Author: Dana Walters Judith Dry '09 built her senior work, "A Black Tie Affair," upon a large foundation of cross-dressing in the arts. Since Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," identity and gender confusion have been a staple of theater and film. Charlie Chaplin, Tony Curtis and Dustin Hoffman all donned ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez MOVIE: Eyes Wide ShutDIRECTOR: Stanley KubrickSTARRING: Tom Cruise, Nicole KidmanI've reviewed films for this paper for about a year and a half. Since taking up this post, I have been asked for my favorite film on a weekly basis. I get the impression that people ask this of all ...
Author: [no author name found] Jack Reed '10 and Jennifer Yamane '09 recently exhibited selected works from their Advanced Independent Study in Studio Art. Their collaboration was shown in the Johnson Gallery for the week of April 26. Emily Stephens interviewed Reed and Yamane about the process and ...
Author: [no author name found] On Saturday, May 2, the Department of Theatre and Dance presented a program of new dance compositions at the Dance Theatre in the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts. "The Newcomers' Piece," choreographed by Tiffany Rhynard, which included performances by Artist-in-Residence ...
Author: [no author name found] Led by Director of Choral Activities Jeffrey Buettner and Women's Glee Club Director Jessica Allen, the Middlebury College Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club and College Choir gave a concert on Saturday, May 2, in the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts Concert Hall. ...
Author: Michael Nevadomski Last week, staff writer Dana Walters provided a perhaps overly laudatory "sneak peek" into this weekend's production of "The Europeans," one of Howard Barker's infamously difficult "theater of catastrophe" pieces. First produced in 1990 by Barker's own company, "the Wrestling ...
Author: Emma Stanford On Saturday, May 2, a packed crowd in the Ch
Author: Andrew Throdahl Ellen Flanagan '09 was honored this year as the recipient of the Joyce and Alan Beucher 2009 Concerto Competition, and she performed the first movement of the Sibelius Violin Concerto with the College Orchestra last Friday, April 24. Andrew Throdahl sat down with Flanagan to ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez As a film student and cinephile I can say without hesitation that, in my opinion, some of best and most interesting films made come from American independent cinema. I can also say without hesitation that American independent cinema is changing, and not for the better. American ...
Author: Nathan Klozko I had always thought that those late-night cries of "I should be studying!" were just the frustrated side-effects of procrastination. "The Vagina Monologues" certainly corrected my perception of that. Under the guidance of directors Jeanine Buzali '09 and Samantha Collier '09 and ...
Author: Alex Blair "I've got the blood of the land in my voice," the soon-to-be 68-year-old Bob Dylan growls on a cut off his new album, "Together Through Life." His famous croon (infamous for some) has never sounded more weathered, but that worn-out, earthy tone lends itself beautifully to a collection ...
Author: Dana Walters "The Europeans" defies description. Even the actors struggled to find the right words to encapsulate Howard Barker's play, which opens in Seeler Studio Theatre on April 30. Remarks about "art," "catastrophe," "morality" and "love" flew around backstage, but no single term was all-encompassing. ...
Author: Catherine Ahearn Jane Eddy, a local studio potter, connects local, small town ideals and international curiosity with her bursting creativity. Her studio, tucked away on Main Street, is an eclectic space filled with Eddy's different creative undertakings. In fact, Eddy built the studio herself ...
Author: Jameson Studwell Just weeks after Vermont passed a bill affirming same-sex marriage rights, Middlebury welcomed "Bare: A Pop Opera," put on by the Middlebury College Musical Players, to the Town Hall Theater. The plot of "Bare" follows the tragic love story of Jason and Peter, two students ...
Author: Jason Gutierrez Movie: The VisitorDirector: Thomas McCarthyApril is lame. I'm sorry if you have some kind of attachment to April, but it sucks. The weather is always lousy. The ground is always vaguely brown and a bit wet. The skiing is only good for the first weekend or two. Most importantly, ...
Author: Robert McKay "The Otherwise Forgotten," senior work of Yina Ng '09 and Simon Thomas-Train '09, broke boundaries between dance, theater and video this weekend at the Kevin P. Mahaney '84 Center for the Arts. The program's three dances and two films appeared disjointed to some in the audience, ...
Author: Andrew Throdahl Ivan Moravec, one of the great pianists of the 20th century, settled on the concert hall stage last Sunday, April 19, like a grandfather about to tell a story to his grandchildren. His program was dominated by children's pieces and pieces with a folkloristic yearning for childhood. ...
Author: Melissa Marshall No, faithful readers - yes, I'm addressing all five of you (hi, Mom!) - I have not gracefully stepped down from my independently-labeled soapbox. If you've seen me walking in the dining halls, you'll know that first, gracefulness is not my forte, and second, I am not able to ...
Author: Sam Dungan Architect Andrew Corrigan '02.5, now 29 and working in Boston, gave a lecture on Monday, April 13, titled "A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Architecture in the Age of Uncertainty." In it, he discussed his experience after leaving Middlebury, as well as his thoughts on the role ...
Author: Alex Blair Power pop is not dead. That most infectious sound with its crunchy guitars, crisp vocal harmonies and catchy melodies is still hanging around. Even though Weezer, one of the genre's most successful and long lasting acts, is running out of steam both creatively and commercially, in ...