“Etiquette,” a performance hosted by the Smith College Department of Dance, offers a striking, unconventional approach to performance.
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Hearing that the “girth of the elephant's cock is staggering” was not what I anticipated hearing on a Thursday night. But then again, nothing that happened in this reading was even slightly predictable.
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.”
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.
Queuing in front of the box office, the audience was restless. All felt that the concert was a sign of revitalization.
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.
當我抵達Amherst College本季首次由學生電台WAMH主辦的現場音樂表演時，我發現大家都沒什麼意願玩樂。Amherst College花費了數千元搭建舞台、架設燈光和極佳的音響系統、以及邀請從DC遠道而來的表演者—然而觀眾們依然只是席地而坐在距離表演20碼遠的小山坡上。
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.
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.
Before the Pearl Street Nightclub doors opened at 7:30 p.m., concert-goers huddled under awnings for shelter from the rain. The suboptimal weather conditions did nothing to hamper the excitement. In the next hour before the live performance began, there were plenty of people crowding into the intimate venue and singing along to pre-show music.