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Signature Partnership Events
Middlebury College Dance Department: From Africa to the Americas
Mahaney Arts Center
72 Porter Field Road
Middlebury, VT 05753
Jan 29 + 30 | 7:30 pm
This performance aspires to reconnect the African diaspora to the evolution of American culture, highlighting the ongoing contributions of African traditions to contemporary artistic and cultural landscapes.
CHRISTAL BROWN (performer, choreographer, educator, activist, mother, disciple of Christ) is the Founder of INSPIRIT, Project: BECOMING, the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance and the Chair of Dance and Faculty Director of MiddCORE at Middlebury College. Brown is a native of Kinston, North Carolina, where she remembers accompanying her mother to NAACP meetings and performing at Black Caucus rallies. This early exposure to social responsibility innately produced a strong desire in Brown to put her gifts to work for the good of the communities she inhabits. Brown earned her BFA in Dance and minor in Business from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her MFA in New Media Art and technology from Long Island University. Browns professional journey has been shaped through working with and learning from icons such as Chuck Davis, Bill T. Jones, Andrea E. Woods, Liz Lerman, Blondell Cummings, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Bebe Miller.
The Middlebury College Dance Program seeks to develop the creative artist and artist/scholar through critical study and regular practice in contemporary, world dance techniques; improvisation and choreography; history, theory, and cultural studies; experiential anatomy and kinesiology; and performance.
Along with classes, the Middlebury Dance Program hosts a series of master classes and workshops that are free and open to the public. Artists are brought in from all over the world to share their perspective and put into practice the notion that Movement Matters.
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The Institute for Folding
Unfolding at five venues across Vermont with just one performance left, VDA artist-in-residence Michael Bodel presents his new work The Institute for Folding.
The Institute for Folding is an interdisciplinary dance work in layers, literally. Through movement, language, live sound and 30 sheets of cardboard, the work unpeels our human relationship to knowledge—our drive for scientific understanding, the ebb and flow of our ignorance, and our current disregard for what has been discovered.
Created by Michael Bodel
Choreography and Performance by Michael Bodel, Caitlin Morgan, Hanna Satterlee
Music by Rodrigo MT
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Season of Giving
As we move into the seasons of giving, we hope you consider making a donation to support and sustain dance in Vermont!
Donating to dance in Vermont means investing in creative expression, community connection, and cultural vitality. Dance enriches lives, brings people together, and offers a powerful platform for storytelling and healing. In a rural state like Vermont, your support helps ensure that dance remains accessible, inclusive, and sustainable. It nurtures local artists, inspires youth, and brings diverse voices to the stage. Every contribution helps keep Vermont’s dance community vibrant and growing.
Our Alliance
Our Alliance is comprised of dance artists, arts organizations, businesses, institutions, and patrons from across the state who are united under a shared love for dance and a recognition of the important role it plays in Vermont’s creative economy. Vermont’s natural beauty and quality of life attract great talent—but its rural nature and limited public funding for the arts make it challenging to keep talent here. Rather than losing talent to better opportunity elsewhere, the Alliance is working to help Vermont reach its full potential as a dance destination.
Join the Movement
Our progress serves your progress; our success is your success. While dancers have long been conditioned to believe that creating art at their own cost and sacrifice is normal, it’s time to change the status quo. Art is central to community connectedness, livability, and resilience. It gives community members a sense of belonging to their communities and helps increase the visibility of marginalized groups. It connects people and places in new ways. It’s also a major economic driver for Vermont. Join our movement to ask our policy makers to recognize the value dance (and the arts as a whole) bring to Vermont. Your membership comes with benefits such as discounts on classes and studio space, fiscal sponsorship, networking, and the opportunity to promote your events and classes.
