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Ailey revives traditional styles

The internationally-known modern dance company Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater premiered original choreography by Matthew Rushing, Hofesh Shechter and Alvin Ailey at Revelations this past weekend at Boston’s Citi Wang Theater. The three contrasting pieces played on opening night to a diverse audience of all ages and races. Although AAADT showcases Ailey’s original choreography in multiple pieces, current artistic director Robert Battle premieres original works from various choreographers within the modern dance world.

HTG’s open cast musical ‘Legally Blonde’ refocuses on feminist themes

You may have seen people in pink sweatshirts with Greek letters around campus this past week—that is because those people were involved in Hillel Theater Group’s production of Legally Blonde, which premiered on Thursday night in the Shapiro Campus Center Theater. The line to get into the theater snaked from its doors across the SCC Atrium a whole half hour before the play started. When audience members were settled into their seats, they were informed that it was a sold out show. It seemed half the campus had come out to see the fun, fashion-forward and feminist musical.

Improvised music and art influence one another during Sound Line in SCC Atrium

Visual artist and musician Lennie Peterson says that he sees shapes when he listens to music. That is how he created a large-scale drawing of Beethoven this weekend in the Shapiro Campus Center Atrium, accompanied by Prof. Tom Hall (MUS) on the saxophone and Marty Ballou on the bass.

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Q&A with Ingrid Schorr

This week, justArts spoke with Ingrid Schorr, the acting director of the Office of the Arts, about the finalized line-up for featured events for this year’s Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts.

Festival of the Arts schedule released

This week, the Office of the Arts announced the events for this year’s Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts. The festival, which will run from April 23 to 26, will host various public arts installations and use the Rose Art Museum’s “Light of Reason” sculpture as a stage for performances.

CLOWNING AROUND: Kenny Raskin ’74 will lead a show of physical comedy on Friday and Saturday. The show will feature clowns and other circus acts.

‘THE BIBLE’ depicts stream of beautiful and horrifying imagery in 48 minutes

Tommy Hartung’s feature-length film THE BIBLE (2014) is haunting and beautiful at once. The film, which is currently on view at the Rose Art Museum, is something similar to a dream. Beautiful images flash across the screen, each preserved for only a fraction of a second in the mind of the viewer. The experience is captivating nevertheless, and by the end, it is hard to imagine that 48 minutes have passed.

Raising the bar

How often have you found yourself torn between choosing an apple or a bowl of ice cream? The struggle between choosing to eat healthy and indulging in your favorite treats is a difficult one, but Michael Shoretz ’09 doesn’t believe that you have to compromise. That is why he created the company Beyond Better Foods, which launched ENLIGHTENED Ice Cream in 2013.  

Gallanty looks to make impact in rookie year

Like many others on the Brandeis baseball team, Justin Gallanty ’18 started his career in the Little Leagues, playing for his hometown team in Westport, Conn. 

Inclement weather lead to cancellations for baseball, softball and track and field

This week, Brandeis athletics saw numerous cancellations due to inclement weather. The softball team’s game on the road at Clark University on Saturday was postponed until a date yet to be determined. The Judges will face off against Bates College tomorrow for the team’s first home matchup of the season. 

Speakers look at incarceration

Last Tuesday, the 2015 Tillie K. Lubin Symposium hosted a lecture on incarceration in the United States in the International lounge.

A RED ROOF: The rooftop of Gerstenzang Science Library will be the location of The Farmers club garden; a 1,000 to 2,000-square foot installation and features milk crates so that the garden can be moved during building renovations.

Cast tackles all of Shakespeare’s works

The opening night of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), performed by Hold Thy Peace on Thursday, had audiences rolling in their seats with laughter throughout the entire play.

Improv Festival will come to campus, organized by music professor Tom Hall

Campus will see its very first Improvisation Festival in just a couple of weeks—from March 27 through 29. The festival—sponsored by the Brandeis Arts Council and coordinated by Prof. Tom Hall (MUS) who is serving as the festival’s artistic director—will bring artists from both inside and outside the University.

Squads compete against regional ranked teams

The men and women’s tennis team returned to New England last weekend with four games against regional opponents, though neither squad was able to pick up a victory. The women’s squad, ranked 26th nationally, dropped a pair of 9-0 decisions to the No. 16 Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday and No. 10 Middlebury College on Sunday. The men, 33rd in the country, fell 7-2 to No. 3 Middlebury on Saturday and 5-3 to No. 29 Stevens Institute of Technology on Sunday.

EDITORIAL: Resume relationship with Al-Quds

Last Friday, 15 students and alumni demanded a meeting with University President Frederick Lawrence to discuss the renewal of Brandeis’ partnership with Al-Quds University. The students were led by Eli Philip ’15 and Catie Stewart ’16, the creators of the Brandeis University-Al-Quds University Student Dialogue Initiative, through which students have held insightful programming with Al-Quds. After waiting outside Lawrence’s office for an hour, the students scheduled a meeting with the president for later in the week.

English professors recite their own poetry

In her introduction before Thursday’s poetry reading, Prof. Elizabeth Bradfield (ENG), Jacob Ziskind Visiting Poet-in-Residence, noted that there is something special about hearing one’s own professors present their original artistic work. Some 30 students had this opportunity last Thursday at Profs. Sharon Bryan (ENG) and Mary Baine Campbell’s (ENG) poetry reading in Pearlman Hall. 

Performance stretches musical bounds

At 7:00 p.m. on Sunday, the Slosberg Music Center held a concert that featured six pieces composed by students but played by professional musicians.

‘for colored girls’ presents vibrant and unapologetic dramatic poetry

for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf is an excellent, relevant and powerful artistic experience, if only a good piece of theater. This is as true of the script itself as it is of Brandeis Ensemble Theater and the Brandeis Players’ production of it, which ran in the Shapiro Campus Center this weekend.