By Yusuf O. Olokoba '20 Emotion in Motion: Acting at Dartmouth It is always fascinating to witness the student-actors on stage become someone else. They lose themselves to become another. On stage, they bring to life some of the most captivating plots and characters. Their ability to communicate the thoughts and feelings of their characters by moving — closer, farther, subtly, abruptly — manifests utter realism. Throughout the term, we have seen shows like Intimate Apparel and Urinetown where the actors play characters so powerful, so moving that they continue to live on in our minds. … [Read more...]
And Then There was a Cutting Board: A Creation Story in 5 Pictures
Daniel Jackson '16, an intern in the Hopkins Center Workshops, documented a woodworking project he recently completed in the Woodworking Workshop: I began with raw wood. I chose walnut – a beautiful dark wood. I also had some cherry scraps that a friend had left over from his own project. (Those will show up in later pictures.) Next I milled and cut the board into usable pieces. I wasn’t exactly sure how a circular cutting board would turn out, but I thought I’d give it a try... Glue it all up! (And don’t forget to use waterproof glue because, yes, I do want this cutting … [Read more...]
College employees join in this year’s Christmas Revels, onstage and off
When the big, multi-generational chorus of singers and dancers throngs the stage in the annual Christmas Revels show at the Hop (December 15-18) , there are always some familiar Dartmouth College faces among them. This year’s Revels travels to the beautiful province of Québec in a magical, mischievous French Canadian tale embellished with traditional music, dancing, storytelling and tomfoolery. Helping to take the audience there are a number of college employees who are Revels regulars, including Geisel School of Medicine Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology Julie … [Read more...]
Circle Mirror Transformation: Interpersonal Relationships and Individual Struggles
By Miles Temel I had the opportunity to attend the second of four performances of Circle Mirror Transformation at the Hop's Bentley Theater. This play, by Annie Baker, tells the story of the members of an adult creative drama class at a Vermont community center: Marty, the middle-aged woman who teaches the class; James, her husband; Schultz, a recently divorced carpenter; Theresa, a former actress and avid “hooper” (“hula hooper,” she explains, is a common misnomer); and Lauren, an introverted high-school junior hoping to land the role of Maria in her school’s production of West Side … [Read more...]
Magical, mischievous, moonlit tale from Québec animates The Christmas Revels
HANOVER, NH—This year’s Christmas Revels travels to the beautiful province of Québec in a magical, mischievous French Canadian tale embellished with traditional music, dance, storytelling and tomfoolery, December 15-18 at Hopkins Center for the Arts, Hanover NH. In the story of The Flying Canoe (la chasse-galerie), a group of lonely voyageurs in the northern timberland go to extraordinary (one might say devilish) lengths to meet up with their faraway sweethearts on New Year’s Eve. This traditional tale gets the full Revels treatment with colorful, high-energy songs, dance and pageantry, a … [Read more...]
The Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble: Which section really rules
As the Dartmouth College Wind Ensemble prepares for its fall concert on Friday, November 11, at 8 pm, here's a behind-the-scenes look at intra-ensemble rivalries. Tongue in cheek? Oh, maybe just a little. But, then, that's not a problem for this particular section of the ensemble! Meanwhile, don't miss the concert, titled Winds of Change, Part I: Early Innovators. Experience what makes wind ensemble music so fun to both play and listen to in a program that explores the highlights of a century of development in this exciting genre—from 19th-century outdoor military bands and ragtag village … [Read more...]
The behind-the-scenes creativity in “Intimate Apparel”
By Sophia Kinne '20 Anyone lucky enough to have seen Intimate Apparel this past weekend would likely be more than happy to tell you how amazing the show was. I saw it myself, and the first thing I noticed was how the performances by the cast left me awed and impressed. The actors performed without hesitation and without fear, as they embraced both the challenges presented by their characters’ worlds and the emotional turmoil within. When you are faced with performances so truthful and so real, it can be easy to forget how many people were a part of the production that appears so seamless … [Read more...]
Intimate Apparel: An Unveiling of Untold Narratives
By Jordyn Fitch '20 Intimate Apparel--a play by Lynn Nottage and directed by Tazewell Thompson in a Dartmouth Theater Department production running through Sunday, November 13--tells the story of Esther Mills, a 35-year-old seamstress living in turn-of-the-last-century Manhattan. Esther, portrayed by Zahra Ruffin '17, lives in a rooming house with seven unattached women under the care of land lady Mrs. Dickson (Jovanay Carter '19). In her time there, she has worked to perfect her craft of, as she tells her wealthiest client, Fifth Avenue socialite Mrs. Van Buren (Kelly Gaudet '17), “sewing … [Read more...]
Powerful and intimate theater from a seamstress’ joys, pain, hope, grief
From the opening of Intimate Apparel, a play by Lynn Nottage, to the very end, the audience is captivated by and emotionally invested in the story of Esther, an African American seamstress who specializes in making intimate apparel and keeping the intimate secrets of her customers. Esther, played by Zahra Ruffin '17, is an easy character to sympathize with, as she has lived a simple, modest life, saving every penny she could to one day open a beauty salon for women of color. Directed by Tazewell Thompson, a visiting director who last directed Big Love in The Moore in 2013, Intimate Apparel is … [Read more...]
Pizza and percussion in Brace Commons
Photos by Rob Strong Well, you'll want to wash your hands between these two activities but, yes, pizza and percussion do go together nicely, as an event in Brace Commons on Monday, November 7, demonstrated. World Music Percussion Ensemble director Hafiz Shabazz and two of his ensemble members filled a mini-van with drums and brought them to Brace Commons, in the East Wheelock Cluster, for a hands-on percussion session for whomever happened by. Shabazz plans to do this more often as part of a campaign to get young people to set aside virtual music accessed through electronics and earbuds and … [Read more...]
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