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Monday, November 01, 2010

2010 Live at the Apollo winners

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USI's Live at the Apollo, a campus-wide talent revue, was held Saturday, October 30. The event, sponsored by the Multicultural Center and the Black Student Union, showcases students' talents in skits, dance, songs, instrumental, spoken word, and other creative acts.

This year's event was emceed by Nino Ross, a 106.1 KISS FM personality and senior at USI majoring in RTV. Acts included illusionists, comedians, singers, and dancers. The following is a list of this year's winners.

Individual Rhythmic Interpretation Division: Dance and Instruments
1st Place - Salsa by Colombian Chica (Claudia Pena) (Dance)
2nd Place - Creative Steps by Chelsie Burdine (Dance)
3rd Place - Salawan by Vanessa Xiong (Dance)

Individual Lyrical Interpretation Division: Songs
1st Place - Only Prettier by Dionne Hawkins (Country)
2nd Place - Don't Stop Believing by Alaisha Johnson-Rhone (Acapella - Rock)
3rd Place - My Baby Loves Me by Christina Taylor (Country)

Individual Artistic Interpretation: Rap and Poetry/Spoken Word
1st Place - Handle U by Colin Fry (Rap)
2nd Place - I Got What You Need by Young Leo (Dominic Black) (Rap)
3rd Place - I Desire to Make You Whole Again by Catherine Ewing-Booker (Spoken Word)

Group Rhythmic Interpretation: Dance and Instruments
1st Place - Poi Step by Andile Ndlovu and Matt Mills (Spinning Glow Poi)
2nd Place - Monster by Hip Hop Cyklones (Samie Duncan, Bonet Galom, Danielle Sharp, Nicole Smith, Owen Peterkin) (Hip-Hop Dance Group)
3rd Place - Untitled by Schizophraniacs (Danny Sconiers and Luke Yeager) (Instrumental-Bass and Keyboard)

Group Artistic Interpretation: Rap and Poetry/Spoken Word
1st Place - Radio Air by Unkle Samm feat. Hatch Dad Dee (Sammy Eversole and Matthew Hatcher) - (Rap Group)

Theatrical Interpretation: Monologues, Stand-Up, Dialogues, etc.
1st Place - Untitled by The Vessel (Tamera Glasco) (Sign Language)
2nd Place - Get Funny or Die Tryin' by Gavin Eddings (Stand-Up Comedy)
3rd Place - Devil Sticks by Zach Watson

This year's judges were Kathy Jones, advisor in Student Development Programs, DeWayne Walton, a transfer student at USI and a member of "Designed by Grace," USI's gospel choir, Samoa Hempfling, interim vice president of the USI Black Alumni Society, Marty Ransford, former Live at the Apollo participant and nontraditional student at USI, and Rebecca Glover, trauma coding data analyst for Deaconess Hospital and a USI supporter.




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