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Artist of the Week Greta Matthies ’26: How a Dancer Recovers

Jeremy Weinstein-Sears '28 interviews pre-professionally trained dancer and incoming medical school student Greta Matthies '26 for Artist of the Week.

November 13, 2025

Arts

A Chat With Chandra: A Look at the Dance Department

Read about Swarthmore's uniquely attentive, welcoming, and extensive dance program.

October 23, 2025

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GSC’s Rocky Horror Picture Show: Celebrating Tradition and Fishnets

Stay tuned for Rocky Horror on Oct. 30, 11 p.m. at Olde Club!

October 23, 2025

Arts

“An Anti-Colonial International Student’s Final Struggle” – A Review on Cui Yixin’s Senior Recital

On April 5, 2025, Swarthmore College’s students, professors, and community members witnessed a strikingly thoughtful senior recital by Cui Yixin, a senior majoring in philosophy and minoring in music. The program, exploring the Chinese literati and musical tradition of “polished jade” that

April 17, 2025

Arts

Jeremy Dutcher’s Echoed Reverberations

Jeremy Dutcher. A celebrated Canadian Indigenous musician known for masterfully blending Wolastoqiyik elements into his music. Set to perform a concert on March 21 at 8 p.m. “You want to go?” I asked my friend, who was doing math. “Sure thing,” she

April 3, 2025

Highlights·Opinion

The Performative Nature of Social Media

“Nothing on social media is real” – this idea has been repeated to us throughout our lives. The reality of this statement became jarringly clear to me recently. During my TikTok doomscroll before bed, I came across a video of a woman

March 27, 2025

Arts·Arts & Features

Artist of the Week Shannon Friel ’24 on Authenticity in Language

I pride myself on knowing a lot about my friends (maybe even at times too much), but when Shannon Friel ’24 told me a few weeks ago that she was heavily involved in the theater department, my jaw dropped. Not because I

October 26, 2023

Arts·Highlights

Daniel Oakes on the Power of Physicality in Theater

When the curtains open and Daniel Oakes ’24 takes to the stage, his rehearsals, research, and reflections take effect in a symbiosis that feels both natural and compelling. Indeed, Daniel not only conveys a character but embodies this constructed person, giving life

October 6, 2022

Arts

Drunk Drivers? Killer Whales? Car Seat Headrest at Franklin Music Hall

Some February day in 2016, my sophomore year of high school, I sat in an empty room waiting for class to start. I don’t remember what I was feeling as I watched my teacher shuffle in to set up the lesson, I

April 7, 2022

Arts

“I Want You Back:” A Capella Returns to Swarthmore

On Friday, Nov. 5, a cappella returned to Swarthmore’s campus after a nearly two-year absence. Each of Swarthmore’s four a cappella groups — OffBeat, Grapevine, Mixed Company, and Sixteen Feet — performed in the event. Every semester, the a cappella performance season

November 11, 2021

performance

Artist of the Week Greta Matthies ’26: How a Dancer Recovers

A Chat With Chandra: A Look at the Dance Department

GSC’s Rocky Horror Picture Show: Celebrating Tradition and Fishnets

“An Anti-Colonial International Student’s Final Struggle” – A Review on Cui Yixin’s Senior Recital

Jeremy Dutcher’s Echoed Reverberations

Artist of the Week Shannon Friel ’24 on Authenticity in Language

Daniel Oakes on the Power of Physicality in Theater

Drunk Drivers? Killer Whales? Car Seat Headrest at Franklin Music Hall

“I Want You Back:” A Capella Returns to Swarthmore

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