“It’s Criminal”: “We think in such a binary… it’s not about right or wrong, it’s self-awareness.” -Pati Hernandez “I don’t think I’ve been to a single performance where people haven’t cried. Because it touches people differently because they understand that there is human suffering in all the groups that don’t often get to tell their story to society. People need to take their pain and do something with it” -Polimana Joshevama '19 After first premiering in Los Angeles, documentary film It’s Criminal returns to its Dartmouth roots on October 26. The film follows a Dartmouth class … [Read more...]
About Madeline Miller ’18
Dragons, fools and fire-breathing tickets in “Cuentos”
On Sunday, October 15, in the Hop's Spaulding Auditorium, storyteller David Gonzalez and accompanying musicians combined language learning, Latin music and life lessons into a single show: Cuentos, meaning “stories.” Wilson “Chembo” Corniel, a Grammy-nominated percussionist, took to the stage to perform a solo on his congas. Willie Martinez, a renowned Latin jazz drummer, joined Corniel in a duet of drums. Daniel Kelly completed the trio on piano, and the three played an energetic opening song for the performance. Finally, Gonzalez made his entrance to the energetic rhythm. Beginning … [Read more...]
The Emerson String Quartet: Connecting Past and Present
Music communicates emotion; in its well attended Hopkins Center concert on Saturday, September 30, the Emerson String Quartet managed to capture the emotion within quartet pieces through the players' synchronicity and delicacy of performance. As recipients of multiple honors (including nine Grammy awards) and 40 years of experience playing as an ensemble, they promised to offer an incredible performance. The concert began with my favorite piece, Quartet No. 17 in B flat Major, K. 458 “Hunt”, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. What drew me to the music was the joy within the notes, the effortless … [Read more...]
How to Walk into the Jewelry Studio Knowing Nothing About Jewelry
Over my years at Dartmouth, I’ve made a point of visiting each of the student workshops in spite of having begun as a complete novice at wood, metal and clay. Now that I’ve reached senior year, my parting advice to the ’21s is this: take advantage of at least one of the student workshops during your time at Dartmouth. The student workshops provide Dartmouth students access to equipment, materials and available instructors that are more difficult to find once leaving campus. Use it as an opportunity to relax and immerse yourself in a project, meet up with that friend you keep saying you’ll get … [Read more...]