The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, led by Arturo O’Farrill, performs in Spaulding Auditorium of the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, on Friday, October 5, 8 pm. Following the performance, O'Farrill and retired Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble Director Don Glasgo will have an informal onstage discussion. Formed by O’Farrill in 2006, the ensemble combines the grandeur of big band jazz with the visceral, varied textures of Latin music. Pianist, composer and educator O’Farrill, a past guest artist with the Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, leads 18 outstanding solo musicians. Together they … [Read more...]
Visiting Artists
Chamber music by Brahms and more, October 2
Brahms’s luxuriant Piano Quartet in A Major, Op. 26 will be the centerpiece in this concert by Sally Pinkas, pianist, and the Adaskin String Trio on Tuesday, October 2, 7 pm, in Spaulding Auditorium. A frequent and robust collaboration, the quartet complements the Brahms with English composer Frank Bridge’s eerie and clever Phantasy for Piano Quintet and Trio for violin, viola and cello by the recently rediscovered Impressionist composer (and French navy rear admiral) Jean Cras. Sally Pinkas is a Dartmouth professor of music, and a long-time pianist in residence at the Hop, performing two … [Read more...]
An appreciation: Ragamala Dance Company’s “Written in Water”
By Archita Harathi '22 Archita is a member of Arts Ambassadors, Dartmouth First Year students who attend Hop performances together. The Arts Ambassadors attended Written in Water. Archita has studied Indian classical dance. Interested in Arts Ambassadors? Find out more here. This past Tuesday and Wednesday, September 18th and 19th, the Dartmouth community experienced the cultural spectacle of the Ragamala Dance Company’s production, Written in Water. Ragamala Dance Company is a well-known and highly esteemed practitioner of one of India’s oldest classical dance forms, Bharatanatyam. … [Read more...]
New faces at the Hop: 2018-19 “Fellows” embed throughout the departments
Each fall brings to the Hop a fresh infusion of young talent and dedication to the Hop with the new Hop Fellows for that academic year. The Fellows full vital positions throughout the Hop, helping to shape and run programs while learning about arts administration and arts education from the inside. Meet three of the 2018-19 Fellows and hear the five fall Hop events most intrigues each of them! Steffi Colao, '19, from Ridgefield Conn,, and a geography major is the Hop Fellow in the START (Students Teaching in the Arts) program of the Hop's Department of Outreach and Arts Education. START … [Read more...]
Spike Lee’s shape-shifting collaborator
If you've seen a Spike Lee film, you've seen Roger Guenveur Smith. But you might not know you've seen him, because he's so different in each role. Yet he's always so arrestingly real as each unique character. Some roles Smith himself created, such as his one-man shows about Huey P. Newton and Rodney King, which Lee filmed - and the unforgettable "Smiley" in Do the Right Thing (being screened at the Hop September 25, with Smith doing a post-show Q & A), which did not exist in Lee's original script. Smith created him after pestering Lee for a role in the film. We hope you enjoy this … [Read more...]
Tour-de-force solo show channels Frederick Douglass, September 27 & 28
In his extraordinary life, 19th-century African American orator, writer, thinker and activist Frederick Douglass set forth ideas on race, gender equality, personal freedom and the transformative power of literacy that resonate powerfully today. In a tour de force solo show coming September to the Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth College, actor/writer Roger Guenveur Smith channels Douglass and mingles his words with original text, slam poetry, music and contemporary performance elements to frame his ideas in the present moment. As the country marks the 200th anniversary of … [Read more...]
Hop 18-19 season opens with luminous multimedia, multicultural dance work, September 18 and 19
The Hopkins Center for the Arts’ 2018-2019 season opens with a luminous multimedia work fusing Indian classical dance, Hindu and Islamic texts, immersive projections and live music. Written in Water by Ragamala Dance Company will be performed Tuesday and Wednesday, September 18 and 19, 7 pm, in The Moore Theater. The company members also will give a master class in Bharatnayam (Indian classical) dance, on Monday, September 17, at 4:30 pm, open to the public with pre-registration. Called “soulful, imaginative and rhythmically contagious” by The New York Times, Ragamala Dance Company … [Read more...]
’22s, come explore the arts at Dartmouth this Friday!
OK, members of the Dartmouth Class of 2022, want to know how can you can experience, create and support the arts at Dartmouth? Come to Exploring the Arts, Friday, September 7, noon to 1:30 pm, at Dartmouth's Hopkins Center for the Arts. First, food. We give you a free lunch, and you should eat it, because you're going to need your strength. Now for the exploration. At Exploring the Arts, you visit tables throughout the Hop to talk with people about the following: Hop visiting artists. Students pay only $10 to see world-class performers like Lea DeLaria, Youssou Ndour, Mitsuko … [Read more...]
Stratford Festival’s Coriolanus at the Hop: A landmark theatrical production, a US premiere and much more
This fall, the Hop launches a partnership with North America’s preeminent Shakespeare company, the Stratford Festival, involving the US premiere of historic and critically acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, directed by genre-defying theatermaker Robert Lepage. Coriolanus will be presented at Dartmouth on Thursday, November 29, through Sunday, December 2, in The Moore Theater of the Hop, in four public performances and two school matinee shows (which will be seen by hundreds of Upper Valley secondary school students). However, these performances are just the tip of the … [Read more...]
“Why I Dance”: Aparna Ramaswamy of Ragamala Dance Company
On September 18 and 19, Ragamala Dance Company brings its amazing show Written in Water to the Hop's Moore Theater. The show combines classical Indian dance with original live music interwining jazz with Persian and Indian music, on a setting illuminated with enthralling floor-to-ceiling projections. In this article from the December 2016 issue of Dance Magazine, Aparna Ramaswamy, Ragamala's co-artistic director and dancer, tells the company's fascinating story of East-meets-West. Dance connects me to my ancestry. Raised both in India and the U.S., I relish finding a balance between two … [Read more...]
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