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Bash the Trash makes music from local waste

By Apoorva Dixit | May 4, 2014

From transforming long, cardboard carpet tubes and plastic straw into a flute to converting old tennis rackets and fire alarms into percussion instruments, Bash the Trash takes an artistic approach to sustainability, co-founder John Bertles said. Bash the Trash, founded in 1988 in New York City, will host workshops and “trash mob” concerts, as part of the Hopkins Center’s new Community Venture Initiative.

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Wind Ensemble concert offers auditory trip to New York City

By Marley Marius | April 30, 2014

With a repertoire that includes songs by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Schuman, renowned performer and conductor Johan de Meij and Grammy Award-winning producer and composer Jeff Tyzik, Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble takes the stage Saturday to play an ode to the Big Apple, evoking the sounds and vibrancy of the city.

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Native Dancing Society to perform Powwow preview

By Hallie Huffaker | April 30, 2014

Though Powwow is still a week and a half away, Dartmouth’s Native Dancing Society will offer a sneak preview this weekend when members perform various traditional dances in a Saturday morning show at the Hopkins Center’s Alumni Hall. Dances will include the Fancy Shawl, Southern Clotch, Jingle and the Round Dance, a traditional Powwow dance.

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Performance to mix biology, music

By Margarette Nelson | April 29, 2014

The processes of microbial evolution, for many, would not inspire art. Yet this is precisely what composer Fay Kueen Wang used to create “STEM Arts: Music and Biology,” a composition she will perform tonight in the Oopik Auditorium in the Class of 1978 Life Sciences Center.

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‘Transform’ challenges gender binaries

By Aimee Sung | April 29, 2014

Rainbow fishnet stockings, white button-down shirts, pink skin-tight dresses and black bras were among the outfits modeled at Tuesday’s Transform fashion show, which took place last night as part of Pride Week. The gender-bending fashion event drew a large crowd to Collis Common Ground.

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Student Spotlight: Xavier Curry ’14

By Rachel Hein | April 28, 2014

The first time you talk to Xavier Curry ’14 you won’t want the conversation to end. But the first time you hear him sing, you’ll wonder why you chatted so long instead of requesting a serenade.

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Soul, funk and folk artist Redbone plays at Hop

By Angel Carrillo Leal | April 28, 2014

Blending soul, funk and folk, Martha Redbone will perform with a four-person band of roots-acoustic players Thursday evening in the Hopkins Center’s Spaulding Auditorium.

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Weapons show explores masculinity

By Apoorva Dixit | April 27, 2014

Displayed in the shape of a rising sun on the wall, the African weapons in the new Hood Museum of Art exhibit, “Art of Weapons,” form intimidating yet beautiful rays. Meant to mimic the grand Victorian style common to elite homes and museums, the exhibit explores themes that include colonialism and gender binaries.

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Music majors evaluate the department’s strengths, flaws

By Aimee Sung | April 27, 2014

Though they often tuck themselves away inside the Hopkins Center’s basement recital hall and practice spaces, about 10 to 20 students major in music each year. Majors range from students who arrived at Dartmouth with plans to study a different subject to those who considered attending a conservatory after high school.

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‘Hemingway’ revives British gangster film

By Varun Bhuchar | April 27, 2014

Before he was known for playing wizened, old British men, Michael Caine got his start playing young and fiery gangster characters in British films. Armed with a Cockney accent, Caine often played lovable rogues who tried to navigate London’s seedy underbelly. About 40 years later, Jude Law steps into a similar role in “Dom Hemingway” (2013), where he plays the titular character.

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Gospel choir to revisit ‘greatest hits’

By Michaela Ledoux | April 23, 2014

Walt Cunningham, director of the Dartmouth College Gospel Choir, has compiled a repertoire of beloved gospel and popular songs over his 11-year tenure at the College. His innovative choir will perform these “greatest hits,” as he called them, and others in a Sunday performance in Spaulding Auditorium.

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Student Spotlight: Thomas Steventon ’16

By Dongjun Suh | April 22, 2014

A script by Thomas Steventon ’16 was recently selected as a finalist for this year's Ivy Film Festival.

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Spring DHMC exhibit features artists, staff

By Margarette Nelson | April 22, 2014

A woman stood up from her waiting area chair on the third floor of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s Faulkner Building to inspect a photograph. On the wall before her were over 20 images captured by Vermont photographer Hunter Paye. “Wow, so pretty,” the woman said, leaning in to bring her face within inches of one photograph.

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White River Junction Center teaches aspiring cartoon artists

By Marley Marius | April 21, 2014

Researchers have found that doodling can boost concentration in the lecture hall or a meeting, but the Center for Cartoon Studies in White River Junction argues that cartooning is an academic discipline in its own right.

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Ty Burr ’80 talks Globe career

By Maya Poddar | April 21, 2014

Ty Burr ’80 is a film critic for the Boston Globe, a member of both the National Society of Film Critics and the Boston Society of Film Critics and a regular guest on various radio programs. Burr studied theater in high school before coming to Dartmouth and getting involved with the film community on campus, which honed his interest in movie critiquing.

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Something wicked inspires at WiRED

By Katherine McConnell | April 20, 2014

“Evil is not born, it’s made.” This prompt inspired three pairs of writer-directors participating in this term’s WiRED, a 24-hour playwriting experience sponsored by the theater department and the Displaced Theater Company. The process began at 8 p.m. on Friday when writer-directors, managers and actors met to play icebreaker games. The event culminated in a 45-minute production of three plays in the Bentley Theater on Saturday.

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‘Under the Skin’ provides a creepy, satisfying critique

By Varun Bhuchar | April 20, 2014

In “Under the Skin” (2013), Scarlett Johansson drives a large white van around Scotland picking up young men for the time of their lives. She’s as beautiful and enchanting as ever, and these lads can’t resist her charms. When she takes them home, she leads them to her room, disrobes, puts them in a preserving fluid and sucks out their organs.

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Voice artist, poet Diggs comes to Bentley

By Andrea Nease | April 16, 2014

Combining spoken word, vocal improvisation, digitally manipulated sound and video, LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs will perform excerpts from her latest chapbook, a collection of poetry titled “TwERK,” at the Hopkins Center’s Bentley Theater on Friday evening. The poet and sound artist will also lead a Thursday evening workshop for students interested in learning how to use the human body as an instrument.

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Adams ’11 promotes first film about College improv

By Hallie Huffaker | April 16, 2014

Genevieve Adams ’11 recently co-produced and starred in a film, “I’m Obsessed with You (But You’ve Got to Leave Me Alone),” that she originally wrote as a play for her senior honors thesis. She also performed the show in New York.

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Montero to mix classical and improvisational music in show tonight

By Apoorva Dixit | April 15, 2014

The requests put in for pianist and social activist Gabriela Montero’s improvisation session on Monday night at 13 East Wheelock Street, or the “White House,” flitted from the visual to the auditory to the emotional. Tonight, however, Montero will start her Spaulding Auditorium performance in a more traditional manner, playing Brahms’s Three Intermezzi (Op. 117) and Schumann’s Fantasie in C Major (Op. 17).