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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 2015
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THE UNIVERSITY BAILY GARDEN
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arts & features
HOROSCOPES
Aries (March 21-April 19)
Today is an 8
Creativity drips from your fingertips. Take advantage for huge productivity. Talk about your art. Your message goes further than expected. A windfall provides extra cash.
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Taurus (April 20-May 20)
Today is a 9
Move quickly to take advantage of a profitable opportunity. Provide leadership. Today's work pays long-lasting benefit.
Rake in the bucks! The more love you put into your project, the higher the value.
Gemini (May 21-June 20)
Today is a 9
The spotlight shines ... this is the moment you've been practicing for. Dress the part, and do your stuff! Your reputation is rising, and someone influential is watching. Exceed expectations.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)
Today is a 7
Good news travels fast. Let it inspire you. Savor beauty, symbolism and ritual. Meditation and time in nature restore your spirit. Enjoy nurturing, healthy food. Consider big questions,
and make extraordinary discoveries.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) Today is an 8
Collaborate with friends for astonishing results. Your network has a much wider reach than you imagined. Get the word out about something you care about. Express your love and it grows. This could get profitable. Celebrate together.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Today is an 8 Advertisements and promotional communications go the distance today, Launch, share and push your message out. Put in extra work. Sensational results are possible. Apply what you've recently learned to your work. This could be your lucky break.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
Today is a 9
Today is a 9
Try out a new idea. Make a brilliant discovery in a subject of your passion. The truth is revealed. Listen carefully to other opinions. Imagine perfection.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
Today is an 8 Unexpected funds appear, and you know just what to do with the money. Make a commitment. Work faster and earn more. Extra effort wins a bonus.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today is a 9
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Reveal your heart to the object of your affections. Words and actions align. Share your love and it expands. Put your money where your mouth is.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
Today is a 9
You're gaining respect, and a far-reaching opportunity appears. Beautify your work, and spice it up. Intuition is your creative guide. Word of what you're up to travels farther than you imagined possible.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb.18) Today is an 8
Today is an 8
Your talents reach new
heights. The game is really
getting fun! Word of your latest
exploits sets off a ripple. Love
triumphs. Share your passion.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20)
Today is on 8
A fabulous surprise at home spreads like wildfire. Your secret idea pays off. Communication with family leads to unexpected results.
Q&A with Spring Choreographic Fellow
ALLISON CRIST
@AllisonCristUDK
This year, the University's Choreographic Fellow chosen by the Department of Dance was Regina Klenjoski, founder of her very own dance company that's based out of Long Beach, Calif. The fellowship provides an opportunity for guest artists to not only share their work, but also give dance students the experience to work closely with a professional.
Klenjoski's plans to apply to the University's fellowship coincidentally aligned with her husband's plans, and her family moved to Wichita before she was even offered the position. Since January, she has been training students in the University Dance Company, all while maintaining operations in California from thousands of miles away.
After months of preparing the University Dance Company's spring concert will take place at 7:30 p.m. this Thursday and Friday at the Lawrence Arts Center. The Kansan spoke with Klenjoski regarding her work
KLENJOSKI: I was studying business in college, but I had a roommate who was dancing. I had danced in high school, and she ended up opening up a lot of possibilities for me. I still wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do, but I kept dance a part of my life. When I decided to develop my own company, I got to combine my business skills and dance.
on the show, her personal accomplishments and more.
KANSAN: How did you decide that you wanted to make a career out of dance?
KLENJOSKI: I love teaching and working with the younger dancers. It's been about 20 years that I've been training dancers through the company and I still enjoy it. I also like to teach at universities to work with other passionate dancers who want to do this for a living.
KANSAN: What's it been like owning your own dance company?
decide to be a Choreographic Fellow here at KU?
KLENJOSKI: It was the application. It seemed to fit me as an artist. I've been presented with opportunities throughout my life, but this was right up my alley. I also love the midwest, and it just happened to be a coincidence that my family and I were planning on moving to Wichita.
KANSAN: What made you
KANSAN: Why did you decide to move to Wichita if your company is based in California?
KLENJOSKI: My husband was recruited for work here, and it's generally a good place to raise a family. I'm getting ready to start strategic planning for my company and how I'm going to move forward while living here in Wichita, whether it be with a dual city program or to move it to Kansas.
KANSAN: What has your work been like as Choreographic Fellow?
KLENJOSKI: I auditioned
dancers, and I set one of the dances as one of my company's works. I created "Emoticons" in 2011, and it involves five dances. I spent weeks teaching that dance, and even had two of my dancers from California come to assist me. I also taught in modern technique and that was a daily occurrence.
KANSAN: What can the audience expect from "Emotions?"
KLENJOSKI: It's about technology, stemming from the idea that I can't ever put my cellphone down. I'm constantly checking my email, texts, voicemails - it really is an addiction. Technology is infiltrating society and changing the way we act, so I wanted to bring awareness to this. The dance is set in a very indigenous, isolated world. In it, there's this need to connect with other people.
KANSAN: What are you looking forward to most with the show?
in their work. Every dancer will perform slightly different, and I'm looking forward to seeing how they each fit into their role and how they've developed. I've really enjoyed my time here at KU in working with these talented and incredibly professional performers.
KANSAN: What do you have to say to any young person hesitant to pursue a career in dance?
KLENJOSKI: If you love it, it makes you feel good and it fuels you, pursue your dream. I'm not going to lie, it's hard. Dance is a difficult career, but if you love it and have a passion for it, don't give up. Surround yourself with people who believe in what you're doing, because nothing will tear you down faster than someone who doesn't want you to succeed.
KLENJOSKI: I'm excited to see how the dancers have grown
Edited by Vicky Diaz Camacho
EDM artist Muzzy Bearr to open for GRiZ at the Granada tonight
Funk' EDM artist GRiZ will be performing at the Granada tonight for his Say It Loud tour, accompanied by opening acts Exmag and Muzzy Bear. They give electronic music a twist by building tracks around saxophone and guitar to make it jazzy and soulful feel. The Kansan sat down with Muzzy Bear to talk
about his passion for music, and find out what inspired him to contribute to the EDM world.
22-year-old Dan Hacker, better known as Muzzy Bearr, originated in Detroit. He started producing EDM during his freshman year of college at Michigan State University under the mentorship of GRIZ. And his debut album, Vintage Sutra, was released this year.
Check out kansan.com for the full story.
Lily Grant
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDM artist GRiZ is performing at the Granada tonight with opening acts Muzzy Bearr and Exmag.
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
CONTINUED PHOTO/ASSOCIATED PRESS GRiZ, an EDM artist from Detroit, is performing at the Granada tonight. GRiZ gives electronic music a twist by using saxophone and guitar on his tracks.
Muzzy Bearr will be the opening act for GRiZ at the Granada tonight. The Kansan sat down with Muzzy Bearr to get all of the details on his performance.
ALL DOVER/KANSAN
Student illustrates her thesis in comic book
DANA FERGUSON
Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. — Late last spring, a doctoral student worked late into the night. As she doodled, her chemistry thesis took on a life of its own, transforming into a comic book.
Veronica Berns, 28, was working on her Ph. D. in chemistry at the University of Wisconsin -Madison. Berns said she long struggled to explain her work to her parents and friends. The self-described comic book fan said she began drafting her thesis on quasicrystals — a subset of crystals that diverge from the usual structural characteristics of crystals. Berns quickly concluded that she would be best able to describe the oddball compounds with illustrations.
And on many occasions, it was on the back of an envelope or on a napkin
"They're not very well-polished illustrations. That's on purpose," Berns said. "I wanted it to be like I'm explaining on the back of an envelope."
CARRIE ANTLFINGER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
that she doodled sketches of the chemical bonds to better show her parents what she was working on in the lab. Iody Berns, Veronica's mother, said their family has a history of doodling and has shared comics for years.
Veronica Berns holds the comic book "Atomic Size Matters" that she created to explain her doctoral chemistry thesis to her family at her apartment in Chicago. Berns, a comic book fan, says the illustrations are not well-polished because she wanted it to be like she was explaining on the back on an envelope. She ended up raising more than twice what she asked for on the crowd funding website Kickstarter to print the book.
Berns surprised her family with her comic book "Atomic Size Matters" at her graduation last year. The book depicts cartoons of Berns wearing various costumes and uses humor as well as simple comparisons to describe elaborate chemistry.
"We're just really proud that she can take something so complex and put it into a fun visual explanation that everyone can enjoy," Jody Berns said.
Veronica Berns' professor Danny Fredrickson said Berns was the first of his students to construct her thesis in an artistic way. He said often it is difficult for scientists to explain what they do with proper context.
"If it's worth doing, we should be able to explain it," Fredrickson said.
And he said Berns managed to accomplish that.
scientists will find ways to illustrate what they're doing in the lab. She now lives in Chicago and works as a chemist Berns also writes a blog in which she uses connics
to explain the work of Nobel Prize winning scientists.
Berns said she hopes other
Berns started a Kickstarter fundraising campaign to finance printing a small batch of the books. She
said she wanted to raise $5,965 to cover the costs of professional printing. The website says she has raised more than $14,000.
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