Eric Sutphin, Author at Valley News

Art Notes: Weekend performances to benefit Junction Dance Festival

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsFebruary 10, 2024

The wheels are in motion for the third edition of the Junction Dance Festival (TJDF), planned for July. The festival was founded by choreographer Elizabeth Kurylo, affectionately known in the dance community as Babette.“We are promoting artists from…

Art Notes: Dance shows, festivals fill schedule

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsJuly 13, 2023

Steve LeBlanc, writer and director of “The Silenced Lyre,” plays guitar with the orchestra during a rehearsal at Parish Players’ Eclipse Grange Theatre in Thetford, Vt., on Tuesday, April 12, 2023. Stage Manager John Hunt prepares props for the next scene. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Art Notes: Lebanon man’s musical reaches production at Parish Players

by Eric Sutphin For The Valley NewsApril 12, 2023

Christopher B. Portley, Anna O'Donoghue, Anne Torsiglieri and Robert David Grant in a scene from Northern Stage's production of "Sweat" in White River Junction, Vt. (Kata Sasvari photograph)

Review: ‘Sweat’ is a pitch-perfect look at a factory town’s decline

by Eric Sutphin For The Valley NewsMarch 15, 2023

Artist Lia Rothstein, 71, photographed at her home studio in Hanover, N.H., on Jan. 17, 2023, has been experimenting with bioplastics to replace synthetic plastic based materials in her sculptures, which led her to be chosen as the 2023 Climate Change Artist In Residence at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center. She has tried and moved away from using pigmented gut, in the pieces at lower left and upper right, and toward materials made from crustacean shells, seaweed and other plant materials, that can be made into forms themselves or painted on fabric like the blue cheese cloth, at center. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Art Notes: ‘Bioplastics’ bring life to Hanover artist’s residency

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsJanuary 26, 2023

"Shadow," by the Australian theater company Back to Back Theatre, will premiere at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., on Jan. 23, 2023.. The film is an adaptation of a piece originally performed on stage. The company is composed of actors with disabilities, and they will present a workshop prior to the screening in Sudikoff Lab, the college's computer science building. (Courtesy photograph)

Art Notes: Hopkins Center events hop around Dartmouth campus amid renovation

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsJanuary 18, 2023

From left, Monet Nowlan, Tommy Crawford, Reya Sharma and Callum Heinsch appear in a scene from Northern Stage’s production of “The Railway Children.”

Theater review: ‘The Railway Children’ adaptation worth hopping aboard

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsNovember 30, 2022

Ceramic artists Jenny Swanson, left, and Sana Musasama are showing their work at the William H. and Sonja Carlson Davidow '56 Fine Art Gallery at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., until Dec. 17, 2022. (Courtesy photograph)

Art review: Finding the message in the medium at Colby-Sawyer gallery exhibit

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsNovember 16, 2022

Naminapu Maymuru-White works at the Buku-Larrŋay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, Australia, in 2021. (Leicolhn McKellar photograph)

Art Notes: Aboriginal offerings continue at the Hood Museum

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsSeptember 22, 2022

Lois Dodd's "Natural Order" is part of a solo show at the Hall Art Foundation in Reading, Vt. The show is on display until November 2022. (Courtesy Hall Art Foundation)

Art Notes: The complexity of simplicity in Lois Dodd retrospective

by Eric Sutphin For the Valley NewsSeptember 8, 2022