By Shankari Sureshbabu, Columnist
August 9, 2016
Unique. I’m from a town called Normal where everyone starkly defends that they’re anything but. Middle school was three years of a group of prepubescent teens all trying desperately to fit in and be like everyone else.
But as we grow older, being like everyone else is looked down upon. Being ...
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By Mariah Schaefer
December 6, 2015
The audience strolled into Dance Rehearsal Krannert long before the concert started on the second floor of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
Family, friends and dance enthusiasts were there for one reason: to watch the December-graduating seniors in the University’s department of dance pe...
Tags: Androgynistic, Audience, Bitch Better Have My Money, Charles Gowin, Dance, dance-performance, dance-rehearsal-krannert, Francesca Burns, It's A Struggle Being A Queen, Justin Yeung, krannert, krannert center for the performing arts, Monochomaticity, Paul Sing, Ricky Perry, rihanna, skylar-males, stripped
By Frances Welch
September 8, 2015
Stretching back to the 16th century, the guitar has evolved as much as the timeline of human history. Originating from what was once called a long-neck lute, today’s modern counterpart has developed into the backbone of all musical genres. Music lovers can continue to celebrate this diversity and evolution o...
Tags: 16th century, 2005, Affordability, artists, bluegrass, Bucky Pizzarelli, buddy guy, c-u, country, Cu, Curatorial Approach, Daily Illini, drive-by truckers, Ellnora Guitar Festival, Ellnora Krannert, Guitar, Hans Ulrich Obrist, illini, Instrument, jazz, krannert center director mike ross, krannert center for the performing arts, legends, Longneck Lute, Market, Musician And Music Curator David Spelman, new york guitar festival, Performance, punch brothers, Rock, secondary, September 10, taj mahal, Thursday, top stories, Topstories
By Abigale Svoboda
May 10, 2015
By abigale svobodaNews editorTimothy Killeen will serve as the next University of Illinois President, taking over for President Emeritus Robert Easter. Killen served as the former State University of New York Vice Chancellor for Research President. At a Champaign press conference on Nov. 19, Killeen sa...
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By Shalayne Pulia
December 4, 2014
Ginny Martinez’s hand shot up before she knew what she was doing. The slender dancer, perpetually composed, had volunteered to dance for the last audition spot for Clara in the annual Champaign-Urbana Ballet’s “The Nutcracker.”
Mature beyond her 15 years, Martinez said it was a dream role, an...
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November 10, 2014
Friday, Nov. 14
Friday Night Films: Expendables 3
7 p.m.
Location: Illini Union Pine Lounge
Cost: Free, popcorn will be provided for first 100 attendees
Illini Student Musicals Presents: West Side Story
7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday
Location: Lincoln Hall Theatre
Cost: $8 students, $10 public
Illinois Basketbal...
Tags: 100 Year Anniversary, Arc, beatles, Britbeat, Dadsday2014, expendables 3, Foellinger Great Hall, Georgia Southern, gregory hall theatre, ice arena, Illini Student Musicals, illini union pine lounge, illinois, Iowa Hawkeyes, Iowa State, krannert center for the performing arts, lincoln hall theatre, marching illini, memorial stadium, special_sections, state farm center, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, West Side Story
By Sarah Nolan
November 4, 2014
On the first day of his 2005 trip to Italy with his local community choir, Dr. Kent Conrad performed on the organ in front of a crowded St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City.
Holly Jordan, a close friend of Conrad’s, will never forget the moment.
“The organ was facing the choir, so we could ...
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By Brittney Nadler
October 21, 2014
Juggling drums with their feet, kicking bowls while riding unicycles, diving through hoops and contorting are only a few of the acts the National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China will be performing Wednesday at 7 p.m. at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
“This group is travelin...
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By Elizabeth Dye
October 21, 2014
Blind Summit Theatre, whose colossal 60-foot tall Voldemort puppet performed at the 2012 London Olympics, has returned to the United States from England with a tour that includes one 2-foot tall, three-man-operated puppet and a table as the prop.
Inspired by both British playwrights and world religion, “The Table...
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October 19, 2014
Steven Hager sat on a small, wooden bench in the Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory. His tall, thin frame leaned against the wall, legs crossed, hands escaping a finger-laced position only to gesture when his words became excited.
A memorial for his father, Lowell P. Hager, former head of the Department of...
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October 6, 2014
There’s something distinctly different about the Sphinx Virtuosi orchestra group. As with professional orchestra groups, the musical talent is there. However, while many “Big Five” chamber and other professional orchestras may be comprised of mainly white musicians, the Sphinx Virtuosi doesn’...
Tags: Aaron P. Dworkin, Afa S. Dworkin, african-american composer, all-black, alumni, andre dowell, artistic director, Arts_entertainment, Audiences, big five, blacks, Campaign, carnegie hall, Catalyst Quartet, celine dion, Chamber, classical music, Coleridge Taylor Perkinson, Commitment, communities, detroit, detroit symphony orchestra, Director Of Programming, Diversity, Documentary, Emmy Award, excellence, Executive Director, Foellinger Stage, Goal, group, Harmony Of Strings, illinois, Inception, Inclusion, Inspired By...works Of The C U Spinners And Weavers Gild, institution, justin timberlake, krannert center for the performing arts, latino, Latino Composers, Latinos, lifeandculture, members, merit, Michael Abels, Mozart, Music, Music Talent, Musical Talent, Musical World, nation, National Tour, New York Philharmonic, nonprofit competition, Npr, orchestra, orchestral music, pbs, Philadelphia Orchestra, piazzolla, presentation, Program, Purpose, sphinx competition, sphinx virtuosi, Stations, string orchestra, tour, Tv Show Specials, ui, uiuc, university of illinois, urbana_champaign, Venues, White Musicians
By Brittney Nadler
October 1, 2014
What happens when mythmaking collides with reality? That is the ultimate question in “Polaroid Stories,” a play with poetry, profanity and prostitutes that journeys into the lives of street youth on an abandoned pier in the outskirts of town.
Inspired by “Metamorphoses,” a Latin narrative poem, “Pol...
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