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New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Student Faculty "Happening"

An interdisciplinary performance with music, dance, visual art, and theatre. Student participants from will be featured from these classes: Intro to Dance, First Year Seminar: Collaborating Across the Arts, Digital Studio, Acting 1, Collaborative Improvisation, and How To Improvise. Led by Dr. Matthew Evan Taylor (Music), Michelle Leftheris (Studio Art), Laurel Jenkins (Dance) and Michole Biancosino (Theatre).

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public
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Zoom Talk with Shlomi Alon - from “HaDag Nachash” band

Sponsored by:
Music, Hebrew, and Modern Hebrew
A Zoom talk with Shlomi Alon, a well-known and active musician in Israel - as a playing musician (he plays the saxophone, flute and other musical instruments), as a composer, as a songwriter and as a singer.

Shlomi is one of the founders and members of “HaDag Nachash” - a band that celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. This is the most popular and successful band in Israel.

Virtual Middlebury

Open to the Public
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Presenting Princess Shaw

Sponsored by:
Music, Hebrew, and Modern Hebrew
An uplifting documentary about an unexpected and unique collaboration between an American and an Israeli musicians.

People all over the world post video clips online. They cram their video notes into virtual bottles and toss them into the boundless ocean that is the Internet. All they want is for someone to find the hidden treasure and to be seen.

Twilight Auditorium 101

Open to the Public
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New Directions Spring Arts Festival: Inner Landscapes

Sponsored by:
Arts Council, Dance, Music, and Theatre
Inner Landscapes is a performance practice developed by Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and Nives Sertic, a projection artist based in Croatia. Middlebury College’s New Directions Spring Arts Festival will present the second iteration of this work which began when Sertic and Jenkins met as artists-in-residence last year at Cite des International Arts in Paris, France. This intimate work submerges the body in worlds of color. Original sound is played live by Matthew Evan Taylor and costumes are by Mac Melrose.

Shows at 2:30pm and 6:30pm.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public