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Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre Residency: Informal Performance

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Dance
This informal showing and discussion about the company’s creative methods and collaborative process features members Yukari Osaka, Zoe Rabinowitz, and Mohammed Smahneh performing solo and duet excerpts from their most recent and forthcoming works, Against a Hard Surface and Last Ward, developed and performed in the Arab World and Europe. Free

 

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Middlebury XR Expo

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Dance and Office of Digital Learning and Inquiry
Please join us to explore the uses of virtual and augmented reality at Middlebury. At the Expo you will be able to interact with simulations, including blends of physical and digital technology, observe a motion-capture performance, and talk with others about their experiences. Some of the projects included will be the Sea Level Rise Explorer, the Sandbox, and Representations of the Apocalypse. The Expo will conclude with a discussion about the possibilities of XR technologies for Middlebury. All interest levels are welcome.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Welter

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Dance
A dance saturated in light by Elena Demyanenko, Chloe Engel, and Laurel Jenkins. Three simultaneous solos emerge out of prolonged work with color, with the performers cohabiting a viscous dimension of saturated light. Infected by color virus and noise making, they exhibit symptoms which evince something ancient and essential to emotional survival, complete with an extra-lingual mode of communication that is evocative of invocation and incantation. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project: When Birds Refused to Fly

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Dance
Choreographed by Olivier Tarpaga and set to the music of Orchestre Super Volta, When Birds Refused to Fly is a dance theatre piece that explores multiple facets of generational transformation, culturally and geographically. The performance examines what it is to build up and break down in the name of change. Tickets: $15/12/8/6; on sale September 23

   

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Movement Matters Master Class with Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project

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Dance
The transnational performance group Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project (BTDP)—based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, PA—draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. Movement Matters is a series of one-time classes and workshops on a variety of topics. Open to the general public as well as the College community. All experience levels welcome. Free

 

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Open to the Public

Taking Flight

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Dance
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre

A “lightly produced” showing of dance experiments by the new batch of choreographers emerging from the Beginning course facilitated by Christal Brown and the Improvisational Practices course, facilitated by Lida Winfield, Michael Chorney, and Deborah Felmeth. Free
Open to the Public

The Edge of Balance - Master Class

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
San Francisco-based choreographer, performer and teacher Sara Shelton Mann leads a two hour class open to all levels. The study of bones, muscles and weighted nuts and bolts teach us the delicacy and strength of weight and space. We slow down action until it becomes silence in and of itself. The breath moves the heart, and we move with it. No registration required.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public