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Movement Matters Luncheon: Subashini Ganesan-Forbes

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Guest Choreographer Subashini Ganesan-Forbes for lunch and conversation. Get to know how this artist is moving the world, on and off the dance floor. Bring your own lunch.

Mahaney Arts Center Cafe

Free; bring your own lunch
Open to the Public
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Movement Matters Lecture Demonstration Subashini Ganesan-Forbes

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Dance
Join Guest Choreographer Subashini Ganesan-Forbes as she shares her expertise in Bharatanatyam Indian classical dance. She will speak on its history, her own artistic career, and how this form moves alongside contemporary dance. Subashini is a curator, choreographer, and former Creative Laureate of Portland (2018 – June 2021).

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public
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Movement Matters: Subashini Ganesan-Forbes

Sponsored by:
Dance
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

Join Guest Artist Subashini Ganesan - Forbes in an exploration of the technical building blocks - rhythmic footwork, hand, and facial gesture, and emotive qualities of Bharatanatyam, the oldest of the classical Indian Dance forms.
Free
Open to the Public
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Movement Matters: Miguel Alejandro Castillo

Sponsored by:
Dance
Mahaney Arts Center, Dance Theatre

Invite your Proctor crush to a crash course on the basics of Salsa dance. Don’t have a Proctor crush? No worries, self-love is honestly the ultimate crush. So take yourself on a date and come out to dance.

In this Movement Matter class, we will warm up the body to an array of Latin rhythms (Bad Bunny will be on the playlist). We will learn the basics steps of salsa and create a dance combination which we will practice and refine as a group. Be ready to sweat and learn some moves with an encouraging community.
Free
Open to the Public
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Movement Matters Luncheon: Miguel Alejandro Castillo

Sponsored by:
Dance
Bring your own lunch for a relaxed conversation about being a dance-artist beyond Middlebury.

Miguel Alejandro Castillo is a queer, interdisciplinary artist born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. A choreographer, director, installation artist, theatre deviser, and performer, he is drawn to the permeability of art forms and the new inquires that arise from cross-disciplinary and multicultural collaborations.

Mahaney Arts Center Cafe

Open to the Public
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A Celebration of the life and art of Peter Schmitz

Sponsored by:
Dance and Theatre
The departments of Dance and Theatre invite you to join them in celebration of our friend, colleague, mentor, and teacher Peter Schmitz. A reception in the Lower Lobby will follow. Open to Middlebury College students, faculty, staff, and alumni.

This event will be streamed (click here).

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

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Intermediate/Advanced Ballet

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Dance
Ballet returns to the dance department this fall. Classical ballet technique in traditional ballet class structure. No point shoes, please. Each session is open to a maximum of 20 participants.  PE credit is available for attendance at 8 classes. Previous dance experience in any form is recommended. Sign up at go/iballet22. Open to Middlebury College students.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Studio

Free