new business because of spring break and the coming of the summer months.\n"Everybody wants their pedicures and highlights to get ready for the summer," Margarete said. "We try to cater to both college students and Bloomington residents."\nBaurle said one difference she has noted in her time with the spa has been the number of men who come to the spa for various treatments.\n"It's really nice that they are finally taking an interest in themselves," she said.\nThe prices for the salon range from $10 to $120, not including the various packages offered.\nOne difference between the spa and others in the Bloomington area is that the spa uses mostly Aveda products, though the spa is not in partnership with the brand.\n"Aveda has the reputation of being very vibrant and on the cutting edge with hair," Margarete said.\nAveda is a hair product company whose trademark is caring for the environment. The company's hair products are 97 percent natural, and Margarete said the products are part of the reason that customers are initially attracted to the spa.\n"We've personally been using the Aveda products for 15 years, and we thought that because the products are 97 percent natural, Aveda and Bloomington would be a good match," Donna said.\nMargarete said the closest Aveda store is in Indianapolis. The store often refers their customers to Les Champs Elysees because it is the only one in the area that specializes in the products.\nMargarete, Donna and Baurle all agree that a mainstay of the business has been the welcoming atmosphere. Margarete said even its color palette was chosen with extra care to make the customers feel comfortable.\n"When people come in," Donna said, "we let them lead the conversation rather than talking about ourselves."\n-- Contact Staff Writer Ronni Moore at ronlmoor@indiana.edu.
Tuesday evening a group of photography enthusiasts were treated to a 'work-in-progress' view of IU professor and former National Geographic magazine staff photographer Steve Raymer's most recent work on the Indian Diaspora.\nRaymer, a professor in the School of Journalism who worked with National Geographic for more than 20 years, was the guest speaker at this month's meeting of the Bloomington Photography Club. \nThe club includes amateur photographers and professional photographers such as Tom Stio, the vice-president, owner and photographer of Shadow and Light photography studio. The group also organizes field trips, focus groups, workshops and lectures from professionals every month.\n Before the slide show, Raymer spoke about some of the logistics of photography and his preferred methods. He discussed the switch-over from the use of film to digital cameras, his shooting preferences as well as challenges confronting photographers today.\n"No photographers make money doing books," he said.\nHe said he began his latest project after finding he would be unable to work on a project in Shanghai because of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome scare in 2003 in China. For this reason, he said photographers should keep a file of potential story ideas -- plans can change quickly.\nIn his travels around the world concerning this latest endeavor, he said he learned a great deal about the condition of people in the Indian Diaspora. \n"The movement of people out of India has been one of the most successful in human history, especially over the last 200 years," he said.\nSix chapters of his work were shown at the talk, capturing moments in the lives of Indians in Singapore, Trinidad and South Africa. \n"I talk to my students about intimacy in photos," Raymer said. "We need to get close to people to make our viewers feel that they were actually able to have that vantage point."\nRaymer said the president of Singapore, S.R. Nathan, told the professor to recognize and capture the extent of the marginalization of Indians in Malaysia, which was Raymer's destination at the time of his conversation with Nathan.\nA wide-angle shot of a homeless man in Malaysia gave him the opportunity to do that. \n"In Malaysia, Indians on the whole have the worst jobs," he said.\nIn contrast with the shots in Malaysia were scenes from the high life of an Indian man in Hong Kong, as well as photos of successful Indian people in the United States, such as CNN chief medical correspondent and neurosurgeon, Sanjay Gupta.\n"One thing that is essential is variety," Raymer said.\nHe took close ups as well as photos that employ the use of spatial depth to further give the viewer the sensation of being in the moment.\n"We need those street scenes to show us where we are and what it looks like." \nHe said he sees this book as a gallery and emphasized the importance of logical arrangement of the photos in order to create a sense of unity.\nSome of Raymer's work can be accessed on his Web site www.steveraymer.com, where viewers can also read his biography and view some of his previous work in books like "Living Faith: Inside the Muslim World of Southeast Asia."\n-- Contact Staff Writer Ronnie Moore at ronlmoore@indiana.edu.
The Windfall dancers presented their annual spring dance production Saturday night, titled "Elements." The production featured the dancers' interpretations of natural occurrences through dance. Windfall is a modern dance collective originally formed in 1978 under the direction of Debbie Knapp. The Windfall dancers perform at different venues all year and hold auditions regularly. This dance company is different than others in that all members have the unique opportunity to choreograph their own pieces and choose dancers to perform them. \nThe night was divided into two acts: "Dueling Forces" and "A Churning and Yearning Earth." "Triumphant Fire" was the first piece of the evening. It was an explosive piece commemorating the victory of raging fire over rain. This piece showcased the amazing flexibility of the dancers in the company and was a very strong piece to start off the events. \nAnother highlight of the evening was "Ignition," a piece choreographed by dancer Kay Olges. It featured a song titled "Eternal" by contemporary music group "Evanescence." The piece was interesting in that it featured the dancers in a more creative light. Near the end of the piece, the dancers portrayed the dying of a woodland fire and the rhythmic pattern of the rain that continued to fall by making beats with the floor and their bodies. This piece is typical of the creative nature of the company and its ideals. Windfall Dance Company prides itself on its ability to stay fresh, a continually creative force in the dance community of Bloomington. \nThe end of the first act saw the Windfall Youth Ensemble dance to a familiar piece of music called "Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby," featured in the movie "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" The Windfall Youth Ensemble is another dance company under the heading of Windfall Dance Company. Its members are separate from the Windfall dancers, but regularly perform with the company itself. Saturday, they performed their piece titled "Liquid Breeze," which highlighted the up-and-coming talents of the younger Windfall dancers. Act Two was even more dynamic than the first, beginning with a piece choreographed by new member Jovi-Victoria Thomas. The piece was received especially well by the audience, as the music was recognized to be from contemporary artist André 3000 of the rap duo OutKast. The piece featured the dancers at their most energetic and was followed by a slower yet powerful piece, "Gaia's Children." \nSaturday night was the last time the dance company would perform this show, and the night was undeniably a rousing success for the company that will ultimately serve as an inspiration to the dance community.
Continuing in the rich tradition and culture of African-American performance and the African American Arts Institute, the African American Choral Ensemble will be presenting its full spring concert this Saturday night. \nThe African American Choral Ensemble was founded in 1975 and continues to be one of the most well-known ensembles at IU, most recently performing at the inauguration of President Adam Herbert Thursday afternoon. However, the ensemble members say their elevated status does come at a price. Eric Johnson, a senior majoring in general studies, said the practices take commitment. \nPractices are held twice a week and last about two hours each, in addition to the three smaller groups within the ensemble that hold separate practices and have an additional repertoire of music. Soul-ACE is the all male group; Sojourner is all female; and God's Progress is for male and female singers. This choral ensemble is one of three associated with the African American Arts Institute. It is a class in which all students receive IU credit, and it is also a performance ensemble that represents IU at many different venues throughout the school year.\nLast spring, the ensemble presented "Gospel at Colonus," which is based on Sophocles' Greek tragedy, "Oedipus at Colonus." Compared to that show, the students in the ensemble said this year's show will focus more on singing and the genre of music will be a little different.\n"We are doing a lot more spirituals with a higher level of difficulty, which has made us all grow as musicians," said Chauncey Duff, a senior majoring in folklore.\nThere are many different genres of music the choral ensemble performs, ranging from spirituals, folk, traditional and contemporary gospel music and the works of African-American composers. However, James E. Mumford, director of the African American Choral Ensemble, (affectionately called "Doc") said one problem the ensemble has to continuously face is the fact that many people do not think there are different genres of black choral music.\n"There are many black styles of music, and people don't understand it's one of the problems that we are continuously plagued by," Mumford said. "But once they hear us, they understand and are able to actually see the difference."\nThe singers said the audience should be prepared to see a totally different show than the one last year because of the implementation of a more diverse music program. Mary Davis, a junior majoring in biology, said the company has had more of an interest in music from the African Diaspora in comparison to earlier years. Davis also has added a more personal aspect to the ensemble. \n"We have come together even more this year as an ensemble in comparison to years past," Davis said. \nThe show will begin at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater. Advance tickets are $8 for students and seniors and $13 for adults. Show day prices will be $12 for students and seniors and $17 for adults. For more information about the African American Choral Ensemble Spring Concert, contact the theater's Sunrise Ticket Office at 323-3020.\n-- Contact staff writer Ronni Moore at rlmoore@indiana.edu.
A week and a half after its annual spring dance concert, the African-American Dance Company is still dancing and performing. The dancers went to the Stone Belt Center Tuesday afternoon to dance for patients. Stone Belt is a center for mentally and physically challenged individuals, located on the IUB campus. Professor Iris Rosa, the director of the dance company, journeys to Stone Belt every year and has done so for the last decade\n"This is a way to use the gift of dance, which crosses all communication barriers, in order to bring happiness and joy to those who may not be able to communicate clearly," said Monique Guyinn, a senior in the company. "It also brings a sense of fulfillment to the dancers that we don't get anywhere else."\nThe faces of the crowd lit up when Rosa approached the microphone to introduce the dance company. She explained the types of dances the company would be doing while the audience anxiously awaited the start of the show. Rosa said she feels it is important to explain what the dancers will be doing at events such as this because dances aren't simply dances but artistic creations with meaning behind them.\n"Dancers are educators, we are here to educate the community," said Rosa.\nThe performers presented some of the dances from its recent spring concert, including some of the collaboration pieces the dancers choreographed themselves. \nLori Madl, assistant instructor for the African-American dance company, presented her solo. Later the dancers came together for the last piece, "Storms." When the dancers finished the show, the music for their jazz piece came on as the performers pulled members of the audience up to the dance floor and encouraged them to let loose and dance with the company.\n"It's community service for the dance company," said Clifton Davis, Jr., a senior in the company. "We feel that just because these people aren't considered by some to be "normal" that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be given opportunities like this."\nWhen the dancing was over, the audience began to leave the room, some still dancing -- even though there was no music. \nAs the crowd members dispersed into the hallways, they walked by, touching the dancers, praising them for their performance and imploring them to come back. \n"This is such a highlight for us," Rosa said.\n"It is a way for us to let go of everything else and just be in the moment. It has become sort of a spring ritual for us and we really appreciate it," said Leslie Green, director of the Stone Belt Center.\nSince the show was in the middle of the day, some of the dancers had to miss classes but they say that it is worth making the people that they come to dance for smile. Even though the shows are over, the dancers continue to practice perfecting themselves for the coming year. \n"It's a really good feeling when you know that you have done something good and that you have left them happy and excited," Davis said.
The African-American Dance Company and special guests will be holding its annual Fall Studio Concert at 7:30 p.m. tonight in Alumni Hall in the Indiana Memorial Union. The dance concert was scheduled for Dec. 5, but it was postponed because of a flooding problem in Willkie Auditorium. \nDespite the delay, Iris Rosa, director of the African-American Dance Company, said this year promises to be an especially exciting and emotional joyride for all who attend. \n"What makes this year so special is that there are new people, new energy, new choreography and guest artists," Rosa said. "It's fresh." \nThis year, Rosa worked in cooperation with professor Valerie Grim in order to create a unique concept piece. The piece, entitled "Once Upon a Rural South," is a dance representation of the lives of southern sharecroppers in the early 1900s performed by the dance company. \n"As an artistic director and choreographer, it is important to find new material," Rosa said.\nShe discussed with Grim how to go about mixing history with dance effectively and has been documenting and videorecording each step in the process. First, the dance company members were to read documented experiences of sharecroppers. \n"We wanted the dancers to internalize and intellectualize the experiences," Rosa said.\nThe first of the piece's three movements, in which the dancers expressed the grueling work and utter despair of sharecrop life, was first presented Nov. 1 at the Potpourri Concert at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater as a piece in progress. Since then, Rosa said she has added on the section in which the characters move from the work to the "bluesy" juke-joint where anything goes. \n"The transition had to be very creative," said dance company member and sophomore Raven Akram. "It had to show the people moving from the weekday work to the juke-joint atmosphere where there are no inhibitions and you can enjoy life." \nThe piece will be presented in its entirety at the AADC's annual spring concert. \n"Once Upon A Rural South" will be one of 13 choreographed pieces presented at the concert. The other dances presented will be in the modern, lyrical and jazz styles choreographed by Rosa and dance assistant Lori Madl. There will also be collaborative pieces choreographed by AADC members themselves. Akram said the process of collaboration for the group members was pretty complicated. \n"We had to come up with a theme for the entire company for the year, then come up with a theme for our group, then come up with our music and then choreograph the piece," Akram said.\nThe AADC will be joined by the A102 class, Introduction to Black Dance Styles, and special guests who will be presenting dances in the jazz and lyrical styles. \nSenior Sumer Hall said audience members can expect to not only enjoy technically good dancing, but also learn a little something along the way.\n"Our goal in presenting a piece like this was to introduce black dance styles to those who have never seen it before," Hall said. \nRosa said she encourages the dancers to find and clearly express the meaning behind their dancing each time they step onto the dance floor.\n"We want the audience to recognize that dance is multifaceted and multilayered," Rosa said.