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(11/05/10 3:18am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The music is pumping, the stage is set with glitter and in comes a modern woman — powerful, sophisticated and cat walking in a little black dress. It’s not the Mercedes-Benz fashion week, it’s the first annual Styleta fashion show, “Rock the Runway,” which took place Thursday at the Willkie Auditorium.Styleta is a new campus and national organization founded by senior Le Wang and Harvard alumnus Yifan Zhang. Styleta’s mission is to sell high quality designer clothes at discounted prices while donating the proceeds to charity. “Designers only sell 13 percent of their profits. The rest is either destroyed or stays in a warehouse,” Wang said. “Our solution is to buy the clothes, resell them and donate the proceeds to charities.” The fashion show gives a new perspective on fashion. Students can buy designer clothes at the show or online. Their purchase helps recycle clothes that would normally be destroyed, and the proceeds go to charity. Having started barely a year ago, the charity is growing fast. Styleta has had a fashion show on four campuses, and IU is one of the founding campuses. The show featured different styles for the modern college student. From designer shoes to coats and clothes, all items were donated for the event and were for sale at the trunk show and online. Aside from Styleta being a charity, it is also a club. “As a student, if you’re looking for a club, join Styleta,” creative director Ryan Aguirre said. “You can learn to do a variety of things on campus, and we need people from all disciplines.” Styleta’s approach to fashion is rooted in charity and community. This gives students an opportunity to participate in a new way of approaching fashion. Styleta is a good marriage of the world’s new-found awareness of being eco-conscious and working with charities.“Our mission is to help women professionally get on their feet,” model Jennifer Lee said.Styleta supports Volunteers for America, Kiva, Dress for Success and the local chapter of My Sister’s Closet. All these charities work with empowering women and helping them gain the skills and clothing needed to succeed. Although this is Styleta’s first year at IU, the members have big hopes for the charity.“I hope people that come out get to see who we are and what we do,” junior Losalind Loo said.Styleta’s founders are being recognized in Forbes Magazine next year as one of the 30 under 30. With a successful fashion show and trunk show, Styleta has started the seed of something bright at IU. “Fashion has the power to help us feel good about each other and help the world,” junior Francesca Fuerman said.
(11/05/10 3:16am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>FROM IDS REPORTSTattoo, video, ceramic and other non-traditional artists will take the stage at the second annual “Devotion” show Friday. Organized by alumnus Jeremy Sweet, “Devotion” is an art event that features local artists from various medias. The event will be at 7 p.m. at The Lodge. Sweet organized the event last year during his final year of graduate school. He wanted to showcase local work and start conversations about the art in Bloomington. “‘Devotion’ represents devotion to a craft,” Sweet said. “There is a good base of artistic talent locally that doesn’t always get acknowledged.”Upland Brewery is sponsoring the event, and a DJ will be playing music all night.“I’m trying to highlight more contemporary art and create an atmosphere that’s entertaining,” Sweet said. Aside from creating a relaxed evening, Sweet said the night is also a great opportunity for artists to network.“It’s a chance for local people to see my work outside of venues of IU,” ceramic artist Keira Norton said.The purpose of the night is to have a conversation about arts and to see what other artists are doing. “It’s a platform for less traditional artists to participate in a gallery setting,” tattoo artist Colin McClain said. “I think the main thing is because of the diversity of the artists, it allows people to be exposed to arts they normally wouldn’t be exposed to.
(10/22/10 3:31am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>Mastodon skeletons, the Great Depression era Works Progress Administration and the ice age are all a part of Indiana’s archeological history and took center stage on the first day of the 2010 Midwest Archeology Conference.The conference, which is back at IU for the first time since 1978, will run through Sunday in the Indiana Memorial Union. The 56th annual conference is hosted by the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archeology and sponsored by various organizations.“It’s a great place to make connections and to talk to people about the future,” Erica Ausel, a third year graduate student said. “It’s a positive thing for the entire department.”The conference will feature a wide range of talks that cover Midwest archeology, as well as a symposium dedicated solely to Indiana archeology.“What we can learn here in Indiana might be applicable to other regions,” Edward Herrmann, a third year graduate student and presenter said. “We know by stone tools found that people in Indiana were some of the first people in the Americas.”All research presentations during the conference last 15 minutes and cover varying topics from different areas in anthropology and archeology. For the first time this year’s conference will have a lithics, or stone tools, exchange Friday. The conference is geared toward both professionals and students interested in the field.“It helps provide general information for archeology,” senior anthropology major Keri Helmer said. “You don’t have to have a strong archeology background. It’s accessible to everyone.” The Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archeology was established in 1965 as a research center by Eli Lilly. The center was named in honor of Glenn Black, the first professional archeologist in Indiana. The center currently curates nearly 12,000 archeological collections.“Eli Lilly provided us a great resource which allows us to bring people together to discuss and further our knowledge,” said associate professor of anthropology Timothy Baumann, who also serves as the center’s curator of collections.
(10/15/10 3:50am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The room was filled with anticipation as students awaited Mark Strand, Pulitzer Prize winner, former Poet Laureate and the invited speaker for the College Arts and Humanities Institute. The institute’s Director Andrea Ciccarelli interviewed Mark Strand on stage before he read from his prose and poems Thursday. Strand joked about his writing process.“I’d like to say going into the living room stark naked, jump and down. Open the window, make coffee, put all my clothes on, jump in the shower with all my clothes on, jump up and down, then I write,” Strand said to the audience. “But that’s not the case.”Received with laughter, Strand discussed his preference of prose over poetry. “I like writing prose more, maybe because I don’t have to revise it,” Strand said.His poetry and prose has been well-received through the years. “He is one of the best poets alive, not just of the English language,” said Ciccarelli. Strand’s work, including drafts of poems, unpublished work, published work, translations and correspondence between other poets such as Octavio Paz, can be found in the Lilly Library. “We have a very good research collection,” Rebecca Cape, head of Reference and Public Services at the Lilly Library said. “It’s good to see the process and creation of writing.”After the reading, the IDS spoke to Strand about his favorite poet, the theme of solitude and his correspondence with Paz.IDS The theme for this series is solitude. How do your poems connect with this theme?STRAND I think solitude is the experience of everyone. It’s not really a theme, it’s the human condition. People are alone, they may be married, they may be surrounded by other people, but to the degree in which they live inside of themselves they experience solitude. IDS I saw the Lilly Library has letters of correspondence between you and Octavio Paz. What where you corresponding about? STRAND Octavio and I spent a summer in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and I also edited the American edition of Poesia en Movimiento. I met him over that and we became friends, and I admired him beyond almost any other human being. He’s not only a great poet, he’s the greatest prose stylist. He’s also the greatest gentlemen I’ve ever encountered. He’s so nice and courtly and has no arrogance. He treated me like an equal. IDS Along those lines, why does the library have those letters and your works?STRAND Because it’s a great library. The Lilly Library is one of those great libraries. And if you want your work to be preserved, this is the place.IDS Who’s your favorite poet?STRAND There are too many to go into. I have many favorite poets. It would be misleading to just name one.IDS Is there one in particular that inspired you to be a poet?STRAND I had an early infatuation with Wallace Stevens. And not so early, a continuous infatuation with Stevens. And one prose writer, Franz Kafka. So I really feel sometimes I was the child of Stevens and Kafka.IDS What do you want your poems to do?STRAND I want somebody when they finish reading a poem to say, “Ah that’s all.”
(10/14/10 3:22am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>“When the light poured down through a hole in the clouds, we knew the great poet was going to show.” So goes a line from the poem “The Great Poet Returns” by Pulitzer Prize winning and Laureate poet Mark Strand.Strand will give a public reading of his work at 5:30 p.m. today in Fine Arts 015.The College Arts and Humanities Institute invited Strand to campus as part of the Solitude series.The Solitude series invites well-known authors and scholars who deal with the theme of solitude to lecture. The series looks at how solitude and creativity are related and how the invited artists’ work impact philosophy, society and politics. Strand’s visit compliments the institute’s vision of inviting great figures to read their work.“He is one of the best poets alive, not just of the English language,” Andrea Ciccarelli, director of the College Arts and Humanities Institute, said. “The idea is to bring the top authors in the literary world.”Strand is the author of numerous collections of poetry which include “Man and Camel,” “Dark Harbor,” “The Continuous Life,” “The Story of Our Lives” and “Reasons for Moving.”He is the recipient of several awards. His poem “Blizzard of One” won the Pulitzer Prize in 1999. He received the National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Edgar Allen Poe Prize from The Academy of American Poets, a Fulbright and several prestigious grants. He has served as Poet Laureate of the United States and is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. Strand is also a current professor in the Department of English and Literature at Columbia University. Strand’s visit is not only meaningful because of his influence on the literary world but also because of his presence in the Lilly Library.“The Lilly Library has Mark Strand’s papers and various collections,” Ciccarelli said.”It is important we are able to bring him here where his work is being held.”The Lilly Library carries popular poems such as “Blizzard of One,” and rare privately printed poems such as “The Garden.” Today’s reading will include a variety of his works. Ciccarelli describes the reading as a sort of anthology of his work. “I think it’s exciting we have a school big enough to bring writers of this caliber,” said Emily Witsell, a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science.
(10/07/10 5:49am)
____simple_html_dom__voku__html_wrapper____>The lights dim, four dancers dressed in black come onstage, and then suddenly a dancer in a vibrant red leotard appears. The dancers are rehearsing for this season’s fall ballet “A Choreographer’s Evening,” which opens Friday. The center dancer of the first piece, Jordan Martin, commands the space. She will be playing the ballerina in red, usually known as Persephone, in “Noir,” a piece choreographed by Twyla Tharp. Tharp’s contemporary style brings something fresh to traditional ballet.This season’s fall ballet will feature an eclectic menu of different dances and choreographers. The night will also consist of “Allegro Brillante” by George Balanchine and a new piece, “The Baker Dances” by New York choreographer Joshua Bergasse, with music originally composed by David Baker. Because of the show’s variety, it is very demanding on the dancers. “It’s important for the audience to see what we can do,” Michael Vernon, chair of the Department of Ballet, said. “Sometimes ballet can be restricting. It’s important to relax and move.”The Jacobs School of Music ballet majors train primarily in their genre. Because of the intensity of the program, it is hard for them to take dance classes in other genres. “Students learn other dance genres through choreography,” Vernon said. The choreography for the show is stunning, physically demanding and rewarding. Tharp’s “Noir” is a mystery-plot dramatic ballet and very contemporary in nature. It is grounded and has many roots in modern dance. Balanchine’s “Allegro Brilliante” is the antithesis of “Noir.” Filled with jumps, pas de deux and girls in flowing pastels, this dance was created at the height of Balanchine’s career.Bergasse’s choreography is filled with rhythmic hip movements and style, which complements Baker’s music. Baker is a world-renowned composer and head of the Jazz Department at the music school.This is the first time in six years the school has done a collaboration with an original composer. Bergasse’s past experience with the school as a guest choreographer qualified him to create this world premiere. Bergasse choreographed and directed last spring’s successful West Side Story and has choreographed other projects for the school. “It is a different language and a completely different way of moving,” Bergasse said about working with ballet dancers in the jazz piece. “We like to expose students to different things.”He said his style is mainly classical jazz with influences from tap dancers Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.“This show has a variety,” senior and dancer Ellen Barlow said. “There is something for everyone.”