The leaves may be dusted with golden brown, but staff members at the Northern Stage theater company in White River Junction are preparing for a different kind of scenery change. Having outgrown its current venue, the Briggs Opera House, the theater launched a $9 million fundraising campaign in February and plans to begin construction on a new space in October.
Immersed in a pool of wood chips, the bust of a human figure stares out from behind a curved glass wall. “Sculpture,” by Lin Bo ’13, is the newest instillation at the Hopkins Center’s Barrows Rotunda. The title complements the artwork’s simple yet captivating nature.
Many students spent the month of winter break at home studying for next term or, on a more realistic note, checking out new music on Spotify. Yet many members of College a cappella groups packed December with travel and performances, taking their voices out of the wilderness, and for some, out of the country.
Margaret Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff "Ebb and Flow," the new Barrows Rotunda exhibit by studio art intern Lexi Campbell '13, plays with the enclosure of the rotunda's space in a way that is thought-provoking and pleasing to the eye. The work's curving forms seem almost organic in shape, suspended by strings to create a three-dimensional negative space that compliments the forms themselves. When viewed from within the Hopkins Center during the day, "Ebb and Flow" reacts with sunlight to take on a soft glow.
This term, the directors of Monday's 10-Minute Play Festival stripped the show down to its essential act: staged reading.
In one whirlwind day, students hurried to write and produce original plays in which the main characters could only speak in movie, song, play and book titles.
Friday's performance by the Knights, a chamber orchestra that arrives on campus today, is not only dependent on its musicians to be focused and ready, but is also relying on a diplomatic miracle of sorts for everything to go smoothly. Led by artistic director Eric Jacobsen, the orchestra is set to premiere its "Concerto for Santur and Violin," featuring Jacobsen's brother and violinist Colin Jacobsen and Iranian santur player Siamak Aghaei.