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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.

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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
dancers in motion capture suits

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
dancers in motion capture suits

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. 
$25/20/10/5
Open to the Public
Two dancers against a white background

Clifford Symposium: 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.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public

In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic Lida Winfield

Sponsored by:
Dance
Dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist, and educator Lida Winfield presents this dance/theater performance based on her experience growing up with a learning disability. She shares the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read—which did not occur until her early twenties. This show is a mixture of funny, sad, and ironic moments strung together in a creative and captivating format. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Student Works Concert

Sponsored by:
Dance
In conjunction with the Vermont College Dance Festival, student choreographers present completed dances to each other, followed by a feedback session, in an exchange of ideas and information. Tickets $12/10/5; on sale October 26

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Student Work in Progress Showing

Sponsored by:
Dance
An informal opportunity for students to share their freshest creations, as a chance to build community and collaborate. Part of the second annual Vermont College Dance Festival, hosted this year by Middlebury. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public