Winds premiered ‘Glimpses'
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble stepped outside its comfort zone this term, performing an array of modern and contemporary concert music.
Zonia Moore / The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble stepped outside its comfort zone this term, performing an array of modern and contemporary concert music.
Not sure who to count on to score this year's Academy Awards on Sunday?
Contemporary Caribbean artists will bring awareness of Haiti's financial and educational struggles to Hanover this week as part of the inaugural Porter Foundation Symposium, which kicks off today. The conference, titled "Haiti and Dartmouth at the Crossroads," will bring together working Haitian artists with businessmen, healthcare specialists and government officials, including former Haiti prime minister Michele Pierre-Louis, to generate new initiatives to assist Haiti's efforts to recover from the devastation of the 2010 earthquake. The three-day symposium will feature interdisciplinary projects in education, healthcare and economic development, according to Amita Kulkarni '10, a conference coordinator and presidential fellow in global health at the Dartmouth Center for Health Care Delivery Science. The event intends to underscore the role that institutions of higher education can play in Haiti's reconstruction. "It's been over three years since the earthquake but there is still a lot of work to be done," Jack Wilson, studio art professor and a conference coordinator, said.
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Tonight, audiences will spend the night enraptured by the sound of beating drums and didgeridoo as the Black Arm Band, an indigenous Australian music group, opens their U.S.
There is a problem inherent in many great works of literature that are subsequently adapted for the screen: there are often multiple iterations of the same story being made approximately every decade.
Nancy Ghertner's feature-length documentary "After I Pick the Fruit" opens at a seemingly typical grocery store.
Michael Haneke's "Amour," which features French actors Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, follows the tender love story of an elderly Parisian couple as they are nearing the end of their lives.
Although Dartmouth students pride themselves in tackling challenges of many forms, from academic to athletic to artistic, few can say they have faced live bears and lived to tell about it. Students in film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff's introductory videomaking class spent the winter producing a documentary about Ben Kilham, a local scientist and farmer from Lyme who is raising and studying 27 orphaned black bear cubs.
As the snow begins to melt and the days grow longer, students are growing restless for the new season just around the corner.
It's been a quiet winter in the music world. Perhaps the months after Christmas are the music industry's dog days of summer, those brutal days in July and August when all interesting sports have finished their seasons and the only sport on TV is regular season baseball. Maybe musicians and winter do not mix well, and all of our favorite bands are locked up in their lofts, waiting for spring to be sprung.
/ The Dartmouth Staff This Friday and Saturday, the Dartmouth Glee Club will take the stage not only as singers, but complete opera performers.
Gavin Huang / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Most of us have seen the popular slapstick comedy "Liar Liar" (1997), starring Jim Carrey, about a man who never tells the truth.
If you have ever seen any part of "Portlandia," then you will know that Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are off their rockers in the best possible way.
If you have a love of the supernatural and do not get scared very easily, then February filled with recent releases of various horror and sci-fi films and shows may just be the month for you. The feature film "Mama," directed by Guillermo del Toro of the famed "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006), tells the haunting tale of two young girls who vanished to the woods the day their mother was killed.
While Steven Spielberg's historical drama "Lincoln" (2012) hit theaters last November, the film has continued to rivet audiences with its sweeping tale of the American Civil War.
Cecelia Shao / The Dartmouth Staff Correction appended### Winter Carnival is an opportunity for the College community to get involved in various winter activities both out in the snow and inside.
As the spotlight at Northern Stage illuminated, the renowned laugh-out-loud comedy "The Importance of Being Earnest" opened for its second preview at the regional nonprofit theater in White River Junction, featuring a cast and crew filled with Dartmouth students and faculty.