Sighted: Surprise Sword Dancing
Daniel Markus, Arts and Culture editor
May 5, 2017
Filed under ARTS, Dance, Features, Recent Stories
Students working in the Science Center’s Perlik Commons on Wednesday afternoon were treated to a surprise performance by Rust Belt Rapper, a student dance group on campus. The group performs Rapper Sword Dance, a traditional folk dance that originated in northern England. The group’s routines feat...
“Colors of Rhythm” Highlights POC Performances
Julia Peterson, Production editor
April 7, 2017
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Student artists of color took the stage in Finney Chapel for the 21st annual Colors of Rhythm showcase last Thursday night, showcasing languages, instruments and dance traditions underrepresented in Oberlin classes and campus life. This year, the event featured spoken word performers, singers, OCTai...
Dancers Impress at Spring Back Showcase
Text by Victoria Garber, Arts editor
April 7, 2017
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Colors of Rhythm
Text by Victoria Garber, Arts editor
March 31, 2017
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Sharpley’s Retirement Leaves Dance Diaspora’s Future Uncertain
Brendan Eprile, Staff writer
March 3, 2017
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“Black Love: The Incarceration of the Spirit,” Dance Diaspora’s last performance at Oberlin with its original founder, will be held at Warner Main Space today and tomorrow from 8–10 p.m. A semi-professional dance group founded by Africana Studies Artist-in- Residence Adenike Sharpley, Dance Diaspor...
Feature Photo: “Thanks for Coming”
Louise Edwards, Arts Editor
February 19, 2016
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College sophomores Kyla Van Gelder, Isabel Levey-Swain, Lola Gatti and College first-year Sophia Attebery perform in College senior Alana Reibstein’s senior dance recital piece, “Thanks for Coming,” in Warner Main Space Friday and Saturday. The piece focused on how women struggle to find their...
ODC Builds Imaginitive Spaces for Dance
Molly Gorin and Sam Ferguson
November 6, 2015
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Art needs space. Never was this clearer than in 1971, when aspiring Oberlin Dance majors petitioned the administration for the use of Warner Main, at the time, an underused gymnasium. The Dance department was coming into the academic world, and the developing department needed faculty, dance studios a...
Seniors Combine Dance, Music, Electronics for Joint Performance Piece
Mary Fischer
November 6, 2015
Filed under ARTS, Dance, Music
With their piece append, double-degree senior Christy Rose and College senior Molly Barger proved on Saturday that exceptional work is created when artists work together to cross boundaries and defy expectations. The performance served as both Rose’s junior TIMARA recital and Barger’s senior Dance pr...
On the Record: Brenda Way, ODC Founder
Katherine Moncure
October 30, 2015
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The dance company ODC/San Francisco, formerly Oberlin Dance Collective, will return to its Oberlin roots for a performance and panel discussion with the Dance department on Nov. 4. The Review spoke with Brenda Way, OC ’66, who helped found the group in 1971 and continues to work as its artistic dir...
Dance Diaspora Perform to Horace Silver
Michelle Chu
October 9, 2015
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During Alumni Reunion Weekend, Dance Diaspora performers and jazz musicians showed off their creative skills with their performance of Horace Silver: Song For My Father & Other Matters Pertaining to the Heart. Alumni Kevin Louis, OC ’99, on trumpet, Shea Pierre, OC ’14, on piano, Josh Moton, O...
Nino de los Reyes Captivates Audience
Rebecca Cohen
October 2, 2015
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An eager stream of students and faculty poured into Clonick Hall in the Kohl Building last Sunday evening. Those anticipating the crowd arrived well before 6 p.m. Anyone who came on time or late squeezed into the intimate hall’s corners and onto the floor to catch an earful and a glimpse of a world-renowned...
Transnational Classes Unify Dance Department
Rebecca Cohen
September 25, 2015
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The creaky floorboards of Warner Center’s first-floor hallway rarely respond to the fresh footsteps of a new Dance professor on their way to inhabit a vacated desk. But this year, Dance Department Chair Ann Cooper Albright welcomed Associate Dance Professor Alysia Ramos as a new addition to the d...