Events
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
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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, April 10, 2025
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Arts and Conflict Workshop
Artists transform the mundane into the sublime. Transformation is the framework we use to understand conflict but it’s also the core lens through which the most profound moments of our lives are refracted. This workshop examines Place-based art/ritual/ceremony as an artistic practice that invites us to reconsider how we understand what it means to belong to each other as well as to the more-than-human world. Everyone is welcome - no prior art experience necessary- all that is required is being deeply human, curious and open to the surprises of creativity!
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
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Hirschfield International Film Series - No Other Land
No Other Land, 2024. Written, directed, produced and edited by Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Rachel Szor.
For half a decade, Basel Adra, a Palestinian activist, films his community of Masafer Yatta being destroyed by Israeli occupation, as he builds an unlikely alliance with an Israeli journalist who wants to join his fight. Together, as part of a Palestinian-Israeli filmmaking collective, they created one of the most intense films of last year.Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Open to the Public
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Never Swim Alone
Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor is a story of male one-upmanship in which the characters Frank and Bill boast their alpha male personalities in a series of highly competitive “Rounds”, as one would see in a boxing match. The judge of the match is a girl in a blue bathing suit, who at the top of the show, lies dead under a sheet. MacIvor comments on toxic masculinity and how its implications harm everyone, especially women, and this production explores what this looks like when portrayed solely by actresses. Senior work for Elsa Marrian and August Siegel.
Hepburn Zoo
$5.00
Open to the Public
Friday, April 11, 2025
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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
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Middlebury College Community Chorus
The Middlebury College Community Chorus presents a world premiere for choir and piano called So We Try, composed by Peter Buffett and arranged for chorus by Peter Kiesewalter. There are also selections by Pete Seeger, Felix Mendelssohn, Ed Thompson, as well as another world premiere by Vermont-based composer Dorothy Robson. This will be an evening chock-full of new music that will challenge the way you think about choral singing, our relationship to the Earth, and our shared humanity. We hope you will join us for this wild ride! Conducted by Ronnie Romano ‘20 at the piano.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Free
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Never Swim Alone
Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor is a story of male one-upmanship in which the characters Frank and Bill boast their alpha male personalities in a series of highly competitive “Rounds”, as one would see in a boxing match. The judge of the match is a girl in a blue bathing suit, who at the top of the show, lies dead under a sheet. MacIvor comments on toxic masculinity and how its implications harm everyone, especially women, and this production explores what this looks like when portrayed solely by actresses. Senior work for Elsa Marrian and August Siegel.
Hepburn Zoo
$5.00
Open to the Public -
Never Swim Alone
Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor is a story of male one-upmanship in which the characters Frank and Bill boast their alpha male personalities in a series of highly competitive “Rounds”, as one would see in a boxing match. The judge of the match is a girl in a blue bathing suit, who at the top of the show, lies dead under a sheet. MacIvor comments on toxic masculinity and how its implications harm everyone, especially women, and this production explores what this looks like when portrayed solely by actresses. Senior work for Elsa Marrian and August Siegel.
Hepburn Zoo
$5.00
Open to the Public
Saturday, April 12, 2025
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Never Swim Alone
Never Swim Alone by Daniel MacIvor is a story of male one-upmanship in which the characters Frank and Bill boast their alpha male personalities in a series of highly competitive “Rounds”, as one would see in a boxing match. The judge of the match is a girl in a blue bathing suit, who at the top of the show, lies dead under a sheet. MacIvor comments on toxic masculinity and how its implications harm everyone, especially women, and this production explores what this looks like when portrayed solely by actresses. Senior work for Elsa Marrian and August Siegel.
Hepburn Zoo
$5.00
Open to the Public
Monday, April 14, 2025
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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
Tuesday, April 15, 2025
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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, April 16, 2025
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Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series: Jodi Rodgers, Museum of Art
Mural Painting and the Nineteenth Century Civic Imagination
‘The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917’ exhibition explores the American Renaissance, a pivotal yet neglected period in American history, that inspired an ambitious generation of artists to develop a movement in mural painting that captivated a divided nation.
Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103
Open to the Public
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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, April 17, 2025
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Artist Talk, Rania Matar (lecture and Q & A)
The photographs of Lebanese American artist, Rania Matar tells the stories of young women through portraits taken throughout Lebanon, France, Egypt and the United States.
Mahaney Arts Center 125
Open to the Public
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Nguyên Hà (ARB Architects, Hanoi, Vietnam) - “SERENITY-UNCONCIOUSNESS- CRAFTSMANSHIP-ARCHITECTURE”
Nguyen Hà, co-founder of ARB Architects, emphasizes finding “serenity” in architecture. Her projects reflect the progression of culture, history, and religions in different regions and ethnicities in Vietnam. She pays special attention to the formation, disappearance, and transitional processes of Vietnamese traditional craft villages. Hà worked with artisans from such villages to preserve traditional production methods and to create new materials. She is also known as a designer of lighting installations.
Johnson Classroom 204
FREE
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Writers on Writing: A Conversation with Dan O'Brien ‘96 and J. M. Tyree ‘95
Middlebury alums Dan O’Brien and J. M. Tyree return to the College having earned acclaim in creative writing since they began sharing their work with one another over thirty years ago as undergraduates. They are currently press-mates: Tyree has recently published his novella, The Haunted Screen with Deep Vellum, and O’Brien has published a memoir, From Scarsdale: A Childhood, and a collection of his plays, True Story: A Trilogy, with Dalkey Archive Press, an imprint of Deep Vellum.
Axinn Center Abernethy Room (221)
Open to the Public
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NER's Ulysses Reading Series - National Poetry Month Edition
Join us for the second installment of New England Review’s Ulysses Reading Series! On Thursday, April 17th, at 7:00 PM, we’ll host acclaimed poets Noah Warren, Rage Hezekiah, Trish Dougherty, and Middlebury student writer Regan Olusegun in celebration of National Poetry Month.
Hosted in Middlebury College’s vibrant and accessible Humanities House (115 Franklin Street).
Light fare & specialty mocktails will be served. Free & open to the public.115 Franklin Street ground floor
Open to the Public
Friday, April 18, 2025
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Listening lunch
The visiting faculty ensemble from the Music Institute of Long Island (our Rothrock Residency artists) share what recordings they are listening to that inspire them. Open to all Middlebury ID holders. Bring your own lunch or grab from Ross Dining upstairs. A free playlist will be provided after lunch. Signup at go/listeninglunch
Ross Seminar Room 011
Closed to the Public
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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