April 1, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: Student String Quartet: Chin Hin Leung '04, Andrew Lindblad '05; Jonathan Stuart-Moore '05, and Ian Ausprey '04
8:00-11:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. Exhibitions on view at the Museum include: Every Picture Tells a Story;and Art Now, organized by James Butler, professor of studio art.
April 1-3, Thursday-Saturday
Never Swim Alone
Waltz #6
8:00 P.M. each evening plus a 2:00 P.M. matinee on Saturday only; Center for the Arts, Seeler Studio Theatre
A 15-year own girl attempts to piece together the events that led to her murder, and a woman returns to a fantastic beach to aid two long time friends in their quest to outdo each other. Combining strange bedfellows in one evening of theatre, Brazilian Nelson Rodrigues's Waltz #6 and Canadian Daniel MacIvor's Never Swim Alone, this evening of theatrical experimentation journeys from drama to comedy and across the Americas, playfully dramatizing what's tragic, funny, vincible and inescapable about being a "woman" or a "man". The Department of Theatre and Dance presents this double bill of two one-acts, directed by Claudio Medeiros '90.
Tickets: $5/4/3; on sale Thursday, March 11.
802-443-MIDD or order tickets online
April 3, Saturday
Thirteen Conversations about One Thing
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
This film weaves together five contemporary stories and explores the way one life rubs against another, how chance and circumstance influence our decisions, and how our actions prompt unforeseen consequences, for better or for worse. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [94 minutes, 2001, U.S.]
Free
April 3, Saturday
Annual Music Department Cabaret:
We've Got Trouble!
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Hosted by Nora Williams '06 and Adam Beard '06, this cabaret features Broadway favorites from The Music Man and Urinetown. Produced by Carol Christensen and Beth Thompson Kaiser, with accompaniment by Tom Cleary, and lighting design by Mark Evancho and Mark Christensen.
Free
April 5, Monday
Ethan Miller and Kate Boverman, songs of hope and resistance
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The first concert of Singer-songwriters for Social Change, a series of Monday concerts in support of the course "Songs and Social Movements" (MUS 0282). Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Free
April 8, Thursday
May Mantell Exhibit
Johnson Memorial Building, Johnson Gallery
New black-and-white and color photographs by May Mantell explore her interest in the collision between the natural world and posed artifice. Mantell is the 2004 Johnson visiting artist-in-residence in the Program in Studio Art. In the spring, she teaches a color photography course, the first to be conducted in the recently completed state-of-the-art darkroom suite in the Johnson Memorial Building.
Free
April 8-9, Thursday-Friday
The Place of Dance/The Dance of Place:
An Installation by Sculptor Sue Rees
9:00 A.M. and on, Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Bennington College faculty member Sue Rees transforms the CFA Dance Theatre for two full days providing students and observers with a rare opportunity for experience and experimentation. "Matter," asserts the pre-war Jewish shopkeeper in Bruno Schulz's The Street of Crocodiles, "is in a constant state of effervescence." Rees' kinetic installations bring these words vividly to life. Her environments for dance offer many layers of meaning and mystery. Rees has exhibited her work all over the world and created sets for theatre and dance from Vermont to India and most places in between. Visitors welcome anytime. See related performances at 7:00 and 8:00 P.M.
Free
April 8, Thursday
L'Age d'Or and L'Age Ingrat du Cinéma
4:30 P.M., Sunderland 110
Lecture by Dudley Andrew, professor of comparative literature and chair, Film Studies Program, Yale University. Sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Culture, the Fletcher Professorship in the Arts, Atwater Commons, the Department of French, and the Rohaytn Center for International Affairs.
Free
April 8, Thursday
David Rothenberg, clarinet
7:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Clarinetist and environmentalist David Rothenberg initiates an evening of professional performance in Sue Rees' art installation landscape (see above). Rothenberg, associate professor of philosophy at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, founded Terra Nova: Nature and Culture, a literary and artistic quarterly that looks at the cultural possibilities of environmentalism. He is also author of The Book of Music and Nature. Rothenberg will perform recent compositions that include birdsong. Cosponsored by the Dance Program, the Steward Fund, and the Music Department, with a reception hosted by Atwater Commons. The music concert is followed by a dance improvisation performance by The Architects at 8 P.M. Both events take place amid an environmental set by sculptor See Rees (see associated events above and below)
Free
April 8, Thursday
The Architects
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
The Architects, an improvisational quartet co-founded by Middlebury alumnae Katherine Ferrier '91, Jennifer Kayle '91, Lisa Gonzales '94 and Pamela Vail '90, return to their alma mater from their various professional activities to perform in the Rees installation. See related events above. Stay on for Museum Unplugged afterward!
Free
April 8, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: Abe Streep '04 and Ben Campbell '04, bluegrass
8:00-11:00 P.M, Center for the Arts Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. Exhibitions on view at the Museum include: Every Picture Tells a Story;and Art Now, organized by James Butler, professor of studio art.
Free
April 9, Friday
Brown Bag Lunch/Talk: Sue Rees
12:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Artist Sue Rees speaks about her work, with emphasis on the current two-day installation in the Dance Theatre. Members of the Performance Improvisation class will assist. Bring a lunch or pick it up at Rehearsals Cafe, and join in this fascinating conversation about the intersection of art and environment.
Free
April 9, Friday
Womensing
7:30 p.m., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Concert by Womensing, an a cappella women's group. Cosponsored by Chellis House, Atwater Commons, and the Office for Institutional Diversity.
Free
April 10, Saturday
Nowhere in Africa
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A Jewish family flees the Nazi regime in 1938 for a remote farm in Kenya. Each family member faces trials in adjusting to a foreign culture but eventually learns to cherish Africa. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [138 minutes, 2002, Germany]
Free
April 12, Monday
David Rovics, singer-songwriter
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The second concert of Singer-songwriters for Social Change, a series of Monday concerts in support of the course "Songs and Social Movements," taught by Jennifer Post. Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Free
April 14, Wednesday
Lecture/Screening: Shawn Ryan Presents The Shield
8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Shawn Ryan '88, the creator, writer and producer of the Golden Globe award-winning television series, The Shield, will introduce and screen a selected episode, and answer questions about his series. Sponsored by the Program in Film & Media Culture, the Theatre Program, the Director of the Arts, and Atwater Commons.
Free
April 15, Thursday
Lecture: Location, Location, Location? Urban Space in post 1970 Egyptian Cinema; Walter Armbrust, Oxford University
7:30 P.M., Robert A. Jones Conference Room, Rohaytn Center for International Affairs
Presented as part of The City in Recent Arab Cinema Film Series, sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Department of Religion, Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Department of Film and Media Culture, and the Pooled Enrichment Fund. For more information, contact Chris Stone at 802-443-3482 or cstone@middlebury.edu .
Free
April 15, Thursday
Holocaust Remembrance Day Concert: Jerry Silverman, "The Undying Flame: Songs and Ballads of the Holocaust"
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Sponsored by Middlebury College Hillel, the German Department and Max Kade Foundation, the Religion Department, Wonnacott Commons, and Cook Commons.
Free
April 15-17, Thursday-Saturday
At Life's Shore
8:00 P.M. each evening, with a 2:00 matinee Saturday, Hepburn Zoo
By Gao Xingjian (2000 Nobel Prize in Literature), translated and directed by Estye Ross '04. The play splits open one woman's dream world, expsoing her lovers and grandfathers and ghosts, posing the question that constantly faces us all: who am "I" in this post-modern world? Join actors, director, and designers for an informal discussion following Saturday's matinee.
Tickets: free-- pick up yours at the Center for the Arts box office. Limit 2 per customer. Available starting April 1.
April 15, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: Mischords and Stuck in the Middle, a cappella music
8:00-11:00 P.M., Center for the Arts Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. Exhibitions on view at the Museum include: Every Picture Tells a Story;and Art Now, organized by James Butler, professor of studio art.
Free
April 16, Friday
Pacifica Dance
4:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Final showings by the Pacifica dance class, led by Frank Kalolo and Caitlin Greenfield '04. Also on Saturday at 4:30.
Free
April 16, Friday
Takács Quartet
Edward Dusinberre, violin; Károly Schranz, violin; Roger Tapping, viola; András Fejér, cello
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
In Middlebury, little needs to be said about the Takács Quartet. For many years running, they have delighted and enthralled Middlebury audiences with performances of the major masterpieces of the chamber music literature. Their recordings of the Bartók quartets and of Beethoven's middle quartets are prize winning. They bring an all-Beethoven program with them for this concert: an early quartet, the second Razumovsky quartet, and Opus 127. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series.
Reserved Seating. Tickets: $12/$10/$5; NOW SOLD OUT. Any returned/released tickets will go on sale at noon on April 16 at the box office.
Pre-performance dinner: 6:30 P.M., Rehearsals Cafe. Reservations required.
April 17, Saturday
Tribute to Stan Brakhage
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
A diverse sampling of films by the most celebrated avant garde filmmaker, Stan Brakhage, illustrate his inventiveness. Window Water Baby Moving, 1959, 12 minutes long; Mothlight, 1963, 4 minutes; Dog Star Man, 1964, 75 minutes; Dante Quartet. 1987, 6 minutes; and For Marilyn, 1992, 11 minutes. All U.S. films.
Free
April 17, Saturday
Pacifica Dance
4:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Final showings by the Pacifica dance class, led by Frank Kalolo and Caitlin Greenfield '04. Also on Friday at 4:30.
Free
April 17, Saturday
Craig Johnson '05, piano and vocal recital
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The Middlebury College Music Department presents a vocal performance by Craig Johnson '05, accompanied by Greg Vitercik, Music Department Chair.
Free
April 18, Sunday
College-Community Chorus Spring Concert
3:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Conducted by Jeff Rehbach, the College-Community Chorus concert program features children's songs, set by noted British composer and conductor John Rutter, as well as choral settings of psalms and humorous poetry by former Middlebury College professor and composer Jean Berger. Hungarian composer Zoltán Kodály's haunting yet beautiful Missa Brevis, composed during World War II, completes the program. The chorus is accompanied by George Matthew, Jr.
Free
April 19, Monday
Anne Feeney, singer-songwriter, with Chris Chandler
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The Middlebury College Music Department presents the third concert of Singer-songwriters for Social Change, a series of Monday concerts in support of the course "Songs and Social Movements," taught by Jennifer Post.
Free
April 19-20, Monday-Tuesday
In Residence: Mizuto Abura
Monday, April 19: Master Class, free. 4:30 P.M.
Tuesday, April 20: Performance, 8:00 P.M. Tickets $5/4/3; on sale April 6.
Both events are in the Dance Theatre.
Mizuto Abura ("Water and Oil") was founded in 1995 by three Japanese mime practitioners. Unsatisfied with mime defined by Western classical technique, the group soon departed from traditional mime in search of a more experimental style. As a result, MIZUTO ABURA has created a highly original world of their own which is an amalgamation of elements derived from mime, physical theater and dance. Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, Committee on the Arts, Office for Institutional Diversity, Foreign Language Enrichment Fund, Department of Japanese, Dance Program, Henry Luce Foundation, and Wonnacott Commons.
April 22, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: Funky Jataka, roots rock
8:00-11:00 P.M., Center for the Arts Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. Exhibitions on view at the Museum include: Every Picture Tells a Story;and Art Now, organized by James Butler, professor of studio art.
Free
April 22-24, Thursday-Saturday
The Crucible
8:00 P.M. Thursday; 8:00 and 11:00 P.M. Friday; and 8:00 P.M. Saturday; Hepburn Zoo
by Arthur Miller, adapted and directed by Amanda Knappman '04 (senior work). Superstition, paranoia, and malice surround the small town of Salem, Massachusetts. Based on the Salem witch-hunt of 1692, and echoing the McCarthyism which fell heavily on America in the 1950s, this terrifying struggle between good and evil culminates in a savage and violent ending, exemplifying the power of false accusation amidst a community thrown into hysteria.
Tickets: $1; on sale April 8.
April 24, Saturday
Lost in La Mancha
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
This absorbing documentary on the "unmaking" of Terry Gilliam's The Man Who Killed Don Quixote portrays the collapse of a $30 million movie production and an in-depth look at the harsher realities of filmmaking. Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film/Video Series. [93 minutes, 2002, U.S.]
Free
April 24, Saturday
Middlebury College Chamber Singers
Jeff Rehbach, conductor
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Including music by William Byrd and G. P. da Palestrina; works from the Romantic era by Johannes Brahms and Hugo Wolf; and contemporary a cappella works by Daniel Gawthrop, Eric Whitacre, and Morten Lauridsen. Music major Jessica Isler '04 is a guest conductor.
Free
more on this concert: /depts/music/chambersingers/appearances.htm
April 24, Saturday
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
with featured guests, The Jazz Mandolin Project
8:30 P.M., Kenyon Arena
Presented by ther Middlebury College Activities Board. A general admission event. Doors open at 7:30 P.M.
Tickets: $20 regular; $15 Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff; $10 MCAB card holders. Click here to order tickets online.
April 24-25, Saturday-Sunday
Lisa Gonzales '94, dance
8:00 P.M. Saturday, 2:00 P.M. Sunday, Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Visiting guest artist Lisa Gonzales'94 presents an evening of original works, exploring the inconvenient profundity of human beings in (and falling out of) relationships. Dancers work their way through ever-shifting landscapes of longing, desire, and dissolution. In addition to new dance works, there will be a vaudville-ish collaboration with composer Michael Chorney and singer Miriam Bernardo based on the songs of Paul Bowles.
Tickets: $5/4/3; on sale April 12.
April 26, Monday
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
7:30 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Deb Ellis, visiting assistant professor of film and media culture, introduces this screening of her new documentary film.
Free
April 27, Tuesday
Behind the Scenes Lunch and Discussion: Midwives
12:30 P.M., Wright Theatre
Director Doug Sprigg and playwright Dana Yeaton '79 introduce the play Midwives and lead a discussion about the production. Members of the design staff and cast share insights on their work. Lunch is provided.
Free
April 27, Tuesday
Krystian Zimerman, piano
7:30 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Since winning the 1975 Warsaw Chopin Competition, where he was the youngest competitor, Krystian Zimerman has enjoyed a major international career as a recitalist, concerto performer, and recording artist. He has played at the Salzburg and Lucerne Festivals and with major orchestras in Europe and the United States. His recording of Debussy's Preludes in 1994 is one of the honored piano recordings of recent years. His program at Middlebury includes Four Mazurkas, Op. 24, and Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 35, by Chopin; Ravel's Valses Nobles et Sentimentales; and Godowski's Five Pieces from "Java." Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series.
Reserved Seating. Tickets: $12/$10/$5; 802-443-MIDD or order tickets online.
Pre-performance dinner: 6:00 P.M., Rehearsals Cafe. Reservations required.
April 28, Wednesday
Tony Kushner
5:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Slavs, Homebody/Kabul) reads from his plays. Following the reading, Kushner is interviewed on stage, followed by audience questions. Sponsored by the Office for Institutional Diversity, PALANA Center, Department of American Literature and Civilization, May Belle Chellis House, Department of Theatre and Dance, Department of Film and Media Culture, and the Max Kade Fund.
Free
April 28, Wednesday
Russian Choir Concert
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
In honor of the 20th anniversary of the Middlebury Russian Choir, the Choir performs selections from our repertoire over its history. Alumni singers join the current Choir in a concert of liturgical and folk music from Russia.
Free
April 29-30, Thursday-Friday
Music, Dance, Light: Performance Improvisation
7:30 P.M. Thursday, 8:00 P.M. Friday, Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
An ensemble of dancers and musicians demonstrate the results of in-depth study of improvisation as a performing art, directed by Penny Campbell, Michael Chorney, and Jennifer Ponder. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Tickets: $5/$4/$3; on sale Thursday, April 15.
April 29, Thursday
Museum Unplugged: presenting the 2004 Spring Jazz Showcase
8:00-11:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Lower Lobby and Museum of Art
The Middlebury College Museum of Art continues the Thursday late-night program, Museum Unplugged. With live music and refreshments at Rehearsals Cafe, the Center for the Arts lobby is alive with sound and the Museum is open for late-night hours. Exhibitions on view at the Museum include: Ancient, Asian, and Medieval Art from the Collection;and European and American Art from the Collection. This week's performers include music jazz students accompanied by Jeff Vallone '01, bass and Dick Forman, piano.
Free
April 29-May 1, Thursday-Saturday
Midwives
by Dana Yeaton
8:00 P.M. each evening and 2:00 P.M. on Saturday, Wright Theatre
In this newly revised adaptation of the best-selling novel by Chris Bohjalian, Middlebury playwright Dana Yeaton '79 tells the story of a Vermont midwife who must defend herself against charges of manslaughter resulting from a complicated labor and a delivery gone wrong. The play moves fluidly through time and space, creating a multidimensional portrait of a woman transformed by the alchemy of love, guilt, and memory. Directed by Douglas Sprigg. Sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance.
Tickets: $5/$4/$3; on sale Thursday, April 15.
April 29-May 1, Thursday-Saturday
My Mother Said I Never Should
8:00 and 11:00 P.M. Thursday, 8:00 P.M. Friday and Saturday; Hepburn Zoo
Play by Charlotte Keatley, directed by Marieka Peterson '04 (senior work). Beginning in a wasteland patch of playground where four generations of women are brought together as children to imagine and conspire, British Playwright Charlotte Keatley weaves an intricate tale that carries us through the past and into the present of this one family's biography. Imprinted with their mothers' experiences, each woman explores her boundaries, emotional inheritance, and the advantages and disadvantages of their sex within their respective worlds to discover how much and how little has changed.
Tickets: $1; on sale April 15.
April 30, Friday
Middlebury College Orchestra
Evan Bennett, conductor
8:00 P.M., Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The program includes the world premiere of Suite for Orchestra, by Jessica Isler '04. Also Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 (Eroica). Sponsored by the Department of Music.
Free