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POETRY
'Anything but love'
Mic Check re-writes the meaning
of Valentine's Day with event
By Kelsey Routh
On Sunday evening, Mic Check
will host its annual “Anything But
Love” poetry slam, proving that not ev
eryone is anticipating the colossal teddy
bears and overpriced floral arrangements
traditionally associated with the Feb. 14
holiday.
Although Valentine’s Day is custom
arily viewed as a day full of joy and love,
Aleenah Spencer, Mic Check member,
said Sunday’s poetry slam will convey
just the opposite.
During Sunday’s poetry slam
audience members will choose
any word to replace the word
“love” in the poets’ pieces.
In the past, it has been
words like “waffle” and
“spaceship.”
Madison Parker, Mic
Check president, said
if she were to replace
the word “love” in the
English language, she
wouldn’t choose a word.
“I would make a noise
,because you don’t always
convey love with words —
sometimes it’s a touch or
look or something else,” Parker said.
English sophomore and Mic Check
member Jordan Cooley said replacing
“love” with the word “eat” would ad
equately portray the true meaning of
love.
“Whenever you look at love and
whenever you look at someone in a
relationship, it’s kind of like you’re
consuming that person,” Cooley said.
“ You’re consuming who they are, what
they do, and what they are, and that in
herently contributes to who you are.”
Spencer said despite differing opin
ions of Valentine’s Day, there are ways
for everybody to be satisfied.
“I feel like everyone’s kind of happy
on that day,” Spencer said. “If they’re
not happy, they’re happy because
they’re single and eating ice cream.”
Cooley said it’s a little too much for
her.
“I think that it definitely has a lot of
fanfare and I think it is overly touted
with people and things,” Cooley said.
“People put too much stress on it.”
Parker said Mic Check doesn’t neces
sarily reject Valentine’s Day, it really just
gives a different perspective on the day.
Spencer said the Anything But
Love poetry slam is a good way to
spend Valentine’s Day, whether
Ik it’s with your friends, signili-
cant others or alone.
“It’s a fun time to be
alone with a lot of peo
ple, because you’re not
really alone,” Spencer
said. “Especially at Mic
Check, because a lot of
people share really deep
feelings when they’re on
stage so it kind of con
nects a lot of people in the
audience on a different lev
el than what they thought.”
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'Guys and Dolls’ takes Rudder
By Amanda Talbot
N. The Tony Award-win-
ning Broadway produc
tion “Guys and Dolls” will
transform Rudder Auditori
um into a 1920s New York
scene this Saturday.
“‘Guys and Dolls’ is a
classic American musical
comedy from 1950, gener
ally considered the golden
age of the musical form,”
said Aaron Glover, profes
sor in the Department of
Performance Studies. “It’s a
really fun show, lots of high
energy songs and lots of fun
ny, colorful characters.”
“Guys and Dolls” is part
of a national tour that travels
the country, Glover said.
“Students are getting to
see the same show that is be
ing seen by people all over
the place,” Glover said.
Macy Hicks, accounting
junior and member of MSC
OPAS, said all the charac
teristics of a Broadway play
will be encompassed in this
production.
“Students can expect all
the thrills of a Broadway
classic — a fun storyline
and fantastic musical num
bers with ample humor
and memorable characters,”
Hicks said.
The production may dif
fer from the film adaptation
with some of the songs and
dialogue, Glover said.
“While Marlon Brando
and Frank Sinatra were cer
tainly good in the movie, the
performers in this produc
tion are professional musical
theatre performers, meaning
they’re trained for this kind
of singing and performing,”
Glover said. “It’s a very dif
ferent experience to see the
show live in person.”
The show will be at 7:30
p.m. Feb. 7 in Rudder Au
ditorium.
ART
Festival showcases audiovisual works
By Olivia Knight
K. Artists will present their audiovisual works
i n the annual Fresh Minds Festival Finalist
Encore this weekend.
Kim Kattari, assistant professor in the De
partment of Performance Studies, said the
pieces on display are a blend of sight and sound.
“This usually doesn’t mean just a music
video,” Kattari said. “This is like, back in the
day, sometimes screensavers on Windows
Media Player would change according to the
music, like it might get red when the music
got louder. ”
Each item on display is selected by student
curators, and last year, 679 students curated
almost 200 submissions. Jeff Morris, associate
professor of performance studies, said this is
one of the ways the festival engages students.
“We thought this approach would be a great
way to get students actively involved,” Mor
ris said. “They’re definitely exercising critical
thinking, encountering new things.”
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