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Sold-out opening of ‘Hairspray' showcases student talent

By Kate Sullivan | February 19, 2012

Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Staff As the multi-colored curtain rose high above the hiked-up hair of Tracy Turnblad, played by Amber Dewey '12, a visible wave of excitement splashed over the audience during the Dartmouth theater department's mainstage production of "Hairspray," which premiered Friday night in Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center. This term's production of the musical is originally based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name, which subsequently ran as a Tony Award-nominated Broadway production for over 2,500 shows following its 2002 opening.

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Internet Meme of the Week: OK Go and Pilobolus

February 19, 2012

Some of the best artists in music and dance have capitalized on internet technology to create a truly amazing music video and include their fans in the process. OK Go and dance troupe Pilobolus have teamed up to make a pioneering music video for OK Go's song "All Is Not Lost." Members of OK Go and Pilobolus dance in spearmint-colored body suits and use kaleidoscope camera effects and splitting windows to create captivating effects.

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Guerrilla Girls criticize lack of female artwork in museums

February 13, 2012

Aditi Kirtikar / The Dartmouth Staff The Guerrilla Girls, wearing their signature gorilla masks, made an appearance at Dartmouth Hall on Monday for the inaugural First Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture, which is dedicated to the memory of the late art history professor and her commitment to gender and racial justice.

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Internet Meme of the Week: "Breading" Cats

By Gavin Huang | February 12, 2012

Cats have recently been found to improve everything from Facebook pictures to famous artwork, as their placement inFacebook pictures have been used to hide booze and their placement in artwork have made the Mona Lisa and Birth of Venus all the more interesting.

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Barbary Coast performs with Bowie of jazz band Defunkt

By Varun Bhuchar | February 12, 2012

During the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble's annual Winter Carnival concert on Saturday in Spaulding Auditorium, the jazz band performed a medley of funk tunes composed by and performed with special guest Joseph Bowie, the founder and leader of the jazz group Defunkt. Bowie founded Defunkt in New York City in 1978 with a few friends, including Hungarian playwright Janos Gat and his brother, according to the Hopkins Center program notes.

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Art programs at DHMC bring therapeutic relief to patients

By Julian Danziger | February 8, 2012

MAGGIE ROWLAND / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Instead of settling for cliche, elevator-worthy music and dull, lifeless art often seen in hospitals, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center hires volunteer musicians to perform live in the middle of the hospital's main rotunda and features works by local and regional artists, whose pieces are displayed on a rotating basis.

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