Author: Melissa Marshall No programs were distributed at the Middlebury College Center for the Arts on Saturday night - the audience would have to submit themselves to the smooth rhythms and changing beats of the Miles Donahue Band without a sheet of folded paper to highlight the stops along the way. ...
Author: Sarah Jameson Dance majors Kate Elias '06 and Hannah Giles '06 talk to The Middlebury Campus in anticipation of their collaborative senior project. The performance of original chereography goes up this weekend in the Center for the Arts Dance Theatre.The Campus: What were your main artistic ...
Author: Benjamin Golze Two events of note happened last week.#1: Meowsker, live at Pub NightLet's face it: for all its popularity, Thursday night Pub Night at the Grill hasn't been the best place to hear music at Middlebury. Campus mainstays like the Easy Answers, the Dark Horse Candidates and the Doughboys ...
Author: Caitlin Vincek Wandeirng into the Hepburn Zoo last weekend was like entering into a storybook. Once the show started, however, was not "Into the Woods," where it's not all princes and castles. Or it was, but with a twist.Most of the characters - Little Red (of the Riding Hood fame), Jack (who ...
Author: Michael Jou and Ena Yasuhara The Japanese Club, the Middlebury Asian Social Organization and the Japanese Department sponsored a rhythmical dance performance last Friday night starring Cobu, a Japanese dance group known for their unique fusion of tap dance and taiko drumming. The group's eight ...
Author: Elizabeth Lyon Middlebury's production of Suzan-Lori Parks' play "In The Blood" redefined the term "off-off Broadway." Under the direction of Theater Department Visiting Professor Jaye Austin Williams, a distinguished activist-director from New York City, the cast and crew put on a play the ...
Author: Lauren Smith An art student friend recently told me that his illustration class visited an exhibit of human corpses in Philadelphia. I immediately thought this must be illegal, but there are indeed over 200 real human corpses now on display at the Franklin Institute of Science Museum in Philly. ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Every Saturday night, the Middlebury student population convenes in a sweaty mass in one of the social houses, or better yet, in a suite in Gifford meant only to hold fifteen people, to shake off the stress of the work-week. And the theme to these nights of decadence and toasts ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Initiated in the 1970s, Middlebury's pre-architecture program may be young compared to many of the college's other majors, departments and programs, but what it lacks in age, it makes up for in enthusiasm. This year, the program is perhaps more visible than ever. Between the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Middlebury '99 alumnus Jon-Eric Borgen played his first performance at the Gamut Room in the basement of Gifford in 1996. Now working in Boston and fresh off the success of his latest album The General Store, he speaks to The Campus about the impact music has had on his life ...
Author: BENJAMIN GOLZE Yee-haw! The new music has been rolling in like cattle at feeding time. So hang on to your chaps: it's time for a new music round-up.The Flaming Lips - At War With the MysticsThis sucker is arguably the heavyweight of the season, and it will be interesting to see how people react ...
Author: JOE BERGAN Every film critic in America spent much of the past month scrutinizing the Wachowski Brothers' newest film, "V for Vendetta." Although the images of "terrorism" within the film are striking, what really matters is it's fresh take on the superhero genre. The story follows V (Hugo Weaving), ...
Author: Joyce Man Two years ago, the Johnson Building saw rounds of wine served to the mellow tunes of the Dick Forman Jazz Group transform its interior into a vibrant, schmoozy social space. This weekend, Jean Paul Carlhian's brutalist cement interiors play host again to another event organized by ...
Author: Ellen Grafton The senior work of Lucas Kavner '06.5 and Daniel di Tomasso '06 proved to be well worth the buzz it had accumulated. The show, presented in the Hepburn Zoo March 30 through April 1, was originally directed by Guest Professor of Theater Alex Draper, but the final direction was by ...
Author: JOYCE MAN This week, our managing editor commented on this column, saying "It's pretty high-brow." It made me think. At the beginning, this was intended as a regular spot for discussing big arts beyond small Middlebury. So, I wonder if we have neglected to take our high brows to the low-down ...
Author: Rachel Greenhaus Last Sunday, Middlebury College's community had an opportunity to hear the world-renowned Tallis Scholars in Mead Chapel. The group, made up of five women and five men, is visiting as part of their 2006 US tour. For their concert at Middlebury they performed a set rather uncharacteristic ...
Author: Caitlyn Ottinger Artist in Residence Ken Ragsdale comes to Middlebury from Albany, N.Y., where he lives and works. In 2005, he received his M.F.A. at University at Albany, State University of New York. A painter, sculptor and photographer, Ragsdale is ever-building a body of work based primarily ...
Author: Bri Cavallaro Acclaimed Writer-in-Residence Julia Alvarez '71 talks about her new novel "Saving the World." Alvarez has published many a celebrated novel, such as "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" and "A Cafecito Story" as well as several collections of poetry and has garnered numerous ...
Author: ALEXXA GOTTHARDT New York's got class. LA's got hype. Chicago's got the blues. And Miami has…what? Sun shining upon endless stretches of sand, silicone and sex. Streets where artifice and excess reign; where the rich and the poor are not just blocks, but worlds apart; and where sunglasses, ...
Author: Joyce Man Legend has it that one khan, or ruler, ordained that any bearer of bad news should have his head cut off. One day, this khan's most beloved horse died, but no one had the courage to convey this news to him. Finally, a musician came and, through the sad sound of his performance, relayed ...