Sophomores Kristyn Bridges, Christian Lewis, Brynne Ogilvie, freshmen Charmaine Washington, Olivia Williams and sophomore Kiki Cohen perform "Format It" in the Memorial Gymnasium on Feb. 25 for this term's Terpsichore.

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Terpsichore dances the night away

Mosh pits, Mozart, Julia Child and Snuggies make unique performance

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Sheena Leano

Imagine Memorial Gym filled with mosh pits, Snuggies, Mozart and Julia Child. What sounds like a strange combination made for a memorable Terp winter show. Terp performed dances that ranged from emotionally captivating to quirky and light-hearted while conveying a sense of artistry you can expect from a Terp show.

Opening the show was a special guest performance by Gaelic Fire, a Celtic dance group in its infancy. Wearing purple t-shirts with a gold Celtic knot design, Gaelic Fire danced ...

Student written, student acted, student directed

Playwrights Workshop plays performed

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Jennifer Lloyd

Playwrights Workshop has just concluded with its final performances of five plays written, directed, and acted by Knox students.

Crazy Eyes

Junior Kelsey Ingle directed Nate Hults’s play, Crazy Eyes for the playwright’s workshop. This is Ingle’s fourth time directing for playwright’s workshop. “It is an exercise in compromise,” said Ingle. She makes sure to keep ...

Writer uses life experiences to develop work

Wilkinson shares work rooted in Appalachian identity

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Jenna Dercole

Students and faculty alike filled the Alumni Room in Old Main Friday afternoon to listen to award-winning fiction writer Crystal Wilkinson’s work, which centered on family struggle and the tension between rural and urban landscape. English professor Cyn Kitchen introduced Wilkinson, telling us to relax our collars, take a deep breath, and get comfortable in our seats to receive ...

Rep Term this week

The performances start

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Kristen Chmielewski

As the members of the audience rose to their feet on the opening night of Millennium Approaches during the curtain call for a standing ovation, I got a bit choked up. It was an overwhelming feeling to know that the project we in the Rep Term company have poured so much blood, sweat and tears into has been so well ...

Repertory Term: Perestroika Directed by Elizabeth Carlin-Metz

Part two of Rep Term play performed in Harbach Theater

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Sarah Colangelo

Angels in America Part II: Perestroika may have lacked the simple elegance of the first installment of the Rep Term production of Tony Kushner’s two part series, but the increased intricacy of the lighting design emphasized the play’s thematic elements.

The cast and crew of Perestroika had a difficult task: keeping their audience interested in the resolution and ...

Blending music and philosophy

Music of science-philosopher inspires deep thoughts

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Dan Dyrda

September 17, 2009, whether he knew it or not, artist and producer John Boswell started a phenomenon. His original concept was simple enough: as a lover of scientific philosophy and music, he sought to bring the former to the latter.

Thus was born the Symphony of Science. Unlike previous acts which explicitly wrote songs about science, Boswell decided to take ...

Knox choir goes transcontinental

KCC shines at send-off concert as group prepares to tour Spain

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Ben Reeves

The Knox College Choir performed their send-off concert on Saturday at First Lutheran Church in Galesburg. The choir, directed by professor and Chair of Music Laura Lane, performed the program for their upcoming spring break 2010 tour in the Catalonia region of Spain. The choir has been preparing the pieces for the duration of the term.

The program included pieces ...

Repertory Term: Millennium Approaches Directed by Kelly Lynn Hogan

Part one of Rep Term play performed in Harbach Theater

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Katy Sutcliffe

At the risk of being overdramatic (pun intended), let me simply take a minute to process the “wow” that was Millennium Approaches Part I of Repertory Term’s production of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes.

And yes, it was a “wow,” from beginning to end. Kushner’s play would have been powerful on ...

Alto Sax Rocks Orpheum Theatre

Knox-Galesburg Symphony performed for community with the help of visting Alto Saxaphonist

Thursday, March 4, 2010
By Ben Reeves

The Orpheum Theater was filled to its top balconies for the February 27 performance of the Knox-Galesburg Symphony, directed by Knox professor Bruce Polay with special guest Russell Peterson. The program for the evening included three pieces: Miacomet Dreaming by Carson Cooman, Concerto for Alto Saxophone by Russell Peterson and the Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Opus 36 by ...

A souper fundraiser for Galesburg

Great Bowls of Soup supports Civic Art Center

Thursday, February 25, 2010
By Matthew Wheaton, Jennifer Lloyd

This past Tuesday, sounds of slurping filled the Galesburg Community Center, which hosted Great Bowls of Soup from 5 to 7 p.m.

This is the second year of the event where local artists and restaurants came together to raise money for the Galesburg Civic Art Center

“I thought it was wonderful; it went really well,” said Heather Norman, director ...

Letters from rep term: The great work continues

The Great Work continues

Thursday, February 25, 2010
By Kristen Chmielewski

Oh. My. Goodness.

It feels as if about a year has passed since I last sat down to write an article. A year, at the very least. We were told that the week was going to be stressful, much more demanding than any week this term. A lot of us—myself included—were dubious that the week could be that ...