Events

Tuesday-Beginner/Intermediate

Wednesday-Intermediate/Advanced

Ballet returns to the Dance Department this Fall. Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please.Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants. PE credit is available for attendance at 8 classes. Previous dance experience in any form is recommended. Open to Middlebury students only. 

“Regional Trash, Urban Harm: Environmental Justice Dialogue in Greater Hartford, CT” a Howard E. Woodin Environmental Studies Colloquium Series talk by Abigail Fisher Williamson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and Law at Trinity College.

Join Chellis House for our weekly Stitch & Bitch! Gather in feminist community to scheme, make art, meet new people, use your hands, and take a break from screens and school. All materials will be provided, but feel free to bring any projects you’re currently working on. Together we can build a better world, but first we must imagine it!

“Between Tongues: The Art of Arabic-English Translation”

Between Tongues: The Art of Arabic–English Translation – a conversation with acclaimed translator maia tabet, whose career has helped shape the reception of modern Arabic literature in English. She has translated celebrated authors such as Elias Khoury and Sinan Antoon and her work reflects a lifelong engagement with language, politics, and literary form. In this talk, she reflects on the art and labor of translation—its challenges, its pleasures, and its power to mediate between cultures while resisting simplification. The event offers a rare opportunity to hear from one of the foremost voices in contemporary Arabic–English translation.

This will be a mandatory pre-departure orientation for students planning to study in Taiwan during the spring of 2026. (Students admitted to the program will receive a Zoom invitation via email.)

Stephanie Frampton, MIT Literature

The trope of “books as friends” has a long history. Pinpointing the earliest appearance of the metaphor in the letters of the Roman orator, politician, and philosopher Cicero, this paper asks what it means to read books as friends, how we make connections with others by sharing texts in common, and what we can learn about the past and the future from reading ancient literature today.

Interested in acting in a faculty- or student-directed production? Then you’re in luck! 
ALL STUDENTS are invited to audition for Our Town by Thornton Wilder directed by guest artist Melissa Lourie, The Maids by Jean Genet directed by Cláudio Medeiros as well as senior student projects.
For more information on the shows, callback dates, and the audition process, go to:
https://www.middlebury.edu/college/academics/theatre/resources/auditions

“One of del Toro’s finest, this is epic-scale storytelling of uncommon beauty, feeling and artistry.” - The Hollywood Reporter.

Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro adapts Mary Shelley’s classic tale of Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist who brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM

These Shining Lives is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial Company - a watch factory based in Ottawa, Illinois. This poetic and beautiful little play is a story of survival in its most transcendent sense, and a reminiscence on love, family and time. The play focuses on the women who refuse to allow the company that stole their health to kill their spirits – and highlights their work to protect the lives of the generations who come after them. Directed by Michole Biancosino.