April
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Continuing Through April 18
Bones: Representing the Macabre
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
This exhibition considers the ways in which skulls and skeletons are used in the pictorial arts to represent relationships between the living and the dead. A curatorial project by art & art-history major Lindsay Kearney ’15, it illuminates a wide range of associations regarding life and the afterlife.
Continuing Through April 11
The Spirit of the Sixties: Art as an Agent for Change
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
This exhibition considers the role of postwar artists who explored printmaking, particularly posters, as tools of social change. It is curated by senior art & art-history majors Kyle Anderson, Aleksa D’Orsi, Kimberly Drexler, Lindsay Kearney, Callie Marx, Gillian Pinkham, and Sebastian Zheng, under the direction of Elizabeth Lee.
Thursday, April 2, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson’s performance-studies program.
April 10, 11, 13 and 14, 8 p.m.
Our Country's Good
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB)
Tickets: $7, or $5 for advance purchase with student ID.
In 1788 Australia's first penal colony opened, sending criminals from Britain into exile for "our country's good." Timberlake Wertenbaker's play is based on Thomas Keneally’s novel The Playmaker, which was based on a convict production of The Recruiting Officer. It won the 1988 BBC Award (Play of the Year) and was a 1991 Tony nominee for Best Play. This dramatic and witty play-within-a-play presents a vibrant argument for the power of theatre to transform, inspire and break down barriers of all kinds.
Related info:
- “Let the Bottle Dance Begin!” (fall 2014 musical)
- “The Burial at Thebes” (spring 2014 play)
- Online box office
Sunday, April 12, 4 p.m.
Using the Past, Composing the Future …
First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Corner of Bedford and High streets
The Dickinson Collegium, under the direction of Blake Wilson, will perform musical settings of texts from Virgil's Aeneid by Josquin des Prez, Orlando di Lasso, Cipriano de Rore and others. Recordings of the performances will be part of a new multimedia edition of the Aeneid, developed collaboratively for the series by Dickinson faculty and students in the classical-studies, art & art-history and music departments. Conductorless, the orchestra will perform the delightful Rumanian Dances by Bela Bartok, Five Variants of Divers and Lazarus by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 with Brian Rotz (harpsichord). The program also will feature Gustav Mahler’s Adagietto from Symphony No. 5 under the baton of guest conductor , director of the Utah Valley University and Sinfonietta Polonia (Poland) orchestras.
Related info:
April 14 Through May 1
Reception/Artist’s Talk:
Tuesday, April 14, 5-7 p.m.
Emily Lehman '14: Post-Baccalaureate Investigations
Goodyear Gallery, Goodyear Building (Cedar Street entrance)
Hours: Tuesday-Friday, 3-5 p.m., Saturday 2-5 p.m.
Lehman, the Department of Art & Art History’s 2014-15 post-baccalaureate artist-in-residence, will exhibit a collection of 2-D work, including oil and acrylic paintings, mixed-media constructions and prints. During the April 14 reception, the artist will discuss her creative vision and process.
Thursday, April 16, noon
Noonday Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students in Dickinson’s performance-studies program.
Friday, April 17, 8 p.m.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony:
ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Choir with the Hershey Symphony
, 15 E. Caracas Ave, Hershey, Pa.
Under the direction of Sandra Dackow, the ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Choir joins the Hershey Symphony Orchestra and the Hershey Symphony Festival Chorus for a performance of Beethoven's sublime Ninth Symphony. For tickets, please call the Hershey Theatre box office at 717-534-3405 or .
Saturday, April 18, 7 p.m.
Leaping Lizards to the Moon
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
, in residence at Dickinson, performs Paul Lansky's “Leaping Lizards” (Comix Trips) and Kyle Gann's “Moon” (The Planets, with video). The acclaimed ensemble also selects and premieres a piece written by a Dickinson student composer. While on campus, Relâche will present student-composition workshops as well as master classes for Dickinson students.
“As usual, Relâche played with great comprehension. It also rocked.”
—David Patrick Stearns, The Philadelphia Inquirer“I don’t know of any other live musical experience that can elicit such an explosive range of reaction.”
—Peter Burwasser, Philadelphia City Paper
Related info:
- Learn more about the spring visiting artists.
- Fall 2014 artists-in-residence
- Department of Music
Friday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Big Bands and Big Ideas
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
Dickinson Jazz Band and DICE (Dickinson Improvisation & Collaboration Ensemble) present music that explores important trends in 20th-century jazz and classical music.
April 24 and 25, 8 p.m.; April 26, 2 p.m.
Freshworks: An Evening of Student Choreography
Mathers Theatre, Holland Union Building (HUB)
Tickets: $7, or $5 for advance purchase with student ID.
Student choreographers team up with Dickinson's student dance company, the Dance Theatre Group (DTG), to present an evening of new choreographic research. This year's show promises to be personal, political, poetic, punchy and profound. DTG is under the direction of Sarah Skaggs, director of dance.
Related info:
- “Vox, Velocity and Vectors” (fall 2014)
- “Getting Fresh in Public” (spring 2014)
- Online box office
April 24 Through May 17
Opening Reception: Friday, April 24, 5-7 p.m.
Senior Studio-Art Majors’ Exhibition
The Trout Gallery, Weiss Center for the Arts
Hours: Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m
Thesis projects by Meghan Abercrombie, Anna Ersenkal, Jenna Hess, Lauren Holtz, Shelby Kalamar, Cassie Lier, Molly Thorne, and Carley Zarzeka are exhibited under the direction of Anthony Cervino, with Todd Arsenault, Andrew Bale, Ward Davenny and Barbara Diduk.
Related info:
- "Not in Show" (2014)
- "Ten Visions, One View" (2013)
- Studio-art program
Tuesday, April 28, 7 p.m.
ºìÐÓÖ±²¥app Chamber Music Concert
Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts
This concert features students who have been working in chamber ensembles coached by music-department faculty.