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Drop In, Moving Perspective: Movement, Installation, Viewing

Sponsored by:
Dance and Environmental Studies
Maree ReMalia and her Pittsburgh-based collaborators, The Drop Ins, are melding their creative fields spanning dance, sound, visual art, photography, and film to develop movement scores and interactive installations that invite the community to engage in playful, creative ways alongside them to offer a means of expressing and interacting through various mediums while actively engaging questions of resiliency, connectivity, and sustainable well-being. The scores and installations are intended to be inclusive for a wide range of participants to “drop in”.

Ross Courtyard (Terrace)

Open to the Public

Open Space: An Improvisational Laboratory

Sponsored by:
Dance
Open Space is a place to try out ideas, inhabit your body, be with yourself and others physically, and release agendas. Come dance, play, sing, touch, watch, and listen. The first hour is in silence, and the second hour is open for the musicians to join and play as they wish. It is a focused space, so please do not come to talk. Open to all—students, faculty, and community members; there is no requirement of technique or ability, just a respectfulness to honor the space and not endanger yourself or others.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Open Space: An Improvisational Laboratory

Sponsored by:
Dance
Open Space is a place to try out ideas, inhabit your body, be with yourself and others physically, and release agendas. Come dance, play, sing, touch, watch, and listen. The first hour is in silence, and the second hour is open for the musicians to join and play as they wish. It is a focused space, so please do not come to talk. Open to all—students, faculty, and community members; there is no requirement of technique or ability, just a respectfulness to honor the space and not endanger yourself or others.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Open Space: An Improvisational Laboratory

Sponsored by:
Dance
Open Space is a place to try out ideas, inhabit your body, be with yourself and others physically, and release agendas. Come dance, play, sing, touch, watch, and listen. The first hour is in silence, and the second hour is open for the musicians to join and play as they wish. It is a focused space, so please do not come to talk. Open to all—students, faculty, and community members; there is no requirement of technique or ability, just a respectfulness to honor the space and not endanger yourself or others.

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Movement Matters: Two Years in Process

Sponsored by:
Dance
Join Maree ReMalia, Movement Matters Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer, and her cross-disciplinary collaborators to learn about discoveries made through practices of embodied learning and the scope of activities that have taken place during a two-year residency. Enjoy an informal sharing through text, movement, archival media, and more, followed by a celebratory reception. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Movement and Media Final Showing

Sponsored by:
Dance
The students of Scotty Hardwig’s spring Movement and Media class perform original works created following a semester of interdisciplinary inves­tigation into the dynamic relationship between the body and digital media. Durational installation works will be running from 4:30-6:30 PM. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Middlebury Motion Capture Lab: Open House + Lecture Demonstration

Sponsored by:
Dance
Please join us for the inaugural event of the newly established Middlebury Motion Capture Lab, with open house and lecture demonstration with dance professor and MoCap lab director Scotty Hardwig. This event will introduce the basics of the technology and software of motion capture data, avatar design, and more. The Midd MoCap Lab will be open for proposals for faculty and student research projects starting this semester. Sponsored by the Dance Program and the Fund for Innovation. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Master Class with Lela Aisha Jones

Sponsored by:
Dance
Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre Lela Aisha Jones is a movement performance artist that has come to understand dance as an archival practice, and her body “as an artistic archive—a creative storage space for movement and culture derived from the individual and collective lived experiences of blackness.” Some of her most influential experiences in the field of dance has come from working with nationally and internationally renowned artists, including Sulley Imoro (Ghana), Nia Love (U.S.), Anssumane Silla (Guinea Bissau), and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar of Urban Bush Women (U.S.) Jones a
Open to the Public