Author: JOYCE MAN In the face of disaster, or rather because of the necessities it poses, people enterprise. We've all seen them - news of hurricanes, reports on riots and photographs of devastating tsunamis and earthquakes. Death tolls in Indonesia and Pakistan, curfews in France, arrests in Iraq ...
Author: Ellen Grafton This weekend under the direction of Professor of Theatre Richard Romagnoli, the Middlebury Theatre Department will present the American premiere of "The Bewitched" by Peter Barnes. "The Bewitched" is one of the largest projects the Department has ever undertaken. At Tuesday's Behind ...
Author: Sara Jameson The Middlebury College Musical Players (MCMP) exhibited great musical and comedic talent in the group's performance of "Little Shop of Horrors." Last weekend's production of the hit 1982 Broadway musical, which was adapted from the film original by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Kevin Buckland is a senior Independent Scholar and co-president of Middlebury's Vitality of the Artistic Community Association (VACA) from Westfield, NJ. His paintings can be seen at www.TheRevolutionFactory.com.The Middlebury Campus: When did you start painting and why?Kevin ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Last Wednesday Dana Auditorium filled with people eager to see Diego Velásquez's sumptuous masterpiece Las Meninas come to life. No, no waving wands or murmured incantations enlivened Velásquez or conjured the spirits of the Hapsburg family depicted in the famed painting. ...
Author: Grace Duggan Chris Lizotte is a junior from Nashua, NH, with a passion for jazz. He has played in numerous bands, including Larson.The Middlebury Campus: When did you start playing saxophone?Chris Lizotte: When I was in fifth grade, and there's no cool story behind it. It was just sort of starting ...
Author: JUSTINE KATZENBACH This past Saturday night, students, faculty and visitors poured into Dana Auditorium and after filling the chairs, they sat on the floor and even stood in the corners to see the remarkable documentary, "Born into Brothels." Winner of an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature ...
Author: Sara Jameson Powerful, sensual and surging with energy, the performances by Bill Young/Colleen Thomas and Dancers reflected the true art of choreography, grace and vigor. The performances of the company's two works, "Rein, Bellow" and "Ripe for Hysteria," ranged from displays of other-worldly ...
Author: Joyce Man The Italians should be disturbed. From now until 2025, a giant pink bunny will lie prostrate and rotting from the inside out on the Coletto Fava mountainside with its arms, legs and ears flopping spread-eagled at its side, its entrails curling out and its mouth frozen in a tragic, ...
Author: Ellen Grafton "Wabeno," a student show being put up in the Zoo, opens on Nov. 9 and promises to be something very different for the Middlebury theater scene. Produced by senior Jeff King, it seeks to break the rules associated with traditional theater and to create an exciting, new experience ...
Author: ALISON LACIVITA Perhaps I have just been studying for the GRE Literature for too long, but I could not help equating Homer and Virgil to the artists Pavement and Guided by Voices, and Holopaw to the neo-classicists. When I first began listening to what is now known as "indie rock," it was due ...
Author: Ian Thomas Fleishman The Muir String Quartet's performance on Sunday afternoon met with one of the warmest receptions ever experienced at Middlebury. The constant visual communication between the players was reflected as a unity of sound rarely achieved by even the most skilled and experienced ...
Author: Tristan Hayes Eight years ago, emerging from a pivotal experience at Bread Loaf Writers Conference, David Weinstock founded The Otter Creek Poets. The group, free and open to all, meets weekly to workshop poems. This past week, I interviewed David on the role of the writing workshop and the ...
Author: Penny Chen Following the sold-out run of "Falsettos" last year, the Music Department is producing its second musical. This year, they have chosen "Company," a "concept musical," or a musical made up of short vignettes connected by one theme that breaks all the rules of traditional music theater. ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE "Accept the insanity...convince the others it's a dance party...embrace the distortion...try to 'control' the 'confusion'...make sure ghosts doesn't sound like goats."So read the liner notes to "Broken Social Scene," the long-awaited third album from the Canadian band of the same ...
Author: ABIGAIL MITCHELL "They ate hot cereal made out of whole wheat that was literally whole and slightly boiled ... Ivan's crew once had to wash their excrement in salt water and sift it with a sieve. What remained was cooked again." -From April Fool's Day, by Josip Novakovich ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Tran Kim-Trang, professor of Art and Media Studies at Scripps College in California, emigrated from Vietnam to the United States in 1975. She received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 1993. Her video works have been exhibited internationally and have been ...
Author: JOYCE MAN Dance, and dance of all kinds is very happening. US television audiences have been getting their fair load of salsa, jive, hip-hop and even krumping with Fox Network's "So You Think You Can Dance" competitions and ABC's summer hit series "Dancing With the Stars." Last week on Oct. ...
Author: Astri von Arbin-Ahlander What strikes me as I enter Perry Blackshear's Sunderland basement office are the walls - cream-colored cinderblock is spotted with old film posters, pictures of friends, flyers from campus screenings of his own films and, finally, an old photograph of Perry himself. ...
Author: By Ian Thomas Fleishman The Paul Lewis concert of Beethoven sonatas on Friday night at the Concert Hall at the Center for the Arts was likely the single most enjoyable performance that I have attended yet this year. Certainly, there have been no small number of piano recitals in this year's ...