I must confess: I love writing the Artist of the Week because I meet some of the most creative, intelligent, and passionate people on campus. So, when I met with Patrick Li ’23 in Kohlberg, I expected them to be brilliant. However,
When I met Gabriel Straus ʼ23, I felt a little undressed when I compared my jeans and boots to his collared shirt and sweater. He’d had a fellowship interview that morning, he told me. As a senior, Gabriel is considering what life
Alexis Metoyer ʼ23 started ballet accidentally at four years old when her mom put her in a class to help burn some excess energy. The choice to stick with it, though, has been Alexis’s every year since. A decade and a half
“There is a lot of art in math and there is a lot of math in art,” said painter and dancer Emmie Wolf ’22 as we sat in her senior studio. The space was brimming with her paintings, and although they were
Growing up and attending an art-focused school in France, Lydia Churchill ’22 has always found art meaningful. Lydia is a dance minor and political science major, in the a capella group Grapevine, and is involved in theatre. She is also in Senior
Lia D’Alessandro ’21 has been a pillar of the Swarthmore dance community since her first semester. She has been a part of the Rhythm N Motion dance company, Terpsichore: Dance Collective, and active in the dance department. She is a pre-med student
The dance department has brought in professional dancers and stagers Amanda McKerrow and John Gardner to stage Antony Tudor’s place “Dark Elegies.” The play will be staged for Dance 049E Dance Performance Repertory: Ballet. Both Gardner and McKerrow learned the ballet from
While I had been encouraged several times by my Ballet III teacher to go see BalletX in Philly over the course of several semesters, it never ended up happening. So of course, when BalletX arrived at Swarthmore, I had to go see
For senior Rachel Fresques, ballet is a balancing act. As one of the most structured forms of dance, its beauty lies in the relationship between form and expression. “I really like that ballet is so structured,” she said. “What I find so