Past Events

An anti-diet dance theater performance that uses an intersectional approach to understand anti-fatness in relation to capitalism, race, and patriarchy through an historic lens, current analysis, and personal experience. Using ensemble and solo dance, song, storytelling, research, and projections, this one-hour show is also about body liberation, pleasure, dancing alone in the mirror, eating mangoes, and shaking off that which binds us.

Performed by Laura Haines, Winnie Looby, Alex Heisler, Zoraya Hightower, Hadley Mueller, Rhonda Doonan, and Rachel Siegel.

Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

The Dance Department invites you to join our pizza welcome event to meet the faculty & staff and hear about whats happening this semester from 6-7pm. 

From 7-8pm you can audition for the Fall Dance Concert! 

The Dance Company Middlebury Pre-Semester Workshop is an immersive introduction to the season’s creative process, centered on the question What is a body? Dancing Outside the Lines. Dancers engage in a rigorous and exploratory practice that moves between structure and exploration, working collaboratively to build, reshape, and refine movement. The workshop establishes a shared language and creative approach for the ensemble.

The workshop is open to all students. Participation is required for dancers selected to be part of Dance Company Middlebury.

The Dance Company Middlebury Pre-Semester Workshop is an immersive introduction to the season’s creative process, centered on the question What is a body? Dancing Outside the Lines. Dancers engage in a rigorous and exploratory practice that moves between structure and exploration, working collaboratively to build, reshape, and refine movement. The workshop establishes a shared language and creative approach for the ensemble.

The workshop is open to all students. Participation is required for dancers selected to be part of Dance Company Middlebury.

The Dance Company Middlebury Pre-Semester Workshop is an immersive introduction to the season’s creative process, centered on the question What is a body? Dancing Outside the Lines. Dancers engage in a rigorous and exploratory practice that moves between structure and exploration, working collaboratively to build, reshape, and refine movement. The workshop establishes a shared language and creative approach for the ensemble.

The workshop is open to all students. Participation is required for dancers selected to be part of Dance Company Middlebury.

Please join the departments of Arabic, Chinese, Dance, German, Japanese Studies, Luso-Hispanic Studies, Philosophy, Russian, and Theatre for a reception celebrating graduates in these disciplines. 

The following departments invite grads and their guests to join them in the locations listed below.

Arabic | MAC 221 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Dance | MAC Dance Theatre (110) | 3:30-4:15 pm

Japanese Studies | MAC 232 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Russian | MAC 125 | 3:30-4:15 pm

Theatre | Seeler Studio Theatre | 3:30-4:15 pm

Chinese | MAC 232 | 4:45-5:30 pm

German | MAC 121 | 4:45-5:30 pm

Luso-Hispanic Studies | Seeler Studio Theatre | 4:45-5:30 pm

Please join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation (DANC 0461), and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music (MUSC 0212) courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design.

Buy tickets here

Please join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation (DANC 0461), and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music (MUSC 0212) courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design.

Buy tickets here

Tuesday-Beginner/Intermediate
Wednesday-Intermediate/Advanced

Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please. PE credit is available for attendance at 8 classes. Previous dance experience in any form is recommended. 

Dance 261 Improvisation Showing

Spring 2026

Professor Christal Brown

Camila Bisono ‘27

Michel Rabih Abboud ‘28

Ashley Zeledon ‘27

Joshua Glucksman ‘24.5

Charlie Lasky ‘28.5

Helen Carle ‘29

Edla Lahtiranta ‘29