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May 01, 2003
Iota Sigma Three-peats at Songfest
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Joe Puetz is known for many things on Valparaiso University's campus. To some he is known as the math major with no calculator. To others he is known as the deepest voice in the choir. To his brothers he is known as Magister. Never would his name be confused with "winner", especially winner of three consecutive Songfest 3rd place awards and one Best Theme Award.
As is the Iota Sigma Tradition, Songfest practice began roughly a week and a half before the annual event sponsored by Union Board. Songfest is designed to pit student organizations against eachother as they showcase dance/song routines they have created and practiced.
Songfest Chair Joe Puetz has been selecting music and choreographing Iota Sigma's routine for three years. The math major from Wisconsin believes in unothrodox routines characterized by impromptu falls and music drawn from the bowels of everyone's CD collections.
Asked about his style, Joe Puetz had this to say: "I prefer to call my style a mixing of theátrenuevo and surrealist pop. It's like I take Bach and mix it with Rock. You could call it Mach." Well whatever it was, Joe truly is a musical/dance genius.
This year's routine was created by Joe during his Advanced Topics in Numerical Analysis & Numerical Fluid Dynamics class. "Pillow Talk" contained the musical stylings of Genesis' "I Can't Dance", Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now", The Dixie Chicks' "Cowboy Take Me Away", and Juice Newton's "Angel of the Morning". The highlight of the performance was the thrusting of angels Alan Jacobs('06) and Rishab Malhotra('06) into the air as bubbles were blown over the frontline of singing Sigs.
Below you will find pictures taken by the Webmaster's sister, Thera. She is only in the introductory photography class so no complaints about quality. Click for larger version.
We can't dance? Look at that perfect form.
Joe's favorite move is the sliding-look-right.
A very dangerous move, especially on chapel steps apx. 18 inches wide.
Just call us angels of the morning . . . baby.
The finale of the show brought the audience to their feet.
Posted by Webmaster at May 1, 2003 09:25 PM