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The Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com
6 - Friday, September 30, 2011 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom
New cultural heights
'Time' goes by at PNT
University artists
learn Chinese
kite making
By JEFF WARANIAK
Daily Arts Writer
The kite master has an air of
stardom about him. He approach-
es the track field in a pair of mir-
rored sunglasses and nods to
some photographers beneath a
tent marked "Kite Fly-A-Thon."
On the grass he lays a cardboard
box heavily stickered with the
word "fragile" and pulls out a red
Last Sunday's kite festival included a Chinese lion dance and ribbon ceremony.
By ANNA SADOVSKAYA
DailyArts Writer
Even the greatest of romances
end. What makes love stories
great isn't their invincibility, but
rather their
vulnerability Time Stands
and the real-
ity of their
situation. If Through Oct. 26,
an entire rela- various times
tionship went
from "nice to Performance
meet you" to Network Theater
"happily ever From $15
after," no one
would have remembered Romeo
and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde or
Jack and Rose.
Opening Performance Net-
work Theatre's 2011-12 season
is one such love story - "Time
Stands Still." Written by Pulitzer
Prize winner Donald Margulies
and nominated for a Tony in 2010
for Best Play the performance is a
realistic, modern view of life and
love today.
Set on the backdrop of the Iraqi
war, the play explores the emo-
tional and physical conflicts of
Sarah, a photographer who has
just returned from the Middle
East after being injured in a road-
side bombing. Sarah is forced
to con
ex-boyf
betwee
and her
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front her feelings for her different way."
friend James and choose Director Kate Peckham, who's
n a safer, easier job at home had over 20 years of profession-
true passion: photograph- al theater experience, enjoyed
realities of terror overseas. bringing to life characters that are
ess Suzi Regan, who plays relatable but have a certain depth
admitted that at its core to them, accomplishing this thor-
Stands Still" is a reflection ough careful emotional develop-
truggles people face daily. ment and detail.
s about love, war and how "As a director I really look for
s no justice in either one the truth in every moment, and
e," Regan said. "Nothing's this play is one of those real works
love and war, yet it's still that is able to do that," Peckham
tely consuming for us." said. "Truth in theater is what
precarious balance of love provides the vehicle for people to
crifice weighs heavily on emotionally connect to the play in
aracters throughout the whatever way they need to."
nd mirrors the reality .of As each character reflects on
n life outside of hostile and their own personal and profes-
environments. sional sacrifices, the audience will
be able to do the same, arriving to
conclusions independent of those
snapshot of the play comes to.
"It's a beautiful, realistic play,"
ye and war. Peckhamsaid."It asks allthe hard
Ve an War- questions and takes a real intense
look at relationships and how far
you're willing to go for your pas-
at we are today is not what sions in life."
re 20 or 40 years ago," Peckham encouraged everyone
said. "Where do we find to take time and discover all that
es in the equation of love "Time Stands Still" has to offer.
it today? I think the ques- "Go see it, because it's really
temselves are timeless, but worth it," Peckham said. "I really
e they're being asked in the mean it, and I stand by it, and I
d now, they're framed in a think people will be blown away."
paper dragonfly kite with spin- Even with his background in
ning green eyes. paper engineering, Shlian too
"Look at that," someone whis- found the kite making process to
pers. "Isn't that beautiful?" be surprisingly challenging. He
The master prepares his hand- quickly discovered that Chinese
made kite in near silence. It's as kite building required a different
if everyone in the crowd is star- kind of expertise.
struck; they don't know what to "It was a lot more detail-orient-
say. ed," Shlian said. "Itrequired more
In the bleachers, several feet precisionthan we're used to in the
from the crowd, two people are West."
sitting and chatting. The master Despite the challenges kite
spots them, peers over the crowd making presented, the professors
and waves. agreed that their work did not go
"Hey Master Ha," they shout, unrewarded.
wavingback. "We took a lot away from the
The crowd turns to see who is experience," Mondro said. "Not
on waving terms with the master. just a deep appreciation for the
The two celebs-by-association craft, but for the traditional art-
are University artists Anne Mon- work of China, too."
dro and Matthew Shlian - two The two artists were originally
of Chinese kite master Ha Yiqi's sent to China as part of a project
most recent students. in collaboration with the Univer-
*** sity's Center for Chinese Stud-
For three weeks in the sum- ies, which is celebrating its 50th
mer, Anne Mondro, an associate anniversary this year. As part of
professor at the School of Art & the anniversary celebration, the
Design, and Matthew Shlian, a Center organized several kite-
lecturer in the School of Art & related events in late September
Design, apprenticed with Master that included a Kite-Fly-A-Thon, a
Ha, a fourth-generation kite mas- Sunday afternoon kite festival and
ter in Beijing whose creations aseries of kite makingworkshops.
were featured in the 2008 Beijing LSA freshman Rachel Gold-
Olympics. berg participated in one of the
Under the guidance of the mas- workshops as a member of the
ter, Mondro and Shlian learned University's Living Arts learning
the basics of traditional Chinese community. Much like Mondro
kite making,, taking time Lp are and Shlian, who facilitated her
to follow themaster's instrMM-M workshop, Goldberg was sur-
precisely. Mondro, having worked prised by the amount of effort
with metal and other sculpture that was required to construct a
materials in the past, expected flyable kite.
kite making to come more quickly "It's a lot harder than it looks,"
to her than it did. Goldberg said. "But the point
"None of my skills from my isn't to build a kite and leave it
craft background transferred sitting around. The whole point
over," Mondro said. "It was a lot isto fly it."
more difficult than I expected." Goldberg and others flew their
kites high above the central val-
ley in Nichols Arboretum. At any
time, at least one kite, small or
large, colorful or not, could be
seen floating in the sky.
In addition to kite building,
the kite festival this past Sunday
included a Chinese lion dance, a
Chinese ribbon dancing ceremo-
ny and kite flying competitions
for both University students and
members of the Ann Arbor com-
munity.
Marc Bradshaw and his son
Parker, both Ann Arbor resi-
dents, entered the competition
with a pair of kites constructed
from Dupont Tyvek housewrap.
Bradshaw said he'd been con-
structing kites since he was aboy,
and that he was now teaching his
son the craft.
"I fell in love with flyingthings
when I was younger," Bradshaw
said. "Now I'm just passing that
on."
At the Kite-Fly-A-Thon, Mas-
ter Ha's red dragonfly kite is rest-
ing in the grass. The crowd isn't
as starstruck as it was upon his
arrival. There are other kite fly-
ers running around the field now,
young and old.
A small Chinese girl picks up
the dragonfly kite and a parent
tells her to put it down, but she
keeps it in her hantd. Master Ha
holds the line on the other end,
smiling at the little girl. He points
toward the sky.
"On the count of three?" he
asks in Chinese. They count to
three and the kite lifts into the air.
The little girl smiles, and so
does the master. Knowledge of
Chinese isn't required to under-
stand their smiles.
Blink-182 still staying fresh
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By ELLIOT ALPERN
Daily Arts Writer
For all intents and purposes,
one must look to the breakfast
cereal aisle for an apt compari-
son to Blink-
182. Before the *
breakup, the
band was Lucky B
Charms: multi- Blink-182
tudes love the Neighborhoods
sweet, youthful
product andjust OCG
as many despise
it. But nobody could deny that
the colorful pieces hyped on the
packaging were vastly better than
any of the bland mush included
just to fill space. For a while, that
approach worked - nobody cared
about songs like "Wendy Clear"
or "Mutt" when "All the Small
Things" could be heard just a few
spots over. An eight-year record-
ing hiatus is a tough mountain to
summit, however, and Neighbor-
hoods unfortunately comes off
as just a typical Blink-182 album
missing its Charms.
The average Blink-182 fanatic
will likely be ecstatic upon div-
ing into the inaugural "Ghost
on the Dance Floor." Drummer
Travis Barker launches into one
of his signature rapid-fire beats
before
middle
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-school nostalgia sets in. tiousness as he sings, "Everyone
lives to tell the / Tale of'hlow we
die alone some day."
'It's no secret that Blink-182 is a
gat s their age bit older than it was in its heyday.
Lin? 'Bout 40 The adolescent angst that once
asked, "What's My Age Again?"
has been replaced by maturity
and poise - after the somber real-
eLonge can still sing, if ization that the answer is rapidly
es ever a question, but the becoming "in their 40's." "Wish-
is less a joint effort than an ing Well" is a transparent attempt
Is and Airwaves creation to recover some of that juvenile
down ever-so-slightly. vitality, but it ultimately serves
All Night" is the peak of as a testament to how the band-
borhoods (and accordingly mates have changed - regardless
eleased as the record's first of how many "da da dan" they
E), and finds singers Mark throw in the chorus. "Heart's All
us and DeLonge sharing Gone" is similarly its own type of
aic in equal proportions. throwback, with a mindlessly fast
ong is an intriguing tran- tempo and a simple (if addictive)
from the light-hearted chorus. The track is an homage to
ial of their past - Hoppus See BLINK-182, Page 7A
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There's no denying there's
a certain charm to "Dolphin
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difficult to pin-
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with the fact that the film doesn't
blatantly infantilize its audience.
Even though the humor only gets
as original as it does in any other
family drama, at least it isn't
strung together by an endless
chain of bathroom jokes.
Based on a true story, the plot
revolves around the tale of a
young bottlenose dolphin named
Winter that learns how to swim
despite having her tail amputat-
ed. In order to give this amazing
story more of a feature film feel-
ing, the writers (Karen Janszen
and Naomi Dromi, "A Walk to
Remember" and "Sleeping with a
Bear," respectively) incorporate
Sawyer Nelson (Nathan Gamble,
"Marley & Me"), an introvert and
outcast who helps rescue Win-
ter and eventually develops a
close bond with her. Also in the
mix are Dr. Clay Haskett (Harry
Connick Jr., "P.S. I Love You"),
the veterinarian looking after
Winter, and Dr. McCarthy (Mor-
gan Freeman, "Million Dollar
Baby"), the engineer who designs
her prosthetic tail.
While these characters bring
an interesting new dimension
to the dolphin's story, we end up
seeing unrelated plotlines that
never really complement the
central narrative. And it's a pity
this happens because many of
the themes in Winter's story are
much more than the usual harp-
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is evil and harms our environ-
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non-profit animal hospitals and
the lack of government fund-
ing they now receive are rarely
touched upon in other films and
add originality to this one.
What doesn't add originality
is the dialogue, which is bor-
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