Last Friday, a group of improv actors and comedians from across campus came together to perform a set of stand-up comedy for students. The show featured Middlebrow improv actors Luke Smith-Stevens ’14.5, Bryan Shpall ’13 and Tom Califra ’14, along with Otter Nonsense comedians Adam Benay ‘14 ...
As the lights diminish, movement and prose skillfully unite. A dancer pirouettes through the stage in a red velvet dress as a voice narrates, “spinning, arms out, twirled like a reflection of a figure skater … 18, 19, 20 revolutions … arms out … Bronx sky … body in a perfect torso ...
This weekend, the Middlebury Bach Festival will celebrate its third year, offering a variety of events about the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach to the community on April 26-28. The festival was started in 2011 by Associate Professor of Music Jeffrey Buettner and his wife Jessica Allen, who were ...
“Save me!” yelled the avatar of a complete stranger. The Harpy overhead flapped its massive wings looking for its next victim to devour with a devastating multi-hit combo that would demolish more HP bars. My other two teammates had begun to use their summoning or transformation spells. Since these ...
On Friday, April 12, Paul Donnelly ’15, Matei Epure ’16 and Chris Matteri ’13 travelled to Siena College in Loudonville, New York, to compete in the 18th annual Conference of the Northeast Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges (CCSCNE 2013). The three Middlebury students ...
In his class "Segregation in America: Baseball’s Negro Leagues," Emeritus Dean of Advising and Assistant Professor of American Studies Karl Lindholm does not spend an inordinate amount of time discussing Jackie Robinson. Though he acknowledges the Robinson story is “the greatest there is,” he’s ...
The Middlebury Campus got a chance to talk with Paula Bogutyn ’14, director and producer, as well as Jordan Ashleigh Jones ’13, costume designer, of The Igloo Settlement, a student-produced play written by Daniel Sauermilch ’13. Inspired by the Occupy movement, the play explored notions of American ...
As the 2013 Middlebury Solar Decathlon team continues its construction on the InSite house in Ridgeline parking lot, the “Solar D Update” presents the second half of its preview of October’s competition with a look at the next five contests that comprise the 10-event decathlon. Last month, past ...
On Friday, April 12, the dance department presented their rehearsal of “Dance, Music, Light: Performance Improvisation,” which will take place on May 3 and 4. Penny Campbell, senior lecturer in dance, discussed how dancers, musicians and a stage lighting designer study improvisation. During the ...
Punk rock may never die – and it is certainly still alive today – but punk rockers eventually grow up. Way out in southern California, where burnout skaters have been churning out snotty noise rock cuts drenched in distorted reverb and don’t-give-a-f*** demeanors with steady consistency over the ...
Walking out of Davis Family Library the other day, I overheard a professor consoling a frantic senior with the following: “What you’ve got to keep in mind about your thesis is that it’s your first work, not your last one." His comment brought to mind a line from Plato’s Symposium that discusses ...
Tomorrow evening, Davis Anderson ’13, Jessica Lee ’13 and Hannah Pierce ’13 will present their senior work in the Senior Thesis Dance Concert. Each artist’s work has a distinct approach and subject matter, all exploring personal connections to various dimensions of the contemporary human. Pierce ...
Inside the Pepin Gymnasium on Friday night, with stage lights blazing in all directions, hundreds of students aglow crowded around the stage, feet moving to the beat, hands reaching for a leather-jacketed band-boy with more cool strut than flashy flaunt. Hip-hop duo Timeflies blasted the house ...
The tale of Cinderella is one well known throughout the world. In the classic story, a fairy godmother transforms Cinderella into a beautiful girl, a spell that will fade when the clock strikes midnight. She goes to the ball where the Prince falls in love with her, but runs away to make her ...
“Ladies and gentleman of Radio Land, it is six o’ clock. The sun has set. Soon darkness will be all around. Yes it is six o’clock and evening has fallen, an evening of thrills and suspense.” For nearly eight years, every Saturday night, these words have been broadcasted from WRMC’s ...
“17 ½”, the senior acting thesis of Sumire Doi ’13 and Rachel Goodgal ’13, opened last Thursday in the Hepburn Zoo. It featured nine scenes from eight writers, among which Doi wrote a monologue. “17 ½ is a breaking stage,” Doi said, “half is the state of in between, and the play is ...
Last Friday and Saturday, March 15-16, Professor of Dance Christal Brown and the INSPIRIT dance troupe performed her dance piece, titled “Opulence of Integrity.” A production nearly two years in the making, “Opulence” sought to present the life and legend of world champion boxer Muhammad Ali ...
It was almost comical. One of the custodial staff was in the Battell bathroom as I brushed my teeth early one morning during winter term. “You haven’t seen a tree, have you?” she asked, peering into the shower stalls. “No, I haven’t,” I replied, both puzzled and bemused. Coincidentally, ...
The cheerful, vivacious Alexander Twilight Artist-in-Residence Francois Clemmons — decked out in Irish green tamed by his sparkling kaleidoscopic blazer — came out on stage toting a gold purse, pulling out all the stops as he opened the curtains for his last and 10th annual St. Patrick’s ...
Intimate communication appears to be a painful endeavor for the modern college student. Indeed, Trevor Powers was a senior at Boise State University when he began writing and recording highly personal tracks under the moniker Youth Lagoon as an outlet for his crippling anxiety and erratic mind. As such, ...