Author: Erika Mercer Picture a dark, smoky ballroom. Picture it in black and white. It's early morning and there are only a few solitary people left sitting around, each shrouded in smoke and floating in whiskey. The floor is dirty and the windows are draped with heavy, velvet curtains, but the room ...
Author: Colin Penley and Katrina Uhl The week before classes, a few dedicated dancers re-entered the world of the Center for the Arts for a pre-semester workshop with Luis Tentindo, a dancer from New York.Over the next three days, he led us in a test of strength, dedication and will-power. Each morning ...
Author: Kate Prouty Welcome to Middlebury College. Open your door, open your mind, head down the hill and find yourself at the College's own Museum of Art. Tucked in a far corner of the Center for the Arts (CFA), the Museum may be one of the College's most impressive but untapped resources. The Museum ...
Author: Kate Prouty Middlebury College's annual Clifford Symposium scheduled for next weekend has more to celebrate this year than ever before. Designed to launch the academic year into a turbulence of discussion over the selected subject matter, this year's Symposium also gets to blow out birthday ...
Author: Abbie Beane Serving as the perfect venue for experienced performers, artistic hopefuls, unabashed rookies and all those in between, "24 Hours of Art" promises to satisfy anyone with a voracious artistic appetite. Celebrating the Center for the Arts' (CFA) 10th anniversary, "24 Hours of Art" ...
Author: Scott Palmer The brackets for the Division III Men's Tennis National Championships were released on Monday, and the Middlebury Panthers will be hosting one of two New England Regionals this weekend. This is the first time in school history that the tennis team has made the prestigious National ...
Author: Andy Zrike On Friday night, the trio known as Guster returned to Middlebury College to headline the Middlebury College Activity Board (MCAB) spring concert. Playing for an hour and a half, the popular group played a set that included several classics and fan favorites in addition to some new ...
Author: Abbie Beanne On the first clear, warm night in several days, the air was laden with spirited energy, infectious sexuality and Jamaican chicken. Amidst marble-colored clusters of balloons strung with iridescent ribbon, black and silver draperies and tasty foreign food stood an enormous crowd ...
Author: Claire Bourne The collapse of the New York City skyline and the devastation incurred at the Pentagon on the crisp, blue morning of Sept. 11 left many speechless. Some, however, soon found a voice by picking up a pen and jotting down thoughts on paper. Words turned into phrases and phrases into ...
Author: Jen Greenfield 5/7/02 3:37 p.m. (live)Me: "Did 9/11 affect your work as an artist?"Greg: "Nope."Me: "Is Middlebury an apathetic community?"He: "Yup."Me: "Do you read The Campus?"He: "Yeah, uh, no, uh sometimes." 5/7/02 3:43 p.m. (recorded)Me: "Did 9/11 affect your work as an artist?"He: "Nope."Me: ...
Author: Elizabeth Logue Things had returned to normalcy in Manhattan for the most part. What was perhaps the greatest tragedy our nation has ever known had, somehow, evolved into an amalgam of Sept. 11 exhibits, concerts and memorials that seemed to have always been part of the city's landscape. Then, ...
Author: [no author name found] Alex Rhinehart '05, Adam Rahal '05, David Bernay '04 and Whitney Whiken '02, members of Assistant Professor of German Bettina Matthias' class Vienna 1900, won the Annual German Theater Competition at Mt. Holyoke College for their performance of "Anatols Groessenwhan" on ...
Author: Kate Prouty A petite dancer unlaces profoundly weighted combat boots from her feet, places them at the front of the stage and begins a thoughtful dance inspired by the World War II veteran she has been interviewing for months. Using movements as her words she retells his story, respectfully ...
Author: Freeman White This past weekend in the Hepburn Zoo, two of Middlebury's senior theater majors, Susie Carter '02.5 and Jennie Luening '02 crafted their final independent theater project, "Babbelon," into an exploration of language. The languages explored included eye contact, Turkish, inspiration ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller In the face of suffering as great as that which swept the United States after Sept. 11, many people feel, as student actor and director Joe Varca '02 said, "that you just wish — and you think — the world will stop. There should be no classes; there should be no attempt ...
Author: Lanford Beard What exactly is a fairy tale? What does a fairy tale offer to societies and individuals?This past weekend, Andrew Boyer '02 attempted to answer some of these questions with a modern perspective in the premiere of his senior independent work, "The Fairy Tale Project: The Terrible ...
Author: Suzanne Mozes The internationally-acclaimed Gidon Kremer graced Middlebury College's stage at the Center for the Arts on Saturday night. This Latvian-born violinist began studying music at age four with his father and grandfather, both of whom were accomplished string players. He enrolled in ...
Author: Raam Wong "This is a truly defining historical moment. It will be a part of our collective memory forever." The spirit of these words, part of a speech delivered by President John McCardell on Sept. 11, is echoed in the sentiments and artistic visions detailed in the articles below. Though removed ...
Author: Richie Lawless Vermont may not be the most likely place for a rock festivital. But the unlikely will become a reality this Saturday, when WRMC holds its annual concert Sepomana. The festivities kick off at 11 a.m. on the Voter lawn with rollicking performances by Middlebury student and alumni ...
Author: Jasmin Johnson The Middlebury College Orchestra (MCO) celebrated popular operas at its last concert of the year. On Friday at the Center for the Arts Concert Hall, they played to an appreciative crowd of almost 190 people, competeing heavily with visting big-name band Guster.MCO is to be much ...