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Now Playing in Hanover: "The Artist"

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | January 29, 2012

Shot completely in black and white, Michel Hazanavicius's silent film "The Artist" depicts the advent of talking films from the perspective of two diverse actors, the silent superstar George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) and talkie upstart Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo). The most powerful actor in Hollywood when the story begins in 1927, George extends his largesse to offer Peppy a supporting role in one of his silent films.

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‘Fault in Our Stars' offers alternative look into teen angst

By Shannon Draucker | January 24, 2012

There is nothing quite like the experience of reading a novel so enthralling that it propels you to stay up all night furiously flipping through its pages, preoccupies you throughout the school day and motivates you to rush back to your dorm room and neglect your homework until you have devoured every last word.

Dartmouth professor David Newsam, on guitar, performed with vocalist Jenni Cook and other musicians in Rollins Chapel this weekend.
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Newsam performs with Chamberworks at Rollins Chapel

January 22, 2012

Courtesy of musicmanage.org To the universal acclaim of its audience, "David Newsam and Friends" performed on the intimate, stained glass-illuminated stage of Rollins Chapel on Sunday in a concert that featured a series of duets and collaborations inspired by Latin American influences. The concert began with a short introduction of the program by David Newsam, a music professor at the College and a professional guitarist.

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Metropolitan opera and London plays broadcast to Loew

By Varun Bhuchar | January 22, 2012

The Metropolitan Opera in New York City and the National Theatre in London are respectively 270 and 3,000 miles away from Hanover, but faculty, students and local residents can watch performances from the comfort of the Hopkins Center thanks to the broadcasting services each company offers. The Metropolitan Opera production of "The Enchanted Island," which aired over the weekend in Loew Auditorium, marked the beginning of the high-definition transmissions offered this term. The opera is a pastiche devised and written by film director Jeremy Sams, consisting of the musical compositions of Handel, Vivaldi and other Baroque composers. The production blends the storylines of Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to create a unique new story. While students may see the opera as an aloof, high-cultured institution, these broadcasts make the productions more accessible to the casual opera-goer. In a further attempt to increase accessibility, "The Enchanted Island" does away with the language barrier the librettos are all in English. Although Sams' contemporary production is a departure from the traditional scheme for operas, the two other operas being streamed at the Hopkins Center this term are decidedly more orthodox. Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" (Feb.

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Professor scores Sundance nominee

By sydney ayers | January 18, 2012

Correction Appended### The 2012 Sundance Film Festival which opens today in Park City, Utah will feature a nominated short film scored by Dartmouth's own Larry Polansky, a composer and a professor of music at the College.

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Aluko performs as activist Robeson in one-man play

By Kate Sullivan | January 16, 2012

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center On Tuesday, Tayo Aluko performing as Paul Robeson in his one-man play "Call Mr. Robeson: A Life, with Songs" took to the Hopkins Center's Warner Bentley Theater stage carrying a chair on his back, accompanied by soft pangs of a reverberating piano that supported his deep baritone vocals.

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The Weeknd's musical identity evolves in ‘Echoes of Silence'

By Matt Garcynski | January 16, 2012

If there is any question as to who had the most remarkable success story of 2011, one need not look further than The Weeknd, a 21-year-old Canadian recording artist whose real name is Abel Tesfaye, who recently released his new mixtape "Echoes of Silence." Tesfaye's debut R&B mixtape "House of Balloons" secured a solid spot on many "Best of 2011" lists, and his follow up mixtape "Thursday" similarly garnered universally strong feedback. With the release of "Echoes of Silence" on Dec.

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Everett combines dance and science in Brain Storm

By Ashley Ulrich | January 15, 2012

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center As the lights dimmed and dancers filed on stage, an enormous overhead view of a brain lit by neon hues transformed the backdrop of the Hopkins Center's Moore Theater during the world premiere of Brain Storm, an Everett Dance Theatre production performed on Jan.

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Eyewash series brings experimental film artists to campus

January 15, 2012

This winter, moviegoers can rinse their eyes of mainstream cinema with the EYEWASH film series, a unique film experience that film curator and film and media studies professor Jodie Mack likens to the cinematic version of attending a live concert.

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Book binding class fosters nostalgia for the written word

By Shannon Draucker | January 11, 2012

This term, a group of Dartmouth students will learn how to bind delicate pages between leather covers, use equipment such as shears and printing presses and develop the skill of fine hand lettering and ornamental penmanship through the library's Book Arts Program, which seeks "to promote an understanding of the art and history of the printed and written word," according to the class and workshop program's mission statement. Students in the program, which is available to those with all levels of experience, will receive instruction in the Letterpress and Bindery Studios.

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Hop's pianist-in-residence performs in chamber group

January 10, 2012

Yomalis Rosario / The Dartmouth Sally Pinkas, the pianist-in-residence at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, performed three piano trios alongside violinist Saul Bitran and cellist Jan Muller-Szeraws, featuring compositions by Antonin Dvorak, Dmitri Shostakovich and Beethoven on Tuesday night. Pinkas, who is a music professor and has been in residence for over fifteen years, first arrived at Dartmouth when she was in her mid-20s, and the Spaulding Auditorium stage has now become her home.

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Avicii performs in '53 Commons

By Kate Sullivan | January 9, 2012

Samantha Oh / The Dartmouth Staff Sujin Lim / The Dartmouth Senior Staff As the house lights faded and the bass was cranked up, Swedish DJ-producer Avicii took to the stage in the Class of 1953 Commons last night, performing a heart-pounding set after nearly a week of anticipation among concert-goers, as well as agitation among ticketless students. A hazy fog and color-changing light display illuminated the North Hall as the crowd bobbed and jumped in unison to a mash-up of Avicii's own "Fade Into Darkness" and Florence and the Machine's "You Got the Love," the act's opening number.

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‘Baby Universe' explores the fate of Earth with puppets

By Varun Bhuchar | January 8, 2012

Puppetry, a form of entertainment typically associated with the Muppets and other family-oriented performances, shifts from its traditional lighthearted nature to offer a thoughtful look at the state of our Earth and a potential apocalypse in "Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey," which performed in Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Jan.

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Quebecois folk group brings audience to its feet at Hop

By Katherine Tai | January 8, 2012

Katherine Tai / The Dartmouth Quebecois folk music group De Temps Antan brought its audience to its feet and even a few members to the stage during their lively and exciting show "Les Habits de Papier" in Spaulding Auditorium at the Hopkins Center for the Arts on Saturday night.

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