Author: Melissa Marshall Adriane Medina's '08 moments at Middlebury are not just wounded on a string, they are coming down to the wire. While lacking modern dance experience when she first arrived on campus, the Florida has been an active participant in the dance troupe On Tap, translates her experience ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Pavel Haas String Quartet, named after the Czech composer who died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in 1944, seems to be comprised of four independent virtuosi , strung together by a common, vigorous interpretation. Thus, when they performed last Sat. ...
Author: Maddie Oatman syn·es·the·sia from the Greek (syn-) union, and (aesthesis) sensation; is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds - and taste tactile sensations.The Algorithm for Literary TeamworkOn March 31, Italian author Roberto Bui gave ...
Author: Melissa Marshall The few, the proud are wearing their brown "Commons Crawl" T-shirts in the dining hall this week, showcasing their support for student music and the cultivation of short attention spans. And while most were not able to brand themselves with five different marker strokes representing ...
Author: Grace Duggan In a continuation of last semester's anti-war theme, as seen in Matt Pepper's "St. Crispin's Day," this past weekend included five performances of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata." First performed in 411 BCE, "Lysistrata" tells the story of the end of the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata ...
Author: Robert McKay Sometimes in the middle of a play or dance performance, I get a twinge of ire at the article I have to write on it.?I've caught myself on the edge of my seat, but for the wrong reason - I'm poised like a cat at a mousehole, pen aimed at the performers, waiting for a good sentence ...
Author: Jonathan King OnTap, Middlebury's tap-dance troupe, energizes the McCullough stage with its spring show and performances at dance events throughout the year. The group undoubtedly draws its success from the versatility, experience and ambition of its members. The Campus talked with Kelly Bennion ...
Author: Ariela Yomtovian "Let's talk about penises," said Assistant Professor of Theatre and Director of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" Claudio Medeiros '90 as he discussed the play at a preview lunch this past Monday. Performed for the first time around 410 BCE, "Lysistrata" takes place in Athens during ...
Author: Grace Duggan Born and raised in Austria, C.A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence Heimo Wallner attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before going on to show his work in Austria as well as all over the United States, including New York City, San Antonio, Milwaukee's Hagerty Museum of Art and Amherst. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Today marks the second in a series of three lectures organized by the Studio Art Department. An over 20-year tradition for the department, the Visiting Artists Lecture Series seeks to enrich studio art students and art enthusiasts by bringing working artists from around the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall From broccoli and barbeque sauce melted in a Proctor panini to snow boots worn over springtime leggings to Shakespeare scholars rocking out geology classes, the Middlebury campus seems to be all about mixing the incongruous. So I suppose the success of mashup artist Girl Talk's ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl In recent years, a new breed of dramatic soprano has surfaced in the opera world. The factor that distinguishes these women from sopranos of the past is an "advertisability" - an at-times artificial resemblance to Hollywood starlets. Their voices have always struck me as incongruous ...
Author: John Patrick Allen Meet Middlebury College's newest performing student band - Yuzimi. With enough catchy tunes to please a drunken partygoer, enough real talent to please a musician and enough contagious energy to make an audience get up and dance, Yuzimi is ready to take a solid place in the ...
Author: Emily Temple Rabbit Habbits, the highly anticipated third album from notorious gypsy-jazz ringleaders Man Man comes out April 8 on Anti- Records. The boys have been playing many of the songs that appear on this album for months in their live shows, so the enthusiasm for the release is backed ...
Author: Grace Duggan Brain too fried to figure out what to do over break? Have no fear - The Campus has you covered. From the Whitney Biennial in New York City to Montreal's notorious White Party, our picks will get you your arts fix. New YorkHeaded to the Big Apple for a few days? Take a break from ...
Author: Colin Foss Audio produced by Radio Arts Middlebury.To find good theater, sometimes you only need to open up your European history books. Shakespeare knew this well enough, and some of his most often produced plays are historical in some sense. So, in true English fashion, modern poet-turned-playwright ...