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Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on theeaglecoronavirusproject.com, a separate website created by Eagle staff at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. Articles from that website have been migrated to The Eagle’s main site and backdated with the dates they were originally published in order to allow readers to access them more easily.
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on theeaglecoronavirusproject.com, a separate website created by Eagle staff at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. Articles from that website have been migrated to The Eagle’s main site and backdated with the dates they were originally published in order to allow readers to access them more easily.
Editor’s note: This article originally appeared on theeaglecoronavirusproject.com, a separate website created by Eagle staff at the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in spring 2020. Articles from that website have been migrated to The Eagle’s main site and backdated with the dates they were originally published in order to allow readers to access them more easily.
Senior musical theatre major Sultana Qureshi has never had a professor in the Department of Performing Arts who looks like them.
During one scene of “Macbeth,” Aletheia Canepa as Lily Macbeth pours red wine from a bottle onto the floor of her bedroom, hoping to get as much of it on the pre-placed towel as possible. A character in another Zoom box holds out their wine glass toward their computer’s camera, pretending to receive the wine.
Senior Emily Brolin was not going to pursue theater, not originally, at least.
Twenty-one-year-old rapper, Kiki.D — pronounced Kiki D — wants her name to be known in the music industry.
First, there was the picking. Then, the courting. Then, the wedding. Then, the ending.
In a time of isolation, R&B and neo-soul singer, UMI, intimately welcomed the American University student body into her home as she sang a fully-acoustic mix of original songs and covers. UMI, accompanied by guitarist Mia Garcia, performed a preview of the new acoustic version of her song “Remember Me,” which was released on all streaming platforms on Friday at midnight.
“When it is all over, is it even going to be the same?”
Comfort Foods is a Life section series highlighting AU students and the food that reminds them of home and heritage.
Editor's Note: This article appeared in The Eagle's October 2020 virtual print edition.
American University professor Jane Palmer said she had always been looking for a hobby. When she was a kid, she learned to sew but then took a long hiatus from the craft before returning to it within the last few years. She took sewing classes with some friends in Adams Morgan, making pillowcases and curtains to dust off her skills. After Palmer had her son, she sewed less again, until the pandemic.
When Ken Brandt attended American University, he and his friends responded to a club advertisement that invited students to meet in the Tavern, drink beers and learn about the parachuting club. After the meeting, Brandt decided to learn competitive skydiving with the team at a place in Downsville, Maryland.
Twenty American University theater freshmen on Sept. 25 and 26 attempted to answer a big question during their performance, “Overture 200222020:” what is it like to be 18 right now?
Alicia Ridgley has been dancing since she was 3 years old after her mom noticed that she had a little groove in her step and enrolled her in classes. At 5 years old, Ridgley entered the world of competitive dance and continued through middle and high school. Now, Ridgley’s doing what she loves at American University, her dream school.
On July 11, American University students Edmée Marie Faal and Chloé Ifill both posted an infographic on their Instagram pages with the first slide reading, “The movement has not stopped neither should you!!!!!!!!!!!! Sign these petitions.”
There is no universal guide to teenagehood. The way that the teen characters in the film “Chemical Hearts” learn about the complexities of life and impending adulthood in New Jersey is different from those in other corners of the United States and the world. With no guide, Austin Abrams, who plays Henry Page in the film, gets to see teenagehood from a personal perspective.
Giorgio Citarella II, a rising junior film and media arts major, says that filmmaking and storytelling are part of human nature. Citarella was drawn to film in high school, and his dedication to it has positioned him to win the Newcomers Short Award and a cash prize at the 2020 New York Lift-Off Film Festival.
While she is not sure how it happened, AU’s African-American and African Diaspora Studies program director and Department of Performing Arts professor Sybil Roberts Williams remembered hearing and seeing more posts about Kendrick Lamar’s song “Alright” after Donald Trump won the 2016 election.
