Big Picture: On the Rocks

Over spring break the Dartmouth Dance Ensemble visited New Zealand, where they performed five times in nine days in venues ranging from outside a town hall to a Maori temple/Pictured here is a staged pose from an original work the ensemble performs, Wonderland, photo- graphed in Kaikoura. The dancers are Jennifer Armstrong (standing, right), a Hopkins Center dance faculty member, Emily Cross (crouching), a neuroscience Ph.D., and Mayuka Kowaguchi 11 (standing, left). "It was one of those moments," ensemble director Ford Evans says. "Taking the dancers out on the rocks, with the tide out, set up some beautiful conditions."