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gizian said.
Gevargizian said he joined the club after picking up swing dancing over the years. After initially being in band in high school and enjoying jazz and swing music, he said he tried out swing dancing over a summer while an undergraduate student and gradually fell in love with it.
"That's when I sort of really started digging it," he said. "It's kind of a goofer
Kutchko joined in January of 2015, after originally being in a tango class at the University and attending a swing dance with her friends.
"They kind of brought me along and I just really got into it and switched from Tango over to swing." Kutchko said.
dance if you can picture a 20s Charleston with the white suits and the boater hats, it's kind of cheesy in a good way."
Gevargizian said his favorite part about swing
"I've taken part in other dances, and none I love quite as much as swing," Gevargizian said. "I really like how it just embodies funness, and to almost a cheesy extent and I really appreciate that, I think I like the energy."
dance is the fun and energy that comes with it.
Kutchko said swing society and swing dancing is beneficial for international students at the University, too.
"It's actually a really great place for international
students to come and meet students that are in Kansas, or just the U.S. in general," Kutchko said. "We get a lot of international students to come to know our culture, so it helps to bring those two groups together really well."
Gevargizian said the group is looking to hold their end of semester dance at the Pavilion, about a week or two before finals. Gevargizian said the KU Swing Society hopes to grow the dance community in Lawrence.
"One of our major goals in this Swing Society is really growing the dance community. Not just swing, but the dance community in general, and partner dances in general. I think partner dances really bring something great to even like the club scenes that I think the modern age kind of misses," he said.
Gevargizian said the experience of swing dancing is something people can take away for the rest of their life.
you can take away the rest of your life. You can swing, you can tango you can do these partner dances throughout your entire life and still have a ton of fun," Gevargizian said. "Something like swing really I think opens up opportunities that keep on giving the rest of your life."
"Swing is something
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From left: Becca Gray as Amy, Kristen Larsen as Meg, Sarah Van Zwoll as Jo, Lily Lancaster as Beth, and Leslie Bennett as Marmee.
'Little Women' resonates with audience emotions
▶ SAMANTHA SEXTON
@Sambiscuit
The University Theatre opened its newest performance, "Little Women: The Broadway Musical," Friday night in Crafton-Preyer Theatre to a respectably-sized audience. The play touches on difficult subjects such as loss, marriage to a soldier at war, death, a child's need for independence and the difficult yet supportive dynamics within families.
When the audience wasn't laughing or crying, it certainly had audible reactions to the scenes on stage.
The musical, based on the book of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, focuses on the lives of four young sisters in 1866 near the end
of the American Civil War — Amy, the pretentious youngest sister that will make anyone with younger siblings groan; Beth, the caring, innocent songbird; Meg, the oldest and the romantic; and Jo, the wildly creative, boisterous protagonist trying to find her way in the world. Together, with their mother, the family struggles to maintain happiness through the ups and downs of life.
Rissa Garcia, a sophomore at Haskell Indian Nations University from Las Cruces, N.M., said the family dynamic hit close to home, especially during a particular scene where Jo leaves her family to start her career as an author.
"I really connected with the sisters and their wanting to stay together as a
family but also having to learn how to let go," Garcia said. "I'm from New Mexico, so all my family and siblings are so far away. I even started to tear up at some of the scenes just because of how relatable it was."
Garcia said she had been "incredibly impressed" with the performance which she said made her night, given that she had only come to the performance for class credit.
"The use of the stage was amazing," Garcia said. "I've seen scene use like that before but never to that extent."
The scene use Garcia mentioned was the use of the Crafton-Preyer's moving stage, which helped to keep the story flowing without need for a disrupting scene change. A three-
tiered set was built on the stage, allowing for a variety of scene placement, which kept the action fresh and engaging.
I really connected with the sisters and their wanting to stay together as a family but also having to learn how to let go."
Rissa Garcia Haskell sophomore
"I was really impressed," said Ladine Thompson, a freshman at Haskell from Oklahoma City. "It was really beautiful to watch, and I don't usually like musicals but the songs in this play were very well done."
Sarah Van Zwoll, a sophomore from Overland Park who portrays Jo, was an interesting choice for the lead given her sparse theatrical experience. But despite never performing in a University Theatre performance and only recently changing her major to theater, Van Zwoll remained at peak energy throughout the performance.
"She was beautiful," Thompson said. "I can't believe she's never done something like this before."
Despite her impressive performance, Van Zwoll said the show was a group effort.
"A role of this size is not possible without the support and love from the cast and crew I have gotten," Van Zwoll said.
Van Zwoll's "rock", University alumna and director Amy Corcoran, said she's glad to have an audience to finally see the show but isn't quite ready to give it up.
"I'm incredibly proud of everyone involved though it's always bittersweet to open a show," Corcoran said. "As a director, opening means my work is done and it's over."
"Little Women" will show April 15 and 16 at 7:30 p.m., with its finale on April 17 at 2:30 p.m. in Crafton-Preyer Theatre in Murphy Hall. More information and ticket prices can be found at the Department of Theatre's website.
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