Former theater professor Carol Dunne doesn’t mind a full plate. In her first season as artistic director at White River Junction’s Northern Stage theater, she directed “White Christmas,” helped organize a play reading festival and announced a capital campaign to build a new theater.
It takes six months to secure permission to shoot in the Tower Room, as a production trio discovered this summer.
Those looking to start out their Green Key with rowdy crowds should look no further than One Wheelock tonight, where Yarn, a Brooklyn-based alt-country and Americana band, will take the stage. Frontman Blake Christiana said he enjoys audiences who get active during shows. "Last month a guy jumped onstage, but then he just kind of stood there," Christiana said.
Masanosuke Kondo When Michelle Berlinger '13 broke her back at age of 12, she turned to jewelry to keep herself from going stir-crazy.
A math major who transferred from community college to Dartmouth, creates films in his spare time and sports an impressive mountain-man beard might sound like a description of a quirky film character.
You might not have noticed an attempted outdoor concert on Baker Lawn this past winter, when it was 12 degrees outside.
Natalie Cantave / The Dartmouth Staff While mild-mannered Jeremy Whitaker '15 astonished audiences with his energetic performance during the semifinals of "Dartmouth Idol," audiences might be even more surprised to hear that he thought he would never make it to the finals, "There were a lot of really good people this year," he said.
Although Dartmouth students pride themselves in tackling challenges of many forms, from academic to athletic to artistic, few can say they have faced live bears and lived to tell about it. Students in film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff's introductory videomaking class spent the winter producing a documentary about Ben Kilham, a local scientist and farmer from Lyme who is raising and studying 27 orphaned black bear cubs.
Purgatory, colleges and hotel rooms might seem to have little in common, but these are just a few of the settings that will appear in tonight's 10-minute play festival.
Eccentric students are to be found everywhere on campus, and many of them graduate and take on projects where their quirks come in handy after graduation.