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Graduate students Jedediah Allen and Elise Figa perform with the IU Baroque Orchestra Sunday afternoon at the Auer Concert Hall. They are both in the Early Music Institute at the Jacobs School of Music which studies the historical performance of original musical instruments before 1800.

Baroque Orchestra , Jacobs singers perform 'Hypermnestra'

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History was made this weekend as the opera “Hypermnestra” was performed for the first time at IU.As the hair-raising pitches of six Jacobs School of Music singers and the warm instruments of the IU Baroque Orchestra sounded from the stage in an almost-full Auer Concert Hall, the two-hour-long opera showcased many talents.


Great Big Sea are scheduled to perform Wednesday evening at the Bluebird.  They will be performing several hits, including songs from their Fall 2007 released album Fortune's Favour.

Great Big Sea to play at the Bird

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Award-winning folk/rock band Great Big Sea is kicking off the second leg of its U.S. tour with a concert at The Bluebird Nightclub on Wednesday. The tour is to promote the band’s new album, “Fortune’s Favour,” which went gold in Canada.



Shu-Mei Chan Evans, Bloomington resident and co-founder of the Bloomington Clay Studio, looks at a piece of Jeremy Kennedy's "4 Cell" Installation Friday evening at the McCalla Building. The exhibit's focus was the artist's obsession with materialism.

Display features destroyed cell phones

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The opening reception of Jeremy Kennedy’s exhibition “4 Cell” on Friday night at the Fuller Projects showed off his amusement with cell phones and the way people interact with them.


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Panel features alumni literature

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A burst of laughter erupted from the audience as one poet and three volunteers performed a piece that demonstrated common annoyances and gibberish transported through cell phones.ArtsWeek’s “The Writer in the World” showcased four published writers and graduates of IU’s MFA Creative Writing Program to read from their works and answer questions. In correlation with ArtsWeek’s theme, “Politics and the Arts,” the two poets and two fiction writers read excerpts from their works they believed to be political in some form.



Broadripple High School senior Gregory Manning II stretches before performing Saturday evening during the IU African American Dance Company 12 Annual Showcase. Members of the company participated in a weekend-long series of dance workshops.

Dance workshop sways minds

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The message of the 12th Annual African American Dance Company Workshop was passing on traditions to future generations, but for participants, it was also a chance to have some fun and express themselves through dance.


IU Jacobs School of Music graduate student Nemanja Ostojic tunes his guitar in his studio Friday afternoon in Merril Hall before teaching a lesson. Ostojic won first place at the Southwest Guitar Festival in San Antonio, Texas in February.

IU Serbian guitarist wins competitions, teaches

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For Nemanja Ostojic, the classical guitar is a way of life.Having originally started on the violin at 6 years old, Ostojic decided to switch to classical guitar when he was 10. He said he wanted more strings and switched to guitar to be cool around his friends. Little did he know he would be playing 15 years later on scholarship and winning international competitions all over the world – four in the past year.







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Dance fuses art and science

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Audiences were awed at the IU Auditorium on Thursday night after The Liz Lerman Dance Exchanges’ multimedia performance. The performance, called “Ferocious Beauty: Genome,” featured various video and audio clips, as well as monologues from dancers.


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Angelou's visit postponed

Maya Angelou’s visit to IU on Sunday has been postponed because of the author's illness.


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Off-Broadway play examines death penalty

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The Cardinal Stage Company will present a reading of the off-Broadway play “The Exonerated” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the John Waldron Arts Center Auditorium as a part of ArtsWeek. 


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Artists combine styles to create computerized ceramics

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Two artists explored the use of digital technology in ceramics in a SoFA Gallery exhibit, a collaboration resulting in a whimsical exhibition of clay pears, winding arrows and comic book-printed cups.“Rendering and Meaning: Infinite Speed, Zero Errors & Total Memory: Creativity and Desire in the Digital Age” will run from Feb. 24 through March 13.