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'Tharp!' recital infuses ballet, modern dance

By Shay Lawrence | January 20, 1997

"Tharp!," a program featuring choreographer Twyla Tharp and her 14-member troupe, dazzled audience members for two performances this weekend at the Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center. With their graceful pirouettes, stunning lifts and sensual dancing, "Tharp!" dancers seemed to ooze talent, while completing extremely physically-challenging choreography. Tharp's newly-formed dance troupe fought a continuing battle between classicism and romanticism, ballet and modern dance, in premiering their three new works: "66," "Heroes" and "Sweet Fields." "66," Tharp's interpretation of the fabled highway set to bachelor-pad music by Juan Garcia Esquivel and others, opened the performance.

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The Roots blow up Webster Hall

By Arika L. Easley | January 20, 1997

Hip-hop purists, The Roots, descended on a capacity-filled Webster Hall last Thursday night and presented their energetic concert to screaming College students and visitors. Beginning with an opening band from Boston, Down Low Connection, the concert really started when members of The Roots -- Rahzel, ?uestlove, Kamal and lyricist Black Thought -- took to the stage. Rahzel had the audience in the constant state of awe as he demonstrated his phenomenal human beat boxing techniques. He was able to beat box, sing many popular tunes and sound as if he were scratching a record, all without missing a beat or losing a breath. ?uestlove certainly demonstrated his talent on the drums and wooed the audience by closing his eyes during his solo performance. Kamal charmed the audience with his keyboard of playing the keys with his tongue. Lastly, the group's lyricist Black Thought managed to lead the crowd in the singing of favorite hip-hop songs from the past, while performing selections from The Roots latest and past LP releases. The Roots certainly presented their affinity and love for hip-hop music by singing and rapping many classic hip-hop favorites from such artists as LL Cool J and Run DMC.

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Roger Smith presents 'Get on the Bus'

By Jill Hunter | January 20, 1997

Actor Roger Guenveur Smith honored Dartmouth this weekend by presenting his work in film and theater as a part of the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Throughout the weekend, Smith showed two of his films, "Do the Right Thing" and "Get On the Bus," performed his solo work "A Huey P.

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Yale University historian discusses artists' books

By David Horowitz | January 16, 1997

Johanna Drucker, professor of contemporary art at Yale University delivered a lecture yesterday titled "The Artist's Book: From Historical Precedence to Electronic Possibility" accompanied by a slide presentation and book display at 105 Dartmouth Hall to a small audience. The lecture was the second in the series,"Books and the Imaginary," sponsored by the Eighth Annual Dartmouth College Humanities Research Institute. The artist's books is created as a primary work of art, meaning that the text, pictures, paper, cover and binding together in their original form constitutes each work.

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Novelist reads at Sanborn today

By Kelly Sidley | January 16, 1997

Dartmouth College welcomes a New Hampshire-born fiction writer to the campus. The Department of English presents a prose reading by the novelist Laurie Alberts, who will read from her latest book "The Price of Land in Shelby" this afternoon. Alberts actually has strong ties to the town of Hanover.

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Forum addresses arts role in communities

By Antony Hudek | January 15, 1997

As Pablo Delano, this term's artist-in-residence, explained in 13 Carpenter yesterday, he wished to bring together four artists whose determination in participating in their community offers an alternative to the proverbial conception of the artist as a toiling and asocial genius. For Delano, Antonio Martorell, Nitza Tufino and Ralph Lee, "mission" and "vocation" have become synonyms for "art." Each one of these artists told different stories, yet they all partake in the same ideal.

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Mummenschanz appeals to younger generations

By Shay Lawrence | January 14, 1997

Mummenschanz, the celebrated visual theatre trio entertained both young and old last night at the Moore Theater in the Hopkins Center with a combination of mime, dance, puppetry and visual trickery. Founded in the early 1970's, Mummenschanz has appeared throughout the Americas, Europe, the former Soviet Union, Japan and Israel.

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