1. Jose Gonzalez, “In Our Nature”
SAN FRANCISCO – The DNA Lounge was a real circus the night The Mutaytor came to town. The band looked like a bunch of clowns. Young contortionists folded their limbs like fortune cookies above and around the stage.
Dancers turned, jumped and contracted their bodies across the stage of the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium Sunday during “On the Verge,” a concert presented by the IU Contemporary Dance Program. Produced wholly by students, the show featured the choreography of eight senior dancers who are soon to graduate.
BOLOGNA, Italy – You might have just finished a five-page thesis for your topics class. Or maybe you have spent countless hours preparing for your graphic design portfolio review or re-learning reagents and reviewing old synthesis problems for organic chemistry.
This place has that small-town feel, ambient whistling and is also a place where everyone knows everyone else’s names. It may sound like Mayberry – the perfect community – but as soon as the play begins, the audience soon realizes this town is full of secrets, cautious whispers and “incidents” that happen with every wrong move against a powerful resident.
From Thursday through Saturday, Union Board brought the musical “Godspell” to the stage at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater with an entirely student-run production.
This week, Bloomington will embrace an entirely new spirit of the holidays as Monroe County Civic Theater’s production of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” adapted to one 60-minute act by local playwright Russell McGee, opens for a three-week run. The production will be featured at seven locations across Bloomington and Spencer starting today through Dec. 17. The first performance is at 7 p.m. today at Rhino’s Youth Center and All-Ages Music Club, 331 S. Walnut.
On Friday, hundreds of people crowded shoulder-to-shoulder inside of an unfinished building to gaze at photographs and artwork.
As she sat smiling in her wheelchair, Paula Holtsclaw pointed to the picture on her Hanson T-shirt. Thursday night’s concert had just ended, and Holtsclaw, along with hundreds of other Hanson fans, were in high spirits.
Pop-rock band Hanson performed Thursday evening at The Bluebird nightclub. This is the second time since 2005 that the trio from Tulsa, Okla., has performed in Bloomington. The band comprises of three brothers: Isaac, Taylor and Zac Hanson.
NEW YORK – Theatergoers lined up for tickets Thursday as Broadway returned to business following a crippling 19-day strike that cost producers and the city millions of dollars. Tickets sold at a discounted $26.50 as people lined up for the musical “Chicago.”
STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Doris Lessing is unable to travel to Stockholm to receive her Nobel Prize in literature on Dec. 10 due to back problems, the Nobel Foundation said Wednesday.
Audience members at this weekend’s International Vocal Ensemble performance will be treated to the harmonic sounds of seven different countries in one show.
Eight seniors from the IU Contemporary Dance Program will perform a free concert this weekend at the John Waldron Arts Center. The performance is titled “On the Verge” because the students in the program are on the verge of finishing one chapter in their lives and are moving on to the next.
A rotating tour of comedians put together by nationally-syndicated Indianapolis radio program “The Bob and Tom Show” will make a stop at 8 p.m. Saturday at the IU Auditorium.
In a world where “Desperate Housewives” has swept the airwaves, the IU Department of Theatre and Drama would like to add a little more dirty laundry to the basket. At 7:30 p.m. Friday in the Wells-Metz Theatre, “Jimmy Cory,” written by graduate student playwright Kevin Daly, will make its world debut.
On Tuesday evening, Michael Vernon coached more than 40 members of the IU Ballet Department as they pirouetted on stage in preparation for this weekend’s performances of the classic ballet, “The Nutcracker.” But the dancers in this year’s 49th annual production of the ballet are twirling to a new set of choreography.
At a place like IU’s Jacobs School of Music, it is usually safe to assume that many of the people wandering the hallways are talented and accomplished.
Hundreds of photographs taken by students will be on exhibit. this Friday as part of the annual BFA Photography Alternative Show hosted by the IU Photography Department.
