Culture
Dance
UR Celtic celebrates “St. Paddy’s Day” in April
This year, we were graced not with one, but two St. Paddy’s Days thanks to UR Celtic’s Irish stepdance performance this past weekend in Feldman Ballroom. The showcase was filled with both traditional Irish dances as well as a several choreographed by the members of the organization. The show was also a perfect balance between […]
D-Day
Tinashe and Princess Nokia radiate strength
"Dandelion Day" and "empowering" are two phrases you might not normally use in the same sentence, but with Tinashe’s and Princess Nokia’s D-Day performances, things changed. Although different in musical style and content, Tinashe and Nokia offered performances steeped in a shared feminine power. As her lone drummer boomed along with the speakers’ bass and […]
Strong Auditorium
UR Symphony Orchestra showcases soloist
The UR Symphony Orchestra concert in Strong this past Saturday started out soft, mysterious, and a little sneaky, with the energetic sound of the violins setting off the performance with Johannes Brahms’ “Academic Festival Overture,” later revealed to the audience to be a collection of drinking songs of the time. Rachel Waddell, the group’s music […]
Instagram
Not Vanilla: The Joys of Instagram
Reader, perhaps you have not heard this app called Instagram — it’s something young people are quite into. When I downloaded Instagram, my impressions of the app made me think it would be filled with aesthetic images of the people I followed and the occasional beauty tutorial. What I realized is that Instagram is truly […]
R.I.D.E.
In student VR film, see sexual harassment up close and personal
Visitors slipped on headsets last Wednesday and found themselves transported into the college life of a young woman in “Through Her Eyes,” a student-made virtual reality film whose Rettner Hall premiere was accompanied by a women’s empowerment fair that day. The film opens with the main character (and the viewer) waking up in her dorm […]
Todd Theatre
‘The Pinter Plays’ savor discomfort
“The Pinter Plays,” the UR International Theatre Program’s side-by-side productions of the late playwright Harold Pinter’s one-acts “The Collection” and “The Lover,” possessed a certain sadistic glee in their opening Thursday night. That would make me, I suppose, a happy masochist. The sadism possessed by these plays was not a sadism exerted upon its characters […]
ASL CLUB
ASL Club raises awareness with a cappella
The arcs of a cappella singers in Morey Hall last Thursday had a temporary addition — who sang not with words but with signs. The Midnight Ramblers and Vocal Point were joined by the American Sign Language Club for a performance as part of Deaf Awareness Week. The week, led by the latter club, was filled […]
Drama House
IBTL embraces cringe and character with ‘The Musical Show’
In Between The Lines used the format of musicals as their romping ground in “The Musical Show,” which played on Friday and Saturday in Drama House. As with all of IBTL’s shows, everything (in this case, the lyrics, story, and character) was made up on the spot, but the music itself was written by senior […]
A Cappella
Vocal Point performs an ‘Incredible Show’case
With all the excitement surrounding the future release of “Incredibles 2” (and the forever appreciation for the meme the original movie spawned), it is only fitting that the all-female acappella group Vocal Point adopted it as the inviting and enticing theme for its spring showcase. The performance featured outstanding arrangements, solos, and tributes — like […]
Not Vanilla
Not Vanilla: Being a Ballerina
Whenever I want to see some beautiful art I go onto YouTube and look up the The Royal Ballet — I watch all the videos they have, whether they are performances, practices, or videos about the different principal dancers in the company. First, reader, a disclaimer: I have never been a ballerina, and I have […]
