Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Misty Kaplan, Visiting Instructor in Architecture
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by John McLeod, Associate Professor of Architecture
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Welcome by Pieter Broucke, Director of Architectural Studies
Introduction and Q&A by Sam Ostrow, Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture
Johnson Classroom 204
Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM) is a two-semester (Fall 2024 and JTerm 2025)
commitment that provides students with pre-professional dance and performance
training. As a member of DCM, students create, rehearse, and perform an original
performance in the Fall and tour the work in January. DCM meets six to eight hours
weekly. DCM is limited to sophomores through seniors, by audition. Students must have
taken DANC0260, ‘Technique and Composition’, or be enrolled for the Fall of 2024 to
participate in DCM.
Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre
The College Choir sings a program of lively and contemplative music, including dance-inspired Baroque works by Monteverdi and Velasco, colorful works by Eric Whitacre, Reena Esmail, Stacey Gibbs, and Don Macdonald, and Shakespeare Songs of Matthew Harris. The program features the world premiere of a choral song cycle by Kai Fukuda ‘23.5, including settings of poetry by four Vermont poets. Student instrumentalists and students of the Department of Dance join the Choir for a unique and compelling exploration of musical energy and colorful imagination in sound and movement.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
For their spring concert, the Ensemble presents works for the full 40-musician band, as well as pieces featuring individual sections. The program includes music inspired by both hobbits and Batman, with The Lord of The Rings and an arrangement from The Dark Night Rises alongside popular classical pieces and a rousing finale with P.D.Q. Bach’s Grand Serenade for an Awful Lot of Winds and Percussion. Chris Foster, conductor.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
The dynamic and charismatic Heath Quartet—our series’ first quartet-in-residence—is one of the most exciting British chamber ensembles of the moment, steadily building a reputation for their upbeat and integrated sound. We celebrate our 20th year of support from the Sunderman Family Concert Fund with this free concert, including works by Bach, Haydn, Henriette Bosmans, and Erick Korngold.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
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!
Mondays 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Middlebury College
Drop-in to 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)
In this presentation, master pipa player Gao Hong will introduce the audience to the storytelling aspects of Chinese music spanning the ages through 2000-year-old traditional pipa music and 21-century new music formats. She will open her presentation with a performance of traditional pipa music, including a 100-year-old piece that was recently reconstructed and a wide array of storytelling pieces in different performance styles taught to her by the 6th-generation definitive Pudong school master Lin Shicheng.
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
HIRSCHFIELD THURSDAYS PRESENTS:
MAMBAR PIERRETTE, a free-spirited seamstress navigates poverty and patriarchy in the Cameroonian city of Douala.
Cameroon/Belgium - 2023 - 93 minutes - A Film by Rosine Mbakam.
Join us outside Dana to celebrate with pizza and popcorn at 6:30 PM.
Watch the trailer HERE
Co-Sponsored by the Hirschfield Film Endowment
Dana Auditorium (Sunderland Language Center)
Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.
Wright Theatre
Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.
Wright Theatre
Play by Sarah Ruhl, adapted from the original by Virginia Woolf. Directed by Claudio Medeiros.
Wright Theatre
The Sound Investment Jazz Tentet performs works from a century of jazz history, with a nod to some of the genre’s top arrangers.
Watch the livestream of the performance here
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
Join Architecture Table at the Knoll to paint small canvases, sip tea, and eat cookies!
Please reach out to archtable@middlebury.edu with any questions.
The Knoll
Join the Middlebury College Orchestra in our Spring 2023 concert! Taking place at 3pm in the Robinson Concert Hall, the program will feature Mozart’s Bassoon Concert in B-flat major featuring soloist Roeskva Torhalsdottir (‘25), the premiere of Gino Abrams’ (‘24) symphonic work The Bronze Horseman, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. Open admission and mask-friendly.
Watch the livestream of the performance here
Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall
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!
Mondays 5:00 to 6:30 PM
Middlebury College
Drop-in to 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)
