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...]
The visual opulence of Teatro Sur’s “Inutiles”
Photos courtesy of Teatro Sur, Santiago, Chile Spanish colonial rulers in South America reaped untold riches from the natural resources of this "New World" while imposing the suffocating Renaissance materialism of the Old World. Teatro Sur underscores this reality - and the wealth inequities that persist to today - in the stage design of its show Inútiles (Useless), which has its US premiere at the Hop on January 5 and 6. The show's Art Director, Jorge Zambrano, has worked with noted South American and European stage directors since the 1980s and more recently had branched out to film, … [Read more...]
Collis Cabaret: A musical mashup, plus pie
By Sarah Hong '21, with photos by Rob Strong Creating music, in many ways, is about communication. Not only do musicians strive to communicate with the audience, musicians in an ensemble also communicate with each other using a secret language of cues to play together as a whole. But what happens when two very different ensembles spontaneously communicate with each other to merge two disparate genres? At Collis Cabaret on Thursday, October 12,the Del Sol Quartet and Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble attempted to do just that, creating an exciting and captivating night of music. [EDITOR'S NOTE: … [Read more...]
Making CABARET: The Stage Manager
This term, the Dartmouth Theater Department is presenting Cabaret as the mainstage production. Throughout the term, I will be interviewing various members of the immense team that are making this show possible. Having already presented some of the leads at the face of the show, it is now time to turn our attention backstage. First up is Maya Frost-Belansky ’20, the stage manager for this production. What exactly does a Stage Manager do? Overall, stage managers (SMs) are responsible for supporting the director’s artistic vision. To do this, SMs liaise between the various technical … [Read more...]
The Hop in Black and White
Students know the Hop as a place to rub Bentley’s nose for good luck, grab some greasy food (or as of late, avocado toast), pick up your latest Amazon package, and watch a theater production. Few students slow down and smell the roses in the Hop. It makes sense a college founded in 1769 has numerous other buildings over a century older than the Hop. Built in 1962, the Hop does not harken back to Hogwarts like Sanborn or the Tower Room. However, if you look around, the Hop will inspire nostalgia for past students and appreciation for its own quirky role on campus. Designed by Wallace K. … [Read more...]
Cuban band plus visiting educators step up the salsa at free outdoor concert
Photos by Rob Strong It was an unbeatable combination: Septeto Santiaguero, playing classic Cuban dance music, and Mexican educators on the Dartmouth campus as participants in the Inter-American Partnership for Education (IAPE), an intensive workshop on English language instruction run by Dartmouth's Rassias Center. Fluent in salsa and other Latin dance styles, the young IAPE participants helped turn Septeto's July 26 free outdoor concert on the Dartmouth Green into an all-ages, all-dance-abilities party. Let's hope for the same perfect weather and great vibe on Wednesday, August 9, when … [Read more...]
Three species collaborate in world premiere on the Dartmouth Green
Photos by Rob Strong Sheepdog trials occur rain or shine, and so, in that spirit, the world premiere of Doggie Hamlet took place Thursday, June 29, on the Dartmouth Green, despite skies that went from threatening to pouring. Hardy audience members with raincoats, boots and umbrellas thronged the perimeter of the fenced-in area on the north half of the Green that was the stage for this unusual work by world-renowned choreographer Ann Carlson. All ages also enjoyed a "Sheep Station" of wool-related activities offered elsewhere on the Green, with the help of the Dartmouth Office of … [Read more...]
Thayer-made musical instruments make their debut
May 4 was the culmination of the third STEM Arts project by the Hopkins Center for the Arts, this one in partnership with Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Over a period of about 18 months, composer Molly Herron met with Thayer faculty and students, helped teach a Thayer course on designing and building new instruments, and composed a work using the instruments students in the course built. That piece, Assembly, was performed May 4 in a free concert in the Glycofi Atrium of the Thayer School's MacLean Center. Hop Programming Director Margaret Lawrence gives us a view of the project's … [Read more...]
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