Middlebury Dance Department

Middlebury Dance Department The Dance Department fosters the development of creative artists and scholars at Middlebury College.

06/14/2026

The Dance Department’s annual Spring Concert brought students together for an evening of creativity, collaboration, and performance. Showcasing pieces developed throughout the semester, the concert reflected the hard work, passion, and artistry of student dancers. Through months of rehearsals and preparation, students had the opportunity to share their talents and celebrate their growth with the campus community, making for a memorable end to the semester.

05/14/2026

Technique and Composition with Laurel Jenkins 💫

This video combines rehearsal footage and moments from the final showing of a class built around reflection, collaboration, and student feedback. The evening featured a collective group work, duo choreographies, and individual performances created and presented by the students. Each piece brought a distinct perspective, with students introducing their own work and sharing personal manifestos with the audience

05/08/2026

Students in Dance 0160: Introduction to Dance lead by came together for an end-of-semester showing that celebrated creativity, collaboration, and performance.

The showcase highlighted the work students developed throughout the semester while giving them the opportunity to share their artistry and growth with the campus community.

05/04/2026

Freshman Ali Mayah and Senior Evelyn Rodriguez talk about Evolution Dance Crew — a student-run group built around learning and practicing alternative dance styles.

Evo has become a family for a lot of dancers on campus. It’s where people bring their ideas, build them out with others, and turn them into something real. At the same time, they’re learning new styles, experimenting, and finding their own way of moving — together.

Auditions will open next fall ❤️

04/30/2026

Audrey Bean is a first-year student on both and , Middlebury’s student-led dance groups. While Riddim is separate from the Dance Department, it gives students the chance to keep dancing, performing, and creating outside of class.

She has taken several dance classes at Middlebury and intends to major in Dance. Even while recovering from an injury, Audrey has stayed involved by focusing on choreography and the creative side of performance. This semester, she is co-choreographing a piece for Riddim alongside Odette.

In her interview, Audrey shares what dance means to her, how she balances dance in and outside of class, and why being part of Riddim has been such an important part of her college experience.

❤️‍🔥 Come support her and the Riddim team this Saturday, May 2, at 7:00 and 10:00 PM in Wilson Hall. Tickets: go/boxoffice/

04/21/2026

Se Fue La Luz, Evelyn Rodriguez ‘26 senior thesis, will be shown on Thursday & Friday, April 23 & 24, 7:30–8:00 PM at MAC Dance Theatre

Welcome home! Sit down, take your jacket off, and relax while we show you all the reasons I love my culture. Se Fue La Luz embodies the phrase, “I love you, but”. Through movement, light, and archival glimpses of Dominican culture, it holds accountability for the spaces where my community falls short while celebrating its beauty, rhythm, and love. Feel the Tambora in the merengue beats, chismear a little, and witness the truths embedded in my hair

04/15/2026

Ronald Rost has been part of the Dance Department since 1982, accompanying classes, faculty and student performances, and visiting artists’ shows and workshops

In the interview, he shares how he first got into playing and collecting instruments from around the world, shaping the wide range of sounds he brings into his work today. He currently performs across Vermont with several groups, playing keyboards, Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and more, including with The New Nile Orchestra, Gumbo Yaya, The Dirtminers, and occasionally The Eames Brothers

On campus, much of his work centres on improvisation. He talks about the process of responding to dancers in real time, catching sonic movement, and what it’s like to build the live, responsive connection between music and dance

04/14/2026

Zoe Park, a joint Dance & Theatre major with a Music minor, shares how her background in dance, including her Creative Process class with Laurel Jenkins, led her to explore partnering, which became the foundation of her DANC 0500 independent project

She is currently developing this project alongside work from Daniel Miramontes’s Choreography & Performance (DANC 0360), where she created a solo in collaboration with students from the electronic music class. Her independent project focuses on exploring partnering and connection through movement

Stay tuned for the showing

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