Author: Kate DeForest This year's fall presentation of student choreography, "New Dances," showed a strong trend toward conscientious and studied movement, "motion with meaning" as Amy Chavasse, resident artist in dance, so concisely put it. Composed of two to five dancers, the pieces represented the ...
Author: Yvonne Chen Every year students walk into McCullough Social Space to watch the highly anticipated variety show by Middlebury College's International Student Organization (ISO). This year, McCullough Social Space was transformed into a starry wonderland with metallic star-shaped balloons and ...
Author: Becca Kaufman Most Americans can make immediate associations when hearing the term jazz. It rouses feelings of musical freedom, artistic liberty, improvisation and experimentation that, in its creation, tested the boundaries of what music could be and do. Perhaps more than other styles of music, ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts EDitor "Bright Flight," the Silver Jews' new album recently released on Chicago-based Drag City simmers with warm, ready to eat, poetic Americana. Singer/song write and frontman David Berman brings the album to melancholic life with his lyrics and a new emphasis on instrumentals. ...
Author: Mike Csazar When one thinks of reggae music, the first group that comes to mind is most certainly Bob Marley and the Wailers. The band has been through more than most, considering the famous breakup in the early 1970s when the founders of the band, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh and Maley split up. ...
Author: Brittany Gill Saturday evening's Night of Black Culture was dynamic. It literally breathed life into its title, "Kaleidoscope: 'A Spectrum of Color.'" At 6 p.m. tin foil was removed from a row of fine fresh food for the soul from Taste of Dixie in Burlington. The crowd grew slowly, performers ...
Author: Emily Price Staff Writer The worlds of science and dance fell into synchronicity on Thursday Nov. 15, when Andrea Olsen, professor of dance, presented the Environmental Science Colloquium Series lecture in the CFA dance studio. The Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM) preformed selections from ...
Author: Padma Govindan Staff Writer "Fantastic! I absolutely loved it. Definitely going for a second time." "I never wanted the movie to end. I was actually depressed at the end when the lights came up." "It was so good. I really liked it." No, these are not the "just came out of the theater" audience ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts Editor The Middlebury College Choir performance featured mezzo-soprano Janice Harrison-Aikens Thursday, Nov. 15 in Mead Chapel. Although most pews were a bit empty, those who were gathered witnessed an evening of passionate gospel rare in New England. The voice of Harrison-Aikens ...
Author: Yvonne Chen Staff Writer Last week at the McCullough Social Space, Middlebury's Pan Caribbean Student Organization and Umoja came together to put on an original student performed play. This variety show, with 13 acts consisting of everything from student written and produced plays to African ...
Author: Freeman Lee White Staff Writer To those of you who did not see this Hepburn Zoo production, you missed out. The story of the play starts almost 500 years after August 1945, when earth's inhabitants were forced by nuclear fallout to take their culture below ground. The plot shows how the intertwining ...
Author: Becca Kaufman Staff Writer In November of 1998, Erin McKeown, Beth Amsel, Jess Klein and Rose Polenzani — four young, talented and eager musicians — found each other. They were, as they explained later, "voices on the verge"; that is, young performers ready to make it big on the folk scene. ...
Author: Sasha Gentling Audience members were left spellbound by the performance given by the great Czech pianist, Ivan Moravec, last Sunday in the CFA Concert Hall. For those who had seen Moravec's outstanding performance of all 24 Chopin Preludes at Middlebury in 1999, their presence at this recital ...
Author: Allison Quady Arts Editor Allison Quady: I'm sitting here with Anais Mitchell '04 in the radio station which we thought would be fitting, or inspirational, so Anais…Anais Mitchell: So, Allie...AQ: Tell me when you started playing.AM: Guitar? When I was a freshman in high school I started ...
Author: Bryan McQuade Staff Writer Phish guitarist Trey Anastasio, Primus bassist Les Claypool, and drummer Stewart Copeland, formerly of The Police, performed as Oysterhead on Saturday, Nov. 11, at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell, Massachusetts. The group has been performing nationally for the last month ...
Author: Becca Kaufman Staff Writer As part of the Library Program in the Abernathy Room on Wednesday, Nov. 7, Sue Ellen Thompson read a selection of poems from her most recent publication, "The Leaving." A Middlebury alumna and a frequent attendee of the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference as a Robert Frost ...
Author: Laura Isham Staff Writer This Saturday I went to a swing dance in McCullough. Plenty of people from the Footloose Club, as well as other students who knew how to swing dance, went to this event. There were many talented dancers there, and although this was simply a fun dance, not a performance, ...
Author: Marissa Anschutz There are those moments in your life when you witness something truly beautiful and you know, for that space in time, you are a part of something magical. These are the times when you look around the room and you see imagination and creativity exploding from every corner; when ...
Author: Yvonne Chen Staff Writer "I don't mean to spill my poison more than I ever have!" howls Roberta. She is one of the two lost and wretched lovers in the most recent production staged in the Zoo: John Patrick Shanley's "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea." Contrary to its the cutesy title, "Danny" is ...
Author: Andrew Brooks Staff Writer On Sunday night, Tim Miller's spectacular performance piece "Glory Box" was unleashed upon audiences in the McCullough social space. Movement and narrative became intertwined to form Miller's experience as a homosexual man in the United States and his fight for equal ...