Two singer-songwriters, from two generations, make a connection. Blue Note recording artist José James, an eclectic, groove-minded jazz singer with hip hop and R&B sensibility, makes his Hop debut on Wednesday, August 1, 8 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium with a program celebrating legendary R&B singer-songwriter Bill Withers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x80tq7lTlc4 Ten years after he wowed listeners with his first album, Dreamer, James performs a set list vetted personally by Withers, now 80 and long retired from the music business. Featuring Withers’s top ten hits as well as … [Read more...]
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A “Merchant of Venice” for these times comes to the Hop, June 26-28
HANOVER, NH—The Hop will present Compagnia de’ Colombari’s acclaimed, outdoor production of The Merchant of Venice—one of Shakespeare’s most powerful yet most paradoxical plays—on Tuesday through Thursday, June 26 through 28, at 8 pm. In a nod to the stripped-down, open-air productions of Shakespeare’s times, the Dartmouth performances take place under trees and stars in the college’s Bema Outdoor Amphitheater. The production is buoyed by a live musical score composed by Klezmatics founder Frank London, performed by an onstage sextet. The production was created in 2016 to be performed … [Read more...]
‘Keep your values at the heart of your art’: Art Awardees hear from acclaimed alum filmmaker
By Michael Bodel, Hop Director of External Affairs Huge congratulations to the student Arts Awards winners for their work creating and supporting the arts at the Hop, around Dartmouth, and in the world. Students were recognized in theater, music and filmmaking in a May 29 event that included brief performances and screenings of student work. Ricki Stern '87 gave the keynote at the event. Her impactful, far-reaching documentaries cover topics from a Burmese soldier-turned-activist, to the Boston Marathon bombing, to Joan Rivers. True fact! Ricki revealed her obsession with failure … [Read more...]
What a life in the arts looks like: Hop interns see shows and meet arts professionals in New York City
The 2017/2018 Hop interns were in New York City May 10–13 to explore the arts as the capstone of their internship experience. This year we not only spent time in Manhattan at the Lincoln Center, Manhattan Theatre Club, and Martha Graham Dance Company, but also made our way to Brooklyn to visit Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) and BRIC. For the first time since the Hop Internship Program began, all of the interns are women so it was especially meaningful to meet with so many women who hold senior leadership positions within these iconic arts organization. In keeping with tradition, we also saw … [Read more...]
The Legacy of Metropolis
By Sebastian Wurzrainer '20, Dartmouth Film Society About a year and a half ago, I passionately argued in a research paper for my Film History I: Silent to Sound course that German Expressionism as a film movement was a myth created thanks to the hindsight of misguided historians. While today I regret the argument presented in that essay, I certainly don’t regret writing it. If for nothing else, it sparked in me an ongoing fascination with German Expressionism. But what exactly is German Expressionism and how does it relate to Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang)? [Ed. note: The Complete Metropolis … [Read more...]
SHIFT: A summer celebration of the creative, disruptive spirit of the 1960s—and today
Summer 2018 at Dartmouth College’s Hopkins Center for the Arts will open with a series called SHIFT, a vibrant and varied array of live arts, June 22-30. SHIFT includes works, both free and ticketed, that freshly consider music, drama and identity, bringing together diverse art forms and harkening back to the creative disruption of the 1960s. The week brings together student, faculty, alumni and visiting artists, diverse art forms, and different parts of the campus—and the events link powerfully to particular Dartmouth courses as well as to current issues of justice, tradition and … [Read more...]
Creativity – and technology – link two Hop Ensembles at opposite ends of the Hop
It began as a conversation over drinks last spring, between Dartmouth Dance Ensemble co-leader Rebecca Stenn and Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra Director Filippo Ciabatti. Wouldn't it be great to collaborate? they opined. OK, so what music would Ciabatti most like to perform? Without missing a beat (he is a conductor, after all), he named Petrushka, Igor Stravinsky's 1911 orchestral work Right away, Stenn and Ciabatti called DDE co-leader John Heginbotham, and three began hatching plans with others in the Hop. One big problem, however: no Hop theater could accommodate both a full … [Read more...]
In a musical send-off, Dartmouth seniors embark for “The Deep Land”
When Taylor Ho Bynum was first hired as the new director of Dartmouth’s all-student Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, his new colleagues warned him that running a Hop ensemble gets complicated “when students leave to The Deep Land.” He soon learned that they were actually referring to “the D Plan,” Dartmouth’s longstanding student scheduling system in which students take off-campus terms at various points in the year, not just in summer. For musical ensembles like the Barbary Coast, this means the number of participating students and the instruments they play can vary greatly over a single academic … [Read more...]
Please hold your applause: pianist Inon Barnatan at the Hop
By Sarah Hong '21, Hopkins Center Arts Ambassador Have you ever gone to a classical music concert and wondered when to clap? At the start of his concert in the Hop's Spaluding Auditorium on Wednesday, April 25, pianist Inon Barnatan eased the audience’s fears when he announced that for the first half he would play a continuous 45-minute program without break. The program was his rendition of a Baroque dance suite, incorporating pieces by different composers across different centuries. His suite featured diverse works from Handel, Bach, Rameau, Couperin, Ravel, Ades, Ligeti and … [Read more...]
Glee Club revisits powerful Civil Rights story in May 6 concert
NPR's Morning Edition on Wednesday, April 25, included a fascinating segment on poet Kevin Young which made special mention of the oratorio Repast, for which Young wrote the beautiful text - and which had an important premiere by the Dartmouth College Glee Club. A movement of Repast is on the program of the Glee Club concert on Sunday, May 6, 2 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. As the final spring concert of the Glee Club under retiring director Louis Burkot, the May 6 program revisits some works especially important in Burkot's 37 years at the group's helm, and Repast is certainly one of … [Read more...]
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