Dance

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

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

These intensives focus on improvisation skills and relationships to the self, others, and the elements of space and time. All experience levels welcome. Discounts available for multiple classes. Co-presented with FlynnArts. Register: www.flynncenter.org/education

These intensives focus on improvisation skills and relationships to the self, others, and the elements of space and time. All experience levels welcome. Discounts available for multiple classes. Co-presented with FlynnArts. Register: www.flynncenter.org/education

Christal Brown’s “Liquid Strength” (A technique laboratory focused on moving, intention, and analysis) combines the focus and intention of a meditative practice with a series of exercises designed to train the body in articulate expression as well as athletic execution; Brown’s class focuses on developing the total artist. Sponsored by the Dance Program. Free and open to the public.

In this workshop we will explore how embodied communication with equines informs our movement choices and cultivates heightened spatial awareness and clarity of corporeal presence. In the process we will build both our physical listening and decisive leadership skills. No prior horse experience necessary and all levels of movers welcome (this workshop is on the ground only – no riding involved). Due to limited space this workshop is open only to the Middlebury College community.