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8 MONDAY, APRIL 2,2012 THE SIGNPOST S cenes continued from page 4 gender-stereotyped, but like I said, this study was very scientific. Here are some of the most frequent and most interesting answers I got (excluding the really interesting ones, which are not all that appropriate for a family newspaper). Some people would love to re-enact that scene from ... . . . Footloose, danc- ing out their anger in the woods. . . . Indiana Jones, where all the bad guys get their faces melted. ...Sandlot, getting saved by the lifeguard Wendy. . . . Tootsie, where Bill Murray is your roommate. . . . Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs/Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory/Heavyweights, where you get to eat any and all junk food within view, and it doesn't have any effect on your body because it's fun and magical. I have to say, junk food came up pretty often. . . . Batman Begins, where you get to drive the Batmobile across the rooftops of New York City. Take that, hipster art galleries and oxygen bars! . . . Dumb and Dumber, where you evade an evil henchman by getting him to eat heart-attack-inducing hot chili peppers. . . . Field of Dreams, where James Earl Jones says anything and it sounds awesome. . . . Stepbrothers, where you get to go to job interviews in a tux and sleep in a bunk bed with Will Ferrell. I bet that would be fun for about a half hour. . . . West Side Story, where street gangs are made up of very flexible male ballet dancers, and you can dance-fight your way through life. Curiously enough, this one came from my dad, who is about as much like a ballet dancer as I am like a marathon runner. . . . Some Like It Hot, where Marilyn Monroe is just looking for a rich cross-dressing con man to love her. . . . Up, where you can have a more fulfilling relationship in four minutes than Reese Witherspoon has ever had in two hours of any movie. decide whether the union or a corporate agenda will succeed. "Mr. Mister, who's like the government, he owns everything, he pays everyone off to say what he thinks is good to help him personally," said Addison Welch, the graduating theater performance student who played Larry Foreman. "But we need to fight for what we know is true and what we know is right." Welch said the show deals with some of the issues faced in today's politics, and even though they aren't exact, he still finds them to be appli- cable. "I've had to really be honest and truthful and pull from what I know is true from the situations happening in our media right now, our life right now, and apply to this character in the '30s," Welch said. The show closed Satur- day, but AAT is open for all students to join if anyone has interest in these opportunities for the upcoming theater season. "I think the central theme is talking about those weaker people, the people that weren't part of the richer class," Ross said. "This theme is about those people that got tired of being suppressed. They got tired of being pushed down, and they were able to build up into these unions and help to support what America is today and the rights that we have." hard to overstate. It is saying we are all connected," Stern said. "I think there is something in our world today that makes us think we are more connected because of our technologies, but I would ask, who is more connected?" The dancers and singers collaborated for the show on Thursday and Friday for groups of elementary and junior high students from the Ogden School District. Each performance had more than 900 students present, and Stern worked the first part of the show, "Candy Wrapper," a part-spoken/partdanced piece based on the same Donne poem, into the show for the benefit of the younger audiences. Stern, who has been a dance professor at WSU for 19 years, said this is the most ambitious thing he has ever tried. According to Stern, at every stage, the students have risen to the occasion because collaboration is always a risk when it involves a large amount of people. "It is possible for that many cooks to end up with really nasty broth, but I don't think we did," Stern said. "People have been very positive and excited about the dance and dealing with this large gauntlet that Donne's writing lays down before us." Amelia Martinez, senior and dance student at WSU, said the theme of COIL and the quote "No man is an island" has special meaning to her life. "For me . . . I always think of my parents," Martinez said. "My parents are deaf, and a lot of their lives were spent kind of isolated because they weren't able to communicate with a lot of people. 'No man is an island' . . . shows the fact that they are not re- ally totally isolated. They have all of these other deaf people and a whole culture to go with." The creation of this piece has been in progress since last March. Stern said one thing that makes this particular piece unique is a 2-inchthick, 200-pound rope. "The rope is an extended metaphor; the essence of it is it shows the connection among people," Stern said. "Donne challenged me to not only choreograph, but to find a metaphor that is visual that allowed me to play and meditate on his ideas." Jessica Haslip, sophomore and dance student at WSU, said the most difficult part of COIL was trying to handle the ropes. "You wouldn't expect them to be so heavy when you pick them up," Haslip said. "We kind of made the pieces by playing with the rope, because the whole piece is centered around it." The WSU Chamber Choir will also take part in this improvisational piece. Kimberly Graff, a senior and member of the choir, said this type of collaboration and improvisation is new to the choir. "We are used to being handed music and singing what is on the page. The only interpretive things we do have to do with dynamics, how loud, how soft, or what vowel shape we want," Graff said. "But this was pretty much, 'OK, we are dancing, so sing something for us." Graff said students should come to the performance because it is very innovative and something that has never been done before. "This is one of those things where we collaborated and we created something new that has not already been done, already written by somebody . .." Graff said. "This is something we made, and I think that has value." COIL will take place April 5 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the Val A. Browning Center's Allred Theater. Tickets are $11 and can be purchased at www.weberstatetickets.com or by calling 1 -800-WSU-TIKS. Comment on this column at wsusignpost.corn. C radle continued from page 4 a group of Mister's various henchmen called the Liberty Committee, who were sent to break up the speech and are awaiting Mr. Mister to bail them out for their loyalty. 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