Tripod Arts -- November 2, 1999


Goodwin Theater was home last weekend to a very special presentation of dance: Professor Judy Dworin's tenth anniversary show, Ten! The show was a collection of pieces drawn from the last decade, as well as the premiere of her new work, Earthdance. Performers included members of Dworin's dance group, the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble, singers Women of the Cross and Rozmarin, and several members of the Trinity community. The best thing about a collection of this kind is that the wide range of selections presented allows the audience to see works in various stages of development and gain a sense of a choreographer's work over a lengthy period of time. Dworin's selections ranged from large group numbers accompanied by several different types of musical accompaniment to solo pieces with no music at all. Full story...

Articles: November 2, 1999
Andy Warhol At The Wadsworth Atheneum For those who yearn for the city art-going experience, and in particular, that of the late "pop artist," Andy Warhol, step outside of the confines of Trinity College and treat yourself to About Face at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Not more than a jump on the Transit system from south campus, About Face features a fine selection of Andy Warhol's portrait collection. The exhibition is primarily concentrated in a single room, divided into thirds, and does everything short of placing pieces on the ceiling in an attempt to reflect the uniqueness of Warhol's work. Full story...		No More Conversations About The Weather For clarification, it is best for me to start by saying this is an interesting book. When I first picked it up at the Tripod office my first thought was: "just what the world needs, more questions." Perhaps the concept of someone selling questions alarmed me a bit. After reading The Book of Fabulous Questions, I have discovered I have nothing to fear. The book does come across as a bit haughty in assuming that we can't come up with questions like these ourselves. These questions are about as new as agriculture. Full story...
Better Than Chocolate, And Chocolate Is Good One of the films presented during the First Annual erosPRIDE Film Festival was the romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate. The movie was touching, at times hysterical, romantic and most importantly entertaining. It returns to what made romantic comedies work in the first place. It makes you want to fall in love and experience the joy of the characters in the movie. The plot of the movie focuses on Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) and her new relationship with Kim (Christina Cox), the mysterious nomad who saves Maggie from harassment by a few skinheads. As the relationship begins, Maggie finds out that her mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) is divorcing her stepfather and her mother and brother are coming to Vancouver to stay with her. Full story...	Poet Longenbach Returns To Trinity Trinity graduate James Longenbach '81 visited his alma mater last week to read from his new collection of poems Threshold. The event took place in Hamlin Hall before a small but dedicated crowd of professors and students. Longenbach commented, "It is a great honor for me to come back and read my work to my former teachers." Meditative and often somber, Longenbach's poems explored the boundaries between human and spiritual existence, between man and nature, between parent and child, and between the everyday and the transparent. Full story...
New York Highs Plays Along With The Snorks At Studio 19 The Studio 19 Series presented New York Highs, written by William Strouse and directed by Tracey Costa, last Thursday. The audience filed in and took their seats while preset on the stage area, Ramsay Saunders, who played Nicole, sat reading a notebook and chewing a pencil on a mattress. Immediately, the lights went down and Curtis, played by Dave Rothman, entered frantically twitching . We learn that he is in the drug trade and has obtained a fabulous sugar-flavored drug that he hopes to sell for a fortune in L.A. He is planning to leave that night and hopes that Nicole will ditch her stand-up comedy audition and come with him. On the couple's way from New York to L.A., they crash their car in the front yard of an elderly couple's home in Broomfield, a kind of small town hell. The couple, a sweet Betty Crocker/Grandmother-type called Mrs. Shelbey, played by Bonnie Wylie, and a blind and crazed ex-Brooklynite, played by Justin Ball, try to make the younger couple comfortable while they wait for a mechanic to come and fix their car. However, the mechanic will never ever come because the phones are dead. Full story...

Articles: November 2, 1999

Andy Warhol At The Wadsworth Atheneum

For those who yearn for the city art-going experience, and in particular, that of the late "pop artist," Andy Warhol, step outside of the confines of Trinity College and treat yourself to About Face at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Not more than a jump on the Transit system from south campus, About Face features a fine selection of Andy Warhol's portrait collection.

The exhibition is primarily concentrated in a single room, divided into thirds, and does everything short of placing pieces on the ceiling in an attempt to reflect the uniqueness of Warhol's work. Full story...

No More Conversations About The Weather

For clarification, it is best for me to start by saying this is an interesting book. When I first picked it up at the Tripod office my first thought was: "just what the world needs, more questions."

Perhaps the concept of someone selling questions alarmed me a bit. After reading The Book of Fabulous Questions, I have discovered I have nothing to fear.

The book does come across as a bit haughty in assuming that we can't come up with questions like these ourselves. These questions are about as new as agriculture. Full story...

Better Than Chocolate, And Chocolate Is Good

One of the films presented during the First Annual erosPRIDE Film Festival was the romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate. The movie was touching, at times hysterical, romantic and most importantly entertaining. It returns to what made romantic comedies work in the first place. It makes you want to fall in love and experience the joy of the characters in the movie.

The plot of the movie focuses on Maggie (Karyn Dwyer) and her new relationship with Kim (Christina Cox), the mysterious nomad who saves Maggie from harassment by a few skinheads. As the relationship begins, Maggie finds out that her mother Lila (Wendy Crewson) is divorcing her stepfather and her mother and brother are coming to Vancouver to stay with her. Full story...

Poet Longenbach Returns To Trinity

Trinity graduate James Longenbach '81 visited his alma mater last week to read from his new collection of poems Threshold. The event took place in Hamlin Hall before a small but dedicated crowd of professors and students. Longenbach commented, "It is a great honor for me to come back and read my work to my former teachers."

Meditative and often somber, Longenbach's poems explored the boundaries between human and spiritual existence, between man and nature, between parent and child, and between the everyday and the transparent. Full story...

New York Highs Plays Along With The Snorks At Studio 19

The Studio 19 Series presented New York Highs, written by William Strouse and directed by Tracey Costa, last Thursday. The audience filed in and took their seats while preset on the stage area, Ramsay Saunders, who played Nicole, sat reading a notebook and chewing a pencil on a mattress.

Immediately, the lights went down and Curtis, played by Dave Rothman, entered frantically twitching . We learn that he is in the drug trade and has obtained a fabulous sugar-flavored drug that he hopes to sell for a fortune in L.A.

He is planning to leave that night and hopes that Nicole will ditch her stand-up comedy audition and come with him.

On the couple's way from New York to L.A., they crash their car in the front yard of an elderly couple's home in Broomfield, a kind of small town hell. The couple, a sweet Betty Crocker/Grandmother-type called Mrs. Shelbey, played by Bonnie Wylie, and a blind and crazed ex-Brooklynite, played by Justin Ball, try to make the younger couple comfortable while they wait for a mechanic to come and fix their car. However, the mechanic will never ever come because the phones are dead. Full story...

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