Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Residency: Informal Performance

Friday, October 25, 2019 – 7:30 PM
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Residency: Informal Performance

Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT) presents an informal showing and discussion about their creative methods and collaborative process. The program features veteran company members Yukari Osaka and Zoe Rabinowitz performing solo and duet excerpts from their most recent and forthcoming works - Against a Hard Surface and Last Ward - developed and performed in the Arab World and Europe. The residency is co-sponsored by the Dance Program, the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middle East Studies Program, and the Arabic Department. Free.

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Residency: Movement Matters Master Class

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 – 4:30 PM
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Residency: Movement Matters Master Class

Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

Instructors: Samar Haddad King and Zoe Rabinowitz

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre master classes are designed to meet and challenge students wherever they are in their technical training and physical practice; classes offer an environment of technical exploration and artistic play for dancers of all levels. Focusing on intention as the catalyst for movement, participants are given the freedom to investigate athletic movement phrases using choreographic and improvisational tools. Through phrasework, improvisation, and play, dancers are invited to inhabit their own bodies more fully and find new solutions for how to effectively communicate through performance. Open to the general public as well as the College community. All experience levels welcome. The residency is co-sponsored by the Dance Program, the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Middle East Studies Program, and the Arabic Department. Free. Image by Raoof Haj Yihia

The Dance Company of Middlebury

The Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM) is an essential component of our advanced studio course offerings. It is a credit-bearing course, open by audition to sophomores through seniors, that requires two semesters of participation for one academic credit. DCM reinvents itself every year under the direction of a different dance faculty member or guest artist and offers our students opportunities to explore collaborative, interdisciplinary, and community engagement projects through dance. Typically, the company develops a concert of new work during the fall and presents an informal showing/discussion of work-in-progress in December. In January, they put finishing touches on the concert and fully produce two evening-length concerts toward the end of the month. During the last week of Winter Term, DCM takes their work on the road touring regionally, nationally, or even internationally.

Click on the links at left to read more about recent DCM achievements.