Through brush strokes, computer clicks, and pencil scratches, more than 60 local artists blended their personal interpretations of the HIV/AIDS epidemic into a comprehensive exhibition for Face AIDS' Artists Respond to HIV/AIDS exhibition at the Chait Galleries Downtown. They are students, professionals, professors, and hobbyists. They are young, old, healthy, and ill. And together they call for a social change and deeper understanding of an issue facing those that might walk by us on the Pedestrian Mall and those suffering abroad. (2) comments
Class time in the dance department's Collaborative Performance course was spent not perfecting the art of dance but instead refining another art - communication.
Lounging at desks in Halsey Hall, the 11 students worked at the process of collaboration. Dancers with legs gracefully draped on tabletops beside them exchanged ideas back and forth with composers, theater students, and a photographer.
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A meeting of the minds will be on display 8 p.m. today at the Mill, as some of the finest female singer-songwriters in Iowa come together for the annual "Women's Acoustic Showcase." Among artists featured are Nikki Lunden, Barb Ryan, and Laurie Hagg, yet perhaps none loom larger than Gayla Drake Paul, a world-renowned acoustic guitar virtuoso. (0) comments
The play within a play has been a staple in theater for centuries. Shakespeare used it to great effect in Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the tradition has even crossed over in recent years to such films as Singin' in the Rain and such television shows as "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip."
With this weekend's production of Anton in Show Business, the next Mainstage Production, the UI theater department proves that some narrative devices never go out of style.
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Listen closely the next time you're watching "The Office." Between Kelly Kapoor's chirping and Ryan Howard's deadpan delivery, there's something missing: laughter. The laugh track, once a staple of sitcoms, is fading fast from the television landscape.
Good riddance.
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Here's the deal: I've been dating this girl on and off now for about a year and a half. I've been trying to break up with said girl on and off for over a year of that time. But every time I do finally find the strength to end it (usually thanks to a little help from vodka), it never seems to last. (0) comments
In the melee of football, bars, and business degrees, one of the biggest UI traditions might fall by the wayside. Founded in 1936, the Writers' Workshop made the UI the first school to put creative works on par with academic works.
In honor of the institution that helped to develop Paul Engle, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, and James Alan McPherson, the UI Community of Writers exhibit will undertake a yearlong venture to mark years of landmark writing at the Writers' Workshop.
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