WEBVTT 00:00:01.506 --> 00:00:09.535 - Yeah, that's what I like to hear. I heard a whoop. My name is Rob Johansson, and I have the privilege 00:00:09.535 --> 00:00:17.879 - of hosting today, today's NSAL awards ceremony. The NSAL means a great deal to me, and I'll talk a little 00:00:17.879 --> 00:00:21.342 - bit about why. I know it's a beautiful day. 00:00:21.794 --> 00:00:29.375 - It's gorgeous out. And here we all are in a dark room. And why are we here for a lot of great reasons? 00:00:29.375 --> 00:00:37.104 - Some of us are going to perform. Most of us are going to watch. And we're here to celebrate some really, 00:00:37.104 --> 00:00:44.465 - really wonderful performers and also celebrate people who support them. The NSAL, just in this room 00:00:44.465 --> 00:00:50.206 - alone, the winners today, let me make sure I get the figure right, I'm aging. 00:00:51.298 --> 00:01:00.681 - It's crazy. I think this is the first time I'm at a podium and I go, I should wear glasses. The winners 00:01:00.681 --> 00:01:09.704 - of today's competition are receiving awards of more than $26,000. Yeah. Really, really amazing. And 00:01:09.704 --> 00:01:19.358 - the mission of the National Society of Arts and Letters is to identify, encourage, and assist young people 00:01:19.490 --> 00:01:27.731 - that are talented in art, dance, drama, literature, music, and musical theater. Bloomington Chapter 00:01:27.731 --> 00:01:36.219 - is one of 17 in the United States that does that, and I'm keyed into the word assist. Some of you know 00:01:36.219 --> 00:01:44.542 - this and some of you don't, but last century, I was lucky enough to be a Bloomington Chapter winner, 00:01:44.642 --> 00:01:52.922 - And sometimes the fates all align and that was the year that the acting competition went national. And 00:01:52.922 --> 00:02:01.123 - I got to go to San Antonio and in 1994 I was lucky enough to win the national competition. And it was 00:02:01.123 --> 00:02:06.750 - honestly one of the most important years of my life because I luckily 00:02:07.042 --> 00:02:14.110 - had my chops going, and I was well prepared. And that competition introduced me to some people that 00:02:14.110 --> 00:02:21.249 - have been kind of very important in my career. So I look to the National Society of Arts and Letters 00:02:21.249 --> 00:02:28.529 - as a bunch of people that really care. And for the people that are performing today and for the people 00:02:28.529 --> 00:02:35.596 - who are here to pick up an award that aren't performing today, these are people that really, really 00:02:35.596 --> 00:02:36.798 - take your future 00:02:37.090 --> 00:02:43.861 - to heart. And I think that's a beautiful thing. So that's why we're in a dark room on a beautiful day. 00:02:43.861 --> 00:02:50.567 - All right? And it's a wonderful reason. And we'll enjoy the sunshine in a few hours, so I should shut 00:02:50.567 --> 00:02:57.404 - up. Also, I will say, I'm going to announce people. I probably won't be saying what they're performing. 00:02:57.404 --> 00:03:02.334 - It's in the programs. And that reduces the chances of me butchering names. 00:03:02.626 --> 00:03:09.522 - So let's just go with that, all right? So our first performer today is Julia Paige Thorne, who is in 00:03:09.522 --> 00:03:16.554 - her second year of musical theater BFA program at IU with a minor in arts management. Julia opens next 00:03:16.554 --> 00:03:23.176 - Friday in IU's production of The Drowsy Chaperone as Kitty, and is also working as the assistant 00:03:23.176 --> 00:03:27.614 - choreographer for the show. She was last seen in Roots to Wings, 00:03:27.714 --> 00:03:35.820 - Last Dance, choreographed by George Penny. She was also a tribe member at Herod's Girl in Jesus Christ 00:03:35.820 --> 00:03:43.454 - Superstar for IU Theater. Julia is from Crown Point, Indiana. Please welcome Julia to the stage. 00:05:08.354 --> 00:05:16.071 - or the add-on to Facebook like Farmville? Or what, like some stupid little app? But you, you take it 00:05:16.071 --> 00:05:23.711 - seriously. Seriously, you take it seriously? Jesus, you're one of those people? So you have like an 00:05:23.711 --> 00:05:31.657 - actual person that you call. Did your astrologer tell you that an awful man you love was going to break 00:05:31.657 --> 00:05:32.574 - your heart? 00:05:33.122 --> 00:05:39.259 - Did she tell you to not go to the fancy Italian restaurant that he yelped and got all excited about 00:05:39.259 --> 00:05:45.825 - because it's a setup that you will be ambushed? Did she happen to mention that your boyfriend is a fucking 00:05:45.825 --> 00:05:52.024 - power hungry fucking asshole who, by the way, clue number one, picks someplace special and expensive 00:05:52.024 --> 00:05:58.345 - so that you won't scream and cry? And he thinks you might, and he thinks he's being nice when he pulls 00:05:58.345 --> 00:06:03.070 - the plug and leaves you there to gasp for air and die? Weren't you wondering 00:06:03.298 --> 00:06:10.467 - sitting there like a dumbass, not breathing, not moving, as he says what he says, watching the truck 00:06:10.467 --> 00:06:17.636 - come at you, bam! There's a $45 entree and another glass of wine on its way, and he says graciously, 00:06:17.636 --> 00:06:25.160 - get whatever you want, it's all on me. And you wonder why you hadn't been warned by a fucking astrologer? 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:32.542 - Instead you quietly sob with your head in your hands and people stare, but you, you don't make a sound. 00:06:34.978 --> 00:06:47.166 - Your ex just had a better planet in his house that day than you. I want to be brave. I want to be strong. 00:08:07.298 --> 00:08:14.794 - the people who are in the know on the pianist community, I was going to announce that Julia was being 00:08:14.794 --> 00:08:22.143 - accompanied by Brandon Porter. Unfortunately, last night, Brandon Porter broke his leg. Yeah, yeah, 00:08:22.143 --> 00:08:29.492 - so, and we're on the second floor, so it's not happening. So, Joey Vaz was the accompanist on that, 00:08:29.492 --> 00:08:35.518 - and we'll see Joey later today as well. It's improv, we can make the show happen. 00:08:35.682 --> 00:08:44.686 - Sorry. Is it Lala? Leila. Thank you. Thank you. Leila Hazelwood is our next performer. She began her 00:08:44.686 --> 00:08:52.798 - dance training in Indianapolis at Kenyatta Dance Studio under the direction of her mother. 00:08:53.154 --> 00:09:00.442 - Vanessa Owens. She is a 2013 graduate of Indiana University and is currently teaching an advanced 00:09:00.442 --> 00:09:08.400 - contemporary dance course at IU. She is the newest faculty member for the Indianapolis Ballet Conservatory 00:09:08.400 --> 00:09:15.986 - in Carmel, Indiana. This is also Leila's first season as our Associate Artistic Director for Kenyatta 00:09:15.986 --> 00:09:18.366 - Dance Company. And here she is. 00:12:14.530 --> 00:12:22.138 - Yang, an MFA candidate in fiction writing at Indiana University, and the associate editor of Indiana 00:12:22.138 --> 00:12:29.746 - Review. She was raised in Rochester, New York, near my old stomping ground, and received her BA from 00:12:29.746 --> 00:12:37.429 - St. Lawrence University in 2015. Her fiction has appeared in several literary journals, including the 00:12:37.429 --> 00:12:44.510 - Cossack Review, Kenyum Review, and Clock House. And she will be reading from her short story, 00:12:44.738 --> 00:12:56.244 - Runners. Hi, everyone. Thanks so much. I'm going to be reading the opening from my short story, which 00:12:56.244 --> 00:13:07.637 - was recently published in the Cossack Review. So if you would like to know how it ends, you can find 00:13:07.637 --> 00:13:11.134 - it there. It's called Runners. 00:13:14.114 --> 00:13:21.738 - Erin said the trick was to take only things that wouldn't be missed. An orange from an overcrowded fruit 00:13:21.738 --> 00:13:29.435 - bowl, two slices of bread from each loaf, a white nub of soap from the bathroom dish, a fresh bar already 00:13:29.435 --> 00:13:36.696 - waiting to take its place. That first house, a square brick home across from the middle school, Ivy 00:13:36.696 --> 00:13:40.254 - crawling over its face, I was jumpy and excited. 00:13:40.802 --> 00:13:47.372 - thrilled by the ease with which the back door had given under my cousin's touch. Hadville, New York, 00:13:47.372 --> 00:13:54.202 - was the type of town where the neighbors all knew the names of each other's dogs and few people bothered 00:13:54.202 --> 00:14:00.901 - with locks. It was so easy strolling inside and helping ourselves to whatever we needed that I imagine 00:14:00.901 --> 00:14:07.536 - the house was a regular grocery store, except the owners loved us so much they let us have everything 00:14:07.536 --> 00:14:10.398 - for free. I told Erin this and she laughed. 00:14:11.042 --> 00:14:17.528 - The sound raised a pleasant tingle along my skin. Erin had never laughed much when her dad, 00:14:17.528 --> 00:14:25.143 - my Uncle Roy, was around. Now that he'd gone, she'd become a light-hearted version of the brooding teenager 00:14:25.143 --> 00:14:32.193 - whose cool looks used to freeze me in my place. Why here have some broccoli, Miss Louise, she said, 00:14:32.193 --> 00:14:39.102 - bowing to me and offering the head in both hands. Why, thank you, Miss Erin, I said, bowing back. 00:14:39.650 --> 00:14:47.296 - And would you like a can of our superb tomato soup? Why, thank you. We went on like that for a bit until 00:14:47.296 --> 00:14:54.942 - the noise of the house resettling scared us and we bolted. Then the long walk back to Uncle Roy's truck, 00:14:54.942 --> 00:15:02.224 - which Erin had parked on a side street four blocks away. She only had her learner's permit, but she 00:15:02.224 --> 00:15:08.414 - was the best driver I'd ever seen. In all ways, Erin seemed older than her 16 years. 00:15:08.866 --> 00:15:15.605 - I was in awe of her. Though she attended the high school across town, during the day I often imagined 00:15:15.605 --> 00:15:22.279 - us bound together by an invisible line. When the teacher handed out the permission slip for the Geva 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:29.084 - Theater field trip, I smiled, knowing how Erin would forge Uncle Roy's signature with a flourish. When 00:15:29.084 --> 00:15:35.757 - the other sixth graders snickered at my sloppy clothing and called me hunchback and dyke, I imagined 00:15:35.757 --> 00:15:38.334 - Erin's icy stare turning them to stone 00:15:39.842 --> 00:15:47.276 - After we got back to Roy's house, I heated up the tomato soup in two mugs and Erin boiled the broccoli 00:15:47.276 --> 00:15:54.566 - until it was soft. We worked in the white glow of the little light under the microwave. Erin said we 00:15:54.566 --> 00:16:01.856 - needed to conserve energy and make Roy's money stretch as long as possible. So we tried to only have 00:16:01.856 --> 00:16:07.774 - one lamp on at a time. We took two minute showers. Sometimes we even lit candles. 00:16:09.058 --> 00:16:15.962 - I loved those nights the most, when the flickering shadows blurred the edges of the room, and I could 00:16:15.962 --> 00:16:22.934 - pretend Aaron and I were the last two people on earth. Aaron set the broccoli on the table. She handed 00:16:22.934 --> 00:16:30.244 - me a steaming mug and raised her own into the air. In the semi-darkness, she looked queenly, hair cascading 00:16:30.244 --> 00:16:37.351 - around her shoulders, eyes brilliant on blinking. Before Aaron, I had never known brown eyes could carry 00:16:37.351 --> 00:16:38.366 - so much light. 00:16:39.298 --> 00:16:46.973 - To our freedom, she said. We clinked mugs and drank. The tomato soup scalded the roof of my mouth. I 00:16:46.973 --> 00:16:54.648 - moved in with Aaron and Roy after my dad, Roy's older brother, was killed by a delivery truck driver 00:16:54.648 --> 00:17:02.323 - on the highway. There was a settlement and some money stashed away for me once I turned 18. At first 00:17:02.323 --> 00:17:07.870 - it wasn't surprising that my uncle had gone. Roy had disappeared before. 00:17:08.610 --> 00:17:16.098 - Once when I was nine and again last year before Christmas, he just ducked out, vanished for a day or 00:17:16.098 --> 00:17:23.660 - two, and returned looking happy or as happy as he ever did. In appearance, Roy resembled his brother, 00:17:23.660 --> 00:17:31.074 - a small man with thin features and bristly black hair he tamed with gel each morning. But where the 00:17:31.074 --> 00:17:37.598 - memory of my dad radiated warmth and laughter, Roy seemed somehow curled in on himself. 00:17:38.114 --> 00:17:45.295 - Stunted. There was an ancient crabapple tree in the courtyard of Hadville Elementary that I had decided 00:17:45.295 --> 00:17:52.407 - resembled my uncle. Both had the cramped, anxious appearance of creatures that hadn't seen enough sun. 00:17:52.407 --> 00:17:59.450 - He did make his efforts with me. He used to clap his hand on my shoulder in a brusque, brotherly sort 00:17:59.450 --> 00:18:06.354 - of way. He never could seem to figure out how it was okay to touch me, never kissed or hugged me as 00:18:06.354 --> 00:18:07.390 - my father had. 00:18:08.226 --> 00:18:15.262 - And he rattled off questions about school, tried to turn my one or two word murmured responses into 00:18:15.262 --> 00:18:22.649 - fodder for more talk. Every once in a while he took me out to dinner. The best restaurants in town where 00:18:22.649 --> 00:18:29.896 - the food came in tiny portions and the plates were ringed with bits of inedible green or to the little 00:18:29.896 --> 00:18:35.806 - theater for artsy films I didn't understand. Aaron never came along on these trips. 00:18:36.770 --> 00:18:43.490 - She and Roy had a coolly functional relationship that allowed little space for direct interaction. Erin 00:18:43.490 --> 00:18:50.340 - cooked her own food, stayed up as late as she wanted, and cut class as it suited her. Roy remained locked 00:18:50.340 --> 00:18:56.866 - in his bedroom, which doubled as a home office most of the day. Neither seemed to sleep much. In the 00:18:56.866 --> 00:19:03.392 - middle of the night, I'd wake from the fold-out couch in the living room to hear Erin returning from 00:19:03.392 --> 00:19:06.494 - one of her walks or Roy muttering on the phone. 00:19:07.490 --> 00:19:14.923 - I'd been told my uncle designed websites for a living. Some part of me believed these late-night calls 00:19:14.923 --> 00:19:22.284 - were connected to his work, even as another part dreamily spun stories of exotic friends in different 00:19:22.284 --> 00:19:29.645 - time zones, women with accents trilling my uncle's name. Roy had kept a stern and spotless household. 00:19:29.645 --> 00:19:36.862 - Floors swept, shelves tidy, furniture arranged at right angles and regularly wiped of fingerprints. 00:19:37.858 --> 00:19:45.266 - In the weeks after his disappearance, the place began to gain a lovely, lived-in feeling. Trash amassed 00:19:45.266 --> 00:19:52.604 - in corners. Yellow stains blossomed on the counters and inside the kitchen sink. The yard grew unruly, 00:19:52.604 --> 00:19:59.727 - spiky weeds poking through the grass. I'd been living with Aaron and Roy almost three years by that 00:19:59.727 --> 00:20:04.286 - point. Now was the first time the place truly felt like a home. 00:20:06.178 --> 00:20:13.344 - Erin relocated to the master bedroom where her father had slept, and I vacated my fold-out couch for 00:20:13.344 --> 00:20:20.509 - Erin's bedroom down the hall. In the evenings, after we had both showered, I liked to visit her, sit 00:20:20.509 --> 00:20:27.604 - on the edge of my uncle's queen-sized mattress, and watch her comb out her long hair. It was slick, 00:20:27.604 --> 00:20:34.770 - dark hair, almost black, like my dad's and Roy's. I could only figure my tannish curls had come from 00:20:34.770 --> 00:20:35.550 - my mother. 00:20:36.450 --> 00:20:44.039 - I'd never met her. She was gone before I started forming memories. And my dad, when asked, only distracted 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:51.273 - me with goofy stories about mom sprouting fins and moving into the sea. A similar fate seemed to have 00:20:51.273 --> 00:20:58.437 - ensnared Erin's mom, of whom there was not a single photograph in Roy's house. Perhaps this was why, 00:20:58.437 --> 00:21:03.614 - in the beginning at least, I didn't make a fuss over my uncle's absence. 00:21:04.322 --> 00:21:17.032 - Ours was a family where people simply disappeared. Thank you. Soprano Caitlin Johnson is pursuing a 00:21:17.032 --> 00:21:30.251 - master's in vocal performance at Indiana University's Jacob School of Music under the guidance of Heidi 00:21:30.251 --> 00:21:32.030 - Grant Murphy. 00:21:32.738 --> 00:21:39.598 - She spent last summer as a young artist with the Prague Summer Nights Festival, performing the role 00:21:39.598 --> 00:21:46.527 - of Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni. She's a 2015 cum laude graduate of Rice University's Shepard 00:21:46.527 --> 00:21:53.182 - School of Music. Kaitlin's from Atlanta, Georgia, and she will be accompanied by James Maverick. 00:29:04.226 --> 00:29:12.527 - This is worth being inside on a nice day. Wow. Oh, boy. Ryan Klaus is a senior at IU from Cleveland, 00:29:12.527 --> 00:29:20.746 - Ohio, majoring in theater with a minor in contemporary dance. I had the good fortune of having Ryan 00:29:20.746 --> 00:29:28.964 - in class when I was teaching down here, and he is a fiercely passionate student. And I had the good 00:29:28.964 --> 00:29:34.142 - fortune of performing with him up in Indianapolis last summer. 00:29:34.402 --> 00:29:53.646 - He was recently seen as Ferdinand at IU's production of the Duchess of Malfi. So please welcome Ryan 00:29:53.646 --> 00:30:04.126 - to the stage. Boards you. Boards you. Christ Almighty. 00:30:04.610 --> 00:30:12.247 - trying working for you for a living. The talking, talking, talking, Jesus Christ, won't he ever shut 00:30:12.247 --> 00:30:19.959 - up? Titanic, self-absorption of the man. You stand there, trying to look so deep, when you're nothing 00:30:19.959 --> 00:30:27.596 - but a solucistic bully, with your grandiose self-importance, and lectures, and arias, and let's look 00:30:27.596 --> 00:30:34.174 - at the fucking campus for another few weeks. Let's not fucking paint, let's just look. 00:30:35.394 --> 00:30:42.617 - You know, not everything has to be so goddamn important all the time. Not every painting has to rip 00:30:42.617 --> 00:30:50.130 - your guts out and expose your soul. Not everyone wants art that actually hurts. Sometimes you just want 00:30:50.130 --> 00:30:56.414 - a fucking still life, or landscape, or comic book, or soup can, which you might learn. 00:30:56.546 --> 00:31:03.774 - If you ever actually left your goddamn dramatically sealed submarine here with all your windows closed 00:31:03.774 --> 00:31:11.213 - and no natural light because natural light isn't good enough for you. But then nothing's ever good enough 00:31:11.213 --> 00:31:18.581 - for you. Not even the people who buy your paintings. Museums, our mausoleums, galleries are run by pimps 00:31:18.581 --> 00:31:23.774 - and swindlers and art collectors are nothing but shallow social climbers. 00:31:24.994 --> 00:31:37.192 - So who is good enough to own your art? Anyone? Maybe. No one's worthy. That's it, isn't it? We've all 00:31:37.192 --> 00:31:49.390 - been weighed in the balance and have been found wanting. Even as one heat, another heat expels, or as 00:31:49.390 --> 00:31:54.174 - one nail by strength dries out another, 00:31:55.106 --> 00:32:04.264 - so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten. Is it mine or Valentine's 00:32:04.264 --> 00:32:12.968 - praise, her true perfection or my false transgression that makes me reason thus to reason thus? 00:32:12.968 --> 00:32:22.579 - She is fair, and so is Julia that I love, that I did love. For now my love is thawed which, like a waxing 00:32:22.579 --> 00:32:24.574 - image against a fire, 00:32:24.706 --> 00:32:31.945 - no impression of the thing it was. Methinks my zeal to Valentine is cold, and that I love him not as 00:32:31.945 --> 00:32:39.470 - I was wont. Oh, but I love his lady too, too much, and that's the reason I love him so little. How shall 00:32:39.470 --> 00:32:46.709 - I dote on her with more advice that thus, without advice, begin to love her? It is but her picture I 00:32:46.709 --> 00:32:53.374 - have yet beheld, and that hath dazzled my reason's light. But when I look on her perfection, 00:32:54.370 --> 00:33:21.024 - You know, a lot of these guys back here today, I've been back there and they've got the performance 00:33:21.024 --> 00:33:24.222 - jitters and 00:33:25.538 --> 00:33:32.018 - These next two don't have to worry about that because they're on video. Yeah. I don't remember ever 00:33:32.018 --> 00:33:38.499 - having that option. So we've chosen to show them this way because of the great expense that renting 00:33:38.499 --> 00:33:45.303 - a special floor for them to dance on, it would just cost so much. And it's much better to put that money 00:33:45.303 --> 00:33:52.043 - into awards for these performers. So you will meet Rachel and Anna, though, during the awards ceremony. 00:33:52.043 --> 00:33:53.598 - Here they are on video. 00:35:28.770 --> 00:35:36.108 - Rachel Schultz, is that where we are? That was Rachel for those who don't know. She began her training 00:35:36.108 --> 00:35:43.374 - in ballet at the age of eight and since then she's trained under many reputable teachers all over the 00:35:43.374 --> 00:35:50.142 - world. Rachel's competed in the last four Youth American Grand Prix regionals where she placed 00:35:50.850 --> 00:35:57.894 - and most recently second place in the senior classical age division. Rachel's currently a freshman in 00:35:57.894 --> 00:36:03.902 - the ballet department at IU Jacobs School of Music. All right, are we ready for honor? 00:38:12.194 --> 00:38:21.467 - is a sophomore at Indiana University pursuing a BS in ballet with an outside field in Italian and a 00:38:21.467 --> 00:38:31.388 - BS in finance. She is going to be well versed in everything. She's hoping to graduate and continue dancing 00:38:31.388 --> 00:38:41.310 - with a professional ballet company in the coming years. All right. Are we ready for pianist Philip A? Yes? 00:38:41.506 --> 00:38:50.421 - Born in South Korea, started playing piano at the age of five. He graduated summa cum laude in piano 00:38:50.421 --> 00:38:55.806 - performance from Seoul National University College of Music. 00:38:56.002 --> 00:39:04.330 - And as a result, he had the chance to perform at the 78th Chosun Ilho Debut Concert at Sejong. I hope 00:39:04.330 --> 00:39:12.657 - I'm not butchering that. Too much center, Korea. He's won awards and has performed not only in Korea, 00:39:12.657 --> 00:39:18.046 - but in France, Poland, and the United States. And here he is now. 00:39:59.810 --> 00:40:01.054 - Thank you. 00:51:24.930 --> 00:51:33.870 - stage manager for performing emergency surgery on that piano or else we wouldn't have heard that beautiful 00:51:33.870 --> 00:51:42.309 - piece of music. Let's take a 10-minute intermission and we'll come back and hear some more wonderful 00:51:42.309 --> 00:51:50.498 - things. Thanks. 10 minutes, everybody. Hi, everybody. All set for part two. All right. All right. 00:51:50.498 --> 00:51:54.174 - Thank you. All right. So let's get started. 00:51:54.434 --> 00:52:01.971 - Stella Bella is an MFA candidate in poetry at Purdue University. Her work has previously appeared in 00:52:01.971 --> 00:52:09.584 - Juked, Crack the Spine, and Rust and Moth, among many other publications. She's an alumni of Carnegie 00:52:09.584 --> 00:52:17.046 - Mellon, where she studied creative writing and professional writing. Hannah is a native of Bayonne, 00:52:17.046 --> 00:52:23.166 - New Jersey, and she'll be reading her poems Seven Hungers and Saturday Afternoon, 00:52:23.394 --> 00:52:40.658 - thrown in the living room. Here she is. First poem I'm going to read is called Seven Hungers. One. Goose 00:52:40.658 --> 00:52:52.990 - flesh after a whisper of skin on skin, the way each hair on my arm strains 00:52:53.154 --> 00:53:04.942 - towards more of his touch, even years deep in his tiny Brooklyn apartment. Two, to grin at just the 00:53:04.942 --> 00:53:16.730 - sight of him. What a pain to have my cheeks ache from smiling. To punch him lightly in the arm, foe 00:53:16.730 --> 00:53:22.270 - yell until he kisses me where it hurts. Three, 00:53:23.202 --> 00:53:33.867 - The way his mouth moves towards the right side of his face when he speaks. It almost looks like he has 00:53:33.867 --> 00:53:44.842 - three front teeth. But something in that tug of skin, or perhaps the ease of the smile that blooms there, 00:53:44.842 --> 00:53:53.022 - precious as anything coaxed alive from dirt. Four. When I press my cold hands, 00:53:53.154 --> 00:54:04.366 - against the strange heat of the small of his back. That hallowed shadow dip in the expanse of brown 00:54:04.366 --> 00:54:16.026 - skin, the way this boy, this trained engineer explains it away as just his Latin fire. Five, the simple 00:54:16.026 --> 00:54:20.062 - heat of his body next to mine. Six, 00:54:20.738 --> 00:54:30.338 - The softness of his voice in sleep talk. The sureness with which he declares his nonsense to me. Everything 00:54:30.338 --> 00:54:39.404 - spoken in a sigh. Stories from television to workplace nightmares to a conniving sandwich thief. When 00:54:39.404 --> 00:54:47.582 - I recount them in the warm yellow of morning, he groans and pulls the covers over his head. 00:54:48.098 --> 00:54:58.454 - until I burrow into that private darkness with him. Seven, to kiss the mouth that feeds me comfort even 00:54:58.454 --> 00:55:09.010 - some thousand miles away. The warm liquor of his voice, the static electricity of every message received. 00:55:09.010 --> 00:55:13.790 - How many days until you meet me at the airport? 00:55:14.306 --> 00:55:25.573 - and scoop me into cupped hands while the traffic cops of Newark let their whistles drop from their lips. 00:55:25.573 --> 00:55:36.411 - The second poem is called Saturday Afternoon, Prone in the Living Room. I am melted ice cream on the 00:55:36.411 --> 00:55:42.206 - floor, me in my worst form. I wish I could put myself 00:55:42.338 --> 00:55:53.051 - in a freezer until I regained my consistency, but instead I keep staring at the ceiling fan. I am spreading 00:55:53.051 --> 00:56:03.070 - my fingers and unspreading them like a child making snow angels. The carpet doesn't hold impressions 00:56:03.070 --> 00:56:09.022 - from the motions, but I like the futility. It's a Saturday. 00:56:09.218 --> 00:56:19.004 - A great day for letting my brain be ransacked by the black horse flies of existentialism. They climb 00:56:19.004 --> 00:56:28.984 - in my ears and buzz smugly. I hum along having learned their song at a young age. I arch my back using 00:56:28.984 --> 00:56:33.150 - my muscles to remind myself I have a body. 00:56:34.658 --> 00:56:44.357 - It can be easy to forget what's real when I sleep for 18 hours a day. Isn't it nice? Sure, it's not 00:56:44.357 --> 00:56:53.086 - what one could call coping, but it's not the worst thing I could do to myself. Thank you. 00:57:05.730 --> 00:57:13.026 - Cameron Barnett, our Chapter Career Award winner in Contemporary Dance, is a sophomore BFA majoring 00:57:13.026 --> 00:57:20.542 - in dance at Indiana University. Originally from Bloomington, he's passionate about both performing and 00:57:20.542 --> 00:57:27.765 - creating. Since Cameron began studying at IU, he's danced in works by Kyle Abraham, Andrea Miller, 00:57:27.765 --> 00:57:31.486 - Jose Limon, and Jerome Robbins. Cameron's own work 00:57:31.618 --> 00:57:42.218 - questions the boundaries of dance and theater, drawing inspiration from such sources as musical form, 00:57:42.218 --> 00:57:53.131 - mathematics, and the patterns of everyday life. He'll be performing Five, which is one of his own works. 00:57:53.131 --> 00:57:59.678 - Here he is. I would like to talk to you about the number Five. 00:58:00.066 --> 00:58:06.319 - And the thing that I like most about the number five is that there are only five platonic solids. This 00:58:06.319 --> 00:58:12.572 - is a regular polygon, it's a regular triangle, and it has the same number of triangles meeting at each 00:58:12.572 --> 00:58:18.764 - corner. The definition of a platonic solid is a shape where you've got sort of different sides to the 00:58:18.764 --> 00:58:25.198 - shape, but all of the sides are the same shape. That shape is a regular kind of polygon, so like a square 00:58:25.198 --> 00:58:29.630 - where all the sides are the same length and the angles are all the same. 00:58:29.954 --> 00:58:36.745 - and every corner looks the same. So those are the conditions. And this is, in fact, called a tetrahedron. 00:58:36.745 --> 00:58:43.663 - It's like a pyramid, but it's got a triangular base, not a square base. So a tetrahedron is four triangles. 00:58:43.663 --> 00:58:50.133 - This is the octahedron. It has eight oct, eight triangular faces. So if I get two of those and stick 00:58:50.133 --> 00:58:56.668 - them together, you'll see that I also get the same corner everywhere else. And this is an octahedron. 00:58:56.668 --> 00:58:58.974 - So unlike our tetrahedron, this has 00:58:59.234 --> 00:59:09.229 - four triangles meeting at each corner. And this is one of my favourite platonic solids. This is called 00:59:09.229 --> 00:59:18.934 - an icosahedron. You can see every single corner has got five triangles meeting at it and all of the 00:59:18.934 --> 00:59:28.638 - faces are triangles and in fact you get 20 triangles. So this is an icosahedron. This one over here 00:59:29.058 --> 00:59:35.854 - My marvellous props. Well, Brady, what's that? That is a cube. Yeah, it's a hexahedron. Well done. So 00:59:35.854 --> 00:59:42.516 - a hexahedron has six square faces. So I'm happy with that. And I'll put a cube on my list. And that 00:59:42.516 --> 00:59:49.245 - is six squares. At this point, I would jump to pentagons. I don't have any pentagons, unfortunately. 00:59:49.245 --> 00:59:56.574 - But you can fit three pentagons around a point. This is the dodecahedron. Dodec means 12. It has 12 pentagon. 00:59:57.026 --> 01:00:04.840 - faces and at each vertex we have three pentagons. Where does a sphere fit into all of this? A sphere 01:00:04.840 --> 01:00:12.732 - isn't a platonic solid because it doesn't technically have faces. I guess in some sense the sphere is 01:00:12.732 --> 01:00:20.623 - kind of the limit of having more and more faces like if you get enough faces eventually the faces are 01:00:20.623 --> 01:00:24.414 - all of size zero but it's not counted as a solid 01:00:24.994 --> 01:00:28.638 - of any shape because it's not got kind of individual faces that are a shape. 01:01:02.530 --> 01:01:10.228 - Also a Bloomington native, Felix Murbank is a freshman at Indiana University who strives in every step 01:01:10.228 --> 01:01:17.926 - of his life to fulfill the artistic moral precedence of life that his mother, Althea, set forth to him 01:01:17.926 --> 01:01:25.549 - at an early age. Without her journeys in conveying her experiences through different artistic lenses, 01:01:25.549 --> 01:01:32.126 - Felix would never have grasped the importance of acting and performing in his own life. 01:01:32.226 --> 01:01:53.752 - Felix is now. What a damned epicurean rascal is this? My heart is ready to crack with impatience. Who 01:01:53.752 --> 01:02:01.982 - says that this is improv and jealousy? 01:02:02.562 --> 01:02:11.212 - My wife hath sent to him, the hour is fixed, the match is set. See the hell with having a false woman. 01:02:11.212 --> 01:02:19.861 - My bed shall be abused, my paupers ransacked, my reputation non-act, and I shall not only receive this 01:02:19.861 --> 01:02:28.511 - villainous wrong, but stand under the adoption of abominable terms, and by him who does me this wrong. 01:02:28.511 --> 01:02:32.542 - Terms, names, Mamon sounds well. Lucifer, well. 01:02:32.738 --> 01:02:44.638 - Barbason, well, yet these are the devil's additions, the names of fiends. But Cuckold? Whittle? Cuckold? 01:02:44.638 --> 01:02:56.425 - The devil himself hath not such a name. Page is an ass, a secure ass. He shall trust his wife. He shall 01:02:56.425 --> 01:02:58.238 - not be jealous. 01:02:58.818 --> 01:03:06.240 - I would rather crust a Fleming with my butter, Parsons use the Welshman with my cheese, an Irishman 01:03:06.240 --> 01:03:13.663 - with my aqua vitae bottle, or a thief to walk my England gilded than my wife with herself. And then 01:03:13.663 --> 01:03:21.085 - she ploughs, and then she ruminates, and then she devises. Eleven o'clock the hour, I shall prevent 01:03:21.085 --> 01:03:22.718 - this, detect my ways, 01:03:23.042 --> 01:03:32.807 - Get my revenge on Falstaff and Lafette Page. I'll be about. Better three hours too early than a minute 01:03:32.807 --> 01:03:38.590 - too late. Five, five, five. Cuckholds, cuckholds, cuckholds. 01:03:53.282 --> 01:03:59.640 - walking down the street and they come upon me like they're important to something, you know? And then 01:03:59.640 --> 01:04:06.061 - they just start pushing me down this alley, but it's not like an alley, it's more like a dark hallway, 01:04:06.061 --> 01:04:12.419 - you know? And then they just punch me and kick me, you know? So I curl up on a ball and move, so they 01:04:12.419 --> 01:04:18.840 - can't hit me or nothing, you know? You know, I just thought if I wanted you guys to have some friends, 01:04:18.840 --> 01:04:21.022 - it doesn't have to be you, I mean, 01:04:21.442 --> 01:04:25.946 - I mean, I mean, I mean, just a couple of buddies, just a couple of guys, just a couple, a couple, 01:04:25.946 --> 01:04:30.542 - a couple, a couple, a couple, a couple of big guys and some, some, some fighters, you know, just to 01:04:30.542 --> 01:04:35.276 - show my couple buddies too, you know, and, uh, and I'm on edge right now and I'm, I'm, I'm flying high 01:04:35.276 --> 01:04:39.917 - and I gotta talk, but, but I'm serious about this, you know, you know, just a couple of guys, just a 01:04:39.917 --> 01:04:44.513 - couple of, a couple, a couple, a couple of big guys, some, some, some fighters, you know, and maybe 01:04:44.513 --> 01:04:48.190 - they leave me alone cause, uh, cause the guys have been after me too, you know, 01:04:51.202 --> 01:04:59.123 - Oh, they kicked me a pretty bad, you know? And if I weren't high and itched, I mean, I'd have pain soon 01:04:59.123 --> 01:05:07.044 - throughout my body, and then walking around here late, I mean, I'm constantly scared, because you never 01:05:07.044 --> 01:05:15.421 - know what's waiting for you around the corner, you know, just to jump, you know? It's not like I'm protecting 01:05:15.421 --> 01:05:17.630 - myself or nothing, you know? 01:05:32.034 --> 01:05:52.953 - Some guys, some vibes, you know. Some guys that if you're walking around with them, you can do anything. 01:05:52.953 --> 01:06:01.918 - I miss Bloomington. Dang, it's a good place. 01:06:02.498 --> 01:06:11.061 - Sehee Hwang, a 21-year-old harpist from South Korea, has received global attention from receiving the 01:06:11.061 --> 01:06:20.295 - fourth place award at the 10th University International Harp Competition, as well as many other international 01:06:20.295 --> 01:06:28.606 - awards. She graduated from Yewon Art School, the leading school of music and dance in South Korea. 01:06:29.346 --> 01:06:36.478 - Currently, she is pursuing an artist diploma at the IU Jacobs School of Music, and I think I talked 01:06:36.478 --> 01:06:39.902 - just the right amount of time. Here she is now. 01:18:02.178 --> 01:18:09.930 - Oh, Scott Van Wye is somebody else I had a lot of fun with by the time down here. He's a junior BFA 01:18:09.930 --> 01:18:17.915 - student in musical theater from Indianapolis. And he's had a very nice career on stage at IU, as a lot 01:18:17.915 --> 01:18:25.977 - of folks here have. He's performed in such shows as Jesus Christ Superstar, Occupants, Mr. Burns, Romeo 01:18:25.977 --> 01:18:29.310 - and Juliet, and The Mystery of Edwin Drew. 01:18:29.410 --> 01:18:37.856 - And he's also performed at IU Summer Theater and at Cardinal Stage. And he is this year's third place 01:18:37.856 --> 01:18:46.302 - winner in the NSAL Drama Competition. And Scott will be accompanied again by Joey Voss. Here's Scott. 01:20:16.258 --> 01:20:21.714 - The person who would still talk to me is Jenny. We were out at dinner one night and she's talking to 01:20:21.714 --> 01:20:27.278 - me and I'm not listening because I'm working on my case. I'm writing down ideas I have on a napkin and 01:20:27.278 --> 01:20:32.680 - I'm writing down diagrams of the cars, what lanes they were in and how fast they were going in what 01:20:32.680 --> 01:20:38.190 - directions, the laws, the other driver, and the numbers that I'm gonna call to get my case fixed. And 01:20:38.190 --> 01:20:43.591 - I'm getting so upset and so worked up that I'm actually marking over my own handwriting, tearing up 01:20:43.591 --> 01:20:45.374 - the napkin and marking the table 01:20:46.210 --> 01:20:55.203 - and Jenny just looks at me and she says, what are you doing? And I look at her and I say, well, what 01:20:55.203 --> 01:21:04.374 - part of this napkin don't you understand? And then Jenny looks at me and says, Mike, you're right, but 01:21:04.374 --> 01:21:13.278 - it's only hurting you. And I'm just so glad that you're alive. And I think we should focus on that. 01:21:17.154 --> 01:21:30.309 - to say it once. And I dropped the case. I paid for Dad's car. June 26, 2007, Jenny and I go to City 01:21:30.309 --> 01:21:45.438 - Hall and get married. And I still didn't believe in the idea of marriage. And I still don't. But I believe in her. 01:21:47.202 --> 01:21:54.014 - and I've given up on the idea of the right. 01:23:11.650 --> 01:23:19.545 - Thank you, Joey Voss, for being an emergency fill-in today. Yeah, we had a couple of last-minute curveballs, 01:23:19.545 --> 01:23:27.150 - you know, pianists going down with broken legs, and we have one more curveball. We end our program today 01:23:27.150 --> 01:23:34.828 - with Andres Acosta, who is a second-year graduate student at the Jacobs School of Music, where he studies 01:23:34.828 --> 01:23:40.478 - with Carl Venice. The Miami, Florida native received his undergraduate degree 01:23:40.578 --> 01:23:50.275 - from Florida State University, interesting theme, Florida. He made his IU Opera Theater debut as Alfred 01:23:50.275 --> 01:24:00.159 - in Deflater Mouse. So, Florida. He actually was just in Florida at a competition and, as I speak, remains 01:24:00.159 --> 01:24:01.278 - in Florida. 01:24:01.442 --> 01:24:08.602 - Yes, and I was gonna make, I was gonna try and pretend that we had him via satellite. It's not true, 01:24:08.602 --> 01:24:13.918 - we just have a video. So here he is via the magic of video, Andres Acosta. 01:30:56.962 --> 01:31:03.981 - and congratulations to everybody for the awards you won for this year's NSAL. I am about to turn the 01:31:03.981 --> 01:31:11.000 - program over to Ruth Albrecht. I just want to say thank you for letting me share this with you guys. 01:31:11.000 --> 01:31:18.019 - I have to run in a few minutes back to a rehearsal up in Indianapolis. But I do want to say that for 01:31:18.019 --> 01:31:22.814 - the performers, hopefully you'll be able to take some time and thank 01:31:22.946 --> 01:31:29.783 - the members of NSAL, the people that take the time and donate their money and their efforts to promoting 01:31:29.783 --> 01:31:36.620 - our careers. It's a wonderful thing. And I've been a proud member of NSAL for 10 years because I believe 01:31:36.620 --> 01:31:43.131 - in their mission. And I say to all the performers, find a way to pay it forward. So Ruth, I turn it 01:31:43.131 --> 01:31:45.150 - over to you. Thanks everybody. 01:32:02.818 --> 01:32:10.382 - Delta had not canceled Andre's 5.30 AM flight back from Florida. We could all have hugged him here, 01:32:10.382 --> 01:32:18.022 - because he's very huggable. I don't know. My 23-year-old friend tells me that everybody checks their 01:32:18.022 --> 01:32:25.964 - email in the middle of the night. But hey, I don't think many people my age do. But I did check at about 01:32:25.964 --> 01:32:30.654 - 2.30 this morning. And there was his email saying that he was 01:32:30.850 --> 01:32:37.652 - Well, I don't think weathered in. I think Delta's had a system breakdown. Anyway, he was not here, but 01:32:37.652 --> 01:32:44.521 - we were able to see him sing, and that was exciting. And it's just really exciting to recognize so many 01:32:44.521 --> 01:32:51.323 - wonderful young artists this afternoon at our 51st Annual Showcase of the Arts. I was trying to figure 01:32:51.323 --> 01:32:58.125 - out, we have 51 winners. 14 were represented today, so we could have had, we could have at least three 01:32:58.125 --> 01:32:59.710 - more of these programs. 01:33:00.386 --> 01:33:07.095 - I don't know after all the things that went wrong with this one that I am up for that, but between Brandon 01:33:07.095 --> 01:33:13.429 - Porter breaking his leg and Andres remaining in Florida. The judges agreed this year that the talent 01:33:13.429 --> 01:33:20.138 - was just phenomenal. We're just delighted. Erin, could you turn the house lights up? I wanted to introduce 01:33:20.138 --> 01:33:22.270 - Judy Park, who is our national... 01:33:22.466 --> 01:33:29.871 - National President of the National Society of Arts and Letters and I thought maybe she could just stand 01:33:29.871 --> 01:33:37.490 - up and wave so that if any of you wanted to talk to her at the reception later you could. We are delighted 01:33:37.490 --> 01:33:45.108 - to have her here. She's a big fan of our chapter and she visits us frequently. It's really just a pleasure 01:33:45.108 --> 01:33:49.950 - to help these young people pursue their dreams. I love them all and 01:33:50.338 --> 01:33:58.184 - So now we're going to present their awards, the $25,950 in cash and 800 in Pygmalion's gift certificates. 01:33:58.184 --> 01:34:05.586 - My thanks to chapter members and other wonderful donors who've made this possible. And my thanks to 01:34:05.586 --> 01:34:13.431 - the judges and chairs. Without them, none of this would have been possible. Right now I want to introduce 01:34:13.431 --> 01:34:16.318 - Suzanne Halverson and Robert Kingsley. 01:34:16.482 --> 01:34:25.628 - who are the chairs of the visual arts competition. We actually had that exhibit was here in the Waldron 01:34:25.628 --> 01:34:34.510 - in January. It was a wonderful exhibit. And we're happy to be able to show the winners' works as the 01:34:34.510 --> 01:34:43.480 - awards are presented today. Erin, I think we need more light. Thank you, Ruth. As Ruth just said, the 01:34:43.480 --> 01:34:45.854 - exhibit was in the Waldron 01:34:46.210 --> 01:34:55.845 - Rosemary P. Miller Gallery of the Ivy Tech John Waldron Arts Center today. There were 100, or this January, 01:34:55.845 --> 01:35:05.212 - there were 120 pieces submitted for jury, and there were 35 pieces selected for the exhibit, so everyone 01:35:05.212 --> 01:35:13.598 - who was in the exhibit is a winner. Today we will be honoring the award winners, but in fact, 01:35:14.018 --> 01:35:21.598 - I wish that all of the artists could be here today to be recognized. I would like to thank Bob Kingsley, 01:35:21.598 --> 01:35:28.962 - my co-chair, and Catherine Rohrer-Johnson, who did a lot of work all the way from Boston to make this 01:35:28.962 --> 01:35:36.325 - happen. I would also like to do a slight correction to the program today. Martha McLeish, Amy Breyer, 01:35:36.325 --> 01:35:42.750 - myself, and Bonnie Skolarski were the judges. I would also very much like to thank Julie 01:35:42.914 --> 01:35:50.354 - Julie Roberts, who is the director of the John Waldron Art Center Gallery. She met individually with 01:35:50.354 --> 01:35:57.942 - each of the artists to make sure that the presentations were as they had wanted them to be. And as the 01:35:57.942 --> 01:36:05.603 - first gallery director here in the 90s, I know how much work that was. So I would like to ask the award 01:36:05.603 --> 01:36:10.686 - winners to come down and Bob will present the awards to the winners. 01:36:12.034 --> 01:36:30.094 - So just come down all at once. It would be nice if you were all down here and then we could line you 01:36:30.094 --> 01:36:40.286 - up and give you your awards. Okay. Our top award winner, 01:36:40.386 --> 01:36:52.311 - today is Letitia Merkel. She won the chapter award for her video, Flourish. Why don't we hold our applause 01:36:52.311 --> 01:37:03.567 - and just applaud for everyone when it's done. Luke Huling won the Alma Eichermann Memorial Award for 01:37:03.567 --> 01:37:06.910 - his sculpture, Archie. Yu Yan 01:37:07.394 --> 01:37:19.100 - won the Ilkner P. Ralston Memorial Award for her painting, untitled. Armand D'Agruriel won the Klein 01:37:19.100 --> 01:37:30.922 - Merit Award for his sculpture, Reflection from the Abyss. Sarah Bagdadi won the Nelda Christ Memorial 01:37:30.922 --> 01:37:35.326 - Award for her photo, untitled, Simon. 01:37:38.242 --> 01:37:53.238 - Mary Claire Namath won the Grace L. Dyer Memorial Award for her wall piece, Daydreams. Emily Teague 01:37:53.238 --> 01:38:02.686 - Sinnott won the Grunwald Merit Award for her painting, Re 359. 01:38:06.818 --> 01:38:19.205 - Taryn Dickerson won the Pygmalions Art Supplies Award for his painting, Black Girl Magic 3, 10, 1, 16. 01:38:19.205 --> 01:38:31.351 - Jenica Brown won an award from Pygmalion Art Supplies for her painting, View from the Roca Maggiore, 01:38:31.351 --> 01:38:34.718 - number 2. Braden Raymer won 01:38:34.850 --> 01:38:45.772 - a Pygmalion's Art Supplies Award for his monotype, Duck. And Amaris Boden won a Pygmalion Art Supplies 01:38:45.772 --> 01:38:56.377 - Award for her painting, Liz. L-E-3, oh, I wrote it down, L-E-3, L-I-3, sorry, L-E-3. Thank you very 01:38:56.377 --> 01:38:59.134 - much and congratulations. 01:39:18.114 --> 01:39:27.482 - I'd like to introduce now Karen Butcher, who's the chair of the ballet competition. Karen actually won 01:39:27.482 --> 01:39:37.123 - an NSAL award in dance several years ago and has become an NSAL member to help other young dancers pursue 01:39:37.123 --> 01:39:45.854 - their dreams. Karen? Good afternoon. I'd like to have Rachel and Annalisa come on down, please. 01:39:51.586 --> 01:40:00.239 - Ballet competition this year, we had an amazing talent of young women and a gentleman this year, actually. 01:40:00.239 --> 01:40:08.487 - And Annalisa and Rachel are the recipients of these two awards that we're about to present. I do want 01:40:08.487 --> 01:40:16.654 - to tell you a little bit about the judges that we've had this year. Uwe Kern from Louisville Ballet. 01:40:16.654 --> 01:40:19.646 - He's the senior ballet master there. 01:40:20.450 --> 01:40:29.058 - Hisham Ormadeen from Ballet Met in Columbus, Ohio. He is the senior ballet master. Olivia Clark, who 01:40:29.058 --> 01:40:38.007 - was a former principal ballet dancer at Ballet Met. And we had Sasha James this year teaching the master 01:40:38.007 --> 01:40:46.530 - class, which was part of the competition. Rachel Grace, who's a freshman, very impressive freshman, 01:40:46.530 --> 01:40:49.854 - won the Marina Svetlova Memorial Award 01:40:50.082 --> 01:41:02.597 - and the Joanne Athanus Memorial Award for ballet. Rachel. And Annalisa Wilkins, she will represent the 01:41:02.597 --> 01:41:11.102 - Bloomington Chapter at the National Ballet Competition in Boca Raton. 01:41:11.490 --> 01:41:18.748 - Once again, the talent in these two young women is very impressive and I can't wait to see what they 01:41:18.748 --> 01:41:26.006 - will give to us in the next three years. Well, three years for Rachel and two years for Anna here at 01:41:26.006 --> 01:41:34.270 - IU. Annalisa is the recipient of the Joanne Avanis Memorial Award and the Katherine P. Borkenstein Memorial Award. 01:41:43.010 --> 01:41:51.769 - Thank you. Our next category is Contemporary Dance and Celine Carter is the Chair of Contemporary Dance 01:41:51.769 --> 01:42:00.191 - and will present those awards. Thank you, Ruth. Could I invite the Contemporary Dance recipients to 01:42:00.191 --> 01:42:02.718 - join me on the stage, please? 01:42:16.386 --> 01:42:24.713 - It's such a pleasure to witness young artists in this time. And I can't say enough about how the Cash 01:42:24.713 --> 01:42:32.876 - Award really helps artists, especially in dance. It's the difference between being able to attend a 01:42:32.876 --> 01:42:41.203 - workshop, a master class, travel to an audition. It's a really helpful, helpful gift. So I'm grateful 01:42:41.203 --> 01:42:44.958 - to be a part of NSAL, and I'm just so honored 01:42:45.218 --> 01:43:01.204 - to witness these dancers. So Emma DeLillo received the Marina Svetlova Memorial Award. Corey Boatner 01:43:01.204 --> 01:43:09.118 - also received the Marina Svetlova Memorial Award. 01:43:17.282 --> 01:43:24.594 - Meredith Johnson cannot be here, and I will give her award to her tomorrow. And it is a great honor 01:43:24.594 --> 01:43:32.052 - for me to present this award to Leila Hazelwood, who received the Reeva Shiner Memorial Award. She is 01:43:32.052 --> 01:43:39.438 - a former Chapter Career Award, and she is doing phenomenal things in Indianapolis right now. And I'm 01:43:39.438 --> 01:43:45.726 - just so proud of the leadership she's taken to continue to develop contemporary dance 01:43:45.890 --> 01:43:55.875 - Indianapolis, so I'm thrilled to present this award. Thank you. And finally, the judges were so impressed 01:43:55.875 --> 01:44:05.953 - with this recipient's choreographic voice, as well as his performance of his work, and that is the Chapter 01:44:05.953 --> 01:44:11.134 - Career Award in Contemporary Dance to Cameron Barnett. 01:44:21.314 --> 01:44:36.620 - Thank you. Our next category is drama, and Chair Drew Bratton will present those awards. Thank you, 01:44:36.620 --> 01:44:46.110 - Ruth. If I could have our drama winners join me on the stage. 01:44:59.202 --> 01:45:09.666 - I'd like to start with our first awardee who was unable to join us this afternoon, who is receiving 01:45:09.666 --> 01:45:20.653 - the Brighter Merit Award in Drama, and that is Caleb Curtis. And our second award winner also was unable 01:45:20.653 --> 01:45:28.606 - to join us today. Winning the Reva Shiner Memorial Award is Courtney Reala. 01:45:28.738 --> 01:45:43.060 - Spivak. And now for the phenomenal five that are with us today. The Albert Rusink Memorial Award goes 01:45:43.060 --> 01:45:55.838 - to Nicholas Jenkins. Winning the Helen and Linton Caldwell Memorial Award, Emily Sullivan. 01:46:03.874 --> 01:46:18.737 - winner of the Dr. Frank Hersmolus Memorial Award, Scott Van Wye. You saw him perform today. The winner 01:46:18.737 --> 01:46:32.446 - of the Laura and Reva Shiner Memorial Award, Ryan Klaus. And the winner of the Lineth Brockett 01:46:32.546 --> 01:46:48.223 - Carol Moody and Fran Snake Memorial Award in Drama for 2017, Felix Mirbach. Thank you very much. When 01:46:48.223 --> 01:46:56.062 - Scott Van Wye won the musical theater competition, 01:46:56.482 --> 01:47:02.859 - we had this dream that he would also win the drama competition and perform in both halves of the showcase. 01:47:02.859 --> 01:47:09.236 - It didn't quite happen, but he was third in this competition, so it almost happened. I'd like to introduce 01:47:09.236 --> 01:47:14.302 - Rick and Lois Hall, who are literature chairs, and we'll present those awards today. 01:47:25.122 --> 01:47:42.796 - Again, this year we had wonderful judges and wonderful contestants. Yes, all the literature winners, 01:47:42.796 --> 01:47:53.470 - please. Sue Chow won the Josephine Piercy Memorial Award and 01:47:53.826 --> 01:48:11.263 - Paul Eisenberg is also contributing to that award. Sue Chow. And Lisa Lowe. Lisa Lowe won the David 01:48:11.263 --> 01:48:18.238 - Albright Memorial Award. If she's here. 01:48:25.794 --> 01:48:38.332 - Tessa Yang. She won the Hayate Merritt Award, and the check is not in the mail, it's in the envelope. 01:48:38.332 --> 01:48:50.870 - And Hannah DellaBella won the Chapter Career Award in Literature for 2017, and we're glad to give her 01:48:50.870 --> 01:48:52.222 - the award. 01:48:58.306 --> 01:49:08.082 - Thank you all. I thought our literature winners did a great job of reading from their work this year. 01:49:08.082 --> 01:49:17.666 - It's not easy. I mean, it's a lot easier to be a song and dance person than it is to read from your 01:49:17.666 --> 01:49:20.350 - literature at the showcase. 01:49:20.834 --> 01:49:28.340 - We had two wonderful competitions in music this year. Ilya Friedberg, who's a PhD student at IU Jacobs 01:49:28.340 --> 01:49:35.774 - School of Music, was the chair of the instrumental competition, and he will present those awards now. 01:49:35.774 --> 01:49:43.572 - Ilya is a former NSAL winner, having won an award for his piano playing in 2012, and now he's an associate 01:49:43.572 --> 01:49:47.070 - award member of our chapter. And here he comes. 01:49:57.762 --> 01:50:07.273 - the sun when there's so much shine, huh? There used to be a time when children were born into a safe 01:50:07.273 --> 01:50:16.690 - world when they knew that their life will be provided and they didn't have to worry about finding a 01:50:16.690 --> 01:50:26.296 - job. Those are not the days now. So I'm so glad to be a member of NSAL and I would like to thank you, 01:50:26.296 --> 01:50:27.614 - to thank Ruth 01:50:28.578 --> 01:50:38.154 - that we are able to provide some kind of safety and some kind of confidence to the performer, that the 01:50:38.154 --> 01:50:47.451 - future is not so, that the future is bright and you need to be you and that's what we want. We want 01:50:47.451 --> 01:50:56.190 - the winners to know that we love who you are and we're so happy to have a chance to meet you. 01:50:58.338 --> 01:51:04.291 - So please, whoever is here, we don't have too many, but the winners of instrumental competition, please 01:51:04.291 --> 01:51:05.150 - come on stage. 01:51:25.154 --> 01:51:35.782 - announce all of the winners. And the ones that are not here, I'll just keep their check. Too bad. He 01:51:35.782 --> 01:51:46.726 - has the recital today. He's a doctoral student as well. So he cannot be here with us. And he's a winner 01:51:46.726 --> 01:51:54.302 - of a Taylor Merritt Award, Lindner, Stroman. Then the Christoph Wagner. 01:51:54.754 --> 01:52:07.662 - Also not here, he's playing in the orchestra today, in Evansville, and he's receiving a McDonald's Merit 01:52:07.662 --> 01:52:19.955 - Award. And the next one is Layley, who's receiving the Donald Neal Memorial Award. Congratulations. 01:52:19.955 --> 01:52:22.782 - Claire, Long and Dyke, 01:52:23.490 --> 01:52:34.122 - is unable to be with us, unfortunately. And she's the winner of the Hagerty Merit Award. So we can just 01:52:34.122 --> 01:52:45.470 - clap for Claire. The next one is Nayang Kim, and she's the winner of NSAL Bloomington Chapter and Merit Award. 01:52:55.362 --> 01:53:07.149 - next we have a lot we have eight we had an amazing competitions and we just we were very happy too bad 01:53:07.149 --> 01:53:18.821 - we could only select eight maybe we can next year select more the next one is Zoe Martin Doik she won 01:53:18.821 --> 01:53:23.742 - the Ham Merit Award next one is Phil Hobie 01:53:24.034 --> 01:53:38.134 - And you heard him today playing the Godowsky paraphrase on the flutter mouse. He's the winner of Donald 01:53:38.134 --> 01:53:48.574 - Trout and Paula Sanderman Award. And the Chapter Award winner is Sihi Huang. 01:53:59.074 --> 01:54:09.355 - Thank you all, and I hope you take a chance to talk to the winners and to get to know them. Thank you. 01:54:09.355 --> 01:54:19.836 - The longtime chair of our voice competition is Mary Alice Cox, who will present those awards and perhaps 01:54:19.836 --> 01:54:23.230 - make an interesting announcement. 01:54:30.338 --> 01:54:37.590 - Can we get everyone to come down, please? We also had an amazing competition this year. There were 28 01:54:37.590 --> 01:54:44.771 - people in the voice competition, and they were all terrific. And we were able to award seven awards, 01:54:44.771 --> 01:54:51.881 - and we have four people here today. So we will get started. The winner of the Stephen Pak and David 01:54:51.881 --> 01:54:54.014 - Blumberg Award is Ann Sloban. 01:55:01.634 --> 01:55:13.483 - Actually, all of the voice winners are very huggable, so. The winner of the Herbert Kubler and Phil 01:55:13.483 --> 01:55:26.398 - Evans Award is Yuji Bae. The winner of the Koronek Merit Award and Jacobi Merit Award is Alejandra Martinez. 01:55:34.754 --> 01:55:41.993 - The winner of the Donald Traub Memorial Award could not be here today. He's actually performing 01:55:41.993 --> 01:55:49.610 - professionally with Pittsburgh Opera. And his name is Terence Chin Loy. The winner of the Lauren, or 01:55:49.610 --> 01:55:57.302 - excuse me, the winner of the Helen and Linton Caldwell Memorial Award is Lauren or Liz Culpepper. And 01:55:57.302 --> 01:56:01.374 - she is working backstage at Music Man this afternoon. 01:56:03.874 --> 01:56:14.740 - The winner of the Mary Alice Cox and Jim Cook Merit Award is Caitlin Johnson. And lastly, our Chapter 01:56:14.740 --> 01:56:24.860 - Award winner, Andres Acosta, who is in Florida. I have another special announcement about him. 01:56:24.860 --> 01:56:31.358 - This year, our parent NSAL organization has the first annual 01:56:31.522 --> 01:56:38.985 - Lincoln, Dorothy, Smith, Classical Voice Competition. And all of the chapters across the country are 01:56:38.985 --> 01:56:46.375 - allowed to submit two entries to that. Caitlin and Andres were our submissions. And there are three 01:56:46.375 --> 01:56:52.286 - awards given, and Andres actually placed second. So we're pretty proud of that. 01:57:02.210 --> 01:57:08.367 - George Pinney is our longtime chair of musical theater and he's retiring this year after 30 years at 01:57:08.367 --> 01:57:14.829 - IU. At this very, very moment he is rehearsing for his role as the man in the chair for the IU production 01:57:14.829 --> 01:57:20.925 - of the drowsy chaperone. I read in the paper this morning that in 30 years this is his first acting 01:57:20.925 --> 01:57:27.326 - job at IU. He's been directing all those 30 years. Anyway, it opens on Friday and I think you should all 01:57:27.458 --> 01:57:36.138 - want to see it, it's probably going to be lots of fun. Anyway, stepping in to present those awards is 01:57:36.138 --> 01:57:44.649 - our drama chair, Drew Bratton. Lest you think that we didn't have a fabulous drama competition this 01:57:44.649 --> 01:57:53.329 - year, we did as well as the musical theater competition. And yes, it is true that George cannot grace 01:57:53.329 --> 01:57:56.478 - the stage for you today, but as Ruth 01:57:56.674 --> 01:58:04.187 - said you should all come and let him grace the stage at the Ruthen Halls Theater and celebrate him. 01:58:04.187 --> 01:58:11.926 - Our competition for musical theater is ripe with cast members from the Drowsy Chaperone as well. There 01:58:11.926 --> 01:58:19.440 - are a few of the musical theater winners here today. If they will join us on stage. And as you look 01:58:19.440 --> 01:58:25.150 - to the rest of your program, you will see that the ones that we are missing 01:58:26.082 --> 01:58:36.674 - are definitely at their 10 of 12 today, getting ready for opening on Friday. So we will start with the 01:58:36.674 --> 01:58:47.368 - Scott Burgess Jones Tribute Award winner, and that is Emily Rosman. Unable to join us today, the winner 01:58:47.368 --> 01:58:52.510 - of the George Penny Tribute Award, Michelle Zink, 01:58:57.314 --> 01:59:07.296 - The Hagerty Merit Award and George Penny Tribute Award, Meadow Nui, also unable to join us. The winner 01:59:07.296 --> 01:59:17.084 - of the George Penny Tribute Award, Robert Lee Tombs, unable to join us today. The Kovner Merit Award 01:59:17.084 --> 01:59:24.062 - winner is Janie Rose Johnson, also in the cast of The Drowsy Chaperone. 01:59:24.578 --> 01:59:32.716 - And you saw her perform earlier today, the Robinson Merritt Award winner, Julia Paige Thorne, who left 01:59:32.716 --> 01:59:41.092 - to rejoin the rehearsal for the drowsy chaperone. But that brings us to the Mrs. Granville Wells Memorial 01:59:41.092 --> 01:59:44.094 - Award winner for 2017, Scott Van Wye. 01:59:55.586 --> 02:00:05.807 - Thank you to all of you for applauding and for rewarding these students that work with us and show us 02:00:05.807 --> 02:00:15.326 - such great talent. We appreciate you. Let's give these winners all one last round of applause. 02:00:23.330 --> 02:00:29.173 - I'd like to thank my behind the scenes crew. We had a few little snafus along the way. We had a great 02:00:29.173 --> 02:00:35.360 - rehearsal yesterday and I've always heard that if you have a bad rehearsal, you'll have a good performance. 02:00:35.360 --> 02:00:41.261 - So I was a little worried because our rehearsal was good and I thought, you know, is the reverse true? 02:00:41.261 --> 02:00:46.302 - Well, as it turned out, you know, people broke their legs, people got stuck in Florida. 02:00:46.402 --> 02:00:55.113 - Et cetera. So anyway, a big thanks to the stage managers, Josiah Brown and Kate Peters, and to our lighting 02:00:55.113 --> 02:01:01.566 - and sound technician, Aaron Bowersox, who had a whole lot more to do this year. 02:01:03.650 --> 02:01:10.265 - than he expected with all of our visuals. And I also wanted to thank Ivy Tech Community College, who 02:01:10.265 --> 02:01:16.815 - is an educational partner to the Bloomington Arts community, and they're a big help in what we were 02:01:16.815 --> 02:01:23.496 - able to do here. Last but not least, I would like to thank all of you for coming today and supporting 02:01:23.496 --> 02:01:30.046 - these young artists. And please join us now for a reception downstairs, one flight down, we will be 02:01:30.338 --> 02:01:34.980 - having a reception for the young artists and it's a great time for you to come and meet them. Thank 02:01:34.980 --> 02:01:36.094 - you so much for coming.