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Open Space: An Improvisational Laboratory

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Dance
Open Space is a place to try out ideas, inhabit your body, be with yourself and others physically, and release agendas. Come dance, play, sing, touch, watch, and listen. The first hour is in silence, and the second hour is open for the musicians to join and play as they wish. It is a focused space, so please do not come to talk. Open to all—students, faculty, and community members; there is no requirement of technique or ability, just a respectfulness to honor the space and not endanger yourself or others.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

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Movement Matters: Two Years in Process

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Dance
Join Maree ReMalia, Movement Matters Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer, and her cross-disciplinary collaborators to learn about discoveries made through practices of embodied learning and the scope of activities that have taken place during a two-year residency. Enjoy an informal sharing through text, movement, archival media, and more, followed by a celebratory reception. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Movement and Media Final Showing

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Dance
The students of Scotty Hardwig’s spring Movement and Media class perform original works created following a semester of interdisciplinary inves­tigation into the dynamic relationship between the body and digital media. Durational installation works will be running from 4:30-6:30 PM. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Middlebury Motion Capture Lab: Open House + Lecture Demonstration

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Dance
Please join us for the inaugural event of the newly established Middlebury Motion Capture Lab, with open house and lecture demonstration with dance professor and MoCap lab director Scotty Hardwig. This event will introduce the basics of the technology and software of motion capture data, avatar design, and more. The Midd MoCap Lab will be open for proposals for faculty and student research projects starting this semester. Sponsored by the Dance Program and the Fund for Innovation. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Master Class with Lela Aisha Jones

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Dance
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist that has come to understand dance as an archival practice, and her body “as an artistic archive—a creative storage space for movement and culture derived from the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness.” Some of her most influential experiences in the field of dance has come from working with nationally and internationally renowned artists, including Sulley Imoro (Ghana), Nia Love (U.S.), Anssumane Silla (Guinea Bissau), and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women (U.S.) Jones a
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Long Gone

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Dance
Visiting Lecturer in Dance Lida Winfield and alumna Ellen Smith Ahern ’05 have been collaborating since 2010. In this lecture/demonstration, they show excerpts of Long Gone, a duet which weaves dance and spoken word to celebrate heartfelt, funny, and irreverent memories of those long gone, and explores how our dead continue to live and evolve through memory and imagination. Passionate about making dance an open dialogue between performers and audiences, Ahearn and Winfield discuss their creative process, welcome questions, and perform excerpts. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Liz Lerman: "Making Rules, Breaking Rules"

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Dance
Location:Dance Theatre What happens when we cross borders, cross disciplines, and cross domains? How can that serve our personal inquiry, our professional development, and the building of knowledge? Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of numerous honors, including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Fellowship and a 2011 United States Artists Ford Fellowship in Dance.

Mahaney Arts Center

Free
Open to the Public

Interdisciplinary Storytelling: Silent and Spoken, Movement and Stillness

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Dance
Participants in this course, facilitated by Lida Winfield, share the results of their explorations with movement and narrative in a final showing. Through improvisation and structure, they create stories through body and voice in order to look at, create, tell, and share personal stories, as well as those of others. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public