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Show Monday • September 1, 2008 New this week Further DVD Desperate Housewives: The Complete Fourth Season, Sept. 2 UVU's theater pro- ' gram mushrooming just like the rest ofus4 v,\ Mel Sundquist Life editor Life: Season The entire population of Utah Valley knows that UVU is becoming bigger and better. Every program is trying to grow to fit its new university shoes. The theater department in particular has been working to provide a better education and more experience for its students. This summer, our theater department partnered with Sundance to produce an outdoor show at Sundance's Eccles stage. Actors and crew from UVU, BYU and the community put on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, this August. In a press release for the show, Theatrical Arts Department Chair Terry Petrie said. "We feel this charming Shakespearean comedy is the perfect play for Utah Valley State College to do at such a majestic and deeply-rooted place as Sundance Resort." It's too late for students to catch this show, which was the department's most recent step upward. But the upcoming fall season promises to be innovative and entertaining. The first show on the docket will be Anton Chekov's Flies In The Snuffbox. The production is technically a series of playlets, or skits, from Chekov's earlier period of work ~ written before his classic dramas like The Cherry Orchard and The Seagull. On the theater department's Web site, Petrie is listed as the director. A more dramatic production will be Nosferatu, to be directed by Christopher Clark. The most popular production of this classic story is the silent movie, and there Megan Ann have been several theatrical adaptations. Jones played the For Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, UVU will welcome fairy Peaseblos•••a guest director, David1 Morgan. UVU stands out1'fromother local universities in that when producing a classic fume designed play like Twelfth Night, they add unique, modern eleby UVU's ments through design or presentation. This was evident Resident in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and we can expect to Costume see something new and exciting out of the production Designer this semester. Carlo A more contemporary play will be next; The Burial Summers. At Thebes will open this winter. The play is an adaptation of Sophocles' Antigone, written by Seamus Heaney. Assistant Professor John Graham will direct. The department will produce the contemporary, mainstream production Chess, directed by the department's artist in residence Dave Tinney. This nineties super-musical is something to look forward to, fi- L i f e f> One, \ Sept. 2 Amoion.tom The Office: Season Four, Sept 2 Supernatural: The Complete Third Season, Sept. 2 Then She Found Me, Sept. 2 Amaion.com Theatres Bangkok Dangerous, Sept. 5 Everybody Wants to Be Italian, Sept. 5 See THEATER • B4 Trent B a l e s / U V U Review Yahoc Mwi« HOW TO Impress your professors Without actually trying vety hard Mister Foe, Sept. 5 The artists have left the building Yahoo Movies I Mel Sundquist Life editor In most cases, real objectivity is impossible. This specifically applies to professors and grading, because sometimes, even if you try your darndest on assignments and tests, your professor just won't like you. This could be a problem for more than just grading; you could lose a possible reference or even earn a bad reputation in the staff room. Face it: Your grades depend on more than what is listed in the syllabus. A p p r o a c h the first yfew assignments from an angle that no one else in the class will consider. If you're asked to make a sculpture of something that is important to you, look around to see what other people are making. Chances are, they're all trying too hard to impress and pulling out all of the stops. Make something simple and go against the grain. If your professor hasn't noticed you specifically in the first few class sessions, you don't, have much chance of excelling. j Naturally, it doesn't /hurt to know all the right answers. Try to anticipate what the classroom discussion will be about and do a little skimming, so you can make some informed contributions. Nothing is worse for a professor than a one-sided discussion devoid of participation from students. ASS? ue^Ior onassam COLLEGE OF H.A.S.S. As I wander through the English labyrinth of GT hallways, the question I keep asking Philosophy & is, "Where can 1 find the Humanities dance department?" And the answer I keep getting History & Political Science is, "Why on earth would dance be all the way over M ^ T a l k to people who Behavioral Science here in GT?" ^Slf-'have experience with A campus of higher Languages the professor. You can education may contain do this online at sites like smaller institutions, in the Communications RateMyProfessors.com or manner of Russian stackjust by word of mouth on ing dolis: A college may campus. Learn from them have schools, and a univer- ing years, and at the front what they wish they knew sity may have colleges as of the to-do list is obtainwhen the class first started. well as schools. ing a new performing arts Ask them if there are any building on campus. When the former tricks to getting on your proThe first draft of a case School of HASS evolved fessor's good side. into a college in July, the statement for a UVU Arts ^Everything about remaining departments re- Center declares that the mained relatively unaffect- biggest challenge facing pu should be a posied. A new dean was put in us all as a new university tive contribution to place, but for the most part is space; "Former UVU the class. Dress to look apthe College of HASS did President Sederberg calls it proachable, look the pronot feel the same impact as a crisis," reads the opening fessor in the eye, and don't summary. the school of arts did. ever make negative remarks Arts students have been The new school of aits about the class itself, Negadealing with space troubles is now entirely located in tive remarks about issues in for years. Theater students the GT Building, although class discussions are fine, but build sets in the parking some advisors, secretaries never demean or belittle the lot. Musicians rehearse and faculty are still in the professor. LA Building. Because of amongst exhaust fumes the number of students in and engine rumblings from E v e n if you know performing arts programs, the auto shop next door. ^nothing about the sub- the new school may face Art majors labor in the several challenges in.com- soft pall of-dim fluores- See HOW TO • B4 SCHOOL OF ARTS Dance Theater tviusic CD -..• .''; : Arts & Visual Communications Chris Tomlin: Hello Love, Sept. 2 (-ELLO Woodbury Art Museum Amaiotuom cent lighting — a condition poorly suited for drawing and painting. Dance students may face the biggest challenge of all, though, because the department is growing at a threateningly rapid pace. Some must travel to a studio in Lindon or elsewhere for class and practice, while others have transferred to other universities for a better facility, only to come back here for our better faculty (as attested to in the case statement). The statement draft mentions that in the past five years, UVU's students of the arts have been able Hollywood Undead: Swan Songs, Sept. 2 Ammoruom Jefferson Airplane: At the Family Dog Ballroom (Live), Amoioruomoept. c. Joshua Bell: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Sept. 2 Young Jeezy: The Recession, Sept. 2 See HASS • B4 AmQian.com |