Review: 'Stop Kiss' premieres at the Hop

Courtesy of Jennifer Lopez Walking out of the Moore Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts Saturday night, after that evening's performance of this Fall term's Mainstage production "Stop Kiss," audience members were left to grapple with the the play's handling of difficult issues and intense, raw emotion. "Stop Kiss," which premiered Thursday night, explores the coexistence of love and hate through the story of two women who identify as straight but slowly discover their attraction to one another, only to be torn apart by a heinous act of violence that interrupts their first kiss. The play's strength comes partly from the realism that dominates the script.

'Etiquette' brings interactive theater to Bookstore

Zach Ingbretsen / The Dartmouth Staff Passing by the Dartmouth Bookstore this week, you might have noticed something out of the ordinary: pairs of students sitting at a table with headphones on, deeply engaged in conversation while playing with miniature figures and eye droppers. You may recognize their faces through the window, but these students have stepped out of their roles as students to participate as actors in "Etiquette," an innovative interactive theater piece by the London-based group Rotozaza that blurs the lines between performing, acting and observing. Each participant in the performance wears a set of headphones that supplies verbal prompts for conversation and interactions.

Students practice type-setting, binding with Book Arts Program

Santa-Donato '09 constructs award-winning volume based on experiences in Mexico in Baker Library studios

Dance Ensemble travels to New York for inspiration

Courtesy of the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble The Straus Dance Studio is the perfect example of the state of the art facilities at the College.

Flutist Mitchell adds spark, breadth to Barbary Coast's sound

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The term may be winding down, but The Barbary Coast's season reached its feverish climax Friday night with the spirited addition of guest flutist Nicole Mitchell for the group's first concert of the year. Mitchell, an acclaimed flutist from Chicago, was named the "No.

Glee Club kicks off student performances at Hop

Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Singers, Handel Society round out season

Shultz '09 explores College class divide with jewelry

Joanne Cheung / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is the third installment in a three-part series profiling senior honors candidates in studio art. Since her freshman year, studio art major and honors candidate Dulce Shultz '09 noticed that many Dartmouth students strive to seem well connected by "name-dropping." She often saw students from lower- and middle-class families concealing their backgrounds in order to fit in with their wealthy peers at Dartmouth.

Stumbling into art, Collins-Fernandez '09 deconstructs painting

Joanne Cheung / The Dartmouth Editor's Note: This is the second installment in a three-part series profiling senior honors candidates in studio art. When she was a child, Gabriela Collins-Fernandez '09 often brought her friends to New York museums for three- or four-hour playdates. Now as an artist at Dartmouth, she rebels against the masters she admired in those days, stripping paintings down to their basic elements and piecing them back together in her work. Collins-Fernandez '09, a candidate for honors in studio art, strives to redefine the medium of painting by separating the traditional elements such as oils, acrylics and finishings.

Hop seeks student feedback, input with cultural census

Tilman Dette / The Dartmouth Senior Staff For some students, the Hopkins Center for the Arts is a shortcut from the Lodge to Dartmouth Hall when snow piles three feet deep and the wind chill drops into negative numbers.

World Percussion Ensemble merges R&B, African Beats

'Voices' program brings political hip-hop, theater to campus

Courtesy of the Dartmouth theater department In February of 2005, Peter Hackett left the Dartmouth theater department's tribute to the late playwright August Wilson and had an epiphany.

Spaghetti Western Orchestra remixes Morricone at Hop

Courtesy of the Hopkins Center / The Dartmouth Staff You may not know Ennio Morricone by name, but you certainly know his music.

Students stay up all night for WiRED, immersed in theater

Andy Foust / The Dartmouth Staff At eight o'clock Saturday morning, while most of campus was still sleeping off Friday night, a small group of dedicated student actors filtered into the Bentley Theater at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. There they joined three pairs of playwrights and directors who had spent the last 12 hours chugging coffee as they penned three short plays for this Fall term's WiRED -- a theatrical challenge that invites its participants to write, cast, rehearse and perform plays within a 24-hour period once every term. As usual, the final product, performed at eight o'clock Saturday evening in the Bentley, provided plenty of laughs.