Logo for Middlebury Middlebury Middlebury

Dance

Dance DANC

Movement Matters Immersive: Day of Dance

Sponsored by:
Dance
Free the Voice with Odeya Nini

This workshop is dedicated to Vocal Expression, sensing the voice, feeling and understanding the physicality of sound, freeing our minds of preconceived ideas of song, and realizing the transformational healing effects we have on ourselves and others when we use our voice with intention and love. Wear comfortable clothes and bring a notebook. See www.vermontdance.org for more information and to pre-register. Free to Midd ID holders.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Open to the Public

Movement Matters Immersive with The Dance Company of Middlebury

Sponsored by:
Dance
This year DCM, under the direction of Visiting Assistant Professor Lida Winfield, is teaching and performing in a variety of communities, using dance as a platform for personal truth–telling and bridge building. This workshop will be led by student company members. All abilities and experience levels welcome. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Open to the Public

Manifestaciones en Periodo de Caza/Demonstration During Hunting Season

Sponsored by:
Dean of Students, Atwater Commons, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Dance, History of Arts and Architecture, The Center for Community Engagement, American Studies, Education Studies, Center for Comparative Study of Race & Ethnicity, Latin American Studies, Gender, Sexuality, & Fem Studies, Food Studies, and Black Studies
In this performance and artist talk, the renowned artistic duo better known as Las Nietas de Nonó will share the visceral motivations of their creative work and artistic practices in recent struggles for equity, visibility, and political change in Puerto Rico and beyond. 

Ilustraciones de la Mecánica takes up the history of medical experimentation and the pharmaceutical industry in Puerto Rico. It considers in particular the violence inflicted on Black women’s bodies in the name of medical research.

Adirondack Coltrane Lounge

Open to the Public

Lecture Performance with the Illustrious Blacks

Sponsored by:
Dance
With inspiration from artists like Prince, David Bowie, Grace Jones, Boy George, and George Clinton, The Illustrious Blacks have a mission to fuse futuristic funk, hypnotic house, and cosmic pop into pulsating positivity for the planet. The real life married couple are not only co¬-pilots on their artistic voyage, but are united in their fantastical journey through life. The acclaimed couple are known for their epic live shows and DJ sets, which fuse music, dance, theater, and fashion as the ingredients to expand minds, shake bootys, and save the world one beat at a time.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

LA Invasion Arts Residency: Performance

Sponsored by:
Dance
Assistant Professor Laurel Jenkins convenes a residency with dance artists from Los Angeles, California to research and collaborate on movement, teaching, and dance-making practices. This Informal showing shares works in progress created during the week’s intensive. Free; donations accepted for Vermont Dance Alliance.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Informal Showing by Dante Brown

Sponsored by:
Dance
Visiting Artist in Residence Dante Brown shares a recent solo and his experiences in the professional dance world as a company founder, educator, and performer. More at http://warehousedance.org/. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic

Sponsored by:
Dance
In this dance/theater performance based on her experience growing up with a learning disability, dancer, choreographer, and spoken word artist Lida Winfield shares the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read—which did not occur until her early 20s. This show is a mixture of funny, sad, and ironic moments strung together in a creative and captivating format. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Like Making Someone Laugh: Affective and Corporeal Messiness in Non-Phallogocentric Communication

Sponsored by:
Dance
A thesis presentation by Matea Mills-Andruk

Matea Mills-Andruk ’18.5, presents the findings of her senior thesis produced in Dance and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Through dance and spoken word, Like Making Someone Laugh flaunts the ways hope, passion, and laughter are crucial to movement for social change. This upbeat event demonstrates the feminist potential of communicating in ways that do not center rationality and linearity, while simultaneously refusing to position reason and emotion as opposites. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Gaga/People Class

Sponsored by:
Dance
Led by Maree ReMalia—Middlebury’s former Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer—this Gaga/people class offers a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve flexibility and stamina, exercise agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere. Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement, and no previous dance experience is needed.
Open to the Public