Dance Company of Middlebury

Each year the company creates a diverse concert of work for formal performance at Middlebury in January and later on tour.

Some examples of places we have toured:

• Czech Republic
• Dominican Republic
• Trinidad
• New Orleans
• Montreal
• California
• Arizona

First-year students are encouraged to get to know the Dance Department by taking classes, auditioning for other performances, and attending as many dance concerts as they can before seeking involvement with DCM in their sophomore year.

This year, The Dance Company will be going to Ghana.

From Africa to the Americas

This project aspires to reconnect the African diaspora to the evolution of American culture, highlighting the ongoing contributions of African traditions to contemporary artistic and cultural landscapes. Through this collaboration, we aim to create a living archive of movement, memory, and shared humanity that bridges continents and generations.  

10 Middlebury students will collaborate with peers at Yale, Connecticut College The University of Ghana to create an embodied ethnography to be performed at Middlebury College at the close of January 2026.  Students will study Twi, the native dialect of Ghana, study the transmission of culture from West Africa to The America’s, and chronicle their scholarly and personal epiphanies along the way.  By being enrolled in this two-semester course student will have time for deep traditional scholarship (i.e. reading, writing, discussion) and embodied research within three distinct cultural contexts.

The final leg of our research will take us to Accra where student will meet their peers at The University of Ghana, Accra, travel to the Cape Coast of to visit the Elmina Slave Dungeons and speak with elders in the village of Kumasi in addition to studying the history of Ghana through museum visits and talks with scholars.