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Featured Events

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    Lunch with Dance Artist jumatatu m. poe

    Join dance artist jumatatu m. poe for a casual conversation about art making and life over lunch. Lunch provided, but please click on the related url to register! Registration needed by March 15th. Open to Middlebury students, faculty, and staff.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Closed to the Public
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    Movement Matters: Global Body in Conflict: transitions into terrestrial Artist Talk with jumatatu m. poe

    jumatatu m. poe will present “transitions into terrestrial,” sharing images, video, poetics, and movement reflecting on transitions in artmaking and life. Having completed a 10 plus year cycle of research and performance with collaborator Jermone Donte Beacham through the J-Sette focused Let ‘im Move You series, jumatatu is reflecting on the vastness of the voyage, the depth of the lessons on both being, and being with, that sprang forth from that intimately collaborative series of processes.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • Movement Matters: Global Body in Conflict Masterclass: The Switching

    jumatatu m. poe will present “The Switching”: I like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation, The Switching, is a strategy in immediate evolution, rapid-fire shifting, sublime learning of and in the moment.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public
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    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: In the Moment

    At this very moment,
    You’ve breathed molecules
    First produced by Cyanobacteria epochs ago
    How does this make you feel?
    Does it sound like this?

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
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    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: 27 Breaths

    27 Breaths is a live music and movement piece created and performed by composer and musician, Mathew Evan Taylor, and choreographer and dancer, Laurel Jenkins. In close proximity Taylor and Jenkins Inhale/Exhale, Push/Pull, never simply breathe…

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
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    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Inner Landscapes

    Inner Landscapes is a performance practice developed by Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and Nives Sertic, a projection artist based in Croatia. Middlebury College’s New Directions Spring Arts Festival will present the second iteration of this work which began when Sertic and Jenkins met as artists-in-residence last year at Cite des International Arts in Paris, France. This intimate work submerges the body in worlds of color. Original sound is played live by Matthew Evan Taylor and costumes are by Mac Melrose.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Open to the Public
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    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Momentary Exchange

    Co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino, Assistant Professor of Theatre, with Visiting Artist, Todd Anderson, digital poet and technologist

    Leave your cellphone on for this unique theatre event. In this app-driven performance piece, you are invited to take a 50 minute journey - through memory, relationships, songs, and weather – as we take a road trip together. Audiences co-write the story in real time by using your phone and responding to prompts in real-time. It’s going to be a wild ride.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public
  • photo of the artist holding a saxophone

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: In the Moment

    At this very moment,
    You’ve breathed molecules
    First produced by Cyanobacteria epochs ago
    How does this make you feel?
    Does it sound like this?

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
  • black and white photograph of the artists

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: 27 Breaths

    27 Breaths is a live music and movement piece created and performed by composer and musician, Mathew Evan Taylor, and choreographer and dancer, Laurel Jenkins. In close proximity Taylor and Jenkins Inhale/Exhale, Push/Pull, never simply breathe…

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Open to the Public
  • photos of artists, side by side

    New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Momentary Exchange

    Co-created and directed by Michole Biancosino, Assistant Professor of Theatre, with Visiting Artist, Todd Anderson, digital poet and technologist

    Leave your cellphone on for this unique theatre event. In this app-driven performance piece, you are invited to take a 50 minute journey - through memory, relationships, songs, and weather – as we take a road trip together. Audiences co-write the story in real time by using your phone and responding to prompts in real-time. It’s going to be a wild ride.

    Mahaney Arts Center Seeler Studio Theatre

    Open to the Public

General Event Information

All events listed are open to the public and are FREE unless otherwise indicated. For further information, call 802-443-3136. Join the MAC’s electronic mailing list

Tickets and information available at the Box Offices:

Mahaney Arts Center and McCullough Student Center
802-443-MIDD (6433)

Complimentary Ticket Policy

Before each show, Debby Anderson emails everyone in a dance or theatre class so they can order comps in advance. Complimentary tickets are NOT available on the day of the performance.

Everyone enrolled in a dance or theatre class, as well as dance majors, may get a total of one comp ticket for each program-sponsored performance.

If a student is participating in a dance, they can get a total of two tickets.

Tickets are NOT cumulative—each student can receive only up to two tickets per show, no matter their involvement.

The only exception is if the student is doing their senior work; Debby will work with the student directly for up to four (4) tickets per performance.

If the student has any questions about the policy, email Debby Anderson at danderso@middlebury.edu.

Middlebury Performing Arts Series

The Dance Department works closely with Middlebury’s Performing Arts Series (PAS), Vermont’s longest-running performance series. In addition to sharing our spaces, PAS brings notable dance artists to campus who often join our classes and interact with our students and faculty.