Dancers leap from Met Opera House to Kenyon stage
Not often does one see Vassar’s own Francis Daley Ferguson Theater hanging up that many mirrors. Reflections and projected images occupy the stage, and whenever a dancer steps into the…
Arts
For one student organist, power is all in the fingertips
For most of us, the organ is that intimidating instrument we see in the Chapel at freshman orientation, but for Patrick Walker ’16, it is musical power at his fingertips.…
Wordsmiths, Elhillo join to explore loss and language
“My body is a pill, small, and love is the wrong man’s tongue to tell me so,” began Safia Elhillo at the 2013 College Union Poetry Slam Invitational (CUPSI). Her…
Album spans style, crosses old borders
I got hooked on Death Cab for Cutie ever since its last album, “Codes and Keys,” released in 2011. Four years have come and gone though, and now the indie…
Farhadi’s film small-scale but far-reaching
There has always been a steady interest in the alternative, art house, academic-minded film circles for Iranian cinema, but more widespread investment in the nationality as it pertains to movies…
Show brings comic series back from dead
The new show iZombie is an unusual mix of genres, including all the best elements of crime, horror, comedy and drama that make the show incredibly enjoyable to watch. iZombie…
Students anticipate Chin’s poetic passion
In her book Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz said of Staceyann Chin, “To watch Chin…
Unity in difference: international students’ devised play
Something powerful happens when people use art to highlight unity as well as difference, an attribute which ten international Vassar students have been able to achieve through theater. “Aftertaste,” a…
Dialogue celebrates bodies marginalized in dance world
Walking, talking, thinking…there’s virtually no everyday activity that doesn’t rely on the body to perform. For dancers, besides an indispensable part of daily experiences, the body is also the essential…
Daguerreotypes bring shimmer to antique photography
This Friday, the walls of the Loeb will be shining with the unusual and unique photographs in “Through the Looking Glass: Daguerreotype Masterworks from the Dawn of Photography.” Research Assistant…