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Sweet Honey rocks Spaulding
By Holly Shaffer | April 28, 2003Names can imply passion, and Sweet Honey and the Rock, who fired up Spaulding on Friday night, do sing like the sweetest of honey.
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Les Yeux Noirs mixes joy, sorrow
By Holly Shaffer | April 28, 2003In the spirit of Django Reinhardt, who played the Russian gypsy tune from which the group took its name, Les Yeux Noirs infused Spaulding Auditorium with Jewish-Gypsy dance on Saturday night with inspired klezmer music. French for "The Black Eyes," Les Yeux Noirs was found-ed by the violin-swooning Slabiak brothers, who must have souls as deep as their group's name implies.
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Ku Na'uka tells a complex tale
By Holly Shaffer | April 4, 2003"To meet others is to be astonished at the differences and then to try to search for the similarity," Japanese theatre director Satoshi Miyagi claims, "and then at the end to be astonished at the similarity." Miyagi leads Ku Na'uka, the Japanese contemporary theater company that staged a production of the innovative Kyoka Izumi's play "Tensho Monogatari" ("The Castle Tower") in Moore Theater last night and Wednesday. The company's productions are based on bunraku, a type of Japanese traditional puppet theater where the lines are delivered by a narrator and the actions by a puppet, separating movement from language.
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Anti-war artists honor ancient reliefs
By Holly Shaffer | March 7, 2003As part of a nationwide demonstration by artists against war in Iraq and its potential effects on ancient artwork, Elizabeth Mayor -- a New England-based artist -- organized other local artists to bring their protest to the Hood Museum on Wednesday afternoon. The event allowed artists to sketch the Assyrian reliefs on show temporarily at the Hood Museum.
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Lhamo brings Tibet to Rollins
By Holly Shaffer | February 3, 2003On Thursday evening, Rollins Chapel was lit by candles and the voice of Yungchen Lhamo. A refugee from Tibet, Lhamo moved between statements about life and searing a capella vocals, finding unity in her homeland. Through her short songs, which lilted quite beautifully through the chapel, she approximated Tibetan prayer.
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Upshaw talks about her approach to making music
By Holly Shaffer | October 25, 2002Critically acclaimed soprano to perform mixture of classical and modern music at Dartmouth
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Passionate 'Flamenco' performance ignites Spaulding
By Holly Shaffer | October 14, 2002Spanish dance troupe exhibit their virtuoso mastery of Flamenco through both dance and music
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'00 artists show bare essentials
By Holly Shaffer | July 17, 2001Two Dartmouth Class of 2000 graduates -- Brad Siskin and Thomas Beale -- won the Perspectives on Design award, and as a result, their work is being exhibited in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery in the Hopkins Center until July 23. The works of Brad Siskin and Thomas Beale are not at all the same -- Siskin's comments both cynically and profoundly on what we do with our emotions,and Beale's on altered organic forms. But both are wonderful and deserve some interested eyes.