Behind-the-scenes of The Fringe Festival in the Gelb Theater. The Fringe Festival, an annual student-run performance of skits, short films, spoken word, and stand up written and performed by Choate students, happened this Thursday, February 10 and Friday, February 11 in the Gelb Theater. This year marks the tenth anniversaryRead More
Fringe plays My Body, by Rachel Bublitz (top), and Cindy and Julie, by Bruce Kane (bottom). On January 28 and 30, Student Directed Scenes (SDS) — a production of short plays and scenes directed by members of the Honors Directing Class — took the stage for the annual performance in GelbRead More
Symphony Orchestra students practicing with Dr. Matthew Russo (top) and Dr. Alex Casimiro. Last Wednesday, musicians of the Choate Symphony Orchestra were greeted with new faces when they stepped onto the stage for rehearsal. These new faces were professional musicians, there to work with members of the Symphony Orchestra inRead More
Photos courtesy of Paola Díaz del Castillo Rosique The sun-kissed second floor of the Paul Mellon Arts Center (PMAC) is where artist Paola Díaz del Castillo Rosique ’23 brings art to life. Díaz del Castillo Rosique uses her artwork as a form of self-expression; she brings themes from her dailyRead More
Photo courtesy of Laya Raj and photos by Sophia Kim and Tiffany Xiao/The Choate News Laya Raj ’24 has been dancing for as long as she can remember. She started dancing when she was just three years old, training in the South Indian dance form, Kuchipudi. “I lived in IndiaRead More
The sound of a sharp blade cutting through air reverberating across the bamboo forest is the memory that Wendy Huo ’23 recalls about her initial encounter with the traditional Chinese Martial Art of kung fu, also known as Wu Shu (嶠 減): “Wu” (嶠) meaning the art of fighting andRead More
Graphics by William Gao/The Choate News Painters can clean their brushes, put their canvases on the drying rack, and walk away once they’re satisfied with their work, making their art piece as personal or as impersonal as they want. Dancers, however, cannot walk away from their artistic device — theyRead More
Photo by Rajeev Roy/The Choate News If you happen to step into Colony Hall in the afternoons, you may hear the harmonious melodies of a piano in simultaneous rhythm with the patter of moving feet. After a year and a half, live music has returned to Ms. Pamela Newell’s balletRead More
Student artworks are currently displayed in PMAC. On Friday, December 10, the Arts Department hosted the annual Fall Term Student Exhibition where students in the Arts Concentration program and all fall term visual arts courses — Design, Photography, Filmmaking, Drawing, Mixed Media, and Ceramics — displayed the fruits of theirRead More
