Author: Colin Foss "Frozen" is a play about self-discovery, but not of the lighthearted Disney Channel variety. It focuses on the events following the arrest of a pedophilic serial murderer as well as on the people drawn to him and his disorder. It traces both an uncomfortable expedition into a diseased ...
Author: Melissa Marshall I am trading brown sweaters for worn linen, retiring Columbia boots for Madden flats, tired jeans for cotton dresses and my work ethic for three-hour meals on Battell Beach. And as I am restructuring my mood from hibernating bookworm to GPA-murdering social butterfly, I find ...
Author: Eleanor Johnstone On May 1, 2 and 3 Wright Theater will host a production of one of the most complex and challenging plays to grace any British or American stage. As the culminating theatrical experience in a three-year interdisciplinary grand symposium entitled "The Pathway to Religion in the ...
Author: John Patrick Allen From the very beginning, "Undercurrents" was unconventional. The stage was dominated by a low circular platform painted with a giant whirlpool of black, blue and gray, recalling a Japanese woodcut. There was no pre-show music - only silence. The play began abruptly with the ...
Author: Emily Temple Life is unfair. Good things happen to bad people, nice guys never get the girls, Pavement broke up and I am always, always stuck next to the crazy, flailing person at concerts. The MGMT concert at Higher Ground on April 13 was no different. In a sold-out crowd of high-schoolers, ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Students jonesing for something sweet and artificial left Kenyon Arena with a bad taste in their mouths on Saturday night. Headliners Cake - best known for their stunningly simple and highly addictive 1996 hit "The Distance" - undeniably proved their prowess as performers. But ...
Author: Melissa Marshall Adriane Medina's '08 moments at Middlebury are not just wounded on a string, they are coming down to the wire. While lacking modern dance experience when she first arrived on campus, the Florida has been an active participant in the dance troupe On Tap, translates her experience ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl The Pavel Haas String Quartet, named after the Czech composer who died in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex in 1944, seems to be comprised of four independent virtuosi , strung together by a common, vigorous interpretation. Thus, when they performed last Sat. ...
Author: Maddie Oatman syn·es·the·sia from the Greek (syn-) union, and (aesthesis) sensation; is the neurological mixing of the senses. A synesthete may, for example, hear colors, see sounds - and taste tactile sensations.The Algorithm for Literary TeamworkOn March 31, Italian author Roberto Bui gave ...
Author: Melissa Marshall The few, the proud are wearing their brown "Commons Crawl" T-shirts in the dining hall this week, showcasing their support for student music and the cultivation of short attention spans. And while most were not able to brand themselves with five different marker strokes representing ...
Author: Grace Duggan In a continuation of last semester's anti-war theme, as seen in Matt Pepper's "St. Crispin's Day," this past weekend included five performances of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata." First performed in 411 BCE, "Lysistrata" tells the story of the end of the Peloponnesian War. Lysistrata ...
Author: Robert McKay Sometimes in the middle of a play or dance performance, I get a twinge of ire at the article I have to write on it.?I've caught myself on the edge of my seat, but for the wrong reason - I'm poised like a cat at a mousehole, pen aimed at the performers, waiting for a good sentence ...
Author: Jonathan King OnTap, Middlebury's tap-dance troupe, energizes the McCullough stage with its spring show and performances at dance events throughout the year. The group undoubtedly draws its success from the versatility, experience and ambition of its members. The Campus talked with Kelly Bennion ...
Author: Ariela Yomtovian "Let's talk about penises," said Assistant Professor of Theatre and Director of Aristophanes' "Lysistrata" Claudio Medeiros '90 as he discussed the play at a preview lunch this past Monday. Performed for the first time around 410 BCE, "Lysistrata" takes place in Athens during ...
Author: Grace Duggan Born and raised in Austria, C.A. Johnson Artist-in-Residence Heimo Wallner attended the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts before going on to show his work in Austria as well as all over the United States, including New York City, San Antonio, Milwaukee's Hagerty Museum of Art and Amherst. ...
Author: Alexxa Gotthardt Today marks the second in a series of three lectures organized by the Studio Art Department. An over 20-year tradition for the department, the Visiting Artists Lecture Series seeks to enrich studio art students and art enthusiasts by bringing working artists from around the ...
Author: Melissa Marshall From broccoli and barbeque sauce melted in a Proctor panini to snow boots worn over springtime leggings to Shakespeare scholars rocking out geology classes, the Middlebury campus seems to be all about mixing the incongruous. So I suppose the success of mashup artist Girl Talk's ...