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Student dancers travel to New Zealand over break

By Allison Ruderman | March 31, 2008

It's a good thing the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble only recently learned how to handle a poi. A ball spun rapidly by an attached rope, this traditional object used for dance by the Maori -- the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand -- is sacrosanct ("tapu" in Maori) and must not be dropped.

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Madonna loses edge with Justin duet

By Matthew Ritger | March 27, 2008

Madonna has officially broken my heart. Once, it seemed her reign as the most incisive interpreter of pop culture's cutting edge could never end: Her spot-on 1980s mutations from "Like a Virgin" to "Material Girl" to the burning crosses and dogma bashing of "Like a Prayer" were matched only by the next unexpected decade.

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With 10 Idols left in season seven, our expert picks five

By Brittany Coombs | March 26, 2008

When 17-year-old front runner David Archuleta began to effortlessly honey out a Beatles classic in order to atone for what had been an unforgettable razing of "We Can Work It Out" the week before, pop culture fanatics everywhere -- or rather, the ones who could hear themselves think over the panting bevy of tween girls who screamed as though he were formerly part of the Fab Four -- no doubt noticed how uncannily his song choice reflected, once again, the predictable unpredictability of American Idol season seven. It has indeed been a long and winding road.

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'Last Five Years' debuts in Bentley

By Liz Ellison | March 6, 2008

Larkin Elderon / The Dartmouth Staff If you assumed that the theater department's resources were exhausted this term by the colossal undertaking that was "Julius Caesar," you were mistaken.

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Chick Corea, Bela Fleck

By Rebecca Wall | March 3, 2008

It seems improbable that the piano and banjo could combine to make progressive jazz -- dabbled with bluegrass here and there -- without sounding like a novelty act.

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Taylor retraces history of the banjo

By Rebecca Wall | February 28, 2008

When picturing the banjo, most people imagine toothless hillbillies from God knows where, sitting on a dilapidated porch, picking away at the strings with a stalk of straw in their mouth.

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Aguava fills Rollins with site-specific musical experience

By Sarah Frostenson | February 28, 2008

The classical music performance group Aguava -- literally translated as "alarm" in Spanish -- chose its name to evoke images associated with the fear of flooding, with particular emphasis on the aftermath of a flood -- "the discovery and feeling associated with complete and total inundation," said Carmen Tellez, one of the artistic directors and producers of Aguava.

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'Fallen Angels' embodies 1990s cool

By John Ternovski | February 27, 2008

Editor's Note: This is the second part in a weekly series examining films of the past. Quentin Tarantino is said to have called Wong Kar-Wai the coolest filmmaker out there -- and he wasn't exaggerating.Wong Kar-Wai wrote and directed the cult classic film "Chungking Express" (1994), which Quentin Tarantino immediately fell in love with and distributed in the United States.

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