It has been a year and half since the curtains rose and the spotlight shone at Hallie Flanagan Studio Theater, but this lull in live productions didn’t stop the Smith Theatre Department from putting on a show-stopping rendition of Christin Eve Cato’s “Stoop Pigeons.”
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As dancers navigated the runways with clean lines, leaps and spiraling torsos, a distant voiceover listed off indiscriminate dates, which would continue intermittently throughout the performance: March 13, 16, all the way to Oct. 18 of the following year. It was with the listing off of these dates that I realized “Afterwardsness” was a pandemic project.
You can listen to their music on Spotify through your earbuds or on a speaker, but to be face to face with Matthews, dancing in unison, is clearly how this music is meant to be heard.
Queuing in front of the box office, the audience was restless. All felt that the concert was a sign of revitalization.
The WOZQ radio DJs have an active and inviting arrangement of shows for this semester, and being in person has helped them thrive and be…
A line of people extended into the street in front of Northampton’s Masonic Street Laundromat Saturday, Oct. 23. These people were not waiting to wash their linens. Rather, they were in line to attend the opening night of an art show, put on by Amrita Acharya ’23J, being displayed in the space.
The book is saturated with visceral imagery. Focusing heavily on the body, Van Campen often returns to images of blood, starvation, eating and movement. Her work is heavily detailed; specific, concrete moments burst through and add clarity to some of the more abstract poems.
This week, I had the privilege of attending three vastly different live performances in Northampton.
The Boutelle-Day Poetry Center hosted the second guest poet of the Fall 2021 Reading Series, Jenny Johnson, a writer known for her exploration of queer identity in relation to nature and reality.