Dance DANC

The Art of Taking Care of Business

Sponsored by:
Dance
Lunch provided, limited space available. This seminar with arts consultant, Kim Koniklow, will cover topics including managing career expectations, presenting yourself, developing a personal mission statement, navigating the job market, documenting your work, building a professional network and more. Free. To pre-register, email dance@middlebury.edu

Mahaney Arts Center 126

Open to the Public
Dancers dressed in black with motion capture suits

Movement Matters The WILDS

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
The Wilds – a new mixed reality performance experience where movement instantly becomes music as emerging technology allows dancers to create an immersive journey of sound, light, and visual media in real time. Part mythology, part utopian vision, The Wilds fuses live dancers with motion capture technology and real-time animation inspiring a profound bond of a shared, collective experience. This Movement Matters event will give you a behind the scenes view on The Wilds.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public
artist dancing in the street

Showcase featuring Omari Wiles

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
Ousmane Omari Wiles is an African American West African and Vogue dancer, who has performed at performed at the Joyce Theater, Harlem Stage, Gibney Dance, and with Works and Process at the Guggenheim, and Lincoln Center.

Performance contains haze, flashing and strobe lights.

A student-supported Rothrock Residency event.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public
collage image of the artist in different poses

Vogue Fem with Omari Wiles

Sponsored by:
Performing Arts Series and Dance
Beginners Level breakdown of the Five Elements of Vogue Femme. Learn a series of exercises and techniques that will help you better develop your quality of performance and usage of Elements and personality. Class is lead with a warmup and stretch before taking the Elements across the floor. A Student-supported Rothrock Residency event.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public
artist dancing against a black background

Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Dance Master Class

Shakia Barron is a choreographer, performer, and dance educator whose work is rooted in the African Diaspora, focusing on Funk Styles, Hip-Hop, House, and other African diasporic dance forms. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Dance at Mount Holyoke College. She graduated with her MFA in Choreography at Wilson College, she holds an Associate’s degree in dance and psychology from Dean College, a Bachelor’s in liberal arts from Westfield State University, and she received the National Dance Institute’s teaching artist certificate in 2009.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Free
Open to the Public
dancer in traditional West African attire

West African Dance Class

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Soriba “Simbo” Camara in a high energy, quick moving and joyful dance class celebrating the dynamic traditional rhythms from Guinea, West Africa. Live drummers will accompany the class taking the energy to the next level. Bring your loose, comfortable clothing, bare feet, and water! Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. All levels and abilities welcome.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

dancer in traditional West African attire

West African Dance Class

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Soriba “Simbo” Camara in a high energy, quick moving and joyful dance class celebrating the dynamic traditional rhythms from Guinea, West Africa. Live drummers will accompany the class taking the energy to the next level. Bring your loose, comfortable clothing, bare feet, and water! Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. All levels and abilities welcome.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

artist standing outside

Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Building & Bars

Epiphany “Big Piph” Morrow will present a dynamic and interactive workshop focused on creative writing in the hip hop genres. Through exercises, the students will explore their personal stories in parallel with learning about the evolution of hip hop and its world impact. Emphasis will be placed on the values of discipline, creativity, confidence, communication, and respect of others. During this time students will form creative pieces of their own. Big Piph will assist them through the process which includes, but is not limited to topics, writing, delivery, and beat selection.

Mahaney Arts Center 210

Registration required: https://forms.gle/7uPyG4rVYKuGZLqc7
Closed to the Public
artist standing outside

Hip Hop: The Art of Creating Community Building & Bars

Epiphany “Big Piph” Morrow will present a dynamic and interactive workshop focused on creative writing in the hip hop genres. Through exercises, the students will explore their personal stories in parallel with learning about the evolution of hip hop and its world impact. Emphasis will be placed on the values of discipline, creativity, confidence, communication, and respect of others. During this time students will form creative pieces of their own. Big Piph will assist them through the process which includes, but is not limited to topics, writing, delivery, and beat selection.

Mahaney Arts Center 210

Registration required: https://forms.gle/7uPyG4rVYKuGZLqc7
Closed to the Public