It’s that time of year again where the African American Arts Institute students showcase their talents.
Ballet dancers let their hair loose as they stepped into the role of choreographer for “Ballet at the BCT: The Choreography Project” on Tuesday.
Forty members of the 90-member Singing Hoosiers choir made the cut in November to go on a 13-day tour through three major cities in China. With the tour of Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong less than a month away, the Singing Hoosiers are rehearsing to show off IU abroad.
When I think of Bloomington, a town smack in the middle of our nation’s heartland, I’m reminded of the endless countryside, rustic houses and warm summer evenings when friends gather around a campfire at night, telling jokes and reminiscing about the past. While people may not see Italy as a likely comparison to the Midwest, there are more similarities than meet the eye.
Kathleen Baldwin’s session, “The Art of the Orgasm, Yours and Mine,” was Tuesday at The Venue Fine Art & Gifts. Baldwin talked about several topics related to the misconceptions surrounding male and female orgasm as well as the stereotypes of sexual relations in general, discussing aspects such as men and women’s expectations, the effect of the porn industry on sex and the negative connotations sex has.
It all started when Crystal Taliefero-Pratt didn’t make the cut the for IU Soul Revue. Now, years later, the musician who has performed alongside world-renowned artists has returned to Bloomington and has been awarded the African American Arts Institute’s most coveted award.
When I was a little girl, I grew up in Whiting, Ind., a small town on the northwestern-most point of the state. My parents moved there after getting married but had problems fitting in and being accepted by the neighbors and townspeople for reasons none of us really understand.
“Ballet at the BCT: The Choreography Project” opens at 7 p.m. today at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater and will also run Wednesday. The show is free and open to the public.
Bloomington has one of the best contemporary music scenes in the Midwest and one of the best music schools in the world. IU graduate Loren Gurman decided to join the two in a creative experiment.
As some students were having fun at the races and preparing for one of the most epic weekends at IU, others were hastily working before the Mac Miller and Wiz Khalifa concert Friday night.
The orchestra warmed up below the stage, gathering steam, and then the steam whistle itself blew — and the cast of “Anything Goes” set sail for a romping, roving musical comedy.
Kathleen Baldwin, a renowned sexuality educator, writer and consultant, will lead a session titled “The Art of the Orgasm, Mine and Yours.”
The weather was unseasonably cold. Winds were gusting; it was raining sideways. But unfavorable conditions did not deter lovers of vinyl from celebrating Saturday.
Members of a sold- out crowd of 5,000 wore neon green trucker hats and “GLOWME” T-shirts as they prepared to enter IU’s second outdoor light and music festival, GLOWfest, headlined by electronic artist Pretty Lights.
IU student groups Campus Crusade for Christ, The Impact Movement, ONELife and IU Student Association present Grammy–nominated Christian hip-hop artist Flame, who will perform for Little 500 weekend.
Marvin Lowe went through various changes in medium throughout his course as an artist. He started exploring the art of intaglio prints, then transitioned to mixed media pieces much larger in scale before finally working in more abstract ways. The Venue Fine Art & Gifts will display some of Lowe’s large-scale collages starting today.
An orange extension cord ran from a single outlet across the empty spaces of the Jordan parking garage and into an overloaded power strip. From the one outlet, a makeshift music venue was powered.
In honor of April being Autism Awareness Month, I have decided to review three books, all dealing with characters affected by some form of autism spectrum disorder. I hope these reviews offer a glimpse of what life is like for those of us on the spectrum and help Indiana Daily Student readers keep an open mind in regard to autism and other disabilities.
Aboard the S.S. American, the IU Theatre Department will go back to the 1920s with Cole Porter’s musical “Anything Goes.” Opening at 7:30 p.m. Friday, “Anything Goes” will close IU Theatre’s 2010-11 season.
Guests happily lined up in the lobby of the Buskirk-Chumley Theater on Wednesday waiting to witness the marriage of dance and music at the Modern Dance department’s annual production of “Hammer and Nail,” which continues today.
