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For the love of the dance: Football player-turned choreographer takes on theses two at a time

For the love of the dance: Football player-turned choreographer takes on theses two at a time

One eighty-five Nassau Street has recently been a showcase for many seniors' artistic endeavors. While the written thesis ? required by most departments ? is an opportunity for the culmination of one's academic career at Princeton, the creative thesis provides a chance for students to explore what is oftentimes an even greater passion.For choreographer Nicholas Petry '02, however, rather than being a culmination of his work, his creative thesis is more of a beginning.

NEWS | 05/01/2002

Students share fruits of their individual labors in public creative thesis readings

When Princeton students hear the word "thesis," after the initial cringe, they must think of the 120-page behemoths that plague most Princeton students' nightmares, and imagine months of slaving away in a subterranean Firestone carrel, only crawling up to the normal world for a few brief and discouraging adviser meetings.A fever of stress overtakes the senior class around the month of March until the pressure is released department by department in April as the deadlines come one by one, and the post-thesis celebrating can finally begin.There is another kind of thesis, however, that takes shape through a different, though just as arduous, process: the creative writing thesis.

NEWS | 05/01/2002

Dress to impress for weekend of festivities

The countdown is on for the glamorous gala event of the year. Not the Oscars . . . not the Grammies . . . Princeton houseparties!

NEWS | 05/01/2002

MUSE provides forum for diverse, talented artists on campus

"MUSE" ? it's the entity that has inspired great poets of the past like Homer and Virgil.

NEWS | 04/24/2002

Digging deep into Dostoevsky's existential classic

Allow me to be an intellectual elitist for a moment and declare that there are certain books that educated people should read before proclaiming themselves intellectuals.Dostoevsky's "Notes from Underground" is one such book.

NEWS | 04/24/2002

Look! It's 'Rhinoceros' — A stampede of the absurd

Theatre~Intime has seen its share of palpitating dance moves, show-stopping smooches and Quixotic fantasies, but this Thursday's opening night ushered in something a little bit different: a rhinoceros or two.

NEWS | 04/24/2002

Flavor's first campus event leaves students with pleasant aftertaste

Three weeks ago, Alex Toledano '04, Jen Pan '04 and Ellie Harrison '04 didn't think they would have enough funding, support or organizational skills to pull off an inaugural event for Flavor, the ethnic food club they recently founded.They proved themselves wrong last Thursday when Flavor tickled student tastebuds for the first time at the Carl A.

NEWS | 04/24/2002

Kids, couples, college students make for unique atmosphere at real-world pizza joint

Having dinner at Conte's on a Saturday night is like being transported to a time and place that many of us have nearly forgotten still exists: the real world.Filled with middle-aged couples, a spattering of college students, and screaming kids straight from little league, eating at Conte's is the closest encounter I've had with normal suburban America within walking distance of the Princeton campus.A neighborhood Italian joint, Conte's serves up pizza, pasta and subs with a simplistic and down-to-earth charm that is generally lacking in the town of Princeton.Located at 339 With-erspoon Street, Conte's is situated near Princeton Medical Center, approximately 20 minutes walking distance from campus.Advertised with a bright neon sign, Conte's rather stark exterior is indicative of the restaurant's general d

NEWS | 04/24/2002

Life's hidden splendors change photography into 'found art'

As Robin Williams '04 sat down to his grandmother's home-cooked Thanksgiving dinner last fall, something on the table caught his eye."The dressing looked a radiating sunburst on the plate," he remembers.

NEWS | 04/24/2002

London madness, human fears baked into 'Sweeney Todd'

A tale of foolishness, lust and vengeance, "Sweeney Todd ? The Demon Barber of Fleet Street," combines murder, dance, guilt, song, lust, and music all on one stage.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Fighting gravity: Sculptor transforms 'mind into matter'

As a sculpture major, Rachel Linton '03 gets her own studio on the third floor of 185 Nassau. At the moment, four lengths of cellophane ? red, purple, blue, and green ? cascade from the ceiling and intertwine halfway to the floor.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Audience is watching, but diSiac still dances with freedom, passion

It is 10:30 on a Sunday morning, and already the Wilcox dance studio is sweltering. As Mary J. Blige's "No More Drama" blares on the loudspeakers, the company members clap and sing to cheer on their fellow dancers as they float across the dance floor with grace.Though the dancers have been practicing since the second week of the spring semester, it is an early weekend morning, and the academic crunch that is dean's date is rapidly approaching, every company member is beaming.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Heaney speaks on poetry's power to link cultures, consciousness

There is a photograph of Seamus Heaney in Firestone Library. In it, Heaney ? with a mop of white hair, thick black eyebrows and ruddy cheeks ? squints at the camera as he poses at Lion's Gate.Beyond Heaney and beyond the stones of the Mycenean archaeological site, the Greek countryside rolls over the plains to the horizon.In many ways, Heaney is an anachronism ? a contemporary Irish poet among the monuments of ancient Greece.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Despite talent, Bogosian can't keep 'Humpty' from cracking

McCarter Theatre Center commissioned a world premiere through last week (March 29 through April 14), featuring the latest onstage production of actor/writer/mono-logist Eric Bogosian."Humpty Dumpty" is a two-act play about four disgustingly contemporary, cell phone-using, laptop-carrying urbanites who rent a renovated, "new age" barn in upstate New York for a week of relaxation.When the electricity tragically goes out one night ? and coincidentally, their cell phones run out of batteries at that same moment ? the four are forced to do the unthinkable: to live without stock trades, refrigeration, Internet connections, and cable TV until the power outage is fixed.As one week turns into two, the thirty-somethings must reconsider the meaning and purpose within their lives and relationships once the protective shell of modern goods ? both material and social ? has been broken.While the themes are valid and certainly hit close to home, "Humpty Dumpty" nevertheless stunk like a rotten egg.The curtain opens to reveal an unbelievably crafted, wood-paneled, ski lodge-like home, complete with kitchen and an overlooking balcony.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Lee, Lemme culminate Princeton dance careers with theses

Not every senior thesis is created in the carrels of Firestone Library. These days, Hagan Dance Studio at 185 Nassau is filled with lighting equipment, ladders and sets as seniors in the dance program prepare for the showing of their creative dance theses."We have three people doing a dance thesis this year," says Becca Lemme '02.

NEWS | 04/17/2002

Folklórico's fancy footwork kicks off Cinco de Mayo festivities

Walking around campus, you don't usually see many flyers for the various ethnic dance groups on campus.

NEWS | 04/10/2002

The Ice of the Tiger: Skating team dazzles campus and beyond

Contrary to the Princeton Figure Skating Team's advertisement, neither Brian Boitano nor Kristi Yamaguchi made it to last weekend's "Skating for the Gold" performance at Baker Rink.

NEWS | 04/10/2002

Classically-trained Expressions dancers try out new moves, new grooves in spring show

The members of Expressions Dance Company didn't spend their spring breaks sunbathing in some tropical locale.Instead, they stayed on campus and worked hard to prepare to hit the stage of Richardson Auditorium in their spring showcase this weekend.

NEWS | 04/10/2002

Students merge body, mind, and spirit through movement

"If you've ever rolled or fallen or ran or turned with joy, then you have danced, and Dance 209 is for you," says Ze'eva Cohen, laughing.

NEWS | 04/10/2002

There's no 'Scottish' in hip-hop dance . . . or is there?

As Laura Johnson '04 walks across the dance studio at 185 Nassau, her toes curl up frighteningly high, as if eager to resume their supple relationship with the dance floor.Johnson is short and lithe; the slightest mo-tion seems to receive its impulse from her entire body.

NEWS | 04/10/2002

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