The Hopkins Center for the Arts rang with music on Sunday afternoon as the Dartmouth Glee Club performed their “Winter Panorama” concert at the Top of the Hop. The group performed a range of songs in Spanish, English, Latin and Russian.
On Saturday the new play “Mad Love” (2016) premiered at the Barrette Center for the Arts, Northern Stage’s new theater in White River Junction, Vermont. Written by Marisa Smith and directed by Maggie Burrows, the comedy follows the lives and romantic pursuits of four young adults living in New York City. The comedy follows Sloane Hudson, a young Dartmouth graduate who has decided to take control of her life after a traumatic incident in a college fraternity. Sloane, who has given up on love and marriage, decides that she wants to have a baby through artificial insemination instead of settling down. However, when she asks Brandon, the man she is casually dating, to be her sperm donor, she finds that he has a different attitude towards love and romance.
Before coming to Dartmouth, Kwaii Bell ’16 thought that he was going to become a lawyer. He had planned on majoring in women and gender studies and psychology, hoping to eventually work in law as a gay rights activist. However, after making a documentary in a writing class his freshman year, Bell became fascinated with film and decided to explore the world behind the camera. After taking an editing class his sophomore year, he became a film and media studies major instead.
Chris Gallerani ’15 graduated from Dartmouth last spring with a theater major. Gallerini now lives in New York City pursuing a professional career in acting.
For Dartmouth’s many a cappella groups, the long winter break provides a chance to hit the road and perform for a wider audience. This winter Dartmouth’s a cappella groups travelled all over the United States, from Massachusetts to Florida to Hawaii.
With barbed wire lining the back of the stage, the floor sloped at an angle and light bulbs dangling from a dilapidated staircase, the set of the theater department’s upcoming mainstage production “Don Juan Comes Back from the War” can only be described as apocalyptic. \n Written by the Austro-Hungarian-born playwright Ödön von Horváth, the play tells the story of the soldier Don Juan, who returns from World War I to find that he is the only man alive in a world of women. \n Once a notorious philanderer, Don Juan claims that he has come home from the war a changed man.
The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble brought the music of Latin jazz, with its non-traditional 3/2, 2/3 and 6/8 rhythms, to life on Saturday, under the leadership of music director and bassist of Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Carlos Henriquez in a program called “From Mambo to Now: Big Band Latin Jazz.”
Joanne Hyun ’17 picked up her first violin when she was four years old and has been playing ever since. Originally from Sydney, Australia, Hyun moved to the United States during her sophomore year of high school to attend a boarding school in Troy, New York. Although she found that there were fewer opportunities to take music lessons in high school, she also enjoyed having chance to play more independently.
During her time at the College, actress Talene Monahon ’13 was involved in a number of theater productions, including “Angels in America” in 2012 and “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in 2010. During her senior fellowship, she wrote, produced and acted in “All in Good Fun,” a one-woman play about the social scene at Dartmouth.
The improv comedy group Casual Thursday will have the chance to take their act to a bigger stage this week. The group, which generally performs in Greek houses and other social venues on campus, will be performing in Bentley Theater on Thursday as part of the theater department’s “Your Space” program that aims to bring non-majors into the Hopkins Center.