Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

An informal evening of dance experiments by the new batch of choreographers emerging from the Improvisational Practices course, facilitated by Laurel Jenkins. Live music by Michael Chorney, Ron Rost, Matthew Taylor, and Peter Hamlin. Live light design by Jennifer Ponder. Free

Reimagine What Has Been presents exploratory works choreographed by senior dance majors Deborah Leedy ‘18, Matea Mills-Andruk ‘18, and Asia Myles-Funches ‘18. The concert centers on the theme of fractured memory and the process of remembering through connection to land, community, and faith. A Dance Program event. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students

Reimagine What Has Been presents exploratory works choreographed by senior dance majors Deborah Leedy ‘18, Matea Mills-Andruk ‘18, and Asia Myles-Funches ‘18. The concert centers on the theme of fractured memory and the process of remembering through connection to land, community, and faith. A Dance Program event. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students

This workshop focuses on the principle that when we are releasing physical tension, we can move with greater freedom, power, and articulation. We will practice solo dancing, partnering, and trios that travel through space and allow us to experience giving and receiving each other’s weight. All experience levels welcome. Free

In this workshop, participants investigate the cultivation of embodied presence with techniques drawn from Butoh and other somatic dance traditions. Learn to access your body using exercises that develop attention, sensitivity, curiosity, self-inquiry, and refinement. Dancers are encouraged to disappear into the task at hand, foster their own creativity, and cultivate enriched performance skills. Open to movers of all levels. Free

The transnational performance group Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project (BTDP), based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. BTDP presents Declassified Memory Fragment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently affecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22/16/6 (See related event September 26.)

The transnational performance group Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project (BTDP), based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. BTDP presents Declassified Memory Fragment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently affecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22/16/6 (See related event September 26.)

This fourth annual event features original prose and poetry from the New England Review literary magazine, read aloud by Middlebury College students from Oratory Now. Stay for the “s’more readings” reception with contributions from student magazines. Free

Wolfgang Buttress—an award winning artist who works with public and private space, and creator of The Hive at Kew Gardens, London, an aluminum honeycomb-like structure that reacts in real time to the vibrations of a nearby bee hive—will talk about how art can explore, express, and inform our relationship with the ‘natural’ world.

Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art and the Franklin Environmental Center.

Professors Shalom Goldman (Religion) and Pieter Broucke (History of Art and Architecture) and Director and Curator Rebekah Irwin (Special Collections & Archives) present the College’s richness of resources pertaining to Ancient Egyptian culture. Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. Free