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University of Missouri, St. Louis IRL @ UMSL Current (2010s) Student Newspapers 2-25-2013 Current, February 25, 2013 University of Missouri-St. Louis Follow this and additional works at: http://irl.umsl.edu/current2010s Recommended Citation University of Missouri-St. Louis, "Current, February 25, 2013" (2013). Current (2010s). 131. http://irl.umsl.edu/current2010s/131 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Newspapers at IRL @ UMSL. It has been accepted for inclusion in Current (2010s) by an authorized administrator of IRL @ UMSL. For more information, please contact [email protected]. February 25, 2013 Vol. 46 Issue 1400 Dance St. Louis presented Nashville Ballet’s “Carmina Burana” at the Touhill Performing Arts Center on Feb 22-24. Photo: Heather Thorne ‘Carmina Burana’ casts spell in dance, music CATE MARQUIS Editor-in-Chief Te stirring music is familiar Te program opened with a provided translations of the poems dressed in light-colored medieval the form of an abbott. Te segment from countless flms, but Nashville dance piece by Johann Sebastian for interested audience members. cowls and hoods surrounded it, portrayed lust, drinking, gambling Ballet’s “Carmina Burana” blended Bach. Cantata Number 10 was “Carmina Burana” is a long work, paying homage to fate by dancing and other indulgences of excess dance, choir and symphony into the danced by members of MADCO, with 25 pieces, but the addition in unison, commanded by a stern through dances titled “Burning perfect intoxicating cocktail at the the university’s artists-in-residence of dance transformed it into an Fortuna at the center, while the Inside,” “Te Roasting Swan,” “Te Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts dance troupe, with choreography extravaganza so entrancing one was powerful music washed over the Bad Abbott” and “Drinking Song.” Center this weekend. by Dance St. Louis’s artistic and simply swept along for the ride. audience. Te most striking part of this — Te dance presenting executive director, Michael Uthof, Because the music is rhythmic and Te stage was bracketed by risers and another visual highlight — was organization Dance St. Louis, and accompanied by music from the energetic, it makes a great choice draped in black, upon which stood “Te Roasting Swan.” Te Swan which has made the Touhill a base University Symphony and Singers. for dance. Paul Vastering, artistic the robed singers. Dancers entered was danced by Alexandra Meister, in recent years, brought all this Music and dance were perfectly director and CEO of Nashville and exited the stage from either side wrapped in an enormous cloth musical and dance delight to the paired. Soloists were Markou, Ballet, choreographed the piece, but also from under the elevated decorated with fames and writhing Anheuser-Busch Performance Hall Heyl, tenor Anthony Heinemann and the visual dynamic of the center risers, through black curtains as a woman consumed by the hellish for three performances, Feb. 22-24. and mezzo soprano Erin Haupt. dance enhanced enjoyment of the underneath them. Costumes and life of the tavern. “Carmina Burana,” conducted Te dancers mirrored the singing, music. Te Nashville Ballet dancers, lighting efects enhanced the story- Balance is restored in the Court by James Richards, featured dancing in unison with the choral the University Orchestra and the telling of the dance. of Love when Cupid, danced by dancers from the Nashville Ballet, portions, with solo dancers taking assembled singers were all splendid. “Spring” represents the dawn of Kayla Rowser, brings love and University of Missouri-St. Louis’s center stage when soloists sang and Te part of the work familiar to youth with a celebration of nature, humanity to triumph over mere University Orchestra and Singers, a pas de deux with a duet. Te piece most is Fortuna, or Lady Fortune. a dance around the Maypole and hedonism. Joy returns, but so does the Bach Society of St. Louis and ofered the perfect appetizer to the Fortuna was danced by Sadie Bo infatuation. Krissy Johnson danced Lady Fortune, who reminds us all the St. Louis Children’s Choirs. main course to come. Harris, who was a principle dancer the part of Flora, representing that fate is changeable. A fnal pas Vocal soloists were soprano Stella After intermission, the curtain throughout. A wheel of life spins the natural world, frst with the de deux was danced by Harris as Markou, baritone Jefery Heyl and rose on the main course, the around her, determining the fate of company of cowled medieval Lady Fortune and Jon Upleger. tenor Tim Warrick. visual and aural feast of “Carmina human beings. dancers and then in a pas de deux Te second Fortuna reprised Te scheduled opening night Burana.” “Carmina Burana” is divided into with Brendan LaPier as Te Sun. some elements of the prologue, performance on Feb. 21 was Composer Carl Orf wrote fve portions. “Spring,” “In Te Te more bawdy medieval times but now text from the poems were canceled due to the snow and ice “Carmina Burana” in 1937 as Tavern” and “Te Court of Love” were refected in some of the dances, projected on the walls and the huge storm, so the house was especially a musical setting for a series of are bracketed by the “Fortuna” with a joyful and comic touch. Te white Wheel of Life skirt whirling packed for the Friday evening eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth dances that serve as prologue and Medieval Soloist, danced by Kevin around Harris. Te dancers were performance. Te excitement was century poems discovered in Bavaria epilogue. Terry, was a standout. now dressed in costumes that apparent in the sold-out theater in 1803. Te poems, written by Te prologue was riveting. Te “In Te Tavern,” as the program evoked the parchment pages of the for this production, which had clerics and students, explore the most impressive bit of staging notes put it, is “not a good ancient poems. also been designated an UMSL cycle of life and questions of fate, was the huge spinning skirt that place,” symbolizing a descent Te evening concluded with a Jubilee event, commemorating the loss, hypocrisy, love and fnding encircled Fortuna, symbolizing into debauchery, despair and the rousing standing ovation. university’s fftieth anniversary. balance in life. Dance St. Louis the wheel of fortune. Dancers appearance of evil and hypocrisy in In This Issue: Town Halls Casino Night Man Man concert Japan Column Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 7 2 FEBRUARY 25, 2013 Volume 46, Issue 1400 www.thecurrent-online.com CALENDAR www.thecurrent-online.com What’s Current EDITORIAL STAFF “What’s Current” is the weekly calendar of UMSL campus events and is a free service for student organizations. Submissions must be turned in by 5 p.m. the Editor-in-Chief .................................... Cate Marquis Thursday before publication; frst-come, frst-served. Listings may be edited for length and style. E-mail event listings to [email protected], with the Managing Editor ................................. Sharon Pruitt subject “What’s Current.” No phone or written submissions. News Editor ........................................ Sharon Pruitt Features Editor ................................. Anya Glushko Suffering Sobriety: Alcoholism and Masculinity in Sports Editor .................................... Leon Devance MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25 Japan A&E Editor ............................ David Von Nordheim Monday Noon Series: ‘Inspired by Bach’ Opinions Editor ..................................... Hali Flintrop In this talk 5-6:30 p.m. in 331 Social Sciences & Business Building, Dr. Copy Editor ........................................ Sarah Novak Ken Kulosa, a St. Louis cellist, invites you to join him as he Paul Christensen argues that the admission of alcoholism in Japan Casey Rogers performs music inspired by Bach and talks about life as a musician, challenges masculine gender norms of drinking and homosociality, placing Staff Writers ............ Sean Cristea, Carolyn Hoang 12:15 - 1:15 p.m. at 402 J. C. Penney Conference Center. This men who identify as alcoholics in a struggle between medicalized Albert Nall, Hung Nguyen program features works of the 20th century written directly in conceptions of sobriety/recovery and societal expectations. For Paul Peanick, Matt Poposky response to these masterful works of Bach. Works of Benjamin information, contact Bob Ell at 314-516-7299. Britten and St. Louis composer Christian Woehr are featured, as Experience St. Louis: Roller Skating and Pizza DESIGN STAFF well as a little Bach. For information: Karen Lucas at 314-516-5698. Join the University Program Board for roller skating and pizza. Departs Designer .................................................. Jenny Lin Provincial House at 6 p.m. to arrive at SkatePort plaza by 6:30 pm. From Photo Editor .............................................. Jenny Lin TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26 there we will have two hours to roller skate on a private rink, while Web Editor ......................................... Cate Marquis St. Louis Jazz Orchestra: A Night of Count Basie listening to a DJ kicking out some tunes, and eating some free pizza, Staff Photographers ....................... Leon Devance compliments of UPB. $5 deposit required at sign up. For information, The Count Basie Orchestra was one of the leading big bands of the contact Scott Morrissey or other UPB member at 314-516-5531. BUSINESS STAFF swing era, and songs including “One O’Clock Jump,” “Jumpin’ at Business Manager ............................ John Wallace the Woodside” and “April in Paris” made Count Basie