Arts

Alumni theater engages campus with new plays

By Amelia Rosch | June 30, 2014

A man dying of syphilis is caught in the delusion that he lives in the 1800s. A folk singer from the 1950s vanishes one day leaving only her music behind. These stories and more will make up the productions of the second annual VoxFest this weekend.

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'Jersey Boys' Loses Charm On-Screen

By Andrew Kingsley | June 30, 2014

Cinematic adaptations of musicals face an inherent problem. Musicals are both more alive, and more importantly, theatrical than film, which creates a surreal universe in which flashy, spontaneous song-and-dance routines are permitted and logical. For this to hold true, audiences must immediately suspend their disbelief, permitting their over-the-top dramatic elements.

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Martínez Celaya to visit the Hood in July

By Mary Liza Hartong | June 26, 2014

Some children dream of being physicists, and some children dream of being artists, but growing up to be a physicist, pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum electronics and then deciding to create art is arguably a rare path. For Enrique Martínez Celaya, July’s featured artist at the Hood Museum of Art and a Montgomery Fellow at the College, lasers have been as much a part of his work as painting and sculpture.

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Concert will bring culture, spirit

By Laura Sim | June 23, 2014

Seamless and organic, Ricardo Lemvo and his Los Angeles-based band Makina Loca blend together different music styles found across the world — transcending any single culture, time, place or creed. Lemvo and Makina Loca will come to campus for the first time to play a free concert on the Green at 5 p.m. Thursday. The band features rhythms inspired by Africa and Cuba with a pan-African sound.

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'Maleficent': A sleeper, but a beauty

By Andrew Kingsley | June 23, 2014

The film succeeds in subverting the clichés of true love and hero/villain binaries that Disney has perpetuated for nearly a century and introducing a more progressive agenda.

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Hood donation expands learning, gallery spaces on campus

By Aimee Sung | June 19, 2014

The recent $10 million donation supporting a Museum Learning Center at the Hood Museum will triple classroom space and expand the gallery area, reinvigorating the museum’s commitment to teaching, Hood director Michael Taylor said. The donation is the largest single gift to the museum since its 1985 opening and brings the Hood to $28 million of its $50 million overall goal for the renovation, Taylor said.

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Summer term highlights local arts with concerts, theater

By Sakina Abu Boakye | June 19, 2014

Though the summer kicks off with an outdoor concert on the Green and closes with a live performance by singer Peter Wolf, the Upper Valley will draw more than just music offerings this term. Multiple theatrical performances, film showings and even a circus performance will come to Hanover and the surrounding area this summer.

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Donor puts $10 million toward Hood learning center

By The Dartmouth Staff | June 12, 2014

The center is part of the Hood’s major construction project that will begin in spring 2016.

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Hop Garage exhibit will showcase artwork inspired by bodies

By Marley Marius | May 27, 2014

Tomorrow evening, BARE, “an open gallery art show with nothing to hide,” will open, featuring sculptures, videos and works of other artistic media that explore different aspects of the human body.

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Kagan ’09 discusses changing film, television trends

By Maya Poddar | May 27, 2014

Dan Kagan ’09 is a creative executive at Break Media and has worked at major studios including Sony Pictures Entertainment, Paramount Pictures Corporation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures . He has contributed to popular feature films, such as “Noah” (2014) and “Star Trek Into Darkness” (2013), through work in executive development.

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Play’s dark humor draws laughs, gasps

By Rebecca Asoulin | May 26, 2014

An actor dressed in a fat suit sprinted through a paper wall. With little resistance, the paper tore, sparking laughter in the crowd. Watching the scene, director Deby Guzman-Buchness ’15, exhaled and let out a “finally.” After a term that included casting, rehearsing and eventually performing three shows, “The Pillowman” had officially closed, and the cast was tearing down the set.

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Well-cast ‘X-Men’ film continues series success

By Varun Bhuchar | May 26, 2014

Hollywood’s most reliable cash cow, the superhero film, has returned this summer. From A-listers like Spider Man to the obscure Ant Man, each will get its time on the silver screen. While sometimes exhausting, many of us will watch these movies anyway — they’re just so much fun.

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McClure creates mixed media theater

By Ashley Ulrich | May 21, 2014

Though Marina McClure ’04 came to Dartmouth planning to pursue a math major, she quickly became interested in theater, specifically directing. An original collaborator for WiRED and member of the Displaced Theater Company, McClure is currently directing experimental theater and creating mixed performance and visual arts pieces in New York.

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Orchestra to perform Berlioz and Copland

By Hallie Huffaker | May 21, 2014

Coming up on their final concert of the year, members of the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra are perfecting harmonies, working on their blend and fine tuning their fingerings. The group will be playing a diverse set this Saturday, combining Hector Berlioz’s passionate “Symphonie Fantastique” with Aaron Copland’s “Appalachian Spring.”

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Class makes documentary film about local comedian

By Margarette Nelson | May 20, 2014

Ten minutes before the start of 10A classes last Thursday, Jake Greenberg ’17 strolled into the Black Family Visual Arts Center’s video editing suite with a hot mug of coffee from Dunkin’ Donuts. While other students spent the previous night celebrating Green Key, Greenberg and his classmates from Film Studies 39, an advanced video making class, were busy applying the final touches to their original documentary, “Good Vibes and Duct Tape: Stories with Cindy Pierce.”

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Boraz debuts embroidery at Roth Center

By Angel Carrillo Leal | May 20, 2014

Shari Boraz was a teenager when she received her first pair of blue jeans, which she described as a breakthrough in culture. When her jeans began to wear with time, she embroidered them.

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Hood aims for teaching value and continuity in its collections

By Andrea Nease | May 19, 2014

Sitting across the Green from Dartmouth’s Baker Tower is a building whose walls hold approximately 65,000 works, the majority of which, when not on display, are kept on site.

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The Chainsmokers, Lupe Fiasco play weekend shows

By Michaela Ledoux | May 18, 2014

Whether students wanted to enjoy modern bluegrass on the Collis Center patio, rock out to 1990s cover music on the Alpha Delta fraternity’s lawn or rap with Lupe Fiasco on the Gold Coast lawn, Green Key weekend brought ample music acts to campus.

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Largest, best-preserved T. rex visits Vermont museum

By Dongjun Suh | May 18, 2014

Entering the Montshire Museum of Science’s first floor collections, patrons on Saturday were confronted by a monster 42 feet long and 13 feet tall. They stared awestruck at its whopping 58 teeth, the longest measuring over a foot long, and shuddered to think of the destruction that the 14,000-pound beast could inflict.

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Student Spotlight: Richard Stephenson ’12

By Marley Marius | May 18, 2014

Richard Stephenson ’12, or “SHEBA Richard” as he is known by some on campus, did not grow up dancing. The North Port, Florida, native’s idea of a “stage” was grass field bookended by yellow goal posts until he arrived on campus as a freshman.

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