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The Hopkins Center for the Arts was designed by Wallace Harrison, the architect of the Lincoln Center and the United Nations Building in New York. This Center is Dartmouth's multi-disciplinary cultural complex that has been named by the National Endowment for the Arts as one of the nation's exemplary performing arts centers.
Each year over 125,000 tickets are sold for more than 500 performances, films and other events. The Hop also houses classrooms, studios and other facilities, as well as the offices of the Departments of Music, Theater, Film & Television Studies, and Studio Art. The departments offer curricular and extra-curricular activities for majors and non-majors alike, and all Dartmouth students are eligible to participate on stage or behind the scenes.
Each year, the Hop presents the exceptional talents of Dartmouth students through regular performances by its resident ensembles, both professionally and student-directed. Repertoire ranges from baroque and classical to cutting edge world music and jazz - including the work of composers and choreographers specially commissioned by the Hop. Performances occur at numerous venues around the campus.
The Hopkins Center includes the 900-seat Spaulding Auditorium, the 480-seat Moore Theater, the Warner Bentley Theater, a flexible “black box” space with up to 180 seats, a small recital hall, plus rehearsal and practice rooms for music and theater. Facilities for studio art include workshops, studios, and galleries. The student workshop program provides professional instruction from beginning to advanced levels in woodworking, jewelry and pottery. The woodworking shop and jewelry studio are on the lower level of the Hop, and the pottery studio is just across the bridge on the Vermont side of the Connecticut River.
Examples of Dartmouth Performing Ensembles
- Professionally directed music ensembles: Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra, Wind Symphony, Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble, World Music Percussion Ensemble, Marching Band, Glee Club, Handel Society, Gospel Choir, Chamber Singers
- Student-directed music ensembles: Dartmouth Steel Drum Band, Occom Pond Singers, Dartmouth Chamber Orchestra, Madrigal Singers, Aires, Cords, Final Cut, Decibelles, Rockapellas, Subtleties, Dodecaphonics, X.ado
- Professionally and student-directed dance ensembles: Dartmouth Dance Ensemble, Chinese Dance Troup, Fusion (multi-genre), Sheba (Hip-hop), Jumpstart (Swing), Roots of Rhythm (African), Step, Steppin’ Out (tap), Ujima (multi-genre)
- Student drama groups: Black Underground Theatre and Arts Association, Dog Day Players (comedy), Harlequins(musical theatre), Nuestras Voces (Latino Theatre), Far Off Broadway (Pan Asian Theater), Untamed Shrews (women’s group), Pretty How Town Theater Company.
Recent guest performers at the Hop
- White Oak Dance Project with Mikhail Baryshnikov
- Joshua Redman
- Twyla Tharp
- The Reduced Shakespeare Company
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo
- Keb'Mo'
- Yo-Yo Ma with the Silk Road Ensemble
- The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
- Spike Lee
- Paul Taylor Dance Company
- Diana Krall
- Chucho Valdez
- Sandra Bernhard
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