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uke Kenley used to have this trick. conservative reasons. He thought it hadn’t The longtime Republican state senator been properly declared and the reasons for from Noblesville and powerful chair of fighting hadn’t been specified, but he also the Senate Appropriations Committee thought it was an American’s duty to serve. — who is retiring from his legislative duties He enlisted in the U.S. Army, was sent to — knew what people saw when they looked officer candidate school and found himself, at him. A sturdy man with a thick neck who again and again, at the head of his class of moved deliberately and talked with an awcandidates. shucks drawl, he understood that people When Kenley left the Army, he came home might take him for a country boy who was a to Noblesville, settled into a comfortable little bit slow on the uptake. routine helping with the family business and And he played into it. His real name is serving as a city court judge. Howard Kenley III, but he always encouraged He ran for the Senate in 1992 when a friend people to call him “Luke.” And had to drop out of the race. He he loved to tell people that he was in his mid-40s then, and was just a small-town grocer The truth is ready for a challenge. from Noblesville, where his Once he got to the Senate, he that he always family had owned and operatbecame a force there immeed a small chain of stores. has been a diately — and people stopped Only when pressed would underestimating him in a hurry. complicated he acknowledge that he But the very quality that was a graduate of Harvard figure of made him so formidable in the Law School or that he had — his fierce, inquissurprising depths Senate consistently finished at the itive intelligence — also all top of his class in officer and intriguing but guaranteed that he never candidate school. would climb higher than that contradictions. I asked Kenley once, a long in a Republican Party that had time ago, if he deliberately come to value unquestioning tried to get people to underestimate him. adherence to party positions on hot-button “Not really,” he said. issues more highly than creative thought. His mouth stretched into a “who, me?” Luke Kenley announced a few days ago he smile. was retiring from the Senate, after 25 years of “But if they do,” he drawled, still grinning, service. He will leave on Sept. 30. “well, that’s all right.” He’s left his mark on the state. He has been He said it with such a twinkle in his eye that a principal architect of every budget for at I couldn’t help myself. I burst out laughing. least the past dozen years. For good or ill, he The truth is that he always has been a has shaped the Indiana in which we live. complicated figure of surprising depths and I haven’t seen him that often in the past intriguing contradictions. few years. He became a star performer in high But when I do, he’s still the same Luke Kenschool, president of his class and a mainstay ley, with the same slow drawl and the same of the football and basketball teams. He aw-shucks grin. He’s the same smiling figure headed off to Miami University, did well and encouraging everyone — daring them, actualfound himself accepted to Harvard Law. ly — to think just a little bit less of him, to think Vietnam interrupted his plans to come that because he talks slow, he also thinks slow. back to Noblesville and practice law. He It’s a good trick. Even if it hasn’t fooled opposed that war for what he considered anyone for years. N

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DEFINING WHITENESS

Unitarian church hosts seminar to discuss U.S.’s most ambiguous race

BY AMBER STEARNS // ASTEARNS@NUVO.NET

hen someone says, “I’m Black,” or “I’m Hispanic,” or “I’m Native American,” most people can come up with a cultural definition of what that means. And usually the individual proclaiming the statement can further define the cultural significance of what they mean. Those definitions can have personal and universal meanings. But when someone says, “I’m white,” does anyone know what that means? Do any of us know what “whiteness” is or what it means culturally today? All Souls Unitarian Church on Indy’s Northeastside will host a one-day seminar July 22 exploring the concept of whiteness in current American society. All Souls church leader Rev. Anastassia Zinke says the goal of the seminar is to begin a conversation — not only within her congregation, but also throughout Indianapolis — about the cultural identity of being white and how it affects conversations about race. Zinke says in order to understand how we relate to each other we have to first understand ourselves. And, for white people, that level of understanding is not always a given. “I’ve been a part of such a variety of dif-

ferent congregations who have taken some of the racial justice and inclusion work very seriously,” says Zinke. “And one of the things that we realized as Unitarian Universalists a number of years ago is that many people in our congregations, when we were engaging in conversations about multiculturalism or racial identity or how to build inclusive communities, we were at many different stages in our learning and understanding about that.” Zinke says she grew up in a diverse neighborhood where her parents and neighbors were intentional in the harmonious inclusion of the block. Her awareness of the social separation of races and ethnicities developed in middle school. Zinke says she has been trying to recapture the unity of peoples from her childhood ever since. “To use a Biblical term, it’s like being forced out of the Garden of Eden and always kind of struggling with that sense of the world being broken,” says Zinke. “And myself experiencing that brokenness and my wanting to return to that place of connectedness and belonging and love.” According to Zinke, because of the social justice-oriented nature of most faiths, congregations like All Souls Unitarian Church are

WHAT // White Racial Literacy with Robin DiAngelo WHEN // July 22, 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. WHERE // All Souls Unitarian Church TICKETS // $50

active in creating educational opportunities to learn how to engage in those tough conversations to try and fix the world. Dr. Robin DiAngelo, a researcher, lecturer and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle has spent her academic career diving deep in to the ideas of multiculturalism, cultural diversity, race and social justice. She’s done extensive research on the topic of “whiteness” and will lead the All Souls workshop. Not only will she discuss what it means to be white, but also what it means to be a white ally in the fight against racism. She’ll define and discuss terms like “white silence” and “white fragility” — a term DiAngelo coined in 2011 as a result of her research. “[White fragility] is the result of white people being raised in a society that insulates us and protects us from race-based stresses,” explains DiAngelo. “We are rarely ever challenged in the centrality. We are rarely exposed to the perspectives of people of color.” DiAngelo says racism is one of the most sensitive topics in our society where everyone has a strong opinion, but not every opinion is an informed one. “I often ask people in my workshops, ‘What are some of the ways in which your race has shaped your life?’ and it is very common for white people to share a moment where they became aware of race,” says Di Angelo. “That is not answering the question. [But] it reveals how deeply whites define race as what’s at play if people of color are present or if we are thinking in any way about people of color.” So, if the ultimate goal is to broaden one’s understanding so that race relations are better understood, why spend so much

time exploring whiteness instead of other races? DiAngelo says to understand American whiteness is to better understand racism in our culture. She described “white fragility” as the shield that’s in place to protect against the difficult conversation of racism. That protection ultimately allows underlying racial divides to continue. “[White fragility] functions to actually protect our positions and our limited uniformed understandings of race and racism,” say DiAngelo. “We make it so difficult for them [people of color] to talk of their experience. People of color are sucking up our racism and our unspoken racist instances constantly.” Zinke believes DiAngelo’s help in understanding what it means to be white will help create self-awareness of the cultural powers at play in the decisions that affect others. “I wanted to offer it as a way for people in my congregation and the city to begin to understand explicitly some things that we were naturalized to, but are not able to specifically articulate,” says Zinke. “Through a kind of growing self-awareness, [we] are able to then be present in conversations and be aware that just as we have a culture that we know, but can’t always mean explicitly, other peoples have other cultures that then we can become more cognizant of as we become more cognizant of ourselves and the cultural norms that form white identity here in America.” That is especially fitting now in Indianapolis as the community comes to terms with the recent shooting death of Aaron Bailey. “This is work that we need to be doing all the time and when we do it all the time then you are able to step into those moments with more grace, with more compassion, with more wholeness … so that way they are healing moments and transformative moments,” says Zinke. “I just think we need to be having this conversation all the time and try to get kind of ahead of the curve instead of trying to play catch up because it really matters and it sometimes is a life-or-death situation.” N NUVO.NET // 07.12.17 - 07.19.17 // NEWS // 5

SUMMER DAYS MURAL, OR SCULPTURE, ON THE WALL OF THE JOHNSON COUNTY COURT ANNEX BUILDING, BELOW LOVE MORE SIGN // PHOTOS BY DAVE WINDISCH

GORDON STRAIN WITH HIS DAUGHTERS //

NO MURAL CITY?

Artists and the City of Franklin bump heads over public art BY DAN GROSSMAN // ARTS@NUVO.NET

uesday, June 27, was a busy day in Franklin, Ind. It was the day that the Great Race, a collector car show, rolled into downtown. Later in the evening, you could have checked out the motion picture Bullitt starring Steve McQueen — and his Ford Mustang — at the restored Artcraft Theatre (for free). You might also have checked out the group show at the Franklin Department of Public Art (FDPA) gallery and studios at 100 S. Jackson St. There was car-themed art on its walls from local artists, lots of patrons checking out the art, and a quilting class underway. And if you were checking out the art that evening, you might have run into FDPA co-founder Gordon Strain, 39, who is currently running FDPA as a business while seeking nonprofit status. He was wearing a Scottish kilt and sporting numerous tattoos;

he was keeping tabs on things and chatting up patrons. Strain’s daughters Josephine, 7, and Lexi, 19, were sitting at a table in front of the building selling T-shirts that read “KEEP FRANKLIN FUNKY” and rainbow-colored signs that read “LOVE MORE.” You might not have known that Strain is at the center of an ongoing dispute with the town of Franklin. At issue is a city ordinance that restricts the size — but not content — of murals that he was set to install this summer. The practical effect of this ordinance, so far, has been to delay a number of mural projects within municipal boundaries. To start wrapping your brain around this

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controversy, all you’d need do is look across the street from the FDPA gallery. You’d see a mural attached to the west wall of the Johnson County Court Annex Building that was put up in the summer of 2016. The mural, “Summer Days,” is composed of colorful aluminum panels cut to represent children blowing massive bubbles. (The city considers this a sculpture and not a mural, and thus exempt from the ordinance but more on this later.) The “Color the County” mural program which sponsored this mural was conceived by the Johnson County Community Foundation [JCCF] but this particular mural is, in many ways, Strain’s baby (although he

had the help of hundreds of volunteers, of all ages, in painting it.) “In 2016 the JCCF put out a request to the community for anyone to submit mural ideas,” said Strain. “I was hired as the project manager for all of the murals; I was the one who was going to be in charge of making sure that they could get painted and installed, whatever needed to happen.” Strain also submitted a design proposal anonymously to the JCCF. The mural design, which depicts Strain’s daughters Lexi and Josephine in outline, was the one selected. “We put a call out to artists,” said Kim Minton, vice president of development at the JCCF. “And we took in mural submissions, we reviewed those. And so, there were no stipulations in our polices or guidelines that he could not submit.” Minton, who discovered the Franklin

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VOLUNTEERS PAINTING THE MURAL AT CRYSTAL GRAPHICS IN DOWNTOWN WHITELAND //

ARTIST DAVE WINDISCH WITH FINISHED WHITELAND MURAL //

Department of Public Art through Strain’s involvement with the murals (and liked what she saw, eventually signing up for quilting classes) explained how JCCF pushed mural installation in Franklin, and in surrounding Johnson County. “Last year was the 25th Anniversary of the Community Foundation,” she said. “And our board decided that they wanted to do public art, and so I presented to them [the question] how about we do a collaborative mural-making process. We researched Art Partners for Lawrence. They have a similar program and some other programs in the state of Indiana; ours mostly resembles what Lawrence does.” Shortly afterwards, JCCF’s “Color the County” mural program was born, inviting artists to submit proposals for mural designs and paying the selected artists for their work. They also called out for volunteers to help paint on “Community Painting Days.” Aside from the mural on the Annex building — the only one

designed by Strain himself — murals have been installed in Greenwood and Bargersville. And, on June 24, a new mural was completed on the side of the Crystal Graphics business at 530 E. Main St. in Downtown Whiteland, with the assistance of many volunteers of all ages, after the design of artist Dave Windisch (former NUVO art director and current marketing director of Franklin Heritage, Inc.). But when both JCCF and FDPA wanted to install four murals in Franklin this summer — the mural slated for the FDPA gallery would depict a girl reading a science fiction book — they ran into a roadblock. COLOR THE COUNTY, BUT DO IT WITHIN A FRAME (IN FRANKLIN) The JCCF was notified of the city ordinance when they inquired about the possibility of putting a mural on City Hall, according to Franklin Mayor Steve Barnett, a lifelong Franklin resident. He took the position of Mayor in February, after NUVO.NET // 07.12.17 - 07.19.17 // THE BIG STORY // 7

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LACKING SPACE AND THE RIGHT TOOLS? CAT HEAD PRESS HAS YOU COVERED. // PHOTO BY YOUR MOM

SOME OF THE MANY MURALS AROUND INDIANAPOLIS //

Joe McGuinness vacated the position to become commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation at the request of Governor Holcomb. “We checked with the planning department and let them know that they had to [follow the ordinance],” said Barnett. “That’s how it all started.” The city ordinance regulates size and type and frequency of signage, whether commercial or artistic. Such ordinances cannot regulate content in light of the Supreme Court decision Reed vs. Town of Gilbert (2015). The decision ruled such regulation a violation of the First Amendment, said the mayor. Barnett raised one concern in particular about murals, aside from the usual municipal concerns of preserving an uncluttered appearance along storefronts and such that the ordinance addresses by limiting the size and frequency of displays: historical preservation. “The Franklin Development Corporation gives out grants that gives business owners (money) that want to get their facades done. And if you get assistance from them, you can’t paint the brick,” said Barnett. This is an example why a mural on a historically important building is something the city might want to have a say in,

he said, because some buildings are better suited for murals than others But allowing only 1.5 square feet of sign per linear foot of facade doesn’t give a mural designer much room to work with. Such strictures might be fine if you’re putting up a Doritos advert but would suck if you’re an artist channelling your inner Diego Rivera. That is to say, as a prospective mural designer, you wouldn’t be able to cover more than a small fraction of any given wall with your work within Franklin’s municipal boundaries — unless you present your case at the Board of Zoning Appeals [BZA] and they vote in your favor. “So that’s sort of our big stumbling block that we had no issue with last year and it just sort of blindsided us this year,” said Strain, who has offered assistance to the mayor to rewrite the ordinance so as to distinguish between commercial signs and public art (which the city is loathe to do because of aforementioned constitutional considerations.) But if you don’t like the ordinance, Barnett said, the place to take it up with is with the city council. The mayor, after all, can only make recommendations to the council and not change ordinances on his own, he said. He also said that the city attorney Lynn Gray had recommended to him that

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the ordinance not be changed. Barnett is supportive of putting public art in Franklin, he said, and supportive of arts entrepreneurs like Strain, but he also believes in the structures of city governance that are in place. “I think the right thing is to let the five people on this BZA decide what to do,” he said. “That’s why they’re on this board. And if there are seven city councilmen who want to change that ordinance, so be it, I’m not going to fight it. “ ELSEWHERE IN HOOSIERLAND None of the other cities in Johnson County that have received murals through the JCCF Color the County Program — Bargersville, Greenwood, and Whiteland — have, so far, notified the mural makers of ordinances, and no murals have been prevented from going up. And then there’s Indianapolis. Imagine for a minute a similar ordinance in force in the Circle City, if you would, where the idea of using murals and other public art projects to employ artists and generate social capital is almost old hat. “Indy decided long ago that murals by their nature were art, not signs, and specifically exempted murals from its sign ordinance,” wrote Julia Muney Moore, the

Director of Public Art for the Arts Council of Indianapolis, in an emailed statement to NUVO. “This has given the city huge wins for public space vibrancy, neighborhood character and identity, attracting visitors, and a positive national presence. We’re grateful every day that we can work in a supportive environment and continue to give artists such great opportunities to do what they do.” A Franklin-style ordinance would have, at the very least, made the Arts Council’s 46 for XLVI murals program a much more cumbersome and expensive process if not put a kibosh on it altogether. This is because most of the 46 for XLVI murals — commissioned to celebrate Indy’s hosting the Super Bowl in 2012 — would have taken up more square footage than the Franklin ordinance allows, according to Moore. Most of the murals would’ve required variances to go forward. And as we shall see, asking for variances is a time-consuming and expensive process — even if a board of zoning appeals votes in your favor. Under the previous mayor, the city had not applied this ordinance to the JCCF “Color the County” mural program but according to Barnett, the issue had not come up under Mayor Joe McGuinness.

NUVO.NET/THEBIGSTORY As for the mural on the Johnson County Court Annex, the Franklin city planning department considered it sculpture, not a mural, exempt from the ordinance, said Barnett. Indeed, that is something that Strain points to as well, albeit from a different angle: “It was a little strange, especially because it was so easy last year,” he said. “Under the ordinance sculptures are allowed. Murals aren’t. Even if the sculpture is an advertisement, it’s allowed under the ordinance.” Anyway, as a result of the ordinance, both JCCF and FDPA were unable to start their mural projects without first obtaining a variance from the Board of Zoning Appeals. Applying to the Franklin Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) to ask for a variance costs $200.00 for each proposal. In addition, a petitioner is also required to pay $175 to run the required ad for a public hearing in the Daily Journal, the local paper. Gordon Strain and his wife Dianne Moneypenny are paying out of pocket for the mural on their building. JCCF is paying their fees separately for the community mural slated for a building on the other side of town. The Johnson County BZA hearing was held on July 5, 2017. STARTING THE TRAIN Strain, Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre at nearby Franklin College, grew up in Indy but has spent the last 11 years in Franklin. Strain, his wife — who teaches Spanish at IU East in Richmond, Ind. — and daughters live in Franklin. The property at 100 S. Jackson St. that now serves as the FDPA hub was built around 1890 and has served Franklin as a stable, restaurant and law offices over the years. Their decision to buy came in the wake of a major life decision. Strain and Moneypenny had been contemplating leaving Franklin for Indianapolis, where his parents live. Living in Indy would’ve shortened

Moneypenny’s commute to Richmond. “So we debated a move,” said Moneypenny. “What we decided was that if we moved to Downtown Indy, we would be jumping on a train that was already moving. If we stayed in Franklin, we could help start the train and make Franklin an even better place to live ... We stayed. Since then we have kept an eye out for a studio for Gordon. He had a tiny studio at our house and his work tended to spill out into other areas. So, we looked at our finances, ate a lot of peanut butter and jelly, and made an offer.” Strain and Moneypenny bought the building in Oct. 2016 and began laying tracks, as it were, for their train. “We formed an orgaGORDON nization to purchase the STRAIN // building and another for the operations [FDPA],” said Moneypenny. “We came up with a mission: art for all, diversity, sustainability, local-first, and social justice. We try to live that at FDPA.” They are also working on getting their nonprofit 501c3 status with the help of JCCF. “We turned [the building at 100 S. Jackson St.] into a little gallery, shop; we represent 95 percent local artists from the Indianapolis/Johnson County area,” said Strain. “We keep a low commission, so our goal was just to get art into the community. That’s what we were doing at first; so then we started offering classes and camps. And we do pretty well with that.” So far they have had four camps for kids ranging in age from kindergarten to 12th grade, with Strain acting as camp counselor and supervisor. Dianne Moneypenny has also run a Spanish Camp out of the FDPA classroom. (Strain, due to his extensive experience in set design, became a one-man contractor for the building, with occasional help from friends, laying down floorboards, stripping and knocking down and rebuilding walls.) Such activities fill a gap in much of Johnson County, where there is no equivalent of the arts nonprofits available up north, such as the Indianapolis Art Center. NUVO.NET // 07.12.17 - 07.19.17 // THE BIG STORY // 9

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And there has been full enrollment for the camp and the mural painting excursions, and other classes have attracted many since the FDPA held its first activities back in November, 2016. “In our back parking lot we set up on the mornings in the farmers’ market,” said Strain. “We just do little [bake and cake] projects. People can come over and do a quick watercolor. So that was sort of the main goal, which was to help get art into the community. But my real passion is public art, hence the name. We were all hoping that this would be the launch pad for people who are wanting large installations or murals in town. At least they can come to us and say ‘Hey do you know people who can help connect us?’ So it would just sort of be that place that art would be; we could help point the right way.” THE BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS. On the evening of July 5, a JCCF mural proposal and a proposal for a mural for the FDPA building were on the agenda in Franklin City Hall at the BZA meeting. There were roughly 70 or so supporters of public murals in the audience and if there were any against the variances that were sought, they didn’t make themselves heard. Some supporters were wearing T-shirts reading “Murals are public art, not signs.” You’d recognize some faces, if you had been at the FDPA art show on June 27, the day of the Great Race. Many were Strain’s friends. He has a lot of them in Franklin. And Mayor Steve Barnett, who was in the audience as well, hoped that the JCCF and FDPA won their appeals, he said. Kim Minton spoke for the Johnson County Community Foundation proposal for a large mural depicting Ben Franklin and kites at a building at 351 E. Jefferson St.. She explained to the board that the BZA members that the aforementioned mural didn’t harm general health or welfare, didn’t hurt adjacent property owners and needed a variance from the ordinance since it was 20 times larger than what the ordinance would allow. And then she mentioned the virtues of the JCCF Color the County Mural program; attracting grant monies to Johnson County, paying artists,

PROJECTED MODEL OF BEN FRANKLIN MURAL BY DANNY CAUSEY //

VOLUNTEERS PAINTING AT THE WHITELAND MURAL //

getting volunteers involved in mural painting, involved in their community. But then a BZA member mentioned an incident of graffiti tagging that had occurred at the Greenwood mural site. And then a BZA member made a motion to approve the variance for the JCCF. It was denied. A motion to deny was put forth. It too was denied. So consideration of the variance was tabled until August 2. Public art supporters were not pleased, and there was something of a murmur as supporters expressed their displeasure. But Keri Ellington, Assistant Dean of Students for Franklin College as well as a watercolor instructor at FDPA, ignored the hubbub. She walked calmly up to the

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podium and presented in place of Strain (who was away on vacation with his wife); she made a similar case for this mural that Minton had made for JCCF. This mural, she said, would portray a girl reading a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, with scenes from Jules Verne’s science fiction book to be painted directly on the wall of the FDPA building. “We have three major goals for this project,” she said. “The first is to beautify and enhance our downtown,” she said. “Our hope is that by providing more public art we can attract new people to our downtown as well as provide enjoyment for our residents. Our second is to help provide jobs to local artists. The mural is detailed and time consuming. By hiring local artists, we can provide at least some compensa-

tion for their time. And finally, because we are including an actual sign, our third goal is to spread awareness of our business.” And when a motion to approve the variance was made by a board member, it was approved by a 4-1 vote. BZA member Brian Alsip, who seemed somewhat frustrated with the discrepancy in outcomes to two similar variance proposals, motioned to reconsider the previous vote on the JCCF variance. This time, the JCCF variance was approved unanimously to loud applause. You might suspect — if you had been there — that the votes had gone the way they did — that a number of BZA members had ultimately switched their votes — because they saw the support that the mural proponents had in the community, due to the fact that supporters had bothered to show up at City Hall that night. But there is also the not so small matter of obtaining a sign permit that the mural makers need to obtain before proceeding, a sign permit that costs $30.00 plus $0.50 per square foot of mural unless they can get the fee reduced and/ or waived by the Board of Public Works & Safety. In addition, they must also seek a variance from the Board of Works if one of the murals is found to be in the city of Franklin’s right-of-way (as city planner Alex Getchell believes to be the case, as he stated in an email addressed to Strain the day after the BZA meeting). The next Board of Works meeting is July 17. At any rate, these particular mural projects can, just perhaps, move forward. But subsequent petitioners might find the appeals process just as, if not more, challenging. After all, there still is an ordinance in effect in Franklin that makes artists jump through hoops if they want to make public art. “This might not be exciting,” Keri Ellington said. “But I felt like we really took to heart the criteria and were genuine and authentic and intentional about how we would articulate the positive that comes from public art. And that we really have thought through how to do it well and follow the guidelines — to manage through a process that’s somewhat governmental.” N

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Indianapolis Ballet Inc. holds auditions for 2018 debut season BY RITA KOHN // ARTS@NUVO.NET

ancers building professional careers were on their toes, literally and figuratively, at the studios of the Indianapolis School of Ballet at the corner of Capitol and Michigan streets. They represented a step forward both for them individually and for Indianapolis collectively. On July 9, auditions were in progress for Indianapolis Ballet Inc., emerging within the dictum of George Balanchine, who set the pattern for nationwide repertory ballet companies starting with a school and then a professional company having proved their worthiness within the community. For me, as an observer on this past balmy Sunday afternoon, it was a bit of deja vu. ISB opened in 2006 in the space that housed the former Ballet Internationale, which — during

its halcyon days — invited dance critics to observe potential company members. “New history is happening,” observed Chris Lingner in an email exchange. Lingner, whose professional career has been intertwined with ISB on various levels, was expressing the sense of excitement from the 10 elite-level auditionees who answered “the call” posted on June 13. Representing seven states, the hopefuls included two dancers from Texas, three from Indiana and one each from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Illinois and Utah. They exuded excitement, all wanting to be a part of IBI’s 2018 debut season. With a range of age from 21-25, each shared bits of previous training and performance during brief exchanges with

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ISB founding director Victoria Lyras, who explained that she wanted to learn about them, how they’ve come this far, why they want to commit to dancing and to a new company. It’s the start of building a relationship of caring and a comfort zone, an ISB signature. This, I recognized, represents something different from the usual impersonal, strictly business audition process. Following a full two-hour class, which warms the dancers up for the repertoire segment when they have to work together to create a dance, each dancer then had private time to showcase a solo from the on-toe repertoire and to break out with a special two-minute dance on toe, soft shoe or barefoot, that could be self-choreographed. This, too, is a harbinger of what is to be expected at IBI. Lyras led the class and demonstrated the repertoire, all the while giving individualized tips for a dancer to improve technique, bring forth the intended emotion, be in the moment with the music. I noticed a difference in the arc of repertoire from previous auditions I’ve witnessed. With her choices of demonstrating segments of movements, Lyras shows the auditioners what to expect from the company’s choice of works, its way of choreographing to build on the assets and strengths of the dancers and its expectations for corps work. I noticed a willingness on the part of auditioners to absorb the instruction. And as the hours proceeded, even though each was competing for a spot and as a group of people who were together for the first time, they formed a corps, watching each other to bring forward the best to offer from the steps and the story of the segment Lyras would demonstrate for them to execute. Watching also, seated at a table removed from my earshot, were the two adjudicators, whose professional experiences had intersected at Pennsylvania Ballet, along with Lyras. The dynamics between the three pretty much set the mood of the auditions — a pleasant repartee and comfort zone among friends who have been on the other side of the table, and were visibly cheering on each auditioner — smiling, nodding, giving confidence when it seemed someone was pushing to keep up.

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In the tradition of Balanchine, the choreography requires impeccable technique and musicality. The language of “Mr. B” requires dancing with a phrase, an image, in mind, not chopping up into randomness but always in a flow coming from, being in, moving toward. When I asked Jeffrey Gribler and Paul Vitali what they look for in making a recommendation to hire, they led with technique and musicality, fleshing out with particulars — soft land as opposed to clunking, fluidity, theatricality in the sense of bringing out the soul of the music, the core of the story, attention to details. Also noted: The ability to take correction, the ability to learn quickly, personality, attitude, joyfulness, gracefulness. In a word: stamina — all the while maintaining a sense of presence, a sense of self that sparks the role of that dancer, be it in the corps or as a principal or a soloist. Not hogging the scene, but enhancing it. As an art form without spoken words, ballet nevertheless is a leading transmitter of stories with mime as a conduit. Even a freeflow work opens itself to interpretation by the viewer. What’s the story here? How does it connect with me and how do I connect with what’s happening with these bodies in space? Ballet is body language with its own syntax, sentence structure, explained Lyras. “That is the key to a company’s success,” offered John Koluder, ISB/IBI director of marketing and communications. “You’re essential to a community’s art and culture when you deliver on the highest aesthetic level for a diverse audience. “We’re taking a big step,” said Koluder. “The business plan is in place to raise $1.2 million; we have $300,000 already. On that, we are moving forward with a season plan and a schedule to open in 2018.” Earlier on July 9, I observed six young dancers audition for the apprentice-level spots in the new company. They were as intent as were their older peers for a chance to be a part of bringing professional ballet back to Indianapolis — of being in the moment of “making new history.” So, when I too left at 6:30-ish, slinging my bag over my shoulder, I felt as hopeful the dancers for a call-back and the chance to be part of something special. N

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LOSING HIS RELIGION

Dreamland shares the story of Twain in the Holy Land

BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

f you’re anything like the majority of modern Americans, the name Mark Twain is synonymous with his literary works like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. During your school years, you most likely were required to read one or both of these tomes that highlight the lifestyles and attitudes of middle America during the mid-to-late 1800s. You may have even had to read one of the author’s short stories, like “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” But there is a good chance, unless you’re a voracious fan of Twain’s, that you have never read, or heard of, the literary work that set Twain up to be one of America’s most celebrated authors — the book that was Twain’s most read work during his lifetime, Innocents Abroad. A new documentary from Indigo Films, Dreamland: Mark Twain’s Journey to Jerusalem focuses on this work and sheds light on just how important it was for the people of Twain’s time to get a raw, honest and, in Twain’s typical style, comical view of the Holy Land. Dreamland starts with Twain’s initial decision to go to Jerusalem. While the six-or-so experts that are interviewed throughout the film offer conjecture on this decision, it isn’t explicitly explained. But as the film progresses the viewer gets the sense that Twain was trying to find a faith he had lost in Christianity and the Bible.

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To go on this pilgrimage, the young journalist employed his writing abilities to pay his way across the sea, promising a newspaper 50 correspondences throughout the journey. And so, with his mission in mind Twain sets off across the Atlantic, a cigar-smoking, heavy-drinking, foul-mouthed, witty agnostic amongst a group of God-fearing Christians. Throughout Dreamland we have a group of actors re-enacting the journey blended with a series of pans across archival photos, interviews with the experts and some original footage of the first filming to take place in Jerusalem. This is blended with a series of voices explaining Twain’s journey, from the aforementioned experts to Martin Sheen’s narration and then a voice that is meant to mimic Twain’s, offering lines from the author’s writings. This mix gives a well-rounded view of the journey; however I have to say the best voice throughout is Twain’s. His wit is timeless, with lines like “If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be, a Christian,” bringing some comedy into what could have been a dry film. One thing that struck me was Twain’s incessant battering of Europe — where his boat made stops along the way — and how he continually remarks how nothing there is as good as in America. It reminded me of a former fraternity brother of mine that traveled to Germany and all he had to say when he got back was how bad the food was,

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how no one spoke English, how everything over there was just so old and how ‘Merica was so much better in every way. But Twain redeems himself to me when he arrives in Jerusalem and sees his traveling companions, the holier-than-thou Christians, walk into Muslim places of worship and refuse to take their shoes off and also breaking off pieces of Christian monuments to take home as souvenirs. He writes how appalled he is by their lack of respect, showing his empathy for the people, customs and cultures of the world. One of the most enlightening parts of this documentary was the impact that these correspondences had on the American people of the time. At this moment in history tourism was just becoming a part of American culture, and even then only the wealthiest of people could afford to travel abroad. Twain’s accounts of Spain, Italy, France and ultimately Jerusalem, were the only honest accounts that many Americans had and these articles cemented in the minds of our country what else was out there in the world. All-in-all Dreamland shares the story of a larger-than-life figure and the journey that allowed him to forge himself as one of the most important writers in American history. N

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et's talk about some facts and figures for a moment: specifically, powers of ten. As one of the year's biggest local film events in Indianapolis kicks off Thursday, Indy Film Fest organizers have planned 10 days of screenings of almost 100 first-run films at the Indianapolis Museum of Art for 1000s of people. More facts: July 13's opening night (featuring a screening of Wind River starring Jeremy Renner and Elizabeth Olsen) is followed by July 15's awards night (featuring Lucky, starring David Lynch and Harry Dean Stanton) and July 22's closing night (featuring Patti Cake$, starring Danielle MacDonald.) We couldn't possibly feature everything we wanted to write about Indy Film Fest in these limited pages, so we decided to go short — or rather, shorts — and pick three short documentaries screening at the Fest that were particularly NUVO-y.

1. Daniel Arthur Jacobson's short film Chatterbox is a little love letter to the Mass Ave jazz joint and its owner David Andrichik, featuring cameos from a host of Indianapolis players and boosters. Travis DiNicola, Sophie Faught, Jared Thompson and the Tucker Brothers (and the establishment's stiff drinks) feature on stage and in short interviews. The short shuffles quickly through interviews with bartenders, players and mega fans that keep The Box a jewel box of a dive. The live music shots are as cozy and close as the club's quarters, and, in outside shots, with music pouring out of the door, the doc manages to convey that delightful pull of jazz that spills onto the patio. As tremendous sax talent Sophie Faught says, “It was the place to hear jazz, and it was the place where the cool kids went. I guess it's still kind of that.” Cheers, Chatterbox. (Sunday, July 16, 7:30 p.m., The Toby; Saturday, July 22, 3:30 p.m., DeBoest Lecture Hall)

2. David Garry's Deaners, a docu short about hardcore James Dean fans and the town that loves them, Fairmount, Ind. is full of parades, museums, classic cars and Shriners.

Interviews with Deaners, who are part of the 35,000 to 40,000 people who flood in from all over the world for the summer festival, highlight this “very special group of cuckoo birds,” who, among other things, collect thousands of pictures and pieces of memorabilia and tattoo his signature on their person. "You can feel him when you're walking the streets,” says one Dean look-a-like. Deaners is a delightful bit of Indiana small town history ephemera. (Sunday, July 16, 11:45 p.m., The Toby; Friday, July 21, 4 p.m., DeBoest Lecture Hall)

3. Full disclosure: NUVO figures into Sam Mirpoorian's doc Little Warriors, a film about efforts to channel the power of local young people to do their part to save the planet through Earth Charter Indiana and its project Youth Power Indiana. Fuller disclosure: I was hired by and worked under former NUVO Managing Editor Jim Poyser, who I count as one of my most important mentors, and who leads the group of Little Warriors featured in the film. So, yes, I was already primed to love Mirpoorian's film. But regardless of your Poyser-adjacency, watching Hoosier kids explain the complexities of climate change is powerful and necessary. In the beginning, Mirpoorian's doc goes large — clouds moving through mountains, light snow falling through an ancient forest, massive pink sunsets — before going small (pint-sized, even): small-screen shots of elementary, middle and high schoolers standing up at City-Council meetings to explain the impacts of toxic chemicals released at coal-fired plants; transitioning school lunch trays to more eco-friendly alternatives; selling reusable bags and working on no-idling initiatives. I won't spoil it all here — although you'd know about some of Youth Power Indiana's major successes if you follow local news diligently — but I'll say this: ECI's success at a municipal level is joyful and will make you proud of our city and our kids. (Saturday, July 15, 2:45 p.m., DeBoest Lecture Hall; Thursday, July 20, 8:15 p.m., DeBoest Lecture Hall) N NUVO.NET // 07.12.17 - 07.19.17 // SCREENS // 15

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BY CAVAN McGINSIE // CMCGINSIE@NUVO.NET

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he best way to connect with other cultures, other language groups and other people groups is through food.” This is a mantra that I live by, and when Sam Ngala says it to me over the phone I can’t help but feel that this is a person that truly understands the human condition — and one who has noble intentions when it comes to his church’s upcoming Burmese Food Fair. There is a good possibility that you have never tasted Burmese cuisine, even though Indiana, especially the Southside of Indianapolis, is a major hub for refugees from the wartorn country of Myanmar (also known Burma) and there are quite a few Burmese restaurants around the city. But Ngala and his congregation at the Southside Seventh-day Adventist Church are hoping to give Hoosiers a taste of the food of Myanmar by offering Burmese cuisine during a fundraiser on July 16. This isn’t the first time the church has held the fest, Ngala tells me this is the third fair

and he says, “the turnout over the past few years has been wonderful.” The idea to begin the event came when the church was looking for a good way to reach a larger audience for their annual fundraiser. According to Ngala, “The funds go to helping students from low income families to go to private schools. And among the low-income families many of them are refugee families.” He spoke candidly about the idea of adding food to the fundraising effort: “We realized that when we do donation drives without offering something in return, people aren’t very interested. When we do a fundraiser with food, people are more attracted and more passionate; it draws attention.” Bringing in Burmese cuisine made sense to Ngala and his church because a large portion of their congregation is made up of Burmese refugees. Myanmar has been in a near constant state of civil war since it gained its independence from the British in 1948. For decades there has been unrelenting per-

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secution of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar, which has included numerous tales of systematic rape, torture and genocide of people in the group. Due to the overbearing amount of oppression many in the population have dealt with for generations, families have left the country in droves; according to MigrationPolicy.org Burmese refugees have made up 23 percent of the refugees to the United States over the past decade — the largest group of refugees to come into our country. With this mass of people coming into our city you would think we would have a better understanding and closer relationship to the Burmese population, but Ngala says this isn’t the case. He says, “We decided to use the Burmese food because there are a lot of people here in Indianapolis, especially on the Southside that have heard about the Burmese refugees, but they haven’t had the chance to taste Burmese food. So it gives them a venue where they can socialize and enjoy the food and have the chance to

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support the students from the low-income families.” He also says, “We want the population here in Indianapolis to see the humanity. We don’t want the refugees as a political tool or part of a political message, we want Indianapolis and Hoosiers in general to see the refugees as human beings. That they have to leave their home country because of the war, because of oppression and we want them to be connected.” The event is run entirely through volunteer and donation efforts. “All the ingredients and all the materials that we use are donated and the labor is also donated,” says Ngala. “That way all the money that we earn from the food sales, 100-percent goes to support these students. Everything that we receive, all of the donations go towards supporting these students.” The event itself is free to attend, but to get the food event-goers can purchase five dollar tickets that they can spend towards different food items. The food will include many traditional Burmese options, some of which will be familiar since Burmese cuisine has many similarities to the food of its nearby countries Thailand, China, Vietnam and India. According to Ngala, past years have had chicken biryani, papaya salad, vegetable tempura and Myanmar’s national dish, mohinga. Mohinga is a fish-based rice noodle soup and can be found throughout the country, it will be familiar and delicious to lovers of pho and ramen. With the event taking place at a Seventh-Day Adventist Church — a religion which focuses heavily on healthy eating and promotes a vegetarian lifestyle — Ngala says much of the food will be vegetarian. The event runs from 10 a.m. - 5 p.m., but Ngala suggests people get there early, as the food has sold out around 2 or 3 p.m. in past years. He hopes this year will be the most successful in raising funds for the children in the community and also in bringing people of different cultures together. “We set up so that people can sit, and eat, and relax, and chat and whatever they would like to do,” says Ngala. “Food is a great ice-breaker to start up conversation. Food is a good way to touch in the souls and minds of every humankind. We want food to be the bridge between the different communities and different language groups.” N

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uncie’s Three Trails Music Series kicked off their spectacular 2017 calendar with a free concert from R&B legend Bettye LaVette last Saturday. But if you couldn’t make it to Muncie on Saturday, there are three more amazing acts on the schedule. Catch the bluegrass supergroup Earls of Leicester on August 4. On August 26, Mireya Ramos will bring her brilliant mariachi group Flor De Toloache to Muncie. And the series concludes with a September 23 date with American roots music songwriter Pokey Lafarge. All of these events are free. Bettye LaVatte was born Betty Jo Haskins in Muskegon, Michigan in 1946. LaVette cut her first single for Atlantic Records in 1962 at age 16, and she’s been going strong ever since. I spoke with Ms. LaVette via phone in advance of her Muncie date. KYLE: In your 2012 memoir A Woman Like Me you talk a lot about the influence of a man named Jim Lewis, who I believe helped manage your career for a period of time during the ‘60s. You grew up in Detroit immersed in R&B music, but Jim Lewis pushed you to study the music of the great jazz vocalists like Sarah Vaughan, Jimmy Scott, and Billie Holiday. What did studying these jazz greats do for you as a singer? BETTYE LAVETTE: It taught me that I could apply my rhythm and blues voice to other styles. It didn’t change my voice. It taught me how to apply it to everything. So now I can sing “God Bless The Child” to “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah.” KYLE: You made your first recording for Atlantic Records in 1962 when you were just 16 years old: “My Man - He’s A Lovin’ Man,” backed by “Shut Your Mouth” on the flipside. I’m curious how you feel now as a vocalist listening back to yourself at 16 years old, singing your heart out on these records?

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KYLE: Well, I wasn’t around when when you made them, but they really struck me when I was a teenager because the music was a lot more raw than what I was hearing on the radio during the 1990s. BETTYE: That is so flattering to me, because one thing you don’t think at this point in your career — and I’m sure it struck Tony Bennett in the same way — that there would be young people who would even be interested in you. So, I’m extremely flattered when I hear the enthusiasm in your voice, and see how knowledgeable you are about an old broad. [laughs]

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BETTYE: I’m not quite sure. I don’t dwell on it. I don’t really hear that often. I mean it’s not like it’s playing on the radio. I don’t dwell very much in the past. KYLE: In 1965 you recorded “Let Me Down Easy”, one of the greatest masterpieces of soul music —

KYLE: That’s sort of what I wanted to ask you about. When you went to the studio to make “Let Me Down Easy,” and you heard the song, did you get any sense that you were making something that was going to be a timeless work of art? BETTYE: Of course not! It didn’t even cross my mind! Why would that cross the mind of an 18-year-old person? I never thought that any of these things would ever be heard of again, because I was living in the moment. I thought when that moment was over, it was over! But “Let Me Down Easy” has kind of stuck with me, and there were years when maybe I’d only have two gigs that a whole year. But both of them were because of “Let Me Down Easy”. One maybe in Alaska, and the other maybe in Hawaii, [laughs] but it was “Let Me Down Easy” that was responsible for it. So I’m really grateful for that song. KYLE: You made so many classic 45 RPM singles in the 1960s. Some of them were hits, and some of them are more obscure. You were making all these singles, but

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But then they called me and said, “Come in and record this,” or whatever, and I was completely over that. [laughs loudly] Of course there are stories you hear of people where things maybe never turned around for them. But if things keep turning around, we’re so silly we don’t care about it as long as it keeps happening. You don’t get discouraged as long as someone keeps calling. But the moment that phone stops ringing… [makes sobbing noises]

KYLE: Right, but in 1972 you made what was for a long time considered one of the greatest “lost albums” of soul music. In 1972 you went to Muscle Shoals and recorded an album that was to be titled Child of the Seventies for Atlantic KYLE: Finally Ms. Lavette, as I mentioned Records, and it was a superb, classic soul earlier you had a strong desire to release a album. But at the last minute, for reasons full-length album early in your career and that I don’t think have even been totalyou had to wait 20 years for that opportuly resolved, Atlantic decided to pull the nity to come about. Your debut album Tell album from release. Me a Lie was released by BETTYE: I did not Motown in 1982. know anything for “I never thought that You had to wait a many, many years. long time before you any of these things I already had plane could really step into tickets for the record’s would ever be heard the spotlight and get all promotion tour, and respect and praise of again, because I was the they just called me that you so richly and told me to send living in the moment.” deserve as an artist the tickets back, and and a performer. You they’d decided not — BETTYE LAVETTE had to have incredible to go forth with the patience and strength project. But for many, many years I was to keep yourself in that position for so perplexed. many years until you could fully blossom I didn’t call them then and ask, and after as an artist. I’m curious if you have any a while everybody died. So I didn’t have advice for young artists that struggle anyone to ask. But at that time, it was right with keeping the faith in themselves, and when Jerry Wexler and Ahmet Ertegun were their work during lean periods when the parting ways. Ahmet wanted to do more of phone might not be ringing as much as the burgeoning European rock thing, and they would like it to? Jerry wanted to continue with rhythm and BETTYE: The first thing is not to believe blues. I think that when Jerry left Atlantic, in all that B.S. you just said. If people keep I lost my champion. I didn’t even know all denying you and hurting your feelings — that was going on then, but I’m sure that you can’t keep the faith. You can only keep had a great deal to do with it. the faith for so long. You’ve got to have some kind of support system around you, KYLE: You had to wait 30 years for that resomebody who continues to believe in you. cord to see the light of day. There have been Because you are the one walking up on that many moments like that in your career, stage when there is nobody there in the where you had to have strength, patience, audience or whatever. and endurance to get back up and keep I was 55 years old when this started going. How did you keep your spirits up for me. You would have to be insane to after Atlantic pulled that record? believe you wonderful for all of that time. BETTYE: When they did not release that You absolutely cannot do that, somebody album, I crawled under my dining room else has to do some of that for you some table stayed under there for a long while. of the time. N NUVO.NET // 07.12.17 - 07.19.17 // MUSIC // 19

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