Arts

Exhibition, symposium honor Budd Schulberg '36

By Owen Shepcaro | November 4, 2014

“You don’t understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let’s face it.” So says Marlon Brando in his infamous lines from “On the Waterfront” (1954). Playing a former boxer, Brando tells his brother how his life could have been different if his brother hadn’t pressured him to fix a fight.

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With drums and poetry, percussion group to play for social change

By Hallie Huffaker | November 4, 2014

Combining the rhythmic energy of drumming with the emotive power of spoken word, the World Music Percussion Ensemble will play a cross-disciplinary concert inspired by prevalent social issues like racial and gender equality on Wednesday.

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Arts

DHMC showcases local art

By Annie Smith | November 3, 2014

Though researchers are only beginning to understand the connection between art and stress reduction, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has displayed artworks by local artists since the 1980s, when it was located in its previous Hitchcock Memorial Hospital facility.

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Arts

Beyond the Bubble: Evaluating the Art Major

By Andrea Nease | November 3, 2014

It’s that time of year — college seniors all over America are realizing that in fewer than 10 months they will be expected to morph into responsible adults who have ... jobs?

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Music

Nana Adjeiwaa-Manu ’16 explores issues of identity through music

By Kaina Chen | November 3, 2014

In elementary school, a peer at school said to Nana Adjeiwaa-Manu ’16, “Your food looks nasty.” It was kontomire, a traditional Ghanaian stew.

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Arts

Blood is fake, chills are real in ‘Macbeth’

By Haley Gordon | November 2, 2014

The student group, which runs one Shakespearean play per term, produced a shortened version of the famous Scottish tragedy on Thursday and Friday. The troupe staged the performance on the first floor of Beta Alpha Omega fraternity, playing for an audience seated in a comfortable assortment of couches and chairs.

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DALI and DEN contest supports arts, innovation

By Margarette Nelson and Jessica Zischke | November 2, 2014

The Neukom Digital Arts, Leadership and Innovation Lab’s competition, The Pitch, this term co-hosted with DEN for the first time, will take place on Tuesday afternoon in the Loew Auditorium. Twenty teams of hopefuls will pitch ideas to judges and a live audience.

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Arts

Zombies, jokes lack vigor in ‘Beth’

By Andrew Kingsley | November 2, 2014

Any film that designates itself a “zom-rom-com,” or zombie romantic comedy, must suffer from an identity crisis. To wed the gratuitously overused zombie and rom-com genres is parody itself, and it’s not surprising that such a film’s audiences might try to divorce the viewing experience from their minds.

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Wind Ensemble, Rude Mechanicals celebrate the Bard’s 450th

By Kourtney Kawano | October 29, 2014

Music and theater will converge when the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble and Rude Mechanicals present a joint tribute to the 450th anniversary of the Bard’s birth. Titled “Play On! Shakespeare Set to Music,” the program will splice readings of Shakespeare text with music that he inspired.

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Arts

Halloween-themed film contest brings together young artists

By Michaela Ledoux | October 28, 2014

Lights! Camera! Action! Murder? This Wednesday and Thursday, the Black Family Visual Arts Center will transform into a Halloween-themed red carpet venue to celebrate the third annual Community Access Television Halloween-o-thon.

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Arts

Student Spotlight: Desmond Fambrini '16

By Owen Shepcaro | October 28, 2014

Desmond Fambrini ’16 said he realized the significance of the performing arts in his life while he was deciding where to attend college. Having danced for more than a decade, performing with the Oakland chapter of Culture Shock Dance Troupe and participating in various national and international dance competitions, he knew that he wanted to continue to perform and sought a college that fit both his academic and creative needs. Dartmouth was and continues to be this school, he said.

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Hood receives 118-piece gift from alum

By Haley Gordon | October 27, 2014

The Hood Museum announced Friday that it received a 118-piece donation of art from the children of Barbara and David Stahl ’47. The works, collected over 30 years, include drawings, paintings ceramics and an extensive set of prints ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.

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AVA gallery focuses on local river and scenery

By Mac Emery | October 27, 2014

The Connecticut River’s motion and splendor will wind its way through the Alliance for the Visual Arts gallery in Lebanon.

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MacMillan ’14 creates rotunda display

By Michaela Ledoux | October 26, 2014

The Barrows Rotunda, the circular space that greets passersby as they enter the Hopkins Center, will showcase the work of studio art intern Julian MacMillan ’14 until Nov. 25.

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Vaughan show features classical guitar

By Margot Byrne | October 26, 2014

The stage was dimly lit, bare except for Hermann Hudde, in all black, and his guitar. The intimate, minimalist setting shone a spotlight on Hudde’s talent, inviting the audience to fully immerse themselves in his music. Hudde, a classical guitarist, performed in the Faulkner Recital Hall at the Hopkins Center on Sunday as part of the Vaughan Recital Series.

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Predictable ‘St. Vincent’ mixes schmaltz, humor

By Andrew Kingsley | October 26, 2014

If you took Bill Murray’s floundering, philosophical narcissist from “Lost in Translation” (2003), threw in alcoholism and a Russian prostitute, then let him desiccate into an even more pruney scumbag, you’d produce his “St. Vincent” (2014) character, Vincent.

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Alix Madigan ’84 talks filmmaking career

By Kaina Chen | October 26, 2014

Alix Madigan ’84, producer of award-winning “Winter’s Bone” (2010) and cult favorite “Smiley Face” (2007), was on campus Friday for a screening of “Laggies” (2014), her most recent film, at the Black Family Visual Arts Center.

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Barbary Coast will perform tribute concert to Sun Ra

By Kourtney Kawano | October 22, 2014

Audience members are primed for the trip of a lifetime, as Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble will play a concert that delivers them to space, celebrating the influence of musician and philosopher Sun Ra on Saturday. Noted trombonist and composer Craig Harris, who once played with Sun Ra as a member of Arkestra, will join Barbary Coast on stage.

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Student Spotlight: Corinne Romano '15

By Hallie Huffaker | October 22, 2014

Romano said she came to college confident in what she wanted to get out of the experience and has stuck to her path since freshman year. Now a senior, the studio art major and digital arts minor can reflect on her time in the arts at the College.

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Documentarian Krawitz screens ‘Perfect Strangers,’ visits classes

By Maya Poddar | October 21, 2014

Documentarian Jan Krawitz explores the emotions and experiences of altruistic organ donors in her most recent documentary, “Perfect Strangers” (2013), which will be screened at the Loew Audtorium on Wednesday evening.

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