A Family Of Independancers

Swag. Cleanliness. Energy. Personality. These words describe what the students in IndepenDANCE aspire to embody every day in rehearsal, words that they consider their motto. This diverse group, which rehearses for twelve hours every week, is made up of people with a...
Dancers sighted all over campus
From Thursday to Tuesday, a group of dancers moved across campus, surprising, pleasing, and confusing both passers-by and intentional observers. The fluid execution of the dancers’ modern choreography, coupled with the...
Harris screens two-dimensional Avatar
James Cameron’s Avatar disappoints us in all the ways we expect monolithic blockbusters to disappoint us—shallow characters, hackneyed dialogue, implausibly grandiose action stunts, etc. Its story takes place in the...
JCC plays home to Soviet Children
Although not typically regarded as a gallery space, the John Crystal Center last Wednesday unveiled a collection of sixteen lithographs produced by various members of the Soviet Artists Union during the early and mid 1970s. ...
Faulconer Opens Up
While people usually flock to Bob’s Underground for open mic performances, last Wednesday was different. Faulconer Gallery hosted its second open mic night of the semester, featuring performances from faculty,...
Hybrid Media elucidates future artistic avenues
If you enter the Faulconer Gallery, you will find yourself immersed in the future of art, an organic blend of traditional artistic techniquespaired with the limitless possibilities that technology can lend us. The show, now...
Hopi clowns disseminate justice
Grinnell College has campus security, New York City has the NYPD, but the Hopi people of Northeast Arizona have a law-enforcement system that you would never dare to mess with—clowns. On Tuesday afternoon, around 30...
Multi-season photography project opens in Smith
While it can be all to easy to look through the poverty in urban areas as near as Des Moines, artistic passion drove Lawrence Sumulong ’10, who also serves as the S&B photo editor, into the daily lives of the homeless. The...
Friends fosters art as open discourse
Grinnell College’s newest art and literary magazine, & Friends, debuts this spring with the ambitious intention of establishing and publishing a shared creative discourse between students from all reaches of campus. ...
Slam Poetry 101
Yesterday in the JRC 101 at 8 p.m., spoken word poet Idris Goodwin performed for a group of students, faculty and staff. Goodwin was brought to Grinnell by SPEAK, a campus group promoting spoken word poetry, as a part of National...
Elephant Micah plays to packed, studious Bob’s
During this tour, Elephant Micah has played everywhere from the office of an internet start-up to a barn on a commune. But rarely does he fit in as well as he did in Bob’s Underground cafe where his smart lyrics perfectly...
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