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Wednesday, February 15, 2023

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    Curtain Up!

    The Theatre Department invites to a Welcome Reception for new and returning students. Meet our majors, the faculty and the staff (and dogs) of the department. Come, check out the MANY opportunities to participate in theatre this semester and beyond! Open to Middlebury students, faculty, and staff.

    Mahaney Arts Center 232

    Closed to the Public

Thursday, February 16, 2023

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    Senior Thesis Dance & Faculty Dance Concert Auditions

    Want to dance? Find out more about the Dance Department at this fun and welcoming pizza dinner and audition. Audition to be in a senior thesis performance or the Faculty Dance Concert. Dates and rehearsal schedule will be shared at the audition. Open to Middlebury ID card holders only.
    No need to prepare dance material ahead of time.
    Come in clothing you can easily move in.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Closed to the Public

Saturday, February 18, 2023

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    Carillon Recital by the Yale Carillon Guild

    The Yale Carillon Guild will be presenting a performance of classical and modern works on the Chapel carillon. Since 1964, the Yale University Student Carillon Guild has presented daily performances on Yale’s 54 bell carillon, has trained incoming students in the art and has managed a summer series of well-attended carillon recitals open to the public. Many Yale graduates have passed the exams of the Guild of Carillonneurs in North America as Professional Carillonneurs and now hold prominent carillon positions throughout the country.

    Middlebury Chapel

    Open to the Public

Sunday, February 19, 2023

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    McAllister/Ames Duo: Project Encore Vol. 1

    PROJECT ENCORE, featuring acclaimed saxophonist Timothy McAllister and the celebrated pianist Liz Ames, was born from the idea that concert curation often relies too much on tradition and time-honored chestnuts while ignoring fresh, innovative and diverse voices. Alongside the duo’s conscious efforts to weave a wide array of influences into their playing, whether a uniquely American classical sound, concepts from broader wind pedagogy, or popular idioms, they believe it is increasingly crucial to foster partnerships with living composers across a broad spectrum of styles and backgrounds.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Wednesday, February 22, 2023

  • Dancers dressed in black with motion capture suits

    Movement Matters The WILDS

    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

Friday, February 24, 2023

  • dancers in motion capture suits

    The Wilds : Laurel Jenkins (dance), Jesse Fleming (visuals), Lewis Pesacov (music)

    Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and her co-creators Jesse Fleming and Lewis Pesacov present a new mixed-reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music, and emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Live dancers with motion capture technology and simultaneous animation create The Wilds before your eyes. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds echoes patterns of nature from the subatomic to the cosmological to reveal the interconnectedness of all beings. 
    $25/20/10/5
    Open to the Public
  • Image of a building and people sheltering in a room.

    Screening of The Earth is Blue As an Orange

    The Earth is Blue As an Orange depicts life in the frontline cities in Ukraine. This screening commemorates the year anniversary of the full scale war.

    Sponsored by the Film and Media Culture Department and the Hirschfield Film Endowment.

    Axinn Center 232

    Open to the Public

Saturday, February 25, 2023

  • dancers in motion capture suits

    The Wilds : Laurel Jenkins (dance), Jesse Fleming (visuals), Lewis Pesacov (music)

    Assistant Professor of Dance Laurel Jenkins and her co-creators Jesse Fleming and Lewis Pesacov present a new mixed-reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music, and emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Live dancers with motion capture technology and simultaneous animation create The Wilds before your eyes. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds echoes patterns of nature from the subatomic to the cosmological to reveal the interconnectedness of all beings. 

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    $25/20/10/5
    Open to the Public

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

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    An Evening with Paul Asbell

    Join us for a performance by internationally recognized fingerstyle guitarist Paul Asbell.  With a multi-decade career that includes joining the seminal Butterfield Blues band, founding and leading jazz group Kilimanjaro, and playing and recording with a veritable who’s who of blues and jazz greats, Asbell is a musician’s musician.  This performance will highlight the history of the American guitar, as Asbell will demonstrate how the instrument itself changed and was changed by the music people made with it.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

Thursday, March 2, 2023

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    Urban Cadence Opening Reception

    Exhibition Opening for Urban Cadence: Street Scenes from Lagos and Johannesburg

    Mingle with fellow art and music lovers over drinks (cash bar) and complimentary hors-d’oeuvres. At 5:30, members of the Middlebury Afropop Band (directed by Associate Professor of Music Damascus Kafumbe) will enliven the event with a short musical set. Student guides will be on hand to talk about highlights from the exhibition.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Free
    Open to the Public

Friday, March 3, 2023

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    Choral Chameleon: Music for Chameleons

    The Choral Chameleon Ensemble features 16 professional NYC singers with a diversity of musical backgrounds.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    $25/20/10/5
    Open to the Public

Wednesday, March 8, 2023

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    Movement Matters Lunch & conversation: Ishmael Houston-Jones

    Join legendary dance artist Ishmael Houston-Jones for a casual conversation about art making and life over lunch. Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. Please register in advance.

    Mahaney Arts Center Lower Lobby

    Closed to the Public
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    Movement Matters: Ishmael Houston-Jones Global Body in Conflict Master class

    What is your first impulse? Can you trust it? What happens when the judge falls asleep? Can sight be a handicap? Can you know too much? This is a workshop about Dancing and Speaking and Improvisation and Composition. In this workshop we will use several improvisation strategies to open a free flow of immediate, spontaneous writing, speaking and dancing. We will employ different approaches of partnering, releasing, scores, texting, authentic movement and automatic writing to generate material.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Free
    Open to the Public

Thursday, March 9, 2023

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    Movement Matters: Translating Lost and Found Artist Talk with Ishmael Houston-Jones

    Translating Lost and Found: In 2016 Ishmael Houston-Jones, along with the choreographer Miguel Gutierrez and the composer Nick Hallett, created the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie Award” winning piece Variations On Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd. John Bernd was an experimental choreographer/composer/visual artist active in the downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s who died in 1988 at age 35 from AIDS complications.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    Free
    Open to the Public
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    Urban Cadence Screening of System K

    In the urban environment of Kinshasa, amid social and political chaos, an eclectic and bubbling street art scene is emerging. (1 hour 34 minutes.)

    Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment.

    Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)

    Open to the Public

Friday, March 10, 2023

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    Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Building & Bars

    Epiphany “Big Piph” Morrow will present a dynamic and interactive workshop focused on creative writing in the hip hop genres. Through exercises, the students will explore their personal stories in parallel with learning about the evolution of hip hop and its world impact. Emphasis will be placed on the values of discipline, creativity, confidence, communication, and respect of others. During this time students will form creative pieces of their own. Big Piph will assist them through the process which includes, but is not limited to topics, writing, delivery, and beat selection.

    Mahaney Arts Center 210

    Registration required: https://forms.gle/7uPyG4rVYKuGZLqc7
    Closed to the Public
  • image of Dover Quartet on top and Haochen Zhang on bottom

    Dover String Quartet; Haochen Zhang, Piano

    The celebrated Dover String Quartet joins forces with award-winning Chinese pianist Haochen Zhang to bring us our next Music Accord co-commission: the Vermont premiere of Marc Neikrug’s Piano Quintet No. 2. Subtitled “In Six Parts,” Neikrug’s work is designed to highlight the virtuosity of each individual musician. Since our centennial season, commissioning new works is part of the Performing Arts Series’ mission to support the future of chamber music. The work is paired with Brahms’ Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34.

    Performance subject to change.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    $25/20/10/5; streaming tickets $15/5
    Open to the Public