Ellen Bryant Voigt's readings are intimate affairs. She makes eye contact with the audience and she washes the crowd with the warmth of her still-Southern accent, mellowed by her years in Vermont. The Abernethy Room is particularly conducive to her style of reading — the small space, warm wood and ...
Author: Suzie Mozes Even the most casual students donned navy coats and patterned ties or ruffly skirts and heels as they came out on Saturday evening to support the "Fifty Faces of Middlebury" exhibition, which presented the work of Morley McBride '02 and Jen Bloomer '02 in Johnson Memorial Building.After ...
Author: Kate Prouty "Daughter of a Pacifist Soldier," performed this weekend in the Middlebury College Dance Theater, asked difficult questions of its audience and demanded that its performers investigate sensitive subject matter. The performance presented a remarkably thoughtful consideration of the ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller A man dressed in traditional shtetl costume walks softly forward out of the woods. He greets us in Russian, Yiddish and English with a caution that we should only follow him into his world if our hearts are open and our eyes and ears are ready to take in every possible sensation.So ...
Author: Crystalyn Radcliffe Our society is afraid of what it does not understand. We call this fear by many names: racism, sexism, homophobia — fear of anything that is different. We do not understand because we cannot see the other side. We feel threatened by what lies outside the norm and prefer ...
Author: Abbie Beane Little red berets, thin moustaches and other stereotypical articles of French costume were unnecessary last Sunday as the talent displayed by Matapat, a traditional Québecois musical group, provided more than sufficient entertainment. The band, which put on a free performance to ...
Author: Ingrid Erickson Despite recurrent technical difficulties, the fourth annual Christian A. Johnson Symposium in the History of Art and Architecture last Saturday was an engaging event featuring student and faculty artists alike.Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture ...
Author: Sean Hoskins The signs at the entrance to the Flynn Center's main stage Friday night read, "There will be a strobe light and a gunshot in the performance." The warnings were just the first indication of what was to come. Confrontational lighting effects and audio sounds marked this risky performance ...
Author: Kate Prouty Meet the CFAIf a liberal arts college encourages "that education take place both within and beyond the classroom," as Middlebury College's mission statement proposes, then having, and actively using, the Center for the Arts (CFA) is an integral part of the educational experience. ...
Author: Kate DeForest This week the College will be hosting readings for two notable authors: Ellen Bryant Voight, today, March 6 and Lew McCreary, on Thursday. McCreary's reading will be preceded by a screening of the film "Minus Man," based upon McCreary's novel of the same title, and willshown tonight. ...
Author: Joshua Howe For those of you wondering what became of Middlebury College's progressive indie-emo band, Hijack the Disco, lead vocalist Mike Mahony '02 has a message for you: "Hijack is back." After a mysterious five-month hiatus, the Middlebury foursome re-emerged last Friday night at Burlington's ...
Author: Claire Bourne In a walled-in metropolis, where does one find a place to breathe, to live, to fly? Mattheson, the main character in last weekend's theater production "Concentration City," believes the answer lies beyond the city limits, in a space described as the Terminal Beach. Suffocating ...
Author: [no author name found] Arts:Paintings by Ken Leslie, "Space + Time," Flynn Theater, Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, March 15 - May 4 (Sat. 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.) FREEDance:Jane Comfort & Company, Flynn Theater, Fri. March 8 (8 p.m.), $25.50/$20.50 Pre-performance lecture, Amy E. Tarrant Gallery (6:30 ...
Author: Richard Lawless Opening with a somewhat rusty and tuneless introduction by the orchestra, the Middlebury College Musical Players' rendition of Frank Loesser's "How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying" was off to a rough start. Yet the performance was saved by the extraordinary energy ...
Author: Andrew Zrike When bands lose their chief singer and songwriter, they often break up or disappear into rock 'n' roll obscurity. Strangefolk's performance last Friday night at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel in Providence, R.I., however, made it evident this is not the case with this Vermont-based band. ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller Every year colleges from nine regions across the country send their most talented dancers and choreographers to the American College Dance Festival (ACDF). The culmination of this festival, for the lucky few groups selected by adjudicators, is an invitation to perform at the ...
Author: Bryan McQuade and Michael Lackey Since bursting onto the scene in 1974, guitarist Pat Metheny has been at the forefront of creativity and innovation in contemporary jazz. From his days as an 18-year- old music teacher at the University of Miami, to his work with the Pat Metheny Group's core ...
Author: Andrew Zrike and Bryan McQuade Two years ago Weezer, the hugely successful California-based rock band of the early 1990s, had completely disappeared from the charts. The band had not released an album since their 1996 commercially disastrous album "Pinkerton," and following frontman Rivers Cuomo's ...
Author: Laura Rockefeller During last weekend's Winter Carnival festivities, a show playing in the Hepburn Zoo served as a subtle reminder of the turmoil that continues in the world outside of Middlebury College.The 20-minute dance piece "IVLIVS," directed by Nick Vail '02, adapted from and inspired ...
Author: Abbie Beane Last week's Winter Carnival kickoff event brimmed with fairy tales, juicy cuts of meat, tall cakes, African lore and fiery dancing.As a prelude to the various festivities of the Cultural Arts Gala, held in the Center for the Arts (CFA) on Feb. 21, many Middlebury College students, ...