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World premiere, noted artists, local gems featured at IU dance concert

Dancers The focus is on "community" as modern dance majors at Indiana University perform two guest artist pieces as well as original faculty creations during the IU Contemporary Dance Program's annual guest artist and faculty concert. The concert will focus on multiple perspectives of dance as well as performances that serve to comment on society and encourage conversation among community members.  Full Story

 2009 Met auditions Jan. 10 at the MAC in Bloomington

MET Auditions

Indiana University will host the state's auditions for the Metropolitan Opera National Council in the Musical Arts Center on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 1 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

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 "Rock, Rhythm & Soul" exhibit enables IU archive to take part of its collection on tour

R&B Exhibit Funk

Indiana University's Archives of African American Music and Culture (AAAMC), which houses one of the largest scholastic repositories devoted to black music and expression, is using a new exhibit to take its show out on the road.

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 Carving out a space for reed making

A much-needed reed-making room was dedicated at IU's Jacobs School of Music in fall 2008. It is named for Jerry Sirucek and Leonard Sharrow, legendary oboe and bassoon teachers who taught for decades at Jacobs. The space provides single- and double-reed majors the best possible environment for their endeavors.

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 'Death is a window' to culture, says IU anthropologist

Anya Petterson Royce

If you were to meet Anya Peterson Royce, you would be overcome by the grace and beauty of her demeanor. It might come from the years Royce spent studying dance or maybe it is the cumulative result of a life spent learning. A Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Literature at IU, Royce has spent nearly 40 years working with the Isthmus Zapotec of Juchitán -- an indigenous people from the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. Her time there has been transformative -- both academically and personally.

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 Professor's new book looks at how dress and adornment send messages to others in India

The Grace of Four Moons

An IU professor's new book documents the important clothing decisions made by ordinary people in India and how they contribute to a high level of non-verbal communication in that vibrant society.

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 Making space for 'groundlings' just the core of a plan to revitalize studies of the Bard

Terri Bourus

Terri Bourus has a Shakespearean vision for IUPUI. That is, to develop a center that focuses on researching and performing the drama of the early modern period including, and perhaps especially, Shakespeare. Included in this vision are courses designed especially for the study of early modern drama, faculty to teach those courses and a stage on which to act and learn how best to bring Shakespeare to life in the 21st century and beyond.

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Marisol

In the Dec. 4 issue of Live at IU, we featured stories about "Chimes of Christmas;" a collaboration between Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County and students from the Department of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design; The Department of Theatre and Drama's presentation of Marisol, by Jose Rivera; a theatrical modeling show by IU's Epiphany Modeling Troupe; "Hoosier Date," a program by IU Student Television; IU Auditorium's Young Professionals for the Performing Arts; and IU East's annual art competition.

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