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(05/14/12 2:00am)
The performance drew about 90 people on both Friday and Saturday to see the show, which starred inmates, Dartmouth undergraduate students and two professors. Participants of the program have been meeting weekly since the beginning of the term, and the show was the final artistic display of their collective work.
(08/09/11 2:00am)
Despite being a small college located in middle of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, Dartmouth is home to a vibrant and expansive arts scene, attracting many types of performances all throughout the year. While Dartmouth's arts departments may not account for a large percentage of the student body and faculty on campus, the arts play an increasingly important role in entertaining and educating not only Dartmouth affiliates, but the Hanover community as well.
(07/22/11 2:00am)
Just because it is Summer term does not mean there is a lack of entertainment groups on campus. The Trifecta Show on Wednesday night at Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity proved that student performance is well and alive during the summer by featuring three of the most popular summer groups on campus.
(05/31/11 2:00am)
Pedophilia is a hard topic to talk about, and even harder to act. Despite the subject's sensitivity, students gracefully staged "Frozen" a play about child abduction that examines the ways that people interact with criminals this weekend. The multifaceted and difficult nature of such interactions was aptly portrayed in the direction, production and acting that went into the production.
(05/11/11 2:00am)
The exhibition, which opened on Tuesday and will run until June 19, is the culminating experience for this year's 25 senior studio art majors and represents the diversity of interests and tastes within the graduating class of artists.
(05/10/11 2:00am)
Dartmouth is not exactly the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of Hollywood and the film industry. The Hanover-to-Hollywood linkage is more evident, however, in the case of an industry regular like Chris Meledandri '81, who produced the film version of "Horton Hears a Who!" (2008) and is now producing another Dr. Seuss classic, "The Lorax" (2012). While Dartmouth played a large role in his rise to a successful career in film production, Meledandri's familiarity with the children's books of Theodor Seuss Geisel '25 is not merely a by-product of his time at the College.
(04/18/11 2:00am)
Living in an age of technology overload can be frustrating and overwhelming for music listeners. Fortunately for us, plenty of advances have been made to help filter through the sonic offerings available on the internet. An increasing number of online mix websites have risen to popularity to allow common music lovers to express their music tastes and passions with the click of a button. 8tracks.com allows listeners to peruse various playlists put up by fellow music enthusiasts and post their own mixtapes. Visitors of the site can either listen for free or download the mixtapes. Other mixtape websites feature more specific approaches to playlist-making. The home page of Stereomood.com offers a playlist of music for just about any mood. When I woke up this morning I simply clicked on "Just Woke Up" and was presented with a playlist of over 700 songs to fit that feeling, beginning with "People Get Up and Drive Your Funky Soul" by James Brown. Designers.mx allows designers to create mixtapes that reflect which music influences their work and to craft album covers that go along with the playlist, giving listeners not only ear candy but some creative stimulation as well. Before long, we'll need a filter for an overload of mixtape websites.
(04/06/11 2:00am)
This is the work of Won Ju Lim, the current artist-in-residence for the Spring term. She calls this piece "Untitled Silence," an appropriate name for the anonymity associated with cities and the sense of silence that Lim's minimalist structures evoke. The exhibition has the ability to overwhelm, however, due to Lim's skilled use of alternative materials and a variety of mediums.
(11/22/10 4:00am)
The ensemble performed for an intimate audience that gathered around the balcony facing the Special Collections stacks. The performers warmed up in a corner of the balcony, then lined up to be led into the space by three librarians, for security. These librarians each stood in the corners of the three levels of the glass enclosure, each of which housed four dancers on each story. This intense security conveys the monumental nature of the ensemble being allowed behind the glass.
(11/10/10 4:00am)
If you thought last Fall's "The Rocky Horror Show" was crazy, get ready for this term's Mainstage production. William Shakespeare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" will not only include lots of singing and dancing, but also a rock band, a projector and, last but not least, a live dog. Other surprises involving the audience will be a part of the performance as well.
(11/04/10 3:00am)
This weekend, a duo of poets who use both American Sign Language and words to perform their stories and pieces of poetry the Flying Words Project will perform a special showing at Dartmouth this weekend. These performances incorporate playful sound effects with the spoken word and ASL, and are done by a hearing and a deaf performer.
(11/01/10 3:00am)
Drive the streets of London and you may run into an exposed underground cave, with a vast lake of eerie, glowing liquid and stalactites hanging from underneath the sidewalk. But when people walk into this cave they seem to stay on the plane of the street. The realistic-looking "cave" is actually an optical illusion, painted by 3D street artist Edgar Mueller of Germany. This vast work, which stretches across the entire width of a promenade in West India Quay in the Docklands of London, is one of many projects Mueller and other 3D street artists are painting throughout Europe. Other Mueller works include a lava burst splitting down the residential street of a small German town, a waterfall in Slovenia and a crevasse from the Ice Age. Mueller's works and background on street painting are on display at www.metanamorph.com.
(10/28/10 2:00am)
A fun album that holds a variety of sounds and lots of energy, "Wildstyle" does not disappoint whether you are a seasoned "bass head" or new to the genre.
(10/04/10 2:00am)
Lloyd plays the titular salesman with such force and intense vulnerability that it was almost unpleasant to watch his fanatical interactions and reminiscent hallucinations on stage for three hours. The honesty with which he portrays Loman, however, and his slow spiral downward from scene to scene, made it impossible for audience members to look away once. He demanded the attention of every soul in the Moore Theater, keeping viewers with him from start to finish.
(09/27/10 2:00am)
I know Beyonce's hit "Single Ladies" is no longer new enough to talk about in our ever-changing pop culture, but among the many "Single Ladies" spin-offs on YouTube, one can find undying and classic works to be appreciated for a lifetime. Take, for example, the video "Single Ladies Gone Wrong." The set is simple, the star a genius. A dancer in an admittedly scary clown mask (I have no idea what that costume piece is for) turns on the Beyonce hit and starts to boogie. Replicating Beyonce's moves next to a television is not a good idea, however, which our heroine learns a little too late. Although this is one of those videos that involves laughing at someone else's demise, I find it a good pick-me-up to avoid feeling down on yourself.
(05/25/10 2:00am)
The artwork by Katharine Cholnoky '10 now on display in the Senior Majors Exhibition in the Hopkins Center's Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries suggests that Cholnoky will never run out of materials from which to draw inspiration. Her artwork in the exhibition, for example, forgoes a standard canvas, instead using found objects, such as a crushed cardboard envelope or a broken wooden door.
(05/18/10 2:00am)
In some respects, the artwork of senior studio art majors Maxwell Heiges '10 and Christine Chang '10 artworks fall at opposite ends of the spectrum of work represented in the department's Senior Majors Exhibition. Chang's miniature, detailed installations of whimsical paper cupcakes contrast starkly with the more serious, yet equally intriguing wood and steel sculptures by Heiges, which are situated on the other side of the gallery. Different as these works may be in scale, however, they are united by their ability to command viewers' attention.
(05/17/10 2:00am)
Stepping into the Senior Majors Exhibition at the Hopkins Center's Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, it is hard to know where to look first. The exhibit features an incredible variety of artwork, ranging from sculpture to photography and printmaking to mixed media. Detailed acrylic paintings and textural wooden pieces line the walls while a sea anemone made from yarn hangs from the ceiling.
(04/14/10 2:00am)
"Ameriville" is an incredibly fresh and moving piece that covers a range of current social issues from health care to racism. With the events of Katrina serving as a backdrop, the performance takes a look at the how fear prevents a community from thriving whether that community is Hanover or the world.
(04/12/10 2:00am)
A single, white brick in a wall seems to fall away, leaving behind an empty space from which several white arms begin to reach out. Soon, a torso-less, multi-limbed creature with an eyeball for a head emerges and proceeds to walk across the wall. This is not an alien takeover or a freak lab accident, but the 2008 time-lapse graffiti short film "MUTO" by the avant-garde Italian graffiti artist Blu. "MUTO," which the artist's web site BluBlu.org describes as "an ambiguous animation painted on public walls" in Buenos Aires and Baden, Germany, features a cast of outlandish characters, including disembodied teeth that scurry across the sidewalk and a bald head attached to nothing but jumping feet. Blu puts a fascinating twist on animation by photographing his graffitti and painting over them in white to create this stop-motion wonder. - Sophia Archibald