Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Stuver has worked with BANDALOOP—a pioneer in vertical dance—for nearly two decades, touring worldwide. As a dancer, he has also performed his own work and with other companies in Dublin, Berlin, New York, and San Francisco. He currently works as a writer and puppeteer in LA. Stuver’s talk will focus on his professional journey, and how being open to other, possibly unexpected, disciplines, forms, and experiences has shaped his career path. 

Basso is a neuroscientist, dancer, alumna, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Neuroscience at the College. Her work focuses on the body-brain connection and how we can use physical movement such as exercise and dance to alter brain function and physiology. This talk will focus on the relationship between the self-organizing nature of the brain and the self-organizing processes that drive the group behavior in Compositional Improvisation. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Described as “mesmerizing” [The Stewardship Report] and “brilliant” [Huffington Post], Cameron McKinney is a New York City-based choreographer, dancer, educator, and author. He founded Kizuna Dance in 2014 with the mission of creating works that celebrate the Japanese language and culture. Since then, he has received many awards and honors, including recently being named a participant in the Alvin Ailey Foundation’s New Directions Choreography Lab, provided through generous support from the Rockefeller Brothers Foundation.

A lecture-performance about unfolding communication, language, subjectivity, practice, empathy, isolation and potential. Harnessing vocalization as an agent for choreography and the notion that ‘languages’ exist everywhere, the lecture/performance probes a philosophical thread offered by Roland Barthes’ ‘grain’ of the voice, or the body within the voice as it sings. For mature audiences. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free and open to the public.

“In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic”, a one hour dance/theater performance based on her experience growing up with a learning disability, dancer, choreographer and spoken word artist Lida Winfield shares the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read - which did not occur until her early twenties. Mixing vignettes woven in a creative and captivating format, the show is a platform to engage a wide variety of populations to experience disability, access and the value of the arts.

This informal showing demonstrates the research undertaken by the Advanced Improvisation course, directed by Lida Winfield and Michael Chorney.

A presentation of movement and research emerging from the Global Contemporary dance course, facilitated by Karima Borni.

Professors Damascus Kafumbe (Music), Pavlos Sfyroeras (Classics), and Pieter Broucke (History of Art) team up for a multi-pronged contextualization of the musical ritual on an alabastron by the Emporion Painter that was recently acquired by the Museum.

Join professor emeritus and architectural historian Glenn Andres for a public talk about the concepts, details, and secrets of the Mahaney Center for the Arts in honor of its 25th anniversary. Opened in 1992 and designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeifer Associates, the MCA is home to three performance venues, four academic departments, the museum, and Rehearsals Café. Part of the Fridays at the Museum Series. Free

This dynamic evening of ideas in motion showcases choreography by emerging student dance artists at the intermediate and advanced levels, and the annual Newcomers’ Piece, choreographed this year by Julian Barnett, artist in residence. The evening is directed by Barnett in collaboration with the choreographers. Tickets: $15/12/6; on sale November 13