Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

The students of Scotty Hardwig’s spring Movement and Media class perform original works created following a semester of interdisciplinary inves­tigation into the dynamic relationship between the body and digital media. Durational installation works will be running from 4:30-6:30 PM. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Please join us for the inaugural event of the newly established Middlebury Motion Capture Lab, with open house and lecture demonstration with dance professor and MoCap lab director Scotty Hardwig. This event will introduce the basics of the technology and software of motion capture data, avatar design, and more. The Midd MoCap Lab will be open for proposals for faculty and student research projects starting this semester. Sponsored by the Dance Program and the Fund for Innovation. Free

Kendo, “The Way of the Sword,” is the art of Japanese fencing. Kendo is one of the oldest and most celebrated of the Japanese martial arts and is held in high regard in Japan as an important cultural legacy. Kendo has transcended its bloody origins in Japan’s feudal past to become a modern martial discipline that instills courtesy, humility, self-control, and fighting spirit through mentally intense and physically rigorous training. This demonstration is conducted by members of Boston Kendo Kyokai and Boston Shufukai. Sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Free

Join Maree ReMalia / merrygogo for The Ubiquitous Mass of Us, an evening-length, escalating journey where nine performers from across artistic disciplines question the bounds of their identities. Moving in and around the set designed by visual artist Blaine Siegel, they explore the way they take up space. Watch them bare a broad range of physicality and newly discovered expressions to an original soundscore by David Bernabo. For all ages, seasoned performance goers, and those new to the theater. The artists offer a post-performance discussion both nights.

Join Maree ReMalia / merrygogo for The Ubiquitous Mass of Us, an evening-length, escalating journey where nine performers from across artistic disciplines question the bounds of their identities. Moving in and around the set designed by visual artist Blaine Siegel, they explore the way they take up space. Watch them bare a broad range of physicality and newly discovered expressions to an original soundscore by David Bernabo. For all ages, seasoned performance goers, and those new to the theater. The artists offer a post-performance discussion both nights.

Visiting Lecturer in Dance Lida Winfield and alumna Ellen Smith Ahern ’05 have been collaborating since 2010. In this lecture/demonstration, they show excerpts of Long Gone, a duet which weaves dance and spoken word to celebrate heartfelt, funny, and irreverent memories of those long gone, and explores how our dead continue to live and evolve through memory and imagination. Passionate about making dance an open dialogue between performers and audiences, Ahearn and Winfield discuss their creative process, welcome questions, and perform excerpts. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Participants in this course, facilitated by Lida Winfield, share the results of their explorations with movement and narrative in a final showing. Through improvisation and structure, they create stories through body and voice in order to look at, create, tell, and share personal stories, as well as those of others. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Participants in this course facilitated by Lida Winfield share stories through movement and narrative, allowing and encouraging them to build bridges between each other and contribute to the growth of community. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

MFA Thesis Concert by Paula Higa In/Voluntary Motion investigates disabilities and disability culture. Paula Higa’s choreography takes inspiration from dystonia, a disability characterized by involuntary, often spasmodic movements. Her study of dystonic movements, in collaboration with visual artist Neil Marcus, produced patterns and phrasing for this piece. Higa aims to bring awareness to disability culture, ultimately questioning the perception of disability as a dysfunctional condition. Original music by Patricia Julien. Sponsored by the Dance Program.

In this illustrated lecture, Joan B. Connelly, professor of classics and art history at New York University and author of The Parthenon Enigma (2014), proposes a radically new reading of the Parthenon Frieze as depicting a foundation myth—rather than the prevailing interpretation, as depicting an episode in the Panathenaic Procession—and in the process overhauls our understanding of the temple as a whole. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, Department of History of Art & Architecture, and the Director of the Arts. Free