Arts

The Hopkins Center hosts ‘Qyrq Qyz’ world premiere

By Habib Sabet | March 1, 2018

Tonight, the Hopkins Center for the Arts will host the world premiere of “Qyrq Qyz” (“Forty Girls”), a multimedia reanimation of a Central Asian epic that recounts the epic of a young woman, Gulayim, who defends her homeland against foreign invaders alongside 40 other female warriors.

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Theater

Review: ‘1984’ production leaves viewers questioning the present

By Lauren Segal | February 27, 2018

Although 2018 is just starting, there have already been many times this year that I’ve found myself wondering if I am living in a twisted dystopia.

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Arts

Review: ‘Lady Bird’ is charming, honest and Oscar-worthy

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | February 27, 2018

It’s hard not to ask what the best film of 2017 was, given that the 90th Academy Awards are less than a week away.

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Arts

Review: 'What a Time To Be Alive' considers current politics

By Habib Sabet | February 23, 2018

If you’ve been out of the obscure and cultish garage punk loop, you have probably never heard of Superchunk.

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Arts

Student Spotlight: Hannah Matheson '18 talks poetry as art

By Melanie Prakash | February 23, 2018

Hannah Matheson ‘18 is one of the few students who came to Dartmouth knowing already what she deeply cared about.

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Arts

Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble promotes contemporary works

By Elizabeth Garrison | February 22, 2018

The Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble’s winter concert will be Saturday, Feb. 24 at 8 p.m.

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Arts

Alumna Q&A: audio journalist and producer Laura Sim ’16

By Jordan McDonald | February 20, 2018

Independent radio and podcast producer, Laura Sim ’16 majored in English at Dartmouth and completed a thesis on race in radio and podcasts.

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Arts

'The Vagina Monologues' to feature theatrical activism in 20th production

By Savannah Miller | February 20, 2018

This Wednesday, students will take one of the stages at the Hopkins Center for the Arts to perform “The Vagina Monologues,” an evolution of theatrical activism.

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Arts

Review: 'Black Panther' departs from superhero cliches

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | February 20, 2018

There is an old truism that posits that the best superhero films are those that first and foremost aim to be different.

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Arts

Review: 'Pragmatists' experiments with digital music and virtual reality

By Betty Kim | February 20, 2018

At the Hopkins Center for the Arts Garage this past Saturday, digital musics graduate student Andrew Maillet and filmmaker Zbigniew Bzymek gave two work-in-progress performances of their multimedia adaptation of Polish artist and philosopher Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz’s play “Pragmatists.” According to Maillet, the self-described “performer-technician” pair chose to work with the text because they were interested in the themes that Witkiewicz, who wrote during the interwar period between World War I and II, brings up.

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Theater

A timeless adaptation of '1984' will send important messages

By Ileana Sung | February 16, 2018

“1984,” Dartmouth’s stage adaptation of Milton Wayne’s radio adaptation of George Orwell’s synonomously-named classic, gives a twist to the original setup of the novel to make it more relevant to the world today.

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Arts

SELF/PORTRAIT photo exhibition showcases student portraits

By Kasey Rhee | February 15, 2018

Wander into the high-ceilinged quiet of Black Family Visual Arts Center this month and one will encounter SELF/PORTRAIT, an exhibition of photographs by students of Studio Art 29, “Photography I,” and other photography classes over the span of the past two years.

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Arts

Glee club to perform mixed-media staging of Carissimi’s ‘Jephte’

By Elizabeth Garrison | February 15, 2018

After performing German composer Felix Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” at its fall concert, the Dartmouth College Glee Club will continue the biblical hero theme in its winter concert Friday with Giacomo Carissimi’s oratorio “Jephte.” “Jephte” tells the story of Jephthah, an Old Testament judge who promises God that he will sacrifice the first person who comes out to greet him after battle in exchange for victory over a rival tribe.

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Arts

Grammy Award winner Gregory Porter brings soulful vocal jazz

By Melanie Prakash | February 13, 2018

This evening, contemporary jazz singer and songwriter Gregory Porter will bring his soulful, melodic style to audiences at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.

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Arts

Review: MGMT’s 'Little Dark Age' shows maturity-in-progress

By Habib Sabet | February 13, 2018

Last Friday, alternative rock band MGMT released “Little Dark Age,” its first album since 2013.

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Arts

Review: 'Call Me By Your Name' is curiously haunting

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | February 13, 2018

As the 90th Academy Awards draw closer, it’s hard not to compare the various nominees, particularly those in the Best Picture category.

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Winter Carnival Issue

Digital arts program offers interdisciplinary study plans

By Kylee Sibilia | February 9, 2018

The phrase “digital arts” may seem paradoxical: a confluence of two fields that have almost nothing in common.

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Arts

Stephanie Everett ’19 has work produced at Northern Stage

By Savannah Miller | February 8, 2018

Everett's one-person play “It’s Fine, I’m Fine” premiered on Jan.19 for a crowd of about 240 people.

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Arts

Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Carlos Aonzo to play Vivaldi

By Elizabeth Garrison | February 8, 2018

To kick off Winter Carnival weekend, the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra will perform a new interpretation of one of the most popular pieces of baroque music, Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons.” This Friday, guest artist Carlos Aonzo will play the traditional violin solo on the mandolin, giving “The Four Seasons” a new and exciting sound.

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Arts

Dartmouth Aires host Winter WhingDing event Saturday night

By Melanie Prakash | February 8, 2018

Winter WhingDing is an annual a cappella show offered through the Hopkins Center of the Arts as a part of Winter Carnival programming.

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