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A Celebration of the life and art of Peter Schmitz

Sponsored by:
Dance and Theatre
The departments of Dance and Theatre invite you to join them in celebration of our friend, colleague, mentor, and teacher Peter Schmitz. A reception in the Lower Lobby will follow. Open to Middlebury College students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

This event will be streamed (click here).

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet

Sponsored by:
Dance
Ballet returns to the dance department this fall. Classical ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No point 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. Sign up at go/iballet22. Open to Middlebury College students.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Free
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Beginning Ballet

Sponsored by:
Dance
Ballet returns to the dance department this fall. Classical ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No point 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. Sign up at go/bballet22. Open to Middlebury College students.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Free
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Movement Matters: Burlington Taiko

Sponsored by:
Mahaney Arts Center and Dance
Join Burlington Taiko Founder and Artistic Director Stuart Paton for an exciting workshop designed to invigorate body and spirit, bridge international cultures, and rebuild the sense of community that was diminished during the pandemic. Since 1987, Burlington Taiko has been mesmerizing audiences with the powerful, spellbinding and propulsive sounds of the Taiko drums. Burlington Taiko Group estimates it has introduced over half a million people to the power of Taiko via performances from the Boston Marathon toBurlington’s First Night to the Black Ships Festival in Newport, RI, and more.

Mahaney Arts Center Plaza

Free
Open to the Public
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Dance Company of Middlebury Pre-Semester Workshop

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez and Guest Bharatanatyam Artist Subashini Ganesan-Forbes for the pre-semester workshop of dance. We will reveal and deepen our dance through conversations between body and the unknown. Together we will explore how embodied freedom comes from collective strength.

go/registerDCM

Please fill out this short form if you are interested in attending. This workshop
is required for students in The Dance Company of Middlebury 22/23. The workshop is open to Middlebury College students only.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Free
2 people dancing with one behind the other

Dance Company of Middlebury Pre-Semester Workshop

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez and Guest Bharatanatyam Artist Subashini Ganesan-Forbes for the pre-semester workshop of dance. We will reveal and deepen our dance through conversations between body and the unknown. Together we will explore how embodied freedom comes from collective strength.

go/registerDCM

Please fill out this short form if you are interested in attending. This workshop
is required for students in The Dance Company of Middlebury 22/23. The workshop is open to Middlebury College students only.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Free
2 people dancing with one behind the other

Dance Company of Middlebury Pre-Semester Workshop

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez and Guest Bharatanatyam Artist Subashini Ganesan-Forbes for the pre-semester workshop of dance. We will reveal and deepen our dance through conversations between body and the unknown. Together we will explore how embodied freedom comes from collective strength.

go/registerDCM

Please fill out this short form if you are interested in attending. This workshop
is required for students in The Dance Company of Middlebury 22/23. The workshop is open to Middlebury College students only.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Free
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Dance Department Pizza and Auditions

Sponsored by:
Dance
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

6pm Pizza; 7pm Audition

Want to dance? Want to find out more about the Dance Department? Come to this fun and welcoming pizza dinner and audition.
Audition to be in the Fall Dance Concert! Or if you have never danced at Middlebury before, audition to be in the Newcomers piece lead by Artist-in-Resident Meshi Chavez. Dates and rehearsal schedule will be shared at the audition.
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Clifford Symposium Follow up discussion: Same But Different

Sponsored by:
President of the College, Dance, and Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation
Same But Different is a dance-theater performance created and performed by Christal Brown and Lida Winfield. The scholar-artists explore their similarities and differences in a cultural commentary on race, age, and gender. The performance is a reflection of their lived values, artistic practice and communal existence. The artists will dive deeper into the performance for a meaningful discussion.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public
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The Wilds : Laurel Jenkins (dance), Jesse Fleming (visuals), Lewis Pesacov (music)

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and her co-creators Jesse Fleming and Lewis Pesacov present a new mixed-reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music, and emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Live dancers with motion capture technology and simultaneous animation create The Wilds before your eyes. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds echoes patterns of nature from the subatomic to the cosmological to reveal the interconnectedness of all beings. 

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$25/20/10/5
Open to the Public