Dance

The dance program provides pizza and salad for this informal gathering offering an opportunity to socialize and catch up as a community. Free, let us know you will attend by contacting dance@middlebury.edu

A showing of collaborative work with Julian Barnett (Artist in Residence) Melanie Maar (Movement Matters Artist) and Kenta Nagai (Japanese Musician/Composer). Having overlapped and melded within the New York and international dance field for over 15 years, Visit seizes upon the opportunity for collaborative performance and a shared interest in phenomenal bodies, fluid cultures, and vulnerable structures. Sponsored by the Dance Program and the Japanese Studies Program. Free and open to the public.

Blending the basics of movement therapy, a warm-up of Pilates and yoga, and the twerk in its many forms, The Lady B will guide you through a series of twerking tools to increase your visceral vocabulary in a purposefully non-appropriative setting. Free

An informal evening of dance experiments by the new batch of choreographers emerging from the Improvisational Practices course, facilitated by Laurel Jenkins. Live music by Michael Chorney, Ron Rost, Matthew Taylor, and Peter Hamlin. Live light design by Jennifer Ponder. Free

Reimagine What Has Been presents exploratory works choreographed by senior dance majors Deborah Leedy ‘18, Matea Mills-Andruk ‘18, and Asia Myles-Funches ‘18. The concert centers on the theme of fractured memory and the process of remembering through connection to land, community, and faith. A Dance Program event. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students

Reimagine What Has Been presents exploratory works choreographed by senior dance majors Deborah Leedy ‘18, Matea Mills-Andruk ‘18, and Asia Myles-Funches ‘18. The concert centers on the theme of fractured memory and the process of remembering through connection to land, community, and faith. A Dance Program event. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students

This workshop focuses on the principle that when we are releasing physical tension, we can move with greater freedom, power, and articulation. We will practice solo dancing, partnering, and trios that travel through space and allow us to experience giving and receiving each other’s weight. All experience levels welcome. Free

In this workshop, participants investigate the cultivation of embodied presence with techniques drawn from Butoh and other somatic dance traditions. Learn to access your body using exercises that develop attention, sensitivity, curiosity, self-inquiry, and refinement. Dancers are encouraged to disappear into the task at hand, foster their own creativity, and cultivate enriched performance skills. Open to movers of all levels. Free

Over the last few years, Barnett has been exploring the intersections between the voice and body, language and movement, meaning and abstraction, form and content. The workshop will place these areas of research within the context of performing, through the lens of practice. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free and open to the public.

These intensives support and strengthen improvisation technique tools—both in performance and creation—for the community of advanced improvisers/contemporary dance-makers. Discounts available for multiple classes. Co-presented with FlynnArts. Register: www.flynncenter.org/education