Theatre

Working in collaboration with Middlebury Theatre and Dance students, Visiting Assistant Professor Jonathan Vandenberg directs a performance installation in the Museum of Art’s largest gallery. Axis mundi (“axis of the world”) is the concept in many traditions of a liminal realm between lower and upper domains, such as between the terrestrial and the celestial. Historically, this concept has been investigated through diagram, painting, sculpture, and architecture. In this performance installation, a radical Axis “diagram” emerges.

Meet members of the “Somewhere” cast and crew, and special guests including playwright Marisela Treviño Orta and Dr. Theresa May, to talk about the show, its themes and questions.

Sponsored by the Theatre Department, the Climate Action Capacity Program, and the Middlebury Performing Arts Council.

Join Dr. Carolyn Finney, Artist-in-Residence, Environmental Affairs, for a unique presentation that brings her life in conversation with historic figures and contemporary issues. Central Park birder Christian Cooper. George Floyd. The removal of Confederate Statues. Renaming of institutions. Reparations. Systemic Racism. Finney asks, what’s environment got to do with it? How do we meet this moment? Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field” and her lived experience, Dr.

Join us for a dynamic conversation with guest speakers and community members about how art can reflect, engage, and resist apocalyptic ideas and futures.

The Theatre Department invites to a Welcome Reception for new and returning students. Meet our majors, the faculty and the staff (and dogs) of the department. Come, check out the MANY opportunities to participate in theatre this semester and beyond! Open to Middlebury students, faculty, and staff.

This movement workshop led by Theresa May combines embodied practice with questions about how our bodies serve as sources for creativity. The body has knowledge; the body contains memory; the body is a source of stories. How is your body a gateway to creativity, imagination, memory, and freedom of expression? How are imagination, voice, emotion and physicality connected? How can you be present and empowered in and through your body? How is language embodied? What might it mean to have a physical “practice” that opens your heart and creative imagination?

Kaleidoscope: Multi Media Student Exhibit & Performance Night

A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.

A play by Marisela Treviño Orta directed by Olga Sanchez Saltveit.
Almost all the insects are gone, but Cassandra and her brother Alexander are tracking the world’s last monarch butterflies heading to the west coast instead of south. Their path intersects with an Oregon truffle farm where a small group of people are hunkering down to wait out the apocalypse. Will their encounter provoke the collapse of humanity or a new beginning?

Performances: April 6th – 8th, 7:30 pm each evening and 2 pm on Saturday.