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College may seem a little late to pick up ballet but that isn’t stopping Maddison Kissick from starting a new class. The lessons are being offered at the Wellness Center Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Kissick, a 24-year-old graduate student, teaches the class and it is for anyone interested in learning ballet, from beginner to expert. […]

Chances are, the average college student has not had the opportunity to attend a presentation at which the speaker has declared his intentions to perform “The Syphilis Song” and teach his audience how to get as much sex as they want. On Sept. 22. the opportunity for both of those things will present itself to […]

A St. Paul, Minn.,-based trio provided a lesson in Scottish and Irish music as part of the National Music Museum’s Brown Bag Lunch program Sept. 16. The trio, comprised of instrumentalist Laura MacKenzie, guitarist/percussionist Ross Sutter and violinist/dancer Danielle Enblom, presented “Celtic Wizardry: Wind-Powered Instruments” over the lunch hour. The musical performance included MacKenzie on […]

  This week, the sounds of South America are coming to the University of South Dakota. Sept. 22 at 11 a.m., guitarist Allen Mathews and percussionist John Pennington will be performing for the music department’s Recital Laboratory course. The recital, which is free and open to students and the public, will be held in the […]

A new ballet class is being offered at the Wellness Center Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. Taught by Maddison Kissick, a 24-year-old graduate student, the class is for anyone, from beginner to expert, interested in learning ballet. For more on this story, see the Sept. 21 edition of The Volante.

Inhaling slowly, he pauses to look at the two hundred filled seats in the auditorium, all eyes on him. As he exhales he recalls the staccatos and crescendos he so diligently practiced and places his fingers on the keys, ready for what he knows he was born to do: play the organ. This past June, […]

Gallery 110, part of the University Art Galleries, recently hosted an exhibit from the University Loan Gallery, featuring local artists. The University Loan Gallery loans works of art from its collection that are valued at $500 or less for use in public spaces on campus. Regina Jahr, mother of student Chris Jahr, walked through the […]

Crude singing puppets, gruesome murders, death row reflections, comedy and women’s issues — the University of South Dakota Theater Department 2011-2012 season has it all. The season kicks off in the Wayne S. Knutson Theatre with “God of Carnage,” a play directed by department chair Eric Hagen’s running Sept. 29 to Oct. 3, followed by […]

When senior Kilpana Prajapati came to the University of South Dakota three years ago from Nepal, she wanted to get involved in the annual Festival of Nations to show her culture and its food to others. “It’s important to know other cultures because there are people coming from different countries to the United States and […]

Taxes are due April 18 this year because a Washington, D.C., holiday falls on the usual April 15 date and is followed by a Saturday. Third-year law student Weston Cole has spent time learning about how to file income taxes as a member of USD’s Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program. He spoke with reporter Josie […]