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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Breath Made Visible is a 2009 documentary film about modern dance legend Anna Halprin. It is produced and directed by filmmaker Ruedi Gerber. The film premiered at the Mill Valley Film Festival where it received the Audience Award Certificate of Excellence and at the Locarno Film Festival in 2009.

Your favorite South Asian drag auntie brings the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa) to explain how critical social theory matters in queer nightlife. Touching on themes that include globalization, black feminist theory, diva worship, and islamophobia, she stages the nightclub as a site of politics and pleasure. Part lecture, part lipsync, part audience participation, the show demonstrates how much drag teaches us, even requires us, to be in relation with the rest of the world.

Open to students, faculty and staff only.

Lessons in Drag- Kareem Khubchandani

Your favorite South Asian drag auntie brings the nightclub to the classroom (and vice versa) to explain how critical social theory matters in queer nightlife. Touching on themes that include globalization, black feminist theory, diva worship, and islamophobia, she stages the nightclub as a site of politics and pleasure. Part lecture, part lipsync, part audience participation, the show demonstrates how much drag teaches us, even requires us, to be in relation with the rest of the world.