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Alumna Q&A: Associate producer Samantha Knowles ’12

By Kourtney Kawano | March 31, 2016

When Samantha Knowles ’12 began her journey at Dartmouth College eight years ago, she had her eye set on majoring in film and media. Not only did she achieve that goal, but she exceeded it, graduating with degrees in psychology and film and media studies. Knowles has transitioned into working in the film industry thanks to her short documentary “Why Do You Have Black Dolls?” (2012), which received the 2012 Reel Sisters Film Festival Spirit Award and the 2013 Women, Action & the Media (WAM!) Film Festival Audience Award. As an associate producer, she has worked on several films including “Meru” (2015) and “Incorruptible” (2015), a film about the 2011 Senegal crisis.

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Action opera ‘Red-Eye to Havre de Grace’ to come to Hop

By Nalini Ramanathan | March 31, 2016

Edgard Allen Poe is much more than a scary storyteller as “Red-Eye to Havre de Grace,” performed by groups Lucidity Suitcase Intercontinental and Wilhelm Bros. & Co., shows. The play chronicles the last days of Poe’s life, specifically focusing on his journey to New York in pursuit of remarriage, tonight and tomorrow at the Hopkins Center.

Nicolle Allen ’16 is a costume designer who worked on this winter’s mainstage production of “Chicago.”
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Student Spotlight: Costume designer Nicolle Allen '16

By Elise Higgins | March 30, 2016

Like many Dartmouth students, Nicolle Allen ’16 came to the College with a major already in mind. Despite her interest in English and biology, she realized this was not the path for her after beginning a work-study in the College’s costume shop for the theater department. Backstage, Allen helped actors make their speedy changes.

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Jesse Clegg to open at the Lebanon Opera House tonight

By Sophia Siu | March 28, 2016

South African singer-songwriter Jesse Clegg will be opening for The Johnny Clegg Band at the Lebanon Opera House tonight. Clegg, who just released his third studio album, is a platinum-selling success in South Africa and his performance will be part of his North American tour.

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‘This is a Long Drive’ (1996) celebrates 20 years

By Will Tackett | March 28, 2016

In a few weeks, Modest Mouse’s debut album “This is a Long Drive for Someone With Nothing to Think About” (1996), will celebrate its 20th anniversary. The record is overshadowed by its follow ups, “The Lonesome Crowded West” (1997), which Pitchfork dedicated an entire documentary to, and their major label debut “The Moon & Antarctica” (2000). Those two albums are titans to be sure, but they unfortunately obscure the shine of “This is a Long Drive,” an album that is a classic in its own right.

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‘The Lady in the Van’ (2015) takes its own backseat

By Andrew Kingsley | March 28, 2016

Beyond her turn as the beloved Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series or Violet Crawley on “Downton Abbey,” Dame Maggie Smith may be unknown to most American audiences. A giant of the British stage and screen, Smith has received two Oscars (“The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie” (1969) and “California Suite” (1978)), two Emmys for “Downton Abbey” and a Tony for “Lettice and Lovage” (1990). But this great Dame, finding a second wind in her not so twilight years, trades her Downton pomp and circumstance for the grime and acerbity of Miss Shepherd, the lady in the van.

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Dartmouth Dance Ensemble performs works-in-progress

By Madeline Killen | March 6, 2016

Walking into the Hop Garage on Sunday afternoon, one would see a simple set-up of chairs arranged to promote an intimate viewing of a Dartmouth Dance Ensemble performance. The ensemble presented a preview of three works-in-progress that will be showcased during the spring term.

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Student Spotlight: Artist and actor Emma Mouzon '18

By Margot Byrne | March 1, 2016

Once arriving at Dartmouth, Mouzon immediately knew she wanted to enroll in a studio art class. During her first winter term, she signed up for “Sculpture I,” which not only forced her to leave her room and venture into the frigid temperatures, but also “encouraged [her] to embrace [her] more creative side again,” Mouzon said.

Khaled Al-Saai is a painter and calligrapher whose most recent mural commented on the Syrian conflict.
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Artist Khaled Al-Saai presents calligraphy-inspired work

By Elise Higgins | February 29, 2016

Al-Saai, a Syrian born artist, has exhibited his work all over the world, but last night he brought his works to Hanover. Khaled Al-Saai gave a presentation on the subject of his artwork, called “Away from Home: A Presentation by the Artist,” which features Arabic calligraphy. His most recent exhibition, a mural on the subject of the Syrian civil war, was displayed in Germany.

"Voices" cast members rehearsed for six weeks.
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‘Voices’ features perspectives from self-identified women

By Nalini Ramanathan | February 29, 2016

“Voices” will be performed at the Moore Theater tonight at 7 p.m. and is free for students and community members. “Voices” presents a variety of perspectives in a series of monologues, along with a few conversations, all written and performed by self-identifying Dartmouth women. The program is part of V-February, a yearly campaign at the College intended to promote gender equality and end gender-based violence.

David Wu ’16’s most recent sculpture consists of frozen ice with dye.
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Student Spotlight: Ceramics and sculpture artist David Wu ’16

By Madeline Killen | February 28, 2016

Student artist and computer science major David Wu ’16 says he could not imagine his life without a creative outlet. Wu works at the Davidson Ceramics Studio and has taken six visual arts classes during his time at Dartmouth, facts that might surprise some considering his scientific area of study. Before Dartmouth, he was not a visual artist.

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Hopstop brings swing dance to kids

By Joyce Lee | February 28, 2016

Hanover families joined Gerry Grimo and The East Bay Jazz Ensemble and the Dartmouth Swing Club at a Hopstop Family Show in Alumni Hall on Saturday morning. Families with small children crowded the colorful rug while others sat or stood in the back to enjoy the show.

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Stale jokes and hypocrisy abound in ‘Deadpool’ (2016)

By Andrew Kingsley | February 28, 2016

Tim Miller’s directorial debut “Deadpool”(2016) joins the recent movement of postmodern, subversive superhero films such as “Guardians of the Galaxy”(2014) and “Kingsman: The Secret Service”(2014). Starring Ryan Reynolds as the wisecracking, fourth-wall breaking, red-clad antihero, the film lavishes in its gory, scatological excess and attempts to dismantle all the tropes of its Marvel forebears. It even pokes fun at Reynolds’s box office flop “Green Lantern”(2011)—“Don’t make me wear green,” Deadpool mocks. But behind its subversive mask lies a film that feels anything but rebellious.

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