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Ladysmith Black Mambazo founder Joseph Shabalala, raises his arms and sings with the South African choral group Monday evening during their performance at IU Auditorium. The Grammy award-winning group reached an international audience after recording with American folk singer Paul Simon on his album Graceland.

African group shares native musical heritage

By Mallory Jindra · Tuesday, March 3,2009 12:37 a.m.

Grammy Award-winning Ladysmith Black Mambazo performed for its third time in Bloomington on Monday at the IU Auditorium to cap off Black History Month.

Juniors Isobel Dieppa and Gina DiSerio perform with graduate student Matthew Buffalo in the dress rehersal for 'An Ideal Husband" Monday evening at the Ruth N. Hall Theatre.

‘An Ideal Husband’ outshines rest of theater season’s shows

By Vanessa Torline · Monday, March 2,2009 11:46 p.m.

The IU Department of Theatre and Drama’s production of “An Ideal Husband” at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre stood out as the best of the season thus far for its appreciative, unpretentious approach to Oscar Wilde’s play.

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'

By Amy Burke · Monday, March 2,2009 11:44 p.m.

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

By Brent Williamson · Monday, March 2,2009 11:09 p.m.

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.

Cardinal Stage performance opens death penalty discussion

By Thomas Miller · Monday, March 2,2009 12 a.m.

The Cardinal Stage Company presented Thursday and Friday a reading of “The Exonerated,” a play that tells the story of five men and one woman who are wrongly imprisoned on death row.

Angelou reschedules IU visit for Thursday

Sunday, March 1,2009 11:56 p.m.

Famed wordsmith Maya Angelou will speak as a belated part of ArtsWeek at 7 p.m. Thursday at the IU Auditorium.

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

By Mallory Jindra · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:20 p.m.

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.

Panel features alumni literature

By Bene Viera · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:18 p.m.

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.

‘Fire in the Garden’ tells story based on notorious case of self-immolation

By Bailey Loosemore · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:17 p.m.

A spotlight shone on visiting IU theater department professor Ken Weitzman as he told the story of his own son’s birthday and a man, Norman Morrison, who set himself aflame outside of the Pentagon in Washington in 1965.

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

By Gordon W. Buchanan · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:15 p.m.

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

By Amy Burke · Sunday, March 1,2009 10:12 p.m.

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.

Angelou to be at IU on March 5

Friday, Feb. 27,2009 4:38 p.m.

Maya Angelou's postponed visit to IU has been rescheduled for March 5.

Female jazz musicians to discuss gender, industry

By Maggie Conner · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:17 a.m.

Monica Herzig will team up with other female jazz artists for “Women in Jazz” at 3 p.m. Sunday at the John Waldron Arts Center.

Workshop to expose Bloomington to African Diaspora

By MaryJane Slaby · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:15 a.m.

Graduate student Deara Ball thought she would have to choose college over dance, but the African-American Dance Company gave her a way to do both.

Hoosier Musicals group presents “The Fantasticks”

By Desiree Lestingi · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:13 a.m.

Hoosier Musicals, a troupe of non-theater, non-music majors, presented on Wednesday evening at The Cinemat, “The Fantasticks,” a show about forbidden love and questionable parenting.

IU Baroque Orchestra to perform 268-year-old opera

By Amy Burke · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:12 a.m.

The IU Baroque Orchestra, six music school vocalists and Wabash College musicology professor Larry Bennett ended that streak Feb. 22 when they performed the opera at Wabash College.

Dance fuses art and science

By Rachel Krasnow · Friday, Feb. 27,2009 12:11 a.m.

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.

Angelou's visit postponed

Thursday, Feb. 26,2009 6 p.m.

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

Off-Broadway play examines death penalty

By IDS staff · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:43 p.m.

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.

Artists combine styles to create computerized ceramics

By Jackie Kochell · Wednesday, Feb. 25,2009 10:41 p.m.

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.

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