Volume 19, Number 1, September 2017
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Applause Volume 19, Number 1 School of the Arts, North Charleston, SC September 2017 soa-applause.com Check out SOA’s summer highlights (12-13) Meet the new Applause staff (10-11) Introducing SOA’s new faculty members (16-18) SOA students and faculty share eclipse experiences (6) Page 2 Patrons September 2017 DIAMOND The Abedon Family PEARL Colleen Aponte RUBY Brenton Burbage Grace Courville Alan Brehm GARNET Giovanni Cusatis Dr. Shannon Cook Christine Bednarczyk Anabella Cusatis Miley Hallen Design Anna Cusatis Danielle DeTiberus Luciano Cusatis AMETHYST Natasha Fields Guido Cusatis Dr. John Cusatis Robin Grieg Jordan Douglas The Brown Family Rutledge Hammes Martin Garcia Beth Hart Izzy Gustafson Logan Murray Mary Kassinger Kiley Hallen The Wohlscheid Family School Nurses Michael Morelli Kevin Short Courtney Moschella TOPAZ Christopher Selby Caroline Baker Bill Smyth TURQUOISE Braedyn Wasserman Ann Marie Fairchild Robert Grant Rachel West The Griffin Family Antoinette Green Andrew Wise The Bride Family Darcy Jackswhich Peyton Woodall The Elliott Family Jannie L. Mack Sarah Fitzgerald Shannon Mahoney Joseph Naas Paige Horschel Alyssa Nestman Brett Johnsen Nathaniel Robinson Sr. Beth Lasley Molly Scofield Brandon Lyons David Southwick Rachael Stallsmith Heath Orvin Kathryn Sullivan Susan Pace Cameron Wescott Meghan Slowey Cynthia Wescott David Thornburg Stephan Whaley September 2017 News Page 3 Letter from the Editor Caleb Smith Applause Dear Readers, since 1999, the official student Welcome. As the new editor, I will strive publication of to make Applause the best that it can be. The staff and I aim to deliver the highest quality School of the Arts news and features faster and better than ever. Founded in 1995 by Rose Maree Myers To learn more about the staff of Applause, turn to pages 9-10. We are proud to be publishing Editor-in-Chief: our first issue during the first week of Patrick Wohlscheid September. Business Manager: Web Editor: Our September issue will catch you up Haley Swittenberg Jada Orr on changes, events, and exciting plans for this school year. Applause is proud to introduce Staff Writers: many of SOA’s new faculty members, with interviews on pages 16-18. Want to see Taylor Kahn-Perry Bailey Abedon how registration, the first day, and first month art major activities turned out? Caleb Smith Malachi Jones Pages 4-8 have it covered. Nostalgic for summer already? Turn to pages 12-13 to Haleigh Markham Courtney Wickstrom check out SOA’s summer highlights. From covering Graduation for the first time to Jayla Sanders Maggie Robinson CD and book reviews, Applause has news and content for everyone. Finian Butcher Our paper is proud to showcase the best of SOA, including student artwork Jessica Bride and writing, trivia knowledge, letters to the editor, and of course, covering the Mosiah Williams Carson Peaden stories that you want to see. So feel free to contact me or any member of the staff. Graham Martini Cora Schipa You can find us on Twitter with the handle @applausesoa, on Facebook at “SOA Alec Pourmoghadam Mary Grace Hutzler Applause”, and through soa-applause.com. Jessica De La Cruz Thank you to all of our patrons and advertisers for supporting Applause in its endeavors, and thank you to you, our readers, for giving our publication a John Cusatis, Ph.D., Adviser purpose and an audience. Charleston County School of the Arts Have a great year, SOA! 5109-B West Enterprise St. Patrick Wohlscheid, Editor-in-Chief North Charleston, SC 29405 soa-applause.com Where you can findApplause Table of Contents North Charleston News: 3-8 Charleston County School of West Ashley the Arts St. Andrews Public Library Features: 9-19 West Ashley Public Library Student Work: 20 Zen Asian Fusion Mount Pleasant & IOP Reviews: 21 Mt. Pleasant Public Library AR Workshop Downtown Opinion: 22 The Village Library Charleston County Main Library Novelties: 23 Question of the Johns Island James Island Month: 24 Johns Island Public Library James Island Public Library Cover by Halle Garrett Page 4 News September 2017 2017-2018 Registration runs smoothly Another great first day at SOA by Jessica Bride by Caleb Smith Every summer, students are filled with joy to be invited August 17th was the first day of school for back to school before the academic year actually begins for one, SOA students. This year our new students and re- exciting day: registration. After six years at SOA, and six previous turning attendees have high hopes for themselves. years of registration, I, along with other high school students The new freshman class clasp their schedules to including my fellow seniors Alec Pourmoghadam and Mary their faces, trying to navigate their way through the un- Grace Hutzler, decided to volunteer this year to help out the teachers and administrators who usually conduct the event. known high school building hallways. The middle school- What we didn’t know when we signed up for Sixth Grade ers roll their book bags in a building they’ll come to love registration was that we would be greeted by a rising sixth grader carrying for the next four years, hoping that all of their teachers are her rejection letter, still believing that she could attend. Or that we would kind. And the seniors reunite with friends from past years spend ten minutes explaining to a sixth grader why she really should comparing schedules and counting down the days until buy a backpack. Still, the sixth grade staff decided to ease the stress of graduation. Senior Cre- the parents of our rising middle school students by implementing a new Patrick Wohlscheid ative Writer Kate Gray- system: Alec and I only gave out one textbook at registration to son remarked that she be kept at home while the other ones would be distributed on the “got to school on time first day of school to go directly into lockers. This way, as the new for the first time ever.” SOA sixth graders filled their lockers with carpets, wallpaper, and This year seems chandeliers, they also avoided lugging their new textbooks from to be a promising one home to school and instead just walked from class to across the hall. For high school, however, all textbooks were given out. so far, and most stu- After volunteering, Mary Grace commented, “I’ve never been dents are excited for more exhausted than I was after running back and forth grabbing the future. There is a textbooks in the high school building without air conditioning.” On lot in store for you all working registration all week, Alec found that “it set the mood for a here at SOA, we hope great school year” and “was much better than past registrations.” that it all goes smooth- ly and you enjoy your Seniors Alec Pourmoghadam time as you embark on and Jessica Bride distribute a new successful school year. textbooks to sixth graders. Fighting Gnomes get logo makeover by Mosiah Williams Provided The School of the Art’s Fighting Gnomes are not merely Provided a myth—some campus legend of garden-men crusaders against a tyrannical Pegasus—but a troupe of improvisers who “fight for creative improv theatre and ambassadorship of the Charleston County School of the Arts,” according to Mr. George Younts, SOA Theater Instructor and Head Gnome. Mr Younts founded the program at the turn of the century as an artistic outreach and extracurricular for Theater majors. Every year since, the Gnomes travel to schools throughout the low country—sometimes upstate on overnight outreaches—performing short The Fighting Gnomes’ and long form improv, introducing fundamental techniques, building on logo for 17 years. stage presence and using creative muscles, but most importantly, sharing The Fighting Gnomes’ new theatrical experience with students whom they would’ve never met. This “pumped up” logo for 2017. year’s roster includes four rookies, three 2nd-year gnomes, two 3rd-year gnomes, and one fourth year gnome. Although most workshops are off campus, the Gnomes typically perform two to three shows on campus throughout the school year during convocation and for Gnome-Coming, a special event with milk and cookies! While Mr. Younts is excited for another year of “yes, and-ing” and building the school’s relationship with the theatre community, the Gnomes wait patiently for the Pegasus to sleep, so they may assert their place as the school’s rightful mascot. And as for the logo, “he old one is 17 years old this year, so I figured it was time for a make-over,” said Mr. Younts. September 2017 News Page 5 SOA Band camp starts the year off Hands on sneaker design right for Band Majors experience for Fashion Majors by Haley Swittenberg by Patrick Wohlscheid Provided The SOA High School Band Fashion and held its annual Band Camp Costume Design majors from July 31 to August 4 at SOA. Provided had the chance to learn This year, the 97 attendees and gain valuable worked with professional experience from musicians from the Charleston professionals on Friday, Symphony, Charlotte August 25, as two Symphony, Charleston Jazz professional footwear Orchestra, and the Charleston designers visited SOA Community Band. The from the Netherlands. students received instruction Roderick Pieters and from these master teachers in Eva Vermue talked and small sectional classes. In worked with the class on Students participate in a trombone addition, Mr. Kerr, Mrs. designing and making sectional class during band camp. Reed, and guest conductor shoes. Speaking on the Susan DuPuis worked with the experience, Fashion entire band major , conducting Mr. Pieters leads the lesson on and Costume Design footwear design and creation. what has become known as the “SuperBand” at the camp. In teacher Ms. Baker addition, the SOA Jazz geared up for another great year of music remarked that “it was an amazing opportunity for making, led by Mr.