Dance

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.

Join legendary dance artist Ishmael Houston-Jones for a casual conversation about art making and life over lunch. Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. Please register in advance.

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.

Urban Cadence tells the multifaceted stories of two urban environments—Lagos, Nigeria and Johannesburg, South Africa—experienced through the artistic expressions of photography and video.

African cities are growing rapidly, and these two cities have experienced this growth in diverse yet fascinating ways: the first as a mega-city, the latter as a center of industrial development. The street scenes in this exhibition represent the complex narratives of these urban areas: tales of migration, labor, desperation, success, hope, and imagination among others.

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.

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.

Lunch provided, limited space available. This seminar with arts consultant, Kim Koniklow, will cover taxes and insurance, creative fundraising, fiscal sponsorship, understanding the grant and panel process, and independent versus company structure. Please email dance@middlebury.edu to pre-register.

Lunch provided, limited space available. This seminar with arts consultant, Kim Koniklow, will cover topics including managing career expectations, presenting yourself, developing a personal mission statement, navigating the job market, documenting your work, building a professional network and more. Free. To pre-register, email dance@middlebury.edu

The Wilds – a new mixed reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music as emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds fuses live dancers with motion capture technology and real-time animation inspiring a profound bond of a shared, collective experience. This Movement Matters event will give you a behind the scenes view on The Wilds.

Ousmane Omari Wiles is an African American West African and Vogue dancer, who has performed at performed at the Joyce Theater, Harlem Stage, Gibney Dance, and with Works and Process at the Guggenheim, and Lincoln Center.

Performance contains haze, flashing and strobe lights.

A student-supported Rothrock Residency event.