Dancers "fly six directions" but show never falls
by Arianne Bergman '13
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT CONTRIBUTOR
The dance “Tobi Roppo (1986),” whose name was inspired by a Kabuki term meaning “flying in six directions,” was the opening piece of the Spring Dance Concert, held on March 4 and 5.
“Flying in six directions” signified the readiness of the performers to move in any direction. The piece was broken into four poetically titled parts: “first you see a flash,” “then you feel the heat,” “and then there is nothing,” and finally “rebirth.” Senior Linda Lam’s solo for “and then there is nothing” was both peaceful and stirring; every dancer gave a committed performance to this highly conceptual piece.
Another piece, “The Slave Trader’s Daughter,” was dark and haunting. From the opening moment—two girls sitting, illuminated by their desk lamps, with a man between them whipping at the ground—to the end—a freeze just as one of the women is about to stab one of the men—the piece kept the audience on their toes. See more
Noted poets add
worldly charm to poetry
by Taylor Coe '13
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
On Saturday, April 2, in conjunction with a New Orleans-style brunch in Opus 1, poet Nicole Cooley will be reading out of her collection Breach, which deal with the reality of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Only a year after the hurricane, New Orleans native Nicole Cooley walked past the Big Easy’s iconic Camellia Grill—still closed in the aftermath of the hurricane—and noticed the hundreds of Post-It notes covering the building. Someone had left a bucket of Post-It notes and a marker with the message, “Write a Love Note to Camellia Grill.” As a noted poet, novelist and Professor of English and Creative Writing at Queens College-City University of New York, Cooley wrote down all the notes that people had left and incorporated them into a poem. This and similarly inspired poems make up Cooley’s collection. See more
Indie groups to perform in Sadove
by Hannah Grace O'Connell
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR
Free Energy, Darwin Deez and Land of Pines are three current groups with radically different sounds. All are going to be showcased this weekend in a concert sponsored by Independent Music Fund.
Free Energy is a group from Philadelphia (although its members originally hail from Michigan) known for its 1970s classic rock sound, and they cite Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers and Cheap Trick as influences. The band has been together since 2007 and has soared to prominence in the past year with the release of their debut album, Stuck on Nothing. Free Energy received praise in reviews from both Spin and Rolling Stone magazines, and Rolling Stone named Free Energy one of the best new bands of the year. They have most recently been the opening band for Weezer. See more