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Show 04.12.2010 culture 4 Spoon: best band of the Vibe-Dancing with the Stars st 21 century in Salt Lake interview. "We're just excited to get out there and dance." Their dedication to the sport has resulted in two national Dancesport championships. "The tour team has prepared me a ton by the simple fact that we just got done with our concert, so performing is fresh in my mind," said Bloxsom-Carter, a member of the UVU ballroom tour team. Hamilton is one of the younger members of the team. This will be his first national television performance. "I'm excited for what we are going to show the nation, which is what we have been working our whole lives for," Hamilton said. BODILY: r i Culture writer B A C O B MCMILLAN Culture writer With the release of their seventh full-length album, 'Transference," earlier this year, the Austin, Texas band Spoon cemented their status as the band of the decade. That's seven great albums in a row over the last 15 years, hewing close to their signature sound while embracing growth and experimentation. And they're not just consistent, they're also relevant. They're as responsible as anyone else for the "indie" craze which currently dominates the culture; basically, if you've seen a movie trailer in the last ten years, you've heard them. Upbeat tracks like "The Way We Get By ""Sister Jack" and "The Underdog" are embedded in the nation's consciousness. It's one thing to be an unstoppable force in the studio, but to truly claim the crown, you need to put on one hell of a live show to back it up. And that's just what they did at Salt Lake's In The Venue on Wednesday, April 7. Micachu and the Shapes took the stage first at 8:15 p.m. Their set could best be described as one big question mark. Deerhunter was next, and as good a warm-up band as I've seen. Relying heavily on steady drumbeats and walls of deafening guitar noise, they managed to hold the attention while still ratcheting up anticipation. At 10:30 pm the boys from Spoon finally came out to cheers and applause. Wasting no time, they immediately launched into their first four songs with no breaks in between. Frontman Britt Daniel is the consummate performer. He flails, shakes, shuffles and struts through the songs, all without missing a beat on the guitar or the vocals. He'll frequently break into an infectious smile mid-song. This man is having fun, and he wants you to know it. And since Spoon's tunes are built on swinging rhythms and energetic melodies, it's the perfect visual accompaniment. They played well into midnight, a 22 song set, and still left the crowd wanting more. But their greatest accomplishment is making music so breezy and fun without sounding disposable. There's real depth and artistry to these songs. And after a show like this it's possible to imagine the band's best work is still ahead of them. JACOB MCMILLAN/UVUReview A group of teens and young adults representing The Vibe Performing Arts Studio in Lindon, Utah is preparing to showcase homegrown Utah dance talent. The students range in age from 15 to 22 years old, Many started dancing soon after learning to walk, and formal instruction for many started in preschool. The Vibe believes its student dancers should be trained in all dance styles such as hip hop, jazz, ballet, tap and ballroom. The well-rounded and balanced training brought the group national attention which resulted in their invitation to perform on national television on ABC's "Dancing With the Stars," at 7 p.m. on April 13. The performing team is made up of five couples; the five guys" are Brock Bodily, Nick Bloxsom-Carter, Tynan Hamilton, Brandon Armstrong and Trey Jackson. The five girls are Witney Carson, Lindsay Arnold, Brittany Cherry, Kelsey Skousen and Tanisha Belnap. Some couples have been together for 13 years. "Most of us have danced since the age photo courtesy of < of two," Skousen exBallroom dancers have their night to shine on "Dancinjg: plained in a recent With the Stars." ':-; Not only can Spoon put out a great album but they are also kings of live performance sculpting, so I was actually surprised she picked me to be her mentor because from • B1 she knew that I did photography. But she still wanted me to mentor her, so that was interesting. I gether was kind of fun behad a great relationship cause 1 learned more about with Sariah even though photography and I am a she wasn't interested in my little more interested in it. medium. We just seemed I loved doing cyanotypes like we fit well together," and that's just one process .Harbaugh said. of like a million. It was cool that Teagan was there Inspired by commonlyto help me. She knows felt yet profound emowhat she's doing." tions, Owen captured bliss, emptiness, anger, Alex's pieces were on depression and insanity in display right next to those five separate photographs. of her meritee. Using the Incorporating aspects of gum print photographic her medium of preference, process, she mixed potasshe used paint, natural sium dichromate and gum elements, wax and glass arabic together, painted it to enhance each emotive onto her paper, which then piece. becomes light sensitive, and exposed the paper and "We talked about develher negatives to the sun, oping a concept and I let thereby developing the her borrow an older camera images. that I had ... I was impressed because she found "I was kind of insecure a model that was able to with myself and I was convey each emotion. Her putting myself out there, but I was being broken so I project was about a series of emotions that we have wanted them to feel really inside of us and just sorting fragile and faint, so that's through these emotions in why they are white on different situations. She white," Alex said. "It has thought of all the poses been a really fun experiand all the makeup and ence. We've been matched she totally pulled it off," since February so we've Harbaugh said. been working on this for a couple months, and we will A set of Harbaugh's probably still do stuff after own pieces were created this show is over; I am sure with a historic photographwe will stay in touch." ic process used during the 1800s. Depicting trees in Another photographer, late fall once they have Rebecca Harbaugh, was entirely lost their leaves, mentoring Sariah Owen in she plans to re-photograph the photographic medium. the same images once their "She does painting and ARTSHOW QDetimed'itilk wow hi mi/nd! 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