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Fashion

Senior fashion designers show off styles on dirt runway

By Kelsey Finn · Monday, March 1,2010 12:36 a.m.

Two weeks ago, fashion designers brought the front row of New York Fashion Week to Bryant Park. This past weekend, two IU senior fashion design students, Casey Heck and Kate Murphy, brought the front row to an unusual location in Bloomington.

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Workshops showcase, teach dance styles from around world

By Zollie Barnes · Sunday, Feb. 28,2010 8:42 p.m.

Members of the IU African American Dance Company had been at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center since 8 a.m. Saturday, when the rest of campus slept.The group was setting up for another day of their 13th-annual dance workshops.Ten classes, ranging from modern Cuban dance to traditional African dance, were offered throughout Saturday.

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Morality, money in ‘Major Barbara’

By Melissa Sokolski · Sunday, Feb. 28,2010 8:40 p.m.

One might think a donation for the poor is always a good thing. But not if you ask Major Barbara, who quits her post at the Salvation Army as soon as it accepts donations from breweries and arms dealers. Questions of morality and religion rise up in the IU Department of Theater and Drama’s production of “Major Barbara,” which opened Friday.

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Love found, lost in IU Opera

By Brian Marks · Sunday, Feb. 28,2010 8:31 p.m.

“La Rondine,” the operetta by Giacomo Puccini, follows the story of two lovers linked to each other despite the social conventions of the time.

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Best-selling author, ‘foodie’ to speak Friday

By Bennett Fuson · Friday, Feb. 26,2010 1:34 a.m.

Culinary expertise is arguably a form of art, so it’s only appropriate that one of today’s leading “foodies” will speak tonight in defense of food. Michael Pollan, author of New York Times bestseller “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto,” will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the IU Auditorium on the week’s topic, sustainability.

Dance

Dancers celebrate bicentennial of Lincoln’s birth on auditorium stage

By Rachel Krasnow · Friday, Feb. 26,2010 1:32 a.m.

The auditorium was pitch black and silent. A young woman began to sing softly in the center aisle. She held a flashlight in her hand. A bright beam of light on stage illuminated a hanging circle of veils, and the woman joined her fellow dancers within the circle. With her presence, the performance of the Bill T. Jones Arnie Zane Dance Company began.

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Alpha Kappa step team shares 1st at nat’l contest

By AP Reports · Friday, Feb. 26,2010 1:29 a.m.

After days of controversy over a white group’s win in a step competition, sponsor Coca-Cola said Thursday the Alpha Kappa Alpha team from IU, whose members are black, would share first place and would also receive the same $100,000 in scholarships that the Zeta Tau Alphas won.

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Student fuses classical music with rock

By Kyle Kerns · Thursday, Feb. 25,2010 11:28 p.m.

The Bible might state that Jesus was crucified on the cross in Golgotha. But this weekend, he’s going to be on trial with a little rock music to back him up.

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Last days of Ledger relived on stage

By Jake New · Thursday, Feb. 25,2010 11:26 p.m.

Heath Ledger died in New York City two years ago last month. This weekend, at the Waldron Arts Center, audiences can see an interpretation of the days leading to his death.

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IU drama presents 'Major Barbara'

By Melissa Sokolski · Thursday, Feb. 25,2010 11:13 p.m.

The IU Department of Theater and Drama’s production of “Major Barbara” opens 7:30 p.m. Friday, with shows Feb. 27 and March 2 through 6, with an additional show at 2 p.m. March 6.

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Artist brunch, discussion wraps up ArtsWeek 2010

By Lauren Younis · Thursday, Feb. 25,2010 11:08 p.m.

“The focus of the ArtsEats brunch will be to facilitate a conversation among the local artists about what we all can contribute to the good of the whole when it comes to positioning and maintaining IU and Bloomington as an arts and entertainment center,” said Susan Sandberg, Bloomington City Council member and ArtsEats speaker.

Canadian Brass

Jazz quintet honors jazz legend Armstrong with tribute

By Kelsey Finn · Thursday, Feb. 25,2010 12:17 a.m.

The Canadian Brass quintet took the audience by surprise when they paraded down the left aisle of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater to take the stage Wednesday. The group marched on stage and played a tribute to legendary jazz musician Louis Armstrong.

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Faculty to present new works, Mozart

By Lauren Younis · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 9:32 p.m.

This weekend, the Jacobs School of Music Faculty Recital will feature the avant-premiere of “Listen,” a new work in three movements by professor of viola Atar Arad, as well as two classical Mozart pieces.

La Rondine

Jacobs School's 'La Rondine' to open Friday

By Allison Tyra · Wednesday, Feb. 24,2010 8:51 p.m.

“Make it beautiful.”That simple instruction from stage director Vincent Liotta began the long design and production process leading to the sets and costumes of the latest IU opera.

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