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IU loses another close game 75-69 By Grace Palmieri gpalmier@indiana.edu | @grace_palmieri
IU Coach Teri Moren runs a drill in practice where her team has to get three defensive stops in a row. It’s a game she took from one of IU Coach Tom Crean’s practices. It forces her players to be defensiveminded. In the fiMore on the nal minutes loss, page 8 Thursday night against IU had 20 Northwestern, turnovers, 11 of instead of IU which came getting three during the stops, the Wild- first half. cats scored on three consecutive possessions during a stretch where the Hoosiers went scoreless. Northwestern closed the game on a 18-10 run in an eventual 75-69 win at Assembly Hall. IU is now 0-4 in games decided by six points or less this season. Moren is waiting to see the progress from practice transfer to games. “I think at one point Northwestern had scored five straight times down the floor,” Moren said. “Somebody out there has to recognize that it’s been a long time since we got a stop. Dig your heels in and make sure that happens.” The Hoosiers opened the game shooting 5-of-10 from the field, with an 11-3 advantage on the boards. But midway through the first half, the IU offense was stalled by turnovers, which totaled 11 by halftime. Sophomore Karlee McBride, who had 15 points, said it was a SEE IUWBB, PAGE 8
Kelley’s business application closes soon By Alexis Daily aledaily@indiana.edu | @AlexDaily1
The registration deadline for the fourth annual Clapp Ideas Developed for Entrepreneurial Action Competition is 5 p.m. Monday. To register, students must include their names and explain their idea in 200 words or less. Teams with innovative business ideas will compete April 3 for $10,000 and free office space at the Hoosier Hatchery, a workstation that provides entrepreneurs space to advance their innovations. The competition, open to all current IU students, undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D. candidates and majors, is sponsored by the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Kelley School of Business and Clapp Investment, Ltd. “Ideas come from everywhere so we want to make sure that every student on campus considers entering,” Edward Drakhlis, an Innovation Fellow at the Johnson Center, said. “We are simply looking for people who are serious and passionate about turning their idea into a business.” DoubleMap, a website and app that provides real-time bus tracking, was the first winner of the IDEA Competition. Dr. Donald Kuratko, Executive & Academic Director of the Johnson Center, said the competition started to encourage ideas from all disciplines on the IU campus. “There is no question that we have some of the most talented and creative students in the world here at IU, SEE CLAPP, PAGE 8
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Alcina, played by Elizabeth Toy, and Ruggiero, played by Michael Linert, perform during the dress rehearsal of “Alcina” Tuesday at the Musical Arts Center.
Behind the façade ‘Alcina,’ IU Opera’s new show, opens Friday after months of preparation By Audrey Perkins audperki@indiana.edu | @AudreyNLP
The line between reality and artificiality will be unveiled in the Jacobs School of Music’s newest opera, “Alcina.” The show opens 8 p.m. Friday at the Musical Arts Center and will be performed in Italian with English subtitles over the stage. For those unable to attend, the opera will also be streamed live through IUMusicLive! Elizabeth Toy is one of two doctoral students who plays the role of Alcina. She portrays a sorceress who controls a magical island and charms her way through multiple lovers. “There’s many different ways to think about it,” Toy said about her character. Rather than having physical, almost Disney-level magic, Alcina’s power manifests itself in her charisma and manipulation.
It’s her persona. Alcina is a person who can pull you in, she said. However, when she falls in love with deceptively antagonistic Ruggiero, according to the two actresses who play the role, Alcina’s facade falls apart. Despite her outward strength displayed in the beginning of the opera, Alcina is a fragile, relatable character. “She just wants everyone to love her,” Toy said. To aid this manipulation, she creates an island that she and her sister Morgana rule. Everything is lavish and red. The atmosphere of this world speaks to her power over people, Toy said. “Alcina has created a world to live in,” Toy said. “It’s passionate, yet dangerous. ... It evokes reactions out of the audience.” There is disconnect among how the actors are costumed. Some people will be dressed in modern clothing. However,
ALCINA Tickets $12-40 8 p.m. Friday, MAC when characters cross the boundary between the real world and the world Alcina created, costumes change. Everything is designed to aesthetically fall into history. All actors are dressed in historical costume. Think Marie Antoinette, Toy said. Actresses wear foot-tall wigs, corsets and men are in tights. Yet, everything is all bewitched. Shannon Love, also plays Alcina, said this production is designed to juxtapose the artificiality of Alcina’s world with the farce commonly associated with the theater. Love made this comparison. When an SEE ALCINA, PAGE 8
Bear’s Place jazz night Thursdays play on By Lyndsay Jones jonesly@indiana.edu | @lyndsayjonesy
Jazz music filled the back room of Bear’s Place Thursday, just like it has every Thursday night for the past 26 years. This time, it was The Mitch Shiner Sextet playing. The band riffs on current pop songs and rearranges them into more jazzy pieces. They advertise themselves as a musical crossroads, somewhere between Jay-Z and George Gershwin. Mitch Shiner, the band’s leader and drummer, is a recent IU grad. He introduced the band’s version of Royals. “We went for a sort of medieval arrangement,” he said. They ended to a round of loud applause that rivaled the volume of the music. Shiner laughed. “So was that almost unrecognizable?” he asked. The crowd laughed, too. While he was standing, he took a moment to lean in toward a camera and wave. “This is probably the first time ever a concert has been livestreamed from Bear’s for all the world to see,” Shiner said. Joe Anderson, the band’s trumpet player, said it was also their first real gig. “We’ve been together for about three months,” Anderson said. “Most of us are IU grad students.” One of them isn’t. Wayne Wallace, who plays trombone in the sextet, is a professor of practice at IU.
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Pianist Alex Wignall performs Thursday at Bear’s Place. The restaurant has Jazz Fables events where amatuer and professional jazz performers can play every Thursday.
He is based in San Francisco and is a five-time Grammy nominee. The sextet also has links to the Grammy awards. “Our album was nominated to be nominated,” Anderson said. He and some other band members laughed. As plates of food and trays of beer
ran out to tables, the band bounced onstage. The saxophone and trumpet gleamed under the blue lighting. Cindy Boulet, the woman taking cover money at the door, said a lot of patrons were regulars. She pointed to a row of booths. “They’re regulars,” she said. “All
the gray-hairs, too, are regulars.” David Miller is responsible for the long-standing concert series. Miller said he started the band Jazz Fables in September of 1989. “When I started it, it was a house SEE BEAR’S PLACE, PAGE 8