Maya Beiser, who has recorded with musical luminaries like Phillip Glass and Brian Eno, has been the featured cello soloist for soundtracks of movies like "Blood Diamond" and "Snow White and the Huntsman" and has been called "the queen of contemporary cello" by the San Francisco Chronicle. Beiser will bring her mesmerizing cello skills to Hancher as she performs music written by Pulitzer Prize winner, and UI alumnus, David Lang. Her performance of "The Day" features a narrative story, electronics and projected images. Tickets to her 7:30 p.m. Thursday performance are $10 to $35.
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Iowa City Press Citizen - Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Travel Iowa - Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Iowa floods returned to several parts of the state this year, and although water levels did not reach those of the 2008 flood, the major effects of high water were close to mind. The historic 2008 flood affected more than 20 buildings consisting of 2.5 million square feet of the University of Iowa – nearly one-sixth of campus. Five major buildings were permanently closed. The majority of the facilities affected were reopened later in 2008, a handful re-opened their doors in 2009, and one in 2012. This year, a solid eight years from that summer, has excitedly welcomed beautiful, brand new spaces.
Iowa Now - Friday, October 21, 2016
Andy Dahl plans his vacations around visiting trees, much to his family’s chagrin. He uses his shotgun to shoot off witch’s brooms—genetic deformities that grow high up in trees—so he can see what they look like up close. His oldest daughter knew the Latin genus and species of trees when she was 3 years old.
Daily Iowan - Thursday, October 20, 2016
The stage is filled with an array of step dancers draped in cream-colored floor-length skirts. Brightly colored images — abstract streaks of black, blue, red, and yellow — decorate the screens at the rear of the stage as the dancers clap and high-kick in the shifting shadows of the blue-tinged overhead lighting.
Step dancing is a style of performance first developed in the early 1900s by African American college students who, in their movement, aimed to hark back to forms found in traditional West African dance.
Iowa City Press Citizen - Thursday, October 20, 2016
ou can see a Broadway musical, watch a dance troupe and listen to world-renowned cellist at the new Hancher Auditorium.
Starting Oct. 26, you can also get one-of-a-kind meals from some of Iowa City's finest restaurants served inside Hancher thanks to the auditorium's Culinary Arts series of dinners.
Iowa Theatre - Wednesday, October 19, 2016
A unique experience awaits us tomorrow night at Hancher Auditorium. The Migration, Step Afrika!’s new signature work, is based on Jacob Lawrence’s iconic series of paintings charting the African-American movement from south to north in the early 1900s. Each piece incorporates the images, color palette, and motifs of one or more of the paintings to tell the migration story through body percussion and dance.
Daily Iowan - Wednesday, October 19, 2016
The book Invisible Hawkeyes works as a centerpiece for the Fields of Opportunity Event, which will last from today to Friday.
The first event during the three days will feature Dora Martin Berry, who became the first African-American Miss State University of Iowa in 1955.
Iowa City Press Citizen - Friday, October 14, 2016
Few works of art find a perfect balance between laughs, profundity, vulgarity and musicality. The smash Broadway hit "The Book of Mormon" is one of the few that does.
Little Village - Friday, October 14, 2016
When I first heard that Trey Parker and Matt Stone had written a full-on Broadway musical, I was intrigued — and also a bit scared. I mean, I’ve seen Baseketball, so I know for a fact that not everything they touch is gold. Perhaps it was their third collaborator, Robert Lopez, composer and lyricist of Avenue Q fame, who kept them in check and held them to the standard I believe they’ve now set for irreverent comedic musicals. If so, I hope they never let him get away, because this show was pert near freaking perfect. The tone is wickedly funny. The script is clever and tightly constructed. And the social commentary is acerbic, poignant and timeless.
Daily Iowan - Thursday, October 13, 2016
The Book of Mormon begins with a doorbell, sitting there, waiting to be rung.
As the lights go up, the audience is greeted with what is, to some, an all-too-familiar sight: an eager and beaming missionary of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, commonly known as LDS, standing in the doorway.