“In the Ali Way” showcases talent and creativity

Ali Horsted will perform her one-woman, senior honors creative thesis project “In the Ali Way“ at the University of Northern Iowa’s Interpreters Theatre, Lang 040, Feb. 4-6 at 7:30 p.m.

Admission to the show is free and funded by UNI’s Department of Communication Studies, College of Humanities and Fine Arts, and Student Services Fee Committee.

Tickets are available starting at 6:30 pm the night of the show. The Interpreters Theatre has only 90 seats, so space is limited.

Horsted is a senior performance studies major from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. While at UNI, she has been involved with the Interpreter’s Theatre, UNI Forensics: Individual Events and the SAVE Forum Actors.

This marks Horsted’s second year with the Interpreters Theatre, and she has big shoes to fill. Last year, she received the Rising Star Award, created in honor of Phyllis Carlin, which is given out to first year Interpreters Theatre members who go above and beyond the normal expectations of service in their first year of participation.

Chris Outzen, a junior communication major from Clinton, Iowa, has seen Horsted perform numerous times. They are both key members of UNI Forensics.

“The best way to describe Ali is free-spirited,” he said.” Her free nature is a huge part of what makes her a great performer.”

“Ali can be very spontaneous in her performances, but that spontaneity is what makes her performances so genuine. When Ali performs, it is because she loves what she is doing. She becomes that character and makes decisions as that character, which makes her performance choices simultaneously unpredictable, yet completely natural,” Outzen added.

Jason “Yaw” Kyeremateng, a junior double majoring in biology and French, has also performed with Horsted via speech and SAVE.

“When I joined the speech team she was one of the people I looked up to as the way she performs is so unique,” he said. “As a result, she has had a lot successes and created great memories on the speech circuit. Her freshman year she went all the way to semi-finals…at Nationals.

“In the Ali Way” appears as a part of UNI Interpreters Theatre’s “Challenging Assumptions through Performance” theme this season, which has included “Execution of Justice” written by Emily Mann and directed by Karen Mitchell, and “Strong Enough For a Woman, Gentle Enough For A Man,” directed by Paul Siddens and written by his Fall 2009 graduate performance studies class.

“Although I am very excited to see ‘In the Ali Way,’ it is bittersweet to think that this show is a stepping stone, leading her out into the world beyond UNI, beyond forensics, beyond us,” Outzen said.

For more information about UNI Interpreters Theatre and “In The Ali Way”, visit www.uni.edu/interptheatre or call 273-2640.

 

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