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Week of February 11-15
Spring Dance & Movement Classes begin
Each semester, a variety of dance and movement classes are offered in the Mahaney Center for the Arts dance spaces. Classes are open to the entire college community, and are in addition to our regular academic courses. Students: PE credit is available with attendance at a minimum of eight classes; if you are interested in taking a dance technique and choreography course for academic credit, see listings in Banner. Contact the Dance Office for further information: dance@middlebury.edu, www.middlebury.edu/dance, (802) 443-5245.
These classes start the FIRST week of class!
Yoga with Andrea Olsen
Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 12:30-1:20 P.M., Mahaney CFA, Dance Theatre
Intermediate/Advanced Dance (DANC 0361) with Tiffany Rhynard
Mondays and Wednesdays, 2:45-4:15 P.M., Mahaney CFA, Dance Theatre
Advanced Beginning Dance (DANC 0260) with Leyya Tawil
Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-10:45 A.M., Mahaney CFA, Dance Theatre
Contact Improvisation with Tiffany Rhynard
Fridays 11:00 A.M.-12:30 P.M., Mahaney CFA, Dance Theatre
February 12, Tuesday
Truth and its Consequences: Photography’s Burden of Fact
4:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
In this slide lecture, Professor of History of Art and Architecture Kirsten Hoving examines selected photographs from the Museum exhibition Eloquent Vistas: The Art of Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography from the George Eastman House in terms of the recording function of photography. She pays special attention to the Civil War work of Alexander Gardner and the images created by Carleton Watkins in the Yosemite Valley to pose questions about the nature and function of photography. Free
February 13, Wednesday
Zolotoi Plyos
8:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Russian folk music ensemble; concert sponsored by the Department of Russian, the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Free
February 14, Thursday
Eloquent Music
1:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College Museum of Art
Middlebury Student chamber musicians play among nineteenth-century American landscape photographs on view in the current museum exhibition. Musicians include Megan Guiliano '08, violin, of Black Hawk, SD; DaWeon Ryu '10, piano, of Busan, Korea/Tianjin, China;and Caeli Nistler-Schnabel '08, clarinet, of Waverly, IA. They will play Béla Bartók's Contrasts, published in 1940 and written for Benny Goodman, Joseph Szigeti, and Bartók (on piano). Free
February 14, Thursday
Xuefei Yang, guitar
7:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Classical guitarist Xuefei Yang was the first guitarist in China to enter a music school, the first guitarist from her country to study classical guitar in the West, and the first guitarist and first Chinese student to receive an international scholarship for her post-graduate studies at the Royal Academy of Music, where she received the highest performance award. She gave her concert debut in Madrid at age 14. She has played acclaimed recitals at Wigmore Hall, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and Herbst Hall in San Francisco. Here at Middlebury, this young virtuoso plays works by J. S. Bach, Tarrega, Goff, Paganini, Barrios, and Brouwer. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series. Tickets: $15/12/5
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February 15, Friday
Composer Talk by Igor Golubev
12:15 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
Russian composer Igor Golubev gives a public talk in advance of the premiere of his new work, "Sparkling Thirds," to be premiered on Saturday night by the Da Capo Chamber Players. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Department of Music, the Academic Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Free
February 15, Friday
Da Capo Chamber Players:
Informal Presentation of Student Works
8:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
The Da Capo Chamber Players visit Middlebury to engage in residential activities with the Music Department, including this informal presentation of student works. They also give a formal concert on Saturday at 8:00 P.M. (see below). Sponsored by the Middlebury College Department of Music, the Academic Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Free
February 16, Saturday
Volver
3:00 and 8:00 P.M., Dana Auditorium
Spirits of the dead aid the living in this latest hit by director Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Bad Education), an intricately plotted comedy about the undying bonds of family. Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) faces a crisis with the untimely death of her aunt and her husband. With the help of her loyal sister and her dead mother’s ghost, Raimunda shelters her daughter and discovers a deeply entrenched family secret that changes her life. “Wise, luxuriant humanism.”—A.O. Scott, The New York Times. In Spanish with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series. (Spain, 2006, 121 minutes) Free
February 16, Saturday
Da Capo Chamber Players
8:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall
One of the most exciting new music ensembles of our time, the Da Capo Chamber Players visit Middlebury to perform a concert of New Music, including the premiere of “Sparkling Thirds,” by Igor Golubev. The Da Capo Chamber Players have performed in diverse venues all over the world, from festivals in Russia to the Knitting Factory and Lincoln Center in New York, garnering critical acclaim all along the way. In addition to their public performance, the members of the ensemble will engage in residential activities with the music department while on campus (see listing on Friday at 8:00 P.M.). Sponsored by the Middlebury College Department of Music, the Academic Enrichment Fund, Rohatyn Center for International Affairs, and the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Free
Week of February 18-22
Spring Dance & Movement Classes begin
Each semester, a variety of dance and movement classes are offered in the Mahaney Center for the Arts dance spaces. Classes are open to the entire college community, and are in addition to our regular academic courses. Students: PE credit is available with attendance at a minimum of eight classes; if you are interested in taking a dance technique and choreography course for academic credit, see listings in Banner. Contact the Dance Office for further information: dance@middlebury.edu, www.middlebury.edu/dance, (802) 443-5245.
These classes start the SECOND week of class!
Ballet, Intermediate/Advanced with Barbara Doyle-Wilch
Mondays 5:30-7:00 P.M., Mahaney CFA, Room 109
Pilates with Nina Vila of the Vermont Center for Classical Pilates
Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:30-1:20 P.M., Mahaney CFA, Room 109
(College community only, $60 for 1 class/week, $120 for 2 classes/week; 10 weeks total )
Jazz with Kelly Bennion and Nathalie Michiels of Riddim
Wednesdays 5:30-7:00 P.M., Mahaney CFA,Room 109
Beginning Ballet with Classical Dance of Middlebury
Saturdays 1:00-2:30 P.M., Mahaney CFA,Room 109
Capoiera with Elizabeth Bueno '08
Sundays 1:00-2:30 P.M., Mahaney CFA,Room 109
February 18, Monday
Dance Auditions
4:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Open auditions for the spring dance concerts. Attendance at two technique classes per week is required to be eligible for casting. (Middlebury College students only)
February 21, Thursday
Tombs, Temples, Palaces, and Tea: Ceramics in Asia and Beyond (on view through December 7)
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art
This exhibition explores the practical and social uses of ceramics in Asia. Asian ceramics are the most varied in the world: they have been used for vessels, ritual objects, sculpture, and for even architectural ornament. They are also unrivaled in technical quality and in their sheer volume. They played important roles in Korea and Japan, where they lay at the very heart of the tea ceremony, while in the Islamic world ceramic tiles were indispensable to architectural facades.
Asian ceramics, particularly Chinese, were exported in staggering quantities and exerted a profound influence on Western ceramics. Chinese and Japanese porcelains were widely copied in the West, and the wabi aesthetic of the Japanese tea ceremony lies behind almost all modern studio pottery. We invite you to explore the wonderful world of clay transformed.
This exhibition is curated by students in the fall 2007 College Writing Course on Asian ceramics taught by Colin Mackenzie. Free
February 23, Saturday
Vermont A Cappella Summit 2008 Workshops
10:00 A.M.-6:00 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts
Middlebury College hosts professional a cappella performance and instruction, in an intense, all-day vocal summit. Daytime events feature a series of hour-long workshops covering musical and business topics, from arranging, to copyright, to managing. A cappella groups and individual vocal performers are welcome. (For groups looking for professional and peer feedback, there will be a Master Class in the afternoon; contact Joe Antonioli at jantonio@middlebury.edu to sign up.) See the entry below for details on the evening gala. Tickets: $10
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February 23, Saturday
A Cappella Gala with the House Jacks and the Hyannis Sound
7:00 P.M., Mead Chapel
Coasts collide, as San Francisco’s powerhouse group, the House Jacks, and the Cape’s boys of summer, the Hyannis Sound, descend on Middlebury College campus for a high-energy, a cappella concert that will leave audiences breathless. This concert is the culmination of the Vermont A Cappella Summit 2008. (See entry above for details on daytime workshops.) Tickets: $5/4/3
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February 28, Thursday
The Invention of Printing and the Middlebury College Hyakuman-tō and Dharani
4:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
The invention of printing in China around the Fifth Century of the Common Era was one of the greatest advances in the history of civilization, allowing information to be disseminated on an unprecedented scale. Colin Mackenzie, Robert P. Youngman Curator of Asian Art, gives a slide lecture that explores the early history of printing in East Asia and the significance of the hyakuman-tō and dharani, one of the world’s earliest extant printed texts. Free
February 29, Friday
Arts Week Kick-off Event
6:30 P.M., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221
Career Services presents the arts week kick-off event featuring Laura Thomas ‘96, Singer/Songwriter, Laura Thomas Band; Chris Farrell ‘98, Lead guitar, Laura Thomas Band, American Association of Independent Music; and Jeff Vallone ‘97.5, Bass Guitar/Turntablist/Keyboardist/Minister of Noises, The Grift. Midd grads talk about making music for a living...and promise to jam a little! Free
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