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In Search of Air: Growing Up Dyslexic

5:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

In this dance/theater performance based on her experience growing up with a learning disability, dancer, choreographer, and spoken word artist Lida Winfield shares the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read—which did not occur until her early 20s. This show is a mixture of funny, sad, and ironic moments strung together in a creative and captivating format. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Like Making Someone Laugh: Affective and Corporeal Messiness in Non-Phallogocentric Communication

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

A thesis presentation by Matea Mills-Andruk

Matea Mills-Andruk ’18.5, presents the findings of her senior thesis produced in Dance and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies. Through dance and spoken word, Like Making Someone Laugh flaunts the ways hope, passion, and laughter are crucial to movement for social change. This upbeat event demonstrates the feminist potential of communicating in ways that do not center rationality and linearity, while simultaneously refusing to position reason and emotion as opposites. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Gaga/People Class

4:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

Led by Maree ReMalia—Middlebury’s former Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer—this Gaga/people class offers a framework for users to connect to their bodies and imaginations, experience physical sensations, improve flexibility and stamina, exercise agility and explosive power, and enjoy the pleasure of movement in a welcoming, accepting atmosphere. Gaga/people classes are open to people ages 16+, regardless of their background in dance or movement, and no previous dance experience is needed.

Open to the Public

Improvisation Composition

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

An ensemble of dancers and musicians demonstrates the ability to compose engaging and coherent pieces “in the moment” after a semester-long study of improvisation as a performing art. Directed by Lida Winfield with music by Deborah Felmeth and Ron Rost. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Taking Flight: Advanced Beginning Dance Showing

5:00 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

A “lightly produced” showing of dance experiments by the new batch of choreographers emerging from the Advanced Beginning course (DANC 0260), facilitated by Lida Winfield. Free

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Fields of Reckoning: An Interspecies Dance

3:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

Due to weekend weather predictions, this event has been rescheduled for Friday.

Please join us at The Knoll for a work-in-progress showing of choreography by Karima Borni (Middlebury Dance Faculty). Performers will also include a group of Middlebury students as well as several four-legged dancers in the landscape. Free and open to the public.

The Knoll

Open to the Public

Fall Dance Concert

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

This dynamic evening of ideas in motion showcases choreography by emerging student dance artists and the annual Newcomers’ Piece. The evening is directed by Assistant Professor Laurel Jenkins in collaboration with the choreographers. Tickets: $15/12/8/6; on sale November 4

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Fall Dance Concert

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Fall Dance Concert

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

This dynamic evening of ideas in motion showcases choreography by emerging student dance artists and the annual Newcomers’ Piece, choreographed this year by the Dance Company of Middlebury under the direction of Lida Winfield. The evening is directed by Laurel Jenkins in collaboration with the choreographers. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public

Fall Dance Concert

7:30 PM ET

Sponsored by:: Dance

Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

Open to the Public