Ricki Stern '87 returns to campus to screen ‘Knuckleball'

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Having made films on a wide range of topics from the Darfur conflict to a year in the life of Joan Rivers, it's safe to say that Ricki Stern '87 has made her mark on the world of documentary filmmaking.

Bridging genres, beatboxer Adam Matta inspires students

For the past week, New York City-based audiovisual artist Adam Matta has been in residency at the College visiting classes, working with graduate students and teaching beatboxing workshops to a capella groups on campus.

‘Portable Vision' showcases artist Riley's abstract collection

Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff "Portable Vision," a series of drawings and both oil and oil-stick paintings crafted by artist and studio art professor Enrico Riley '95, opened last night in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, marking a considerable shift in the his style.

Hood incorporates student perspective with internship

In the midst of the Year of the Arts celebration, the five 2012-2013 senior Hood Museum of Art interns have a lot to look forward to in a program that has been in place almost since the museum's opening in 1985.

Derosier's rotunda installation draws from her own life

‘This Is Not a Gallery' displays abstract student artwork

Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The new works of four students were launched on Thursday in the first student-run exhibition in the "This Is Not a Gallery" space in the Black Family Visual Arts Center.

Harlem String Quartet will merge classical with jazz tonight

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The Harlem String Quartet, an acclaimed group that bridges diverse musical genres including soul, Latin, jazz and classical, will perform at the Hopkins Center tonight to a sold-out Spaulding Auditorium.

Ensemble Basiani performs secular, sacred Georgian music

Ensemble Basiani, a choral group from the Republic of Georgia, will perform an array of secular Georgian folk music alongside sacred Eastern Orthodox choral pieces at the Hopkins Center tonight. Composed of 12 members from various regions of Georgia, Ensemble Basiani was formed in 2000 as part of the Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral Church choir.

Diaz's ‘This Is How You Lose Her' evades chick-flick genre

Courtesy of StarTribune.com "This Is How You Lose Her" by Junot Diaz is not quite a love story or at least not the kind you would expect.

John Lithgow performs one-man show on storytelling

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Before actor John Lithgow appeared on the Spaulding Auditorium stage to perform his one-man act "Stories by Heart" on Saturday night, audience members heard his booming voice instructing them to silence their cell phones.

'Igniting Imagination:' Q&A with Michael Odokara-Okigbo '12

Catherine Treyz / The Dartmouth Senior Staff *Editor's Note: This week, five members of The Dartmouth Arts and Entertainment Staff sat down with the featured guests in this Friday's "Igniting Imagination," who will be returning to campus to celebrate the Hopkins Center's 50th Anniversary.

Dance Ensemble will utilize new outdoor performance spaces

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth Dance Ensemble will debut its new show choreographed by John Heginbotham, a frequent guest artist for the Dartmouth-originated Pilobolus dance troupe in several outdoor locations on Saturday.

Jeffrey Ruoff's ‘Still Moving' spotlights origins, career of Pilobolus

Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff's new documentary "Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty" (2012), which will be screened at the College several times over the weekend, tells the story of a unique dance group that has stood the test of time and managed to retain its original qualities from the beginning. The contemporary dance group Pilobolus formed at Dartmouth in 1971 when a group of three male students Moses Pendleton '71, Steve Johnson '71 and Jonathan Wolken '71 signed up for a modern dance class, taught by then-dance professor Alison Chase.