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**CANCELLED**The Story of NOW: Dance Company of Middlebury in Progress Showing

Sponsored by:
Dance
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

The 2021-2022 DCM season is dedicated to discovery a place of authentic presence where the fullness of the individual and the acceptance of the world collide. Join us for a work in progress showing prior to the company research tour during J-term.

This live, in-person event is open to the on-campus audience only. Vaccinations and masks required.Additional health and safety information here.
Free
Closed to the Public

Africa to the Americas Showing

Sponsored by:
Dance
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

Students in Christal Brown’s Fall term class, From Africa to the Americas, perform traditional works from Guinea taught by guest artist Simbo Camara and contemporary choreography that incorporates styles from the African Diaspora as well as historic excerpts from iconic black choreographies.

This live, in-person event is open to on-campus audiences only. Vaccinations and masks required.Additional health and safety information here.
Free
Closed to the Public

Anikaya Dance Theatre: Conference of the Birds

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
Conference of the Birds is an evening-length, multi-media movement theater work inspired by the epic poem of Farid Ud din Attar, embodying modern-day stories of migration. Attar’s The Conference of the Birds is the tale of a group of birds that set off in search of a mythical being, the Simurgh. Many of the birds abandon the quest. When the remaining birds arrive in the land of the Simurgh, they find themselves reflected—they are the very deity they seek.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

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

Anikaya Dance Theatre: Conference of the Birds

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
Conference of the Birds is an evening-length, multi-media movement theater work inspired by the epic poem of Farid Ud din Attar, embodying modern-day stories of migration. Attar’s The Conference of the Birds is the tale of a group of birds that set off in search of a mythical being, the Simurgh. Many of the birds abandon the quest. When the remaining birds arrive in the land of the Simurgh, they find themselves reflected—they are the very deity they seek.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

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

Our Return

Sponsored by:
Dance
Our Return is the Fall Dance Department Concert with student choreography from Meshi Chavez’s 460 Intermediate/Advance Dance class with lighting done by students in Production Workshop. 

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$15/$10/$8/$5
Open to the Public

Our Return

Sponsored by:
Dance
Our Return is the Fall Dance Department Concert with student choreography from Meshi Chavez’s 460 Intermediate/Advance Dance class with lighting done by students in Production Workshop. 

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

$15/$10/$8/$5
Open to the Public

Movement Matters Junior Cius

Sponsored by:
Dance
Junior Cius is a dancer/choreographer residing in Boston, MA. He started training professionally with his first dance crew, Picture In Concrete (PIC) in 2013. In 2015, he established his own dance company “Crewenex”, dedicated to teaching students in Boston. A year later, he was selected to learn and perform works taught by some of the pop and hip-hop industries’ most successful choreographers, in the Monsters of Hip Hop dance show. Since then, Junior has traveled with these choreographers, assisting them in training other aspiring dancers.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public

Movement Matters Jules Skloot

Sponsored by:
Dance
In this improvisation based movement workshop participants will be invited to engage with the themes and elements that are currently informing Jules Skloot’s work: projection, inter-personal performance, self-protection/connection, objectification, queerness and gender, obscuration, “the reveal” or never revealing, layering, and disguise.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Closed to the Public

Leaning Into the Wind

Sponsored by:
Dance
Following artist Andy Goldsworthy on an exploration of his local environment and himself through ephemeral and permanent workings on the Scottish landscape, cities and his own body

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Closed to the Public

**CANCELLED**Freedom Dreaming

Sponsored by:
Office of Institutional Diversity Equity & Inclusion and Dance
Envisioning an Antiracist Middlebury: theatre piece focused on the experiences and dreams of BIPOC students at Middlebury.
“Freedom dreaming is imagining worlds that are just, representing people’s full humanity, centering people left on the edges, thriving in solidarity with folx from different identities who have struggled for justice, and knowing that dreams are just around the corner with the might of people power.” Bettina Love

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free