Dance

Join Dance Alumni, Jessica Lee ‘13 for a casual and meaningful conversation about how she has built her life as a dance artist after Middlebury. Pre-register for this event. Lunch will be provided. 

Open to Middlebury College ID holders only.

The Fall Dance Concert features original student work from DANC360, Choreography and Performance, directed by Laurel Jenkins. Dancers new to the Middlebury stage will perform in the NewComers piece choreographed by Christal Brown! Lighting designs by Bert Crosby and Karen Newton.

Visit the Middlebury Box Office for tickets.

The Fall Dance Concert features original student work from DANC360, Choreography and Performance, directed by Laurel Jenkins. Dancers new to the Middlebury stage will perform in the NewComers piece choreographed by Christal Brown! Lighting designs by Bert Crosby and Karen Newton.

Visit the Middlebury Box Office for tickets.

Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

This informal showing demonstrates the research of Improvisational Practices DANC0261 led by Professor Lida Winfield and musicians Ron Rost and Deborah Felmeth. Lighting will be improvised by Bert Crosby.

Technique and Choreography, Dance 0260, will share sections of choreography that students have made and leaned this semester in an informal showing with lights and music. Come and celebrate the culmination of the student’s creative work.

Join the Dance Company of Middlebury DANC0380 for an informal showing of the work they have created this semester. Practicing Change: Thing to be Repeated will run about a half hour and then feedback and discussion will follow.

SLMDances is a New York City based dance-theater collective that works in communities to organize for gender and racial justice. In celebration of Martin Luther King Jr, SLMDances’ creative partners and artistic director Sydnie Mosley will offer a three-hour workshop open to students, faculty, staff and administrators.

Coalition Building and Collaboration:

German composer, Matthias Krüger, will lead a lecture about music composition across national borders and between disciplines. He will highlight the rich dialogue between artists of different nationalities, as well as between forms, in this case, between choreographers and composers. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in experiential exercises as we ask: How do we translate between cultures and disciplines when composing original material?

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters series welcomes INSPIRIT, a dance company. INSPIRIT’s newest work, “What We Ask of Flesh” sees flesh as the veil between the world and the soul, and explores what people hold, relinquish and collect to create an identity. “What We Ask of Flesh” is about navigating the spaces between our internal and external existence.

The Global Body in Conflict: Movement Matters series welcomes INSPIRIT, a dance company. INSPIRIT’s newest work, “What We Ask of Flesh” sees flesh as the veil between the world and the soul, and explores what people hold, relinquish and collect to create an identity. “What We Ask of Flesh” is about navigating the spaces between our internal and external existence.