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1. Â 6 ARROW • week of Sept. 5 - 11, 2012 MICHAEL PRYSOCK
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CONCERT MOVED INDOORS TO ROSE THEATER DUE TO RAIN FRIDAY
Amy Fritsche, New Student Showcase organizer, gives feedback to students performing. Photo by Nathan Hamilton
Student talent performing at the annual New Student Showcase
Showcase includes pieces that will be showcased, and she will said his biggest challenge now is getting his
help with technical issues backstage, but her lines in correct order.
contemporary scenes main role is to coach students. The New Student Showcase is also a way
written from 2000 to “We give them the idea to create a charac-
ter and help them mold it,” Fritsche said.
for performers to support each other.
The event is a product of a big team effort.
present Fritsche selected scenes written from 2000
to present.
Schweger said that he looks at the stu-
dents in the program now, and he sees how
Although the scene can be set in different they network with not only students in the
ANDREA GILS department, but with everyone in their class.
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“Like the football games, this “The faculty at SEMO’s River Campus is
incredible,” Schweger said. “Everyone treats
The New Student Showcase is an event for
any student new to the Department of Thea-
show is our way of showing their work with so much professionalism, res-
pect for one another and the talent to boot.
tre and Dance or to Southeast Missouri State
University.
the school what we can do, They all work together as a team, facilitating
the needs of their peers to organize what is, in
It is an opportunity for students to show and how we plan to represent my opinion, a very successful program.”
their talent to the theatre and dance faculty Edgecombe said that students should go
and staff, and to the community by perfor- SEMO on the stage.” to the event because it is exciting to see where
ming a scene, singing or dancing.
According to Amy Fritsche, faculty mem- Maclin Schweger freshmen are at this point in the year. He
added that this is a very strong class.
ber and organizer of this year’s event, there “See them where they are, and when you
will be four singers, seven acting scenes and time periods, the writer must have written it see them on stage this year or in a couple of
16 dancers. sometime between the year 2000 and now. years, and see how much they’ve grown. The
Fritsche is in charge of selecting the songs “We are working on very fairly contempo- showcase is just a lot of fun,” Edgecombe said.
and acting scenes. Dance and choreography rary work,” Fritsche said. The River Campus is hosting its third
instructor Philip Edgecombe is in charge of There will be five group rehearsals, but stu- annual New Student Showcase at 7:30 p.m.
mentoring the dancers. dents meet with their scene partners to work on Sept. 15 in the Wendy Kurka Rust Flexible
According to Edgecombe, three senior on their scene together and memorize lines Theatre.
dance students will choreograph pieces for independently. “Everyone in the incoming class is incre-
the showcase. Students have to provide their own costu- dibly talented and won’t disappoint,” Schwe-
Leshay Mathis will perform a contempo- mes and there will be no music except for in ger said. “Like the football games, this show
rary routine, Kelcey Matheny a jazz routine the dance pieces. is our way of showing the school what we can
and Kara Burley a hip-hop number. Freshman acting major Maclin Schweger do and how we plan to represent SEMO on Amy Fritsche works with Southeast student Gary
All of the pieces are group dances with no will present a scene with a partner that deals the stage.” Corse who is new to the theatre and dance
more than seven dancers each. with political issues and aliens. The event is free and open to Southeast department. Photo by Nathan Hamilton
During the summer, Fritsche selected the Schweger received his scene recently, so he staff, students and parents.
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