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The Dartmouth
August 27, 2026
The Dartmouth
Arts
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Trisha Brown brings unconventional dance to Hop

Although Friday night's performance by the Trisha Brown Dance Company in Moore Auditorium did not draw boos like the Metropolitan Opera's much-derided production of "Tosca" did last week in New York City, two of the ensemble's pieces drew little more than a tepid response from the audience, while the third was received with slightly more enthusiasm. The company's third and most successful piece, "L'Amour au theatre" (2009), broke from Brown's usual aesthetic.


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New ‘Top Model' lacks realism

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After enough seasons on the air, any television series reality or scripted runs the risk of becoming repetitive, and Tyra Banks appears to know that her reality TV brainchild, The CW's "America's Next Top Model," is not immune.


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BOOKED SOLID: Matthew Shepard's Mom Speaks Out

In the first few pages of "The Meaning of Matthew," Judy Shepard recounts a story that has been chronicled in countless other works over the course of the last 11 years: the grisly and disturbing tale of how her son, Matthew Shepard, was kidnapped, brutally beaten and left to die in a remote Laramie, Wyo.




The dance troupe Pilobolus, founded at the College in the early 1970s, performed at the Monday arts event.
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Dratch '88 headlines arts event

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff In many ways, Monday night's "Dartmouth and the Performing Arts" event in Moore Theater surprised no one.


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Muse's latest is ‘self-indulgent'

Muse's latest album, "The Resistance" (2009), is unabashedly epic, from the acid-trip-through-space cover artwork to the lush orchestration of its songs.














Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel star as the couple with a broken affair in Mark Webb's
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‘(500) Days of Summer' proves to be a quirky gem

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Courtesy of rottentomatoes.com When the trailer for "(500) Days of Summer" (2009) started playing on a television in Collis, my friends' reaction was a unanimous "Yuck, a chick flick." Indeed, the series of lovey-dovey images with some angst thrown in made me wonder why critics had been raving about the film since mid-July.