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Pilobolus to perform in Moore

By Julia Levy | June 23, 2000

The inspiration for the dance theater Pilobolus -- which will perform tonight and tomorrow night in the Moore Theatre -- stemmed from a Dartmouth dance class in 1971. The group -- which was named after a sun loving fungus that grows in barnyards and pastures -- started out as a men's quartet, wholly composed of Dartmouth men, and right away drew critical acclaim. "It was rather unusual in those days to have four men as a company," Robby Barnett, one of the group's founding members, who is now one of its artistic directors, told The Dartmouth from the company's Connecticut headquarters. From its beginnings, the group used a collaborative effort of its dancers and directors to create what they call "physical vocabularies." When asked to place Pilobolus' work into a category like ballet or modern dance, Barnett said, "Pilobolus' work is not based on anything." He explained that Pilobolus does not draw from traditions of "codified dance movement," but reached by a process of collective collaboration. "We work together to generate our material," he emphasized. Barnett said the group was self sufficient within a year, with its first performance in New York at the end of December in 1971.

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New Pearl Jam strays from past

By Abraham Mahshie | June 21, 2000

In Pearl Jam's latest album -- its first release in two years -- the compelling force that has traditionally characterized the band, with eruption of song, clashing drums and electric guitar behind a forceful vocal, is too often left adrift in a slowly fading tune whose expectations dwindle to a compromised anticlimax. For "Binaural," 35-year-old Eddie Vedder and his crew -- including former Soundgarden drummer Matt Cameron -- collaborated on writing songs, but retained Vedder's style.

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College produces an array of senior filmmaking talent

By Mike A. Hamilton | June 12, 2000

Extinguishing concerns that Dartmouth only turns out lawyers and investment bankers, a number of this year's grduating seniors have begun work in a very different field: making movies. Charles Divak One of the founding members of DTV, Charles Divak '00 said the film-making process is very time-consuming but well worth the effort, especially when the finished product is shown on screen. As part of his Film Studies 32 class, Divak wrote, directed and shot a five minute film entitled "Bob Bean," in which someone dressed up as a giant rabbit goes around and makes trouble.

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Necessary Scott Bakula

By Sam Means | May 22, 2000

"It turns out that Scott Bakula still has a year of NCAA eligibility, and even though he's no spring chicken, he's got one hell of an arm, and the experience to whip this rag-tag bunch of misfits you call a football team into shape, goddamit." It came to my attention recently that Scott Bakula still has a year of NCAA eligibility left.

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He doesn't believe in you, either

By Sam Means | May 9, 2000

Lost on the Hutch in southern New York state, listening to Jean Pitney's orientalist classic "Mecca" and drinking cream soda, we continued our departure from the Windy Apple.

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