EXCLUSIVE GENDERBLUR VIDEO ONLINE | WWW.thetOWerlight.com
Survey unveils
possible ‘fest
headliners
LAUREN SLAVIN
Arts Editor
TYLER WALDMAN
Associate Arts Editor
Asher Roth might "Love College,” and LMFAO might
be “In Miami, Bitch," but who will be on Burdick Field in
April to perform for Tigerfest 2010?
Almost 1,000 students have taken the Campus Activities
Board’s Tigerfest survey released Tuesday night, which
features bands such as N.E.R.D. and Boys Like Girls, as
well as rappers Drake and Young Jeezy.
The list comprises 15 bands, she more than on last
year's survey.
"We just felt having more options would let people
put their top three or four [choices],” CAB director May
Medallada said. "It’ll give us more options."
Some of those options came from the overwhelming
See FEST, page 16
Ehrlich dodges
questions of
candidacy
ASHLEY RABE
Senior Editor
Beginning with three things every college student
should master and ending with a debate about running
in the 2010 election, former governor Robert L. Ehrlich,
Jr. spoke to a full auditorium on Tuesday.
Students, faculty, former Ehrlich advisers and Towson
alumni gathered in Van Bokkelen Hall for the semesterly
guest speaker.
Ehrlich’s visit has become an expected part of profes¬
sor of mass communication and communication studies
Richard Vatz’s persuasion class.
Ehrlich assured that he only had a few points he
wanted to make stating, “I’d like to talk with you, rather
than at you.”
Ehrlich described the three things students should
master as dichotomies.
"You have to understand [these three things] in order
See EHRLICH, page 9
Former
Governor Robert L.
Ehrlich Jr. visits Towson
University.
300 years of dance
Christopher Curry/ The Towerlight
A member of the Towson University Dance Company rehearses “La Bayadere,” the classical ballet piece in “Transversing
Time,” the first dance performance of the year. The Company also performs a contemporary piece to R&B music.
LAUREN SLAVIN
Arts Editor
The lights go up on the Stephens Hall
Theatre stage, and the 26 dancers in the
Towson University Dance Company enter,
identically dressed in white tutus.
Less than two hours later, these danc¬
ers will be back onstage in contemporary
clothes dancing to the hits of James Brown
and Michael Jackson.
"The movement is really exciting because
it’s a mix,” company manager and part-time
faculty member Nicole Martinell said. “So
you're going to see this fusion of new, old
coming together."
"Transversing Time,” the first dance con¬
cert of the school year, follows the last 300
years of dance history. The show, which is
danced and crewed completely by students,
ranges from the opening piece "Kingdom of
Shades," Act II from the classical ballet "La
Bayadere," to "Legends,” an orginal con¬
temporary piece choreographed by Towson
University faculty and staff.
"The students are pretty much getting
a history lesson, both mentally and physi¬
cally,” Martinell said.
Martinell is working side by side with
Runqiao Du, the artistic director of
"Transversing Time” and the current visit¬
ing guest artist of the dance department.
Du most recently worked as the a prin¬
cipal dancer in The Washington Ballet, but
his interests have changed since his arrival
on campus in fall of 2008.
"After I stopped dancing, my passion has
been choreographing [and] teaching, so
this has been wonderful for me," Du said.
Du restaged "La Bayadere" for
"Transversing Time," and has been work¬
ing with students in The Company since the
first week of school.
The piece is about a prince who is set
to marry a princess but falls in love with a
maid. Out of jealousy, the princess has the
maid killed, and the prince takes opiates to
deal with his pain.
In a hallucination, he sees the woman
he loves multiplied. Almost every female
Company member is onstage dancing dur¬
ing this piece.
While the synchronized movement of
these dancers on their pointe shoes is
important in "Kingdom of Shades," the
piece would not be complete without the
white tutus, according to Du.
"It has to be period, it has to be done
right; otherwise it kind of disrespects the
See DANCE, page 16
