Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Dance 261 Improvisation Showing

Spring 2026

Professor Christal Brown

Camila Bisono ‘27

Michel Rabih Abboud ‘28

Ashley Zeledon ‘27

Joshua Glucksman ‘24.5

Charlie Lasky ‘28.5

Helen Carle ‘29

Edla Lahtiranta ‘29

Technique and Choreography, DANC0260, will share sections of choreography that students have made in an informal showing. Come and celebrate the culmination of the student’s creative work!

Please join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation (DANC 0461), and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music (MUSC 0212) courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design.

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Please join us for the Middlebury Dance Department’s Spring Dance Concert, an evening of original choreography, music, and improvisation. The concert features students from Daniel Miramontes’ Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), Lida Winfield’s Advanced Improvisation (DANC 0461), and McLean Macionis’ Advanced Electronic Music (MUSC 0212) courses. The performance will also feature live music by Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth along with original lighting design.

Buy tickets here

Welcome home! Sit down, take your jacket off, and relax while we show you all the reasons I love my culture. Se Fue La Luz embodies the phrase, “I love you, but”. Through movement, light, and archival glimpses of Dominican culture, it holds accountability for the spaces where my community falls short while celebrating its beauty, rhythm, and love. Feel the Tambora in the merengue beats, chismear a little, and witness the truths embedded in my hair. 

The Senior thesis of Evelyn Rodriguez ‘26.

Welcome home! Sit down, take your jacket off, and relax while we show you all the reasons I love my culture. Se Fue La Luz embodies the phrase, “I love you, but”. Through movement, light, and archival glimpses of Dominican culture, it holds accountability for the spaces where my community falls short while celebrating its beauty, rhythm, and love. Feel the Tambora in the merengue beats, chismear a little, and witness the truths embedded in my hair. 

The Senior thesis of Evelyn Rodriguez ‘26.

Dr. Mark Broomfield, Associate Professor of English, Founder and Director of Performance as Social Change™ at SUNY Geneseo, is a London-born, award-winning scholar and artist of Jamaican heritage, with publications in the areas of race, gender, sexuality, dance, and ethnography.

“Making Noise” A deep practice of listening informed by Graham Shelor’s ‘23 research for his most recent dance project - NOISE REDUCTION. In this session, participants are guided through somatic listening practices designed to tune their internal awareness of the moving body. We will expand our gaze outward, engaging in group improvisational scores that challenge our understanding of what it means to be in community. Together, we will investigate: How can we communicate through our bodies? How do we make space to speak and share space to listen?

Sonia Hsieh, MSW ‘10.5, would like to share a message of self-transformation and love. No matter your background, life experiences, setbacks, or challenges, an embodied life is accessible to everyone. For over a decade, Sonia has worked as a psychotherapist in the self-help and inner inquiry space—first transforming herself, then guiding many others through profound processes of change and altered states of consciousness. When mind, body, and soul unite as one, the miracle of love becomes not only possible, but deeply felt and known.

A movement primer by Michael Sakamoto

Butoh and American street dance each grew out of conditions of socio-economic crisis in the post-World War II era in Japan and the U.S. With elements inspired by both movement practices, Michael leads exercises to demonstrate a unique blend of intercultural and self-reflexive performance embodiment.