Clapping mixes with blaring music, filling Alumnae Hall as a dozen dancers in street clothes line the stage. Audience members at the imPulse Dance Company's annual spring show clap to the beat as the freestyling begins. Dancers start with top rock then progress into spins and flips and handstands. They ...
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"Rabbit Hole" is a movie about choices. It is about how even the most arbitrary decisions can destroy a life, how people choose different means to attain the same ends and how the universe chooses events for inexplicable reasons.
Shakespeare on the Green moves indoors this weekend to present "The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr (abridged)," directed by Nicole Damari '12 and Kirsten Ward '12. The play attempts to condense all 37 Shakespeare plays and 154 sonnets into one night. The result is an explosion of sounds and props.
Whoever said art is dead would be confused by "The Famished," a new play written and directed by Max Posner '11 and the first to be staged in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. "The Famished" is a testament to the enthusiasm and excitement which a young playwright and cast can ...
In one continuous shot, the camera follows a car painted with the Palestinian flag blaring Arabic songs down the main thoroughfare. As the camera passes through the local cafe, the cafe's owner pulls a child inside. She slams the door shut as military trucks and armed soldiers arrive, shots ringing ...
"If You Can't Love Yourself … (How Can You Love Anyone Else?)" was the question posed at the Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council's workshop yesterday. The event — the second of the group's annual Sex Week — addressed body image issues like body mass index and shaving pubic ...
Before attending the Hermes lecture in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts last Monday, a large crowd of fashionistas and designer connoisseurs met in Wilson Hall to create Brown's first fashion publication — "Unhemmed."
In Cambodia, all news is good news. Or at least, all news broadcast in the media is good news. The lack of freedom of the press in Cambodia, Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries is the topic of this year's week-long International Freedom-to-Write Literary Festival.
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Fusion, Brown's oldest student-run dance company, was founded in 1983 by Paula Franklin because she "felt there was a need for more student choreography on campus," according to the group's website. And Fusion's Annual Show, taking place this weekend in Alumnae Hall, held true to its name and purpose ...
Attention all skeptics who doubt the existence of teachers outside the classroom: Proof has arrived in the form of the 2011 Rhode Island School of Design Faculty Biennial. For the 200-plus RISD professors showing their work, teaching art is not enough — they also take its practice very seriously. ...
Twenty years ago, Pierre-Alexis Dumas '91 discovered the visual arts program at Brown. Now the chief creative officer of the luxury brand Hermes, Dumas will be speaking tonight at 8 p.m. in the Martinos Auditorium in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts about the creation of his ...
The bright, cheerful colors of the background contrast with the brooding darkness of the central figure. Todd Stong '14 captures a certain loneliness in his contemplative self-portait, on display in the 31st Annual Student Exhibition in the David Winton Bell Gallery.
History just got real in Providence. Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, founder and curator of the Living Torah Museum in Brooklyn, N.Y., visited the Renaissance Hotel last night with a van full of priceless, ancient artifacts in tow.
With musical numbers and dancing pandas, Sock & Buskin's production of "As You Like It" is a fun and quirky adaptation of Shakespeare's classic that is modern, young and unique. The play, directed by Nicholas Ridout in collaboration with the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies, is the ...
Jina Park '11 has always been fascinated with how clothes shape people's lives.
Where do trees go after they die?
Covering a large wall of the Lower Farago Gallery at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, the slogan "What looks good today may not look good tomorrow" sums up "Collision" — an ephemeral experience that still seems ready for change.
It is easy to forget there are only two actors in the cast of "Yellowman," Trinity Repertory's current production. The small cast seems anything but sparse in Dael Orlandersmith's play, and the plot is anything but two-dimensional.
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