African pop diva Angelique Kidjo recently brought an international crowd of 7,000 people to their feet, dancing together to an upbeat song about global peace and harmony at the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway. This is just what Kidjo does, seamlessly entertaining and provoking social ...
Hip-hop “choreopoem” “Word Becomes Flesh” played to a packed Wright Theater on Friday, Sept. 20 and Saturday, Sept. 21, preceded by student spoken word poets and followed by a talkback moderated by dance department faculty chair Christal Brown. The first of the Performance Art Series’ 2013-2014 ...
On Sept. 7, Joe Kloc wrote on The Daily Dot about the New York Times’ coverage of recent revelations about the National Security Agency’s (NSA) access to online banking records. “If in fact the agency did crack the encryption schemes used for bank transactions (the Times is somewhat unclear ...
The era of indie rock is dwindling. Thirty years or so is a good run, all things considered; but the young teens of today simply aren’t interested in taking the time to hone their six-string skills for the heartthrobs of freshman year creative writing class when more immediately accessible instruments ...
With school back in session, the student tides across campus have returned. The hushed conversations and echoing footsteps in the Tormondsen Great Hall of McCardell Bicentennial Hall rapidly build into a crescendo of babbling voices as students flood out of classrooms between class periods. Just as ...
It can be intimidating to step into a professor’s office. With complex computer algorithms scribbled on black boards and overflowing shelves filled with worn books, the causes of intimidation are vast. Speaking with PhDs about their area of specialty and intense focus can be a daunting experience ...
Blue Jasmine is a distortion and finally an erosion of the familiar Woody Allen character study, a film that is smart and unrelenting, but flawed. This is still a movie inseparably tied to Woody Allen – the jazz soundtrack and the basic Allen idiosyncrasies remain. The titular Jasmine (Cate Blanchett) ...
Al Schnier and Vinnie Amico are Buffalo-born musicians who, for over two decades, have been playing with one of the premier American jam bands, moe. — a group that sounds a bit like the Grateful Dead if they played a few sessions with Les Claypool. When these two powerful musicians joined forces with ...
In case anyone was wondering, the litmus test for giving an artist free reign to spit outright venomous obscenities that pass unexamined by the critical eye is being really, really clever -- a 16-year-old Earl Sweatshirt proved as much back in 2010 on his semi-eponymous debut mixtape. One has to wonder ...
A new theater opportunity for actors and theatergoers alike is coming to Middlebury this season through The Company at Town Hall Theater, a new acting company that will bring musical theater and paid acting jobs to students and members of the Middlebury community. They will start their inaugural season ...
Middlebury has always exposed students to a unique mixture of the arts, boasting world class performances and exhibitions alongside inspired faculty and student artists, but this fall, the arts at Middlebury promise to be particularly exciting. Featuring options from every genre of the arts, this semester’s ...
It always warms my heart when I stumble upon an indie gem as these games tend to offer vastly different experiences than from your typical AAA release. They will be cheaper, usually offer a unique visual style and feel more like a video game due to their lack of cut scenes, dynamic cameras or other ...
Soon the campus will empty. Dorm rooms will be stripped down and cleared out, cars will be packed, Commencement caps will fly in the air and the academic year will be done. The custodial staff will busy themselves scrubbing the campus from top to bottom, and then Language Schools will open their doors. ...
As the spring semester winds down, the 2013 Middlebury Solar Decathlon team’s work is just beginning. Twenty-one team members, comprised of students and recent graduates, are set to begin work the day after Memorial Day (May 28) to complete the design and construction of the InSite house before an ...
Last Sunday, the Middlebury Film Society hosted a screening of “Syrup,” an edgy comedy set in the cut-throat world of advertising, based off of the best-selling novel of the same name by Max Barry. The film was produced in part by Middlebury alumni Aaron Becker ’10, Shane Mandes ’10 and Baird ...
On May 3 and 4 an ensemble of dancers and musicians presented “Music, Dance, Light: Performance Improvisation” at the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts Dance Theater. The performance was the capstone experience for a group of students enrolled in Senior Lecturer in Dance Penny Campbell’s ...
This past Thursday through Saturday, May 2 through 4, the College’d theatre program presented the play “The Castle: A Triumph” by contemporary British playwright Howard Barker in the Seeler Studio at Mahaney Center for the Arts. The college website says the play is “blasting with humor, bawdiness, ...
“Oblivion” is the result of some macabre thought-experiment, wherein every device necessary to tell an effective story is eliminated in favor of Tom Cruise’s face and the basic tropes of pop science fiction. It’s a structure that broaches questions about why we care about science fiction in ...
The third annual Middlebury Bach Festival celebrated the life and music of Johann Sebastian Bach with a variety of concerts and information sessions April 26-28. This year’s festival was the most ambitious and well-attended to date, succeeding in presenting a challenging and diverse repertoire and ...
I was browsing the Sites Dot Middlebury blog, “Core and Change in the Liberal Arts,” — an online hub for this conversation on campus — and I noticed that there has been no conversation about science requirements on campus, despite the proposed discussion topic. Well, I would like to weigh into ...