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Indie Stud Gives Crash Course In Modern Dance
by KARI WETHINGTON

Sponsored by the Oberlin Dance Umbrella, this weekend’s Indie Stud Dance Concert is a conglomeration of work by student choreographers and dancers. The Dance Umbrella was formed last year to give support to student dance and performance work not sponsored by the college, hence the concert’s independent edge. The concert could be likened to a survey course in modern dance in the sense that it peruses a variety of thematic schemes. The show gives a taste of what it is exactly that Oberlin dancers are up to these days, but because of the show’s short running time and limited space, it necessarily packs a lot of punch into a brief presentation.
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Exhibit Explores History of African Art Collection
BY NICK STILLMAN

Small fields of text are displayed in bold lettering on the walls of the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s new exhibition, A Matter of Taste: the African Collection at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. The most insightful and thought-provoking of these reads, “How do art museums deal with art made by people who do not call it art? How do we decide what types of objects to select, and how do we determine quality among objects of a similar type?”
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