Arts

Students of 'Telling Stories for Social Change' perform with patients at Valley Vista

By Nalini Ramanathan | November 11, 2016

This past Thursday and Friday, a 40-person audience visited the brightly-lit cafeteria of Valley Vista, a drug and alcohol addiction treatment center in Bradford, Vermont.

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Student band Winterhill releases first EP and single

By Emma Guo | November 10, 2016

“Game Changers” by Winterhill opens with a gritty guitar riff and delves into a string of infectious melodies and clever lyrics ripe with social commentary and angst.

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‘The Girl on the Train:’ Wake me up when things get interesting

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | November 8, 2016

Because its story simply isn’t conducive to that approach, “The Girl on the Train” pales in comparison to other great films, leaving it to slink into cinema’s corner of obscurity.

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Dartmouth Glee Club puts a spotlight on civil rights

By Kaina Chen | November 8, 2016

The Dartmouth Glee Club’s fall concert transported the audience to the 1960s in Greenwood, Mississippi, listening to Booker Wright read off the menu is his famous sing-song way.

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Alumnus Q&A: Writer-director Nate Ruegger ’06

By Victor Wu | November 8, 2016

Nate Ruegger ’06 is a writer-director who graduated from Dartmouth with a major in film studies.

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Performing arts students get creative in job search

By Emma Guo | November 8, 2016

At Dartmouth, the Center of Professional Development is closely associated with corporate recruiting in the minds of students.

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Gavron’s ‘A Woman on the Edge of Time’ tells two stories in one

By Kylee Sibilia | November 4, 2016

Jeremy Gavron’s memoir “A Woman on the Edge of Time” gives the reader deep insight into the inner psyche of both Gavron and his mother.

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‘Intimate Apparel’ predominantly features actors of color

By Nalini Ramanathan | November 4, 2016

With simple Edwardian-style furniture strewn across the stage and plain white linen sheets hung to dry on laundry lines by the rafters and a multicultural patchwork quilt in the background, the set of “Intimate Apparel” (2003), like the play itself, breaks from the typical perceptions of a period piece.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo reads his work in the Poetry and Prose Series

By Arunav Jain | November 4, 2016

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo delivered a much anticipated reading of his poems to a packed Sanborn House library yesterday afternoon.

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Student Spotlight: Multitalented artist Emily Neely '17

By Mikey LeDoux | November 3, 2016

Emily Neely ’17’s love of art started as a child when she would hand-copy pictures of horses, her favorite animals, from encyclopedias and books.

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The Capitol Steps appeals to all age groups, political parties

By Madeline Ditzler | November 1, 2016

What do you do with years of congressional staffing experience and an appreciation for the finer absurdities of our political system?

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'Southside with You' handles love, politics gracefully

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | November 1, 2016

Making a film about Barack Obama during his presidency is a bold move. Premiering that film only a few short months before the 2016 election ­— well, that’s just downright audacious.

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Halloween takes over Hanover

By Kripa Shrestha | November 1, 2016

A little under ten weeks ago, I packed the relics of my nineteen years into one outrageously purple suitcase and another softer chocolate brown suitcase and spent almost forty-eight hours flying over continents, seas and cityscapes to find a home at Dartmouth.

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Alumna Q&A: children’s novelist, playwright Tara Dairman ’01

By Betty Kim | October 27, 2016

Tara Dairman ’01 is a novelist and playwright whose children’s books have inspired praise, awards and even fan recipes based off the food in her books.

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Student spotlight: singer, musician and artist Dorothy Qu ’19

By Mikey LeDoux | October 26, 2016

Dorothy Qu ’19 is a triple threat: singer, flute and piccolo player and doodler.

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Hartigan’s ‘Morris from America’ is unapologetic, emotional

By Sebastian Wurzrainer | October 25, 2016

 As Jeru the Damaja’s profanity-laced rap song “Come Clean” began to play over the opening credits of “Morris from America,” I could practically feel every person over 60 in the theater clench up inside.

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Alumnus Q&A: Peter Nigrini ’93, Broadway projection designer

By Elise Higgins | October 25, 2016

Peter Nigrini ’93 is a projection designer for productions both on- and off-Broadway. At Dartmouth, Nigrini studied theater and film with a focus on backstage production but did not discover projection design until after college.

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Amy Hassinger reads for Poetry and Prose series

By Kylee Sibilia | October 21, 2016

Last Thursday in the Wren Room at Sanborn House, rain pattered against the windows and chairs creaked softly as students and faculty settled into their seats to hear Amy Hassinger read from her newest novel, “After the Dam.”

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Tracks from artists you may not know

By Victor Wu | October 21, 2016

The songs listed below are some of the newest tracks released by some less well-known artists.

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Student Spotlight: artist and Instagram star Rossina Naidoo ’18

By Zach Cherian | October 20, 2016

Rossina Naidoo ’18 combines her passion and talent in visual art with a savvy social media presence — her work has been featured on popular Instagram accounts like Nawden, and one drawing garnered tens of thousands of likes as a result.

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