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Classical musician as mash-happy deejay

4/19/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Deejays are known for their mixes and mash-ups - sequences and combinations of music that create cool contrasts and continuities. But classical musicians can also play at that mash-up game, judging from the upcoming Hop concert by pianist Inon Barnatan (Wednesday, April 25 at 7 pm). Heralded as “one of the most admired pianists of his generation” (New York Times) and “a poet of the keyboard” (Evening Standard, UK), Barnatan is known for creating concert programs that make you hear well-known repertoire in a completely fresh way. His newly announced Hop program, however, goes a step or two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Music, Spring 2018, Visiting Artists Tagged With: classical music, Inon Barnatan, music, piano, Spring 2018

Habanero, habanera, what’s the difference?

4/10/2018 by Rebecca Bailey 2 Comments

Afro-Cuban jazz sensation Daymé Arocena, performing at the Hop Thursday, April 12,  is the quintessential habanera - a female resident of Havana, which she sings about in "Me lleva la Habana (I come to Havana)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1RksfBsu6w Habanera also refers to a 19th-century Cuban dance rhythm. Here's a classic habanera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jebIpYs2UUI The habanera infused early jazz - the first of many times American jazz would be saturated with Afro-Cuban musical elements - such as Scott Joplin's Solace … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hop Ensembles, HopNews, Music, Spring 2018, Videos, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Afro Cuban, barbary coast jazz ensemble, cuba, Dayme Arocena, ensembles, hop ensembles, jazz, Latin music, music, Spring 2018, Taylor Ho Bynum, visiting artists, world music

What makes something precious? A legendary American jewelry shares his vision

4/5/2018 by Guest Contributor 2 Comments

By T. Jeffrey Georgantes, Director of the Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio, Hopkins Center This month, the Upper Valley is incredibly lucky to have Robert Ebendorf, a contemporary American jewelry master, visit for a public talk, a workshop and an exhibition, co-sponsored by Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for the Arts, Craft Studies at the Hanover League of NH Craftsmen and the Designer Gold Gallery. Robert Ebendorf’s influence on contemporary jewelry design can’t be overstated. Ebendorf was part of a historic wave, along with J. Fred Woell, Ramona Solberg and others, that helped redefine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Outreach & Arts Education, Spring 2018, Visiting Artists, Workshops Tagged With: Donald Claflin Jewelry Studio, Hop workshops, Jeffrey Georgantes, jewery-making, master class, Spring 2018, workshops

The two most feared words in English: “audience participation”?

3/27/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

It's not just you: most people fear and loathe the idea of "audience participation." "Why do I fear audience participation so much?" writes Bruce Dessau in the UK e-magazine Beyond the Joke. "Maybe it's genetic. My daughter won't even go to a show which includes, as she calls it 'AP'. ...I guess it's about control. About being in command of what is happening." Even those who are comfortable in front of a large group quake at the thought of suddenly being thrust into the spotlight. As a recent article in The Cut noted, "An audience-participation situation ... eliminates that preparation … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Spring 2018, Theater, Visiting Artists Tagged With: audience participation, Gob Squad, improvisation, news, Spring 2018, theater, Tolstoy, visiting artists, War and Peace

Where’d you get that case of “the willies”?

3/26/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

You know the feeling: you get suddenly spooked by something, like a scurrying mouse or spider, a swooping bat, an alarmingly close coyote howl, or a terrifying thought. We call it getting "a case of the willies." But where did those "willies" come from? Most historians point to the ballet Giselle, which debuted in Paris in the 1840s. In it, an innocent young woman falls in love with a man who turns out to be a scoundrel engaged to another woman. When the heroine discovers the betrayal during a passionate dance scene, she dies of a broken heart and, after death, joins a band of "wilis," … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Dance, HopNews, Spring 2018, Visiting Artists Tagged With: African dance, ballet, Dada Masilo, dance, Giselle, Spring 2018, visiting artists

Feeling plucky? Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain returns to the Hop April 20

3/26/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

HANOVER, NH—The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College welcomes back the funny, virtuosic, twanging and supremely entertaining Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain for an all-uke concert Friday, April 20, 8 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium.   Ukulele players are invited to bring their instruments along for a play-along piece that can be found on the Hop website or in the show’s playbill.   What began 30 years ago as "a bit of fun" has since kept this "plucky" orchestra entertaining audiences worldwide. Unabashed by their out-sized success playing pint-sized … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Music, Spring 2018, Visiting Artists Tagged With: bluegrass, classical music, music, news, orchestra, rock 'n' roll, Spring 2018, Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain, visiting artists

“Courageous, honest, funny” show about Native stereotypes and identity, April 19

3/23/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

HANOVER, NH—A Portland, Ore.-based performance artist mingles drag, Disney and pointed commentary about ethnic stereotypes in his hilarious, irreverent show, Looking for Tiger Lily, at the Warner Bentley Theater of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, on Thursday, April 19, 7 and 9:30 pm. Anthony Hudson reckons with his own mixed Native and European heritage in this solo autobiographical show. Incorporating video, Broadway belting and a bit of Power Point, Hudson performs in part in his queer drag clown persona “Carla Rossi” as he recounts his Native father’s activism as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Spring 2018, Theater, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Anthony Hudson, First Nations, Looking for Tiger Lily, Native American, news, performance art, Peter Pan, Spring 2018, theater, visiting artists

“War and Peace,” Gob Squad-style: Tolstoy would approve, says scholar

3/22/2018 by Guest Contributor Leave a Comment

By John Kopper, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College What can Tolstoy's War and Peace, set among the aristocracy and armed forces of 19th-century Russia, tell us about today? The Hop asked John Kopper, a Dartmouth professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, to ruminate on that general topic for an essay for the playbill for Gob Squad Collective's War and Peace, April 6 & 7 at the Hop. Kopper has spent his career teaching and writing about not only modern Russian writers but such 19th-century giants as Tolstoy and Gogol. On Wednesdays at 4 pm, you might … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Spring 2018, Theater, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Comparative Literature Department, Dartmouth faculty, Gob Squad, John Kopper, news, Russian Department, theater, Tolstoy, visiting artists, War and Peace

A dazzling voice of young Cuba, April 12

3/20/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Daymé Arocena, one of Cuba’s most dazzling singers to burst onto the international stage, makes her Hopkins Center for the Arts debut on Thursday, April 12, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. Her Hop appearance is part of a tour that takes her to cities throughout the US, including April 8 in Burlington, Vermont, and April 13 in Boston. While at Dartmouth, she also will take part in a free artist talk titled “Using Your Voice,” on Wednesday, April 11, at 5 pm, a conversation with Taylor Ho Bynum, director of the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvyTWRB4l4w From … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Music, Spring 2018, Visiting Artists Tagged With: Afro Cuban, barbary coast jazz ensemble, cuba, Dayme Arocena, jazz, music, news, Spring 2018, Taylor Ho Bynum, visiting artists, world music

European theater renegades gleefully mash up song, talk, fashion and Tolstoy

3/15/2018 by Rebecca Bailey Leave a Comment

Channeling both Tolstoy and the best cocktail conversation ever, European theater renegades Gob Squad present War and Peace, a mashup of song, talk, and fashion that makes for a gleeful, heady experience. The show takes place Friday and Saturday, April 6 and 7, at 8 pm, in The Moore Theater of the Hopkins Center for the Arts. A sell-out hit at New York’s Under the Radar Festival, this UK- and Germany-based collective uses Tolstoy’s epic as a launch pad for a gleeful, audience-interactive experience. Reenacting the high-society party that opens War and Peace, the cast selects audience … [Read more...]

Filed Under: HopNews, Photos, Spring 2018, Theater, Visiting Artists Tagged With: devised theater, Gob Squad, news, Spring 2018, theater, visiting artists

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