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...]
’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...]
‘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...]
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...]
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