For the past three years, I have cultivated the tradition of staying on campus for fall break, taking advantage of the quiet to catch up on reading and get ahead on papers. I love the way the school drains of students, and the places that usually bustle with hump-back-packed bodies assume a strange stillness. In...
I’m always down for a body-positivity movie. When Friday night rolls around, and I cozy up in socks and sweats to munch popcorn and chill, I don’t want an art film. I don’t want a movie to make me think too hard or feel obliged to appreciate the perfect combination of reality and pain. I...
“Ballet is not one thing; it’s many things,” said Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance Holly Hobbs. This is important to remember as audiences attend the next performance of Hillsdale College’s Professional Artist Series. The Grand Rapids Ballet, Michigan’s only professional ballet company, will be performing their 2018-2019 season opener at the Fine Arts Building on...
Yuri Norstein’s animated short “Tale of Tales” is only a half-hour long, and available on YouTube. Check it out; it’s well worth the watch. The short film is based on an old Russian lullaby, sung at the beginning of the movie as a baby suckles at his mother’s breast. Here’s an English translation: Baby, baby,...
“Hold the Dark” is a self-fulfilling psychological thriller that leaves the viewer torn between the impulse to embrace its beautiful presentation and to recoil in horror at its chilling subject matter. Though both the film and the book on which it is based are set in the wilds of Alaska, “Hold the Dark” was filmed...