Dharra Budicha
University Briefs
June 9, 2014Professors create romantic ballet video game An english and film studies professor from U of A recently collaborated with a computer science master’s candidate to recreate a classic romantic ballet in the form of a video game. The game, titled iGiselle, is for Microsoft Kinect, and challenges its users to re-enact a tragic ballet by copying the dance poses of the protagonist, Giselle. Although the female protagonist dies at the end of most classic romantic ballets, the creators of iGiselle decided to “to take a sort of feminist approach, ideally allowing the woman — the ballerina — some agency, and…
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Satellite Signals
June 9, 2014Woodward's The premiere of Victoria composer Christopher Butterfield’s fall for string quartet was performed by Montreal’s Bozzini Quartet last Thursday at SFU Woodward’s; attendees were invited to experience Butterfield’s latest composition. The Bozzini Quartet consider themselves to be “radically contemporary,”…
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Interview series tells the stories of homicide survivors
May 13, 2013Aftermath of Murder: Survivor Stories aims to renegotiate the territory between media and murder By Dharra Budicha Photos by SFU PAMR SFU alumnus Brent Stafford hopes his engaging multi-video series will raise public awareness of the relatively untold stories of…
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