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Thursday, February 13, 2025

  • Rania Matar: SHE— Opening Reception

    The photographs of Lebanese Palestinian American artist, based in Boston, Rania Matar tell the stories of young women through portraits taken throughout Lebanon, France, Egypt, and the United States. Photographed through car windows, in abandoned buildings, snow-strewn fields, or floating in the Mediterranean Sea, the women collaborate with Matar, sharing a sense of creative agency. These large-scale color photographs portray individuality intimately tied to the histories and connections of place.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public
  • Dancer jumping in the air

    Dance Pizza & Auditions

    Come for the pizza, stay to audition to be involved in the faulty dance concert or senior thesis work. Open to Middlebury students only.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Monday, February 17, 2025

  • Headshot of Ioana Literat

    Not Your Parents’ Politics: Understanding Young People’s Political Expression on Social Media

    Whether we like it or not, social media platforms have become key spaces for youth political expression. Yet young people’s engagement with politics on social media looks and feels different from adult conceptions of political expression: it is creative, making inventive use of platform affordances; it is personal, shaped by young people’s experiences and identities; and it is meaningful to young people, as a space to exert their political voice. This talk, based on Dr.

    Axinn Center 232

    Open to the Public
  • Simbo in West African dance outfit

    West African Dance and Drum Class

    A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
    Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.

    Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!

    No credit. Attend one or all classes!

    Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center

  • Korean Drumming

    Learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed!

    The Bunker (FIC 121)

Thursday, February 20, 2025

  • "Dogteam Theatre Project" written in white letters on black background.

    The Dogteam Project - Auditions and Interviews for Summer 2025

    The Dogteam Theatre Project, now in its third season, is a professional theatre company structured around alternating building and producing summers, with the former dedicated to script development and training and the latter to rehearsing and producing 2 plays in rep in NYC. For this building summer, we will welcome 12-16 students to join professional theatre makers for a two-week residency dedicated to script development and advanced training for actors, directors, designers, technicians, playwrights, and stage managers.

    Mahaney Arts Center 232

    Closed to the Public

  • Hirschfield International Film Series: Who by Fire

    Director Philippe Lesage in attendance, Q and A to follow the screening.
     
    Who by Fire
    Canada, 2024
    Directed by Philippe Lesage
     
    A “beautiful, unusual coming of age story” (Guy Lodge, Variety) this ensemble character drama is both subtle and shocking in a most understated way.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public

Friday, February 21, 2025

  • Jazz Workshop

    The Jazz Workshop provides a weekly opportunity for jazz students to study jazz history, repertoire development, jazz conventions, jazz idiom and theory, and a chance to practice strategies and tools, improvisation, and playing in small groups.  

    Mahaney Arts Center 221

  • "Dogteam Theatre Project" written in white letters on black background.

    The Dogteam Project - Auditions and Interviews for Summer 2025

    The Dogteam Theatre Project, now in its third season, is a professional theatre company structured around alternating building and producing summers, with the former dedicated to script development and training and the latter to rehearsing and producing 2 plays in rep in NYC. For this building summer, we will welcome 12-16 students to join professional theatre makers for a two-week residency dedicated to script development and advanced training for actors, directors, designers, technicians, playwrights, and stage managers.

    Mahaney Arts Center 232

    Closed to the Public

Saturday, February 22, 2025

  • Text "United for Ukraine" on a dark blue background

    United for Ukraine 2025

    A Beneficiary Showcase of Ukrainian Resilience through Art

    This fourth annual event celebrates the culture and resilience of the nation of Ukraine with music, poetry, film, and more.  Featuring a parade of performances by the Middlebury College’s Ukrainian students, the Middlebury College Choir, and other special guests. Admission is free, and information about donating to Ukrainian relief organizations will be provided. After the show, the students will offer homemade traditional Ukrainian gingerbread cookies as a token of thanks for a donation.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free; donation information will be provided
    Open to the Public

Monday, February 24, 2025

  • Simbo in West African dance outfit

    West African Dance and Drum Class

    A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
    Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.

    Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!

    No credit. Attend one or all classes!

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

  • Korean Drumming

    Learn to play the traditional Korean percussion genre samulnori. Samulnori blends traditional Korean rhythms into dynamic pieces using four Korean percussion instruments: janggu (hourglass drum), buk (barrel drum), jing (large gong), and ggwaenggwari (small gong). Participants will start by learning technique and basic rhythms and progress to more complex rhythms and sequences. No experience needed!

    The Bunker (FIC 121)

Tuesday, February 25, 2025

  • Ballet dancers

    Beginner Ballet with Barbara Doyle-Wilch

    Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please. Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants. PE credit is available once 8 classes have been attended.

    Previous dance experience in any form is recommended.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

    Free
    Closed to the Public

Wednesday, February 26, 2025

  • Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series: Kari Borni, Dance

    From “Arab Street” to Stage: Muslimness and Masculinity in Maghrebi Contemporary Dance

    Over the past two decades contemporary dance in North Africa has emerged as a fusion form of street vocabulary, bboy virtuosity, traditional Sufi ritual, Orientalist trope, and postmodern aesthetic. This talk will focus on how shifting notions of Muslim corporeality in the region intersect with gender performativity, local political economies, and transnational artistic production networks.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • Ballet dancers

    INTERMEDIATE / ADVANCED Ballet with Barbara Doyle-Wilch

    Classical Ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No pointe shoes, please. Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants. PE credit is available once 8 classes have been attended.

    Previous dance experience in any form is recommended.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

    Free
    Closed to the Public

Thursday, February 27, 2025

  • "Dogteam Theatre Project" written in white letters on black background.

    The Dogteam Project - Auditions and Interviews for Summer 2025

    The Dogteam Theatre Project, now in its third season, is a professional theatre company structured around alternating building and producing summers, with the former dedicated to script development and training and the latter to rehearsing and producing 2 plays in rep in NYC. For this building summer, we will welcome 12-16 students to join professional theatre makers for a two-week residency dedicated to script development and advanced training for actors, directors, designers, technicians, playwrights, and stage managers.

    Mahaney Arts Center 232

    Closed to the Public

Friday, February 28, 2025

  • Jazz Workshop

    The Jazz Workshop provides a weekly opportunity for jazz students to study jazz history, repertoire development, jazz conventions, jazz idiom and theory, and a chance to practice strategies and tools, improvisation, and playing in small groups.  

    Mahaney Arts Center 221

Monday, March 3, 2025

  • Simbo in West African dance outfit

    West African Dance and Drum Class

    A rich taste of African culture that provides amazing, vigorous, high energy, and powerful movement. Let the beat of the drum move your body. Participants will learn songs, rhythms, dances, and culture as we embark on a journey of dances from the African diaspora.
    Class is accompanied by live musicians to help participants understand the communication between the music and the dance.

    Open to students, faculty, staff and community members age 13 and up!

    No credit. Attend one or all classes!

    Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center