Arts
Gallery: Lowell House Opera
In honor of both the opera company's 75th anniversary and the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's birth, the Lowell House Opera will be perform the English composer's musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream" in the Lowell House dining hall. Performances continue until April 8.
Crouching Tyga, Hidden Yardfest
You may not know much about Tyga. He also may not have been your top choice to headline Yardfest this year. But that's okay. The Arts blog is here to acquaint you with the untold joys of Tyga's oeuvre.
The Art of an Uprising
With the rise of film, photography, and “people’s art,” anyone with a phone can become a protest artist. What led to those changes in medium? And what does this mean for the future of protest?
Play it Like You Mean it
If you believe Coltrane meant every rhythm and pitch that he played in a technical sense, then he’d be the undisputed master of the music with regards to control: a supreme technician expressive to the microlevels of rhythm and pitch. This is a pretty scary thought.
Error 37: Must Construct Additional Servers
SimCity is in a State of Emergency. Three weeks ago, everything looked to be perfectly in place for Electronic Arts’ first major installment in the series since 2003’s SimCity 4. The marketing was massive and, if the number of pre-sales and digital downloads was any indicator, working.
Questions of Travel
In her poem “Questions of Travel,” Elizabeth Bishop asks, “What childishness is it that while there’s a breath of life / in our bodies, we are determined to rush / to see the sun the other way around?” I boarded a plane to South America last Thursday with Bishop’s poem in my canvas bag.
Enlightened
When HBO announced last week that it would not renew “Enlightened” for a third season, television viewers everywhere wondered: What is “Enlightened”? The show had a small fan base, to the say the least, but we true devotees aren’t quite ready to say goodbye.
Boston Ballet Stunning and Surreal
The male company section was especially spectacular when performing in canon. Each dancer got a brief chance to showcase his powerful sous de chat—a dynamic leap in which the dancers separate their legs in midair—in succession. The duet section was similarly constructed as every couple took turns performing unique duets that all revolved around the shared theme of embrace with a repeated flexed foot phrase.
Harvard Dancers to Showcase Semester's Progress
According to Johnson, the intention of the performance is for the audience to be struck by key moments that resonate with them in unexpected ways. “Dance isn’t necessarily about understanding one version of what’s presented; there isn’t only one story. You can come to the theater and have it be a break from our hyper-digitized work day and see what it looks like when the body is thinking,” Johnson says. “Dance is about articulating things for which there are no words.”
Little Green Cars
O’Rourke plays guitar while O’Leary jams on the bass. The band prides itself on its soft-rock edge.
Little Green Cars
Stevie Appleby sings with Faye O’Rourke - the the Dublin-based group has been together for over 5 years.
