Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

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.

Ousmane Omari Wiles is an African American West African and Vogue dancer, who has performed at performed at the Joyce Theater, Harlem Stage, Gibney Dance, and with Works and Process at the Guggenheim, and Lincoln Center.

Performance contains haze, flashing and strobe lights.

A student-supported Rothrock Residency event.

Beginners Level breakdown of the Five Elements of Vogue Femme. Learn a series of exercises and techniques that will help you better develop your quality of performance and usage of Elements and personality. Class is lead with a warmup and stretch before taking the Elements across the floor. A Student-supported Rothrock Residency event.

Shakia Barron is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator whose work is rooted in the African Diaspora, focusing on Funk Styles, Hip-Hop, House, and other African diasporic dance forms. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She graduated with her MFA in Choreography at Wilson College, she holds an Associate’s degree in dance and psychology from Dean College, a Bachelor’s in liberal arts from Westfield State University, and she received the National Dance Institute’s teaching artist certificate in 2009.

Join Soriba “Simbo” Camara in a high energy, quick moving and joyful dance class celebrating the dynamic traditional rhythms from Guinea, West Africa. Live drummers will accompany the class taking the energy to the next level. Bring your loose, comfortable clothing, bare feet, and water! Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. All levels and abilities welcome.

Join Soriba “Simbo” Camara in a high energy, quick moving and joyful dance class celebrating the dynamic traditional rhythms from Guinea, West Africa. Live drummers will accompany the class taking the energy to the next level. Bring your loose, comfortable clothing, bare feet, and water! Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. All levels and abilities welcome.

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.

Dance Company Middlebury 2023 presents the show Valorous Sky, an examination of the nature of relationships. This show is the culmination of 5 months of training with Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez & Guest choreographer Subashini Ganesan-Forbes.

Dance Company Middlebury 2023 presents the show Valorous Sky, an examination of the nature of relationships. This show is the culmination of 5 months of training with Artist in Residence Meshi Chavez & Guest choreographer Subashini Ganesan-Forbes.

An interactive keynote experience to learn how cypher culture and etiquette helps create sites of connection and community-building.