tl20030331-000 "The ThwerIihb Baltimore's #1 College Paper - Published Twice-Weekly - www.thetowerlight.com Monday, 3/31/03 Students gather items for troops 5 Course aims to prevent assault 5 Rock speaks on 'Head of State' 13 'Beckham' flick is feel-good fun 14 Departments Opinion 2 News 5 Nation 8 Arts Sound Bites In A Theater Near You 13 14 14 Sports 20 Athlete of the Week 17 In This Corner 20 Classifieds 16 TU dancers spread Steve Lafferty The Tawerhght Heather McIntyre, Jen Ousse and Hope Showacre (left to right) rehearse a scene from ""L.O.V.E. Project"" Sunday afternoon. Towson dance faculty and students and guests will present the program, which runs this Friday through Sunday in the Center for the Arts. Tickets are $10 for all students. Telephones, newspapers, mirrors and flowers illustrate nature of love in TU dance program Jennifer Hykes The Towerlight Towson University dance faculty and students, as well as a number of guest artists, will spend this week-end exploring what may seem like an ironic concept in light of world events � love. ""L.O.V.E. Project"" combines many media, including text, film and song, but it's first and fore-most a dance per-formance, and it takes place April 4, 5 and 6 in the Center for the Arts Studio Theatre. Choreographer Vincent Thomas, who recently joined TU's dance department faculty after guest teaching in the past, said he devel-oped this piece over the last year out of a conversation with another dancer. ""About a year ago a friend of mine was getting her MFA at George Mason in dance, and I was teaching there ... She started telling me this story about when she went home, and she was really excited about this date, and she was waiting for him to call and he never called dur-ing the evening,"" Thomas said. ""This short conversation turned into ... not a therapy session, but an indulging time of just a lot of stuff surfacing."" Thomas was about to choreo-graph a piece for this friend, and he decided to explore the idea of love through the phone lines. ""I found some really intriguing through-lines that had shown up in her grandparents' relationship. Ironically [these] were very similar to her parents' meet-ing and now the third generation of this � was it going to happen or not?"" Thomas said. ""So we started, and the more and more we'd talk the more things kept reoccurring, such as tele-phones ... Between telephone calls, letters that had been written ... it just seemed like a really wonderful thematic structure for a piece."" The piece he designed a year ago, ""When Love Calls,"" will be per-formed as part of ""L.O.V.E. Project."" ""It's about her ... hopeless, romantic, meaning-more encounter, ""It's very lively, very, it's kind of comical, but it has a very poignant underneath current that hopefully will surface for people in the audience."" Vincent Thomas choreographer and it centers around the tele-phone,"" Thomas said. ""A telephone that rings, and then it's not the per-son you think it is, and it keeps going."" Thomas kept going, too, building on the idea of communication and connections to create the larger piece audiences will see at Towson. ""That just threw me into another wondering and wanting to explore more about this love thing and ... really how we are detached by the See LOVE , page 15 War and debate escalate Photos by Steve Lafferty The Towerbght Check out The Towerlighes special ""Nation at War"" pull-out section. Today High 45 Low 29 Tuesday High 49 Low 42 Wednesday High 64 Low 43 Thursday High 69 Low 54 Friday High 69 Low 44 "
