Performing Arts Series

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Listening Lunch with The Westerlies

12:45 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Performing Arts Series

Bridging the Gap: Exploring the Intersection of Jazz, Classical, and Folk Traditions

Visiting brass quartet The Westerlies select seminal recordings and discuss their importance in the context of music history and exploring the Intersection of Jazz, Classical, and Folk Traditions. Open to all students, and lunch provided with RSVP at https://forms.gle/CQUffnMX5RYSxfjv5.

Mahaney Arts Center 126

Closed to the Public

Musical Career Conversation Lunch

12:15 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Performing Arts Series

Vince Peterson, Annie Beliveau ’18, and other members of Choral Chameleon hold a casual conversation about the variety of ways to pursue a musical life post-Middlebury. Open to all students with RSVP and lunch provided. RSVP via http://qr.codes/gzxhZ8

Mahaney Arts Center Cafe

Closed to the Public

Dancers dressed in black with motion capture suits

Movement Matters The WILDS

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Performing Arts Series and Dance

The Wilds – a new mixed reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music as emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds fuses live dancers with motion capture technology and real-time animation inspiring a profound bond of a shared, collective experience. This Movement Matters event will give you a behind the scenes view on The Wilds.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Showcase featuring Omari Wiles

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Performing Arts Series and Dance

Ousmane Omari Wiles is an African American West African and Vogue dancer, who has performed at performed at the Joyce Theater, Harlem Stage, Gibney Dance, and with Works and Process at the Guggenheim, and Lincoln Center.

Performance contains haze, flashing and strobe lights.

A student-supported Rothrock Residency event.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public

collage image of the artist in different poses

Vogue Fem with Omari Wiles

7:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Performing Arts Series and Dance

Beginners Level breakdown of the Five Elements of Vogue Femme. Learn a series of exercises and techniques that will help you better develop your quality of performance and usage of Elements and personality. Class is lead with a warmup and stretch before taking the Elements across the floor. A Student-supported Rothrock Residency event.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public

Student-Supported Rothrock Residencies: Apply Now!

9:00 AM ET

Sponsored by:: Performing Arts Series

Do you have an artist or group that you’ve always wanted to work with? A dancer, musician, filmmaker, actor, choreographer, playwright, arts administrator or technician, to name a few examples?

Do you want to be part of a larger conversation about the arts at Middlebury and expose your peers to someone amazing?

Now is your chance to bring artists to campus, either live or virtually!