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Try Zumba® Fitness with Lindsey!

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Try Zumba® Fitness with Lindsey!

Treat yourself to an hour of fun,

easy-to-learn dance moves that will make you SWEAT:

Burn 300-1,000 calories in ONE class!

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30–1:30 p.m.

Starting June 18, 2013

MCA, Dance Studio 109

 

This high-energy fitness dance class features salsa, hip hop,

samba, merengue, mambo, pop, cha cha, reggae ton, pop, cumbia,

belly dance, tango, and more.

Once/week (8) classes for $50* 

*once/week students may attend either day

Twice/week (15) classes for $90*

*skipping July 4th

Drop ins welcome $10

 

The first 20 College faculty/staff to register will receive a $10 discount, courtesy of Wellness at Middlebury. Sorry, this discount is limited to current faculty/staff only; other ID card holders are not eligible. 

Register May 13th – June 27th  ~ online at go/tickets, call xMIDD,

or stop by the Box Offices in McCullough or the Mahaney Center for the Arts 

Questions? Lindsey Hescock – 388-3381or zumbalindsey@gmail.com

or Missey, mathomps@middlebury.edu or x5258

Pilates & Egoscue Method Mixture Classes with Nina Vila

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Pilates & Egoscue Method

   Mixture Classes with Nina Vila  

Students will gain tremendous strength, flexibility and awareness of alignment!

If you want to enhance your performance in sports, dance or  simply get stronger, attaining

a more correct alignment, this class is for you.

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30–1:20 p.m.

Starting February 19, 2013

MCA, Dance Studio 109

Open to Middlebury College Students/Faculty/Staff

Newcomers Encouraged, try it!

Once/week for $60*         Twice/week for $120

10 weeks total

*once/week students may attend either day

*The first 20 College faculty/staff to register will receive a $10 discount, courtesy of Wellness at Middlebury. Sorry, this discount is limited to current faculty/staff only; other ID cardholders are not eligible.

Register January 28th – March 1stonline at go/tickets, call xMIDD, or stop by the Box Offices in

McCullough or the Mahaney Center for the Arts

Questions?  Nina, ninavccp@gmail.com or 388-7400

or Missey, mathomps@middlebury.edu or x5258

Pilates Classes with Nina Vila

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Pilates Classes with Nina Vila

Winter (J) Term Class

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30–1:20 p.m.

Starting January 8

Mahaney CFA, Dance Studio (room 109)

Twice/week (8 classes total) for $64.00

 

Registration opens Monday, November 26

Register at the Box Offices in McCullough or the Mahaney CFA

Call xMIDD, or go online at www.middlebury.edu/arts/tickets

If you need a PE credit this is a great way to get it!

Great for strength, flexibility, and conditioning!

Newcomers welcome.

*must attend all 8 classes to earn credit

Pilates exercises focus on the deep core/torso muscles, with careful attention to breath and alignment of the spine, for a total-body workout.  Classes are open to Middlebury College Students/Faculty/Staff. Registration closes January 8.

Questions?  Nina, ninavccp@gmail.com or 388-7400

or Missey, mathomps@middlebury.edu or x5258

Clifford Symposium on Creativity and Collaboration September 27-29

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Symposium Hosted by the Mahaney Center for the Arts

in Honor of Its 20th Anniversary

Middlebury’s annual Nicholas R. Clifford Symposium kicks off each academic year by giving the campus community rich opportunities to discuss and experience timely topics from many perspectives. This year’s symposium, entitled “Creativity and Collaboration,” is hosted by the Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts in honor of its 20th-anniversary season. The Symposium features over 30 events starting September 27, 2012, with an impressive lineup of speakers, performances, and panel discussions, in both arts and non-arts disciplines.

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2012–2013 Performing Arts Series Opens with Emerson and Takács String Quartets

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Audiences Will Enjoy Rare Opportunity to Hear Two of America’s Greatest Chamber Ensembles in Rapid Succession on September 29 and October 2, 2012

The Performing Arts Series launches its 93rd season with two of the world’s finest string quartets in back-to-back concerts. The Emerson String Quartet returns to Middlebury for its 32nd campus recital on September 29, playing works by Schumann, Shostakovich, and Beethoven. Just three nights later, the Takács String Quartet will give its 24th Middlebury concert, including works by Schubert, Britten, and Dvořák, on October 2. The Box Office will offer a special package price to help patrons take advantage of this rare convergence of chamber music talent. Continue reading →

Pilates with Nina Vila, Vermont Center for Classical Pilates

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Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30–1:20 p.m.

Starting September 18

MCA, Dance Studio 109

Open to Middlebury College Students/Faculty/Staff

PE credit available

Once/week for $60*         Twice/week for $120

10 weeks total

*once/week students may attend either day

*The first 20 College faculty/staff to register will receive a $10 discount, courtesy of Wellness at Middlebury. Sorry, this discount is limited to current faculty/staff only; other ID card holders are not eligible.

Register September 12-28

online at go/tickets, call xMIDD,

or stop by the Box Offices in McCullough or the Mahaney Center for the Arts

Great for strength, flexibility, and conditioning!

Questions? Nina, ninavccp@gmail.com or 388-7400

or Missey, mathomps@middlebury.edu or x5258

Mahaney Center for the Arts Celebrates 20th Anniversary

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The 2012–2013 Arts Season Kicks Off with Campus-wide Symposium on Creativity and Collaboration

The Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts celebrates its 20th anniversary this year with a season packed with hundreds of concerts, plays, museum exhibitions, dance performances, films, and more. An early highlight of the season is the Clifford Symposium on Creativity and Collaboration, hosted by the Mahaney Center for the Arts on September 27-29, 2012.

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Pilates Classes with Nina Vila; OHIC Discount Available

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Tuesdays & Thursdays, 12:30–1:20 p.m.

Starting February 21

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Studio

Once/week for $60*         Twice/week for $120*

(once/week students may attend either day)

* $10 OHIC discount for the first 20 faculty/staff to register!

Registration opens Monday, January 30, at 10 a.m.!

Register at the Box Offices in McCullough or the Mahaney CFA,

Call xMIDD, or go online at www.middlebury.edu/arts/tickets

Great for strength, flexibility, and conditioning!

Newcomers welcome.

*The first 20 College faculty/staff to register will receive a $10 discount, courtesy of the Optimal Health Initiative. Sorry, this discount is limited to current faculty/staff only; other ID card holders are not eligible.

Pilates exercises focus on the deep core/torso muscles, with careful attention to breath and alignment of the spine, for a total-body workout. Classes are open to Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff. Registration closes March 1.

Questions? Nina, ninavccp@gmail.com or 388-7400; or Missey, mathomps@middlebury.edu or x5258

Russian Pianist Performs at Middlebury January 13

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Concert Program to Include Bach, Mozart, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff

Sensationally gifted Russian pianist Rustem Hayroudinoff returns to the Performing Arts Series with a public concert on Friday, January 13, at 8 p.m. in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. His program will include Bach’s Partita No. 2; Mozart’s Sonata in D major, KV 576; Liszt’s Étude d’exécution transcendante No. 10 in F minor and Grande Étude de Paganini “La Campanella;” and Rachmaninoff’s Sonata No. 1 in D minor.

rustem_hayroudinoff3a-credit_ulli_richterHayroudinoff last performed at Middlebury two years ago, in January 2010. His performance of works by Franck, Chopin, Shostakovich, and Rachmaninoff was widely acclaimed as a highlight of the 90th anniversary season, prompting series director Paul Nelson to pursue the pianist for a re-engagement.

Hayroudinoff has earned worldwide critical acclaim for his powerful, nuanced performances. BBC Radio 3 commented, “Rachmaninoff asks everything of his pianist: a steely rhythmic sense, coruscating virtuosity, spiritual depth and introspection . . . Rustem Hayroudinoff marshals all these qualities.” After his sold-out January 2010 performance at the Frick Museum in New York City, Vanity Fair exclaimed, “Somebody give Rustem Hayroudinoff directions to Carnegie Hall!” Esteemed Soviet pianist Lazar Berman praised him as “a serious artist and master, whose emergence in today’s atmosphere of pseudo-artistic and shallow music-making is specially valuable and welcome.” London’s Classic FM Magazine described Hayroudinoff as a “sensationally gifted” musician of “stunning artistry.”

Hayroudinoff graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, where he studied with Lev Naumov, and received his postgraduate degree at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Christopher Elton. His performances have been broadcast on most major classical radio stations around the world. He has recorded for NAMI Records (Japan), Decca, and Chandos. His recordings of Shostakovich’s Theatre Music and the Dvorak Piano Concerto with the BBC Philharmonic were greeted with universal acclaim, garnering praise such as “dazzling and . . . electrically compelling” (Gramophone) and “utterly magical” (Classic FM) and were selected amongst the Best CDs of the Year by BBC Music and the Gramophone magazines respectively. His CD of the Rachmaninoff Complete Preludes was selected by Classic FM as a part of the “four disc essential Rachmaninoff collection,” alongside the recordings by Arthur Rubinstein and André Previn, and the recording of the Complete Études-Tableaux by Rachmaninoff became the Instrumental Choice of the Month with the BBC Music Magazine and was nominated for its Best Instrumental CD of the Year in 2008.

Hayroudinoff has performed to great critical acclaim in Japan, his native Russia, and Europe. His 2011-12 season will include performances of the Dvořák piano concerto with the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia; recitals in the USA, Mexico, and UK; and chamber music series with the principals of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in the U.K. and Germany.

Hayroudinoff is a professor of piano at the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Residency activities associated with this performance are made possible by the Rothrock Family Fund for Experiential Learning in the Performing Arts, established in 2011, which supports opportunities that broaden the scope of Middlebury students’ experience in the performing arts. As part of his Middlebury visit, Hayroudinoff will work with Middlebury College composition students, performing their new works and providing feedback.

The concert by Rustem Hayroudinoff will take place on Friday, January 13, at 8 p.m., at Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts, in the Concert Hall. Tickets are $25 for the general public; $20 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more information, call (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or go to http://go.middlebury.edu/arts.

New African Music and Dance Ensemble Goes ‘Beyond Drumming’

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Students Explore Musics of Uganda

The new Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble will present their debut concert “Beyond Drumming” on Tuesday, December 6, 2011, at 8 p.m. in the Mahaney Center for the Arts Concert Hall. Directed by Dr. Damascus Kafumbe, the ensemble will highlight the music and culture of Uganda in an hour-long program of instrumental, song, and dance performance.

africaninstruments-fall2011-photovincentajones12The concert will feature students performing original compositions, arrangements of traditional tunes, and dance choreography on a wide range of Ugandan musical instruments, including adungu (bow harps), agwara (side-blown trumpets), akogo (thumb pianos), bucence (reed-box rattles), madinda (xylophones), ndingidi (tube fiddles), ndongo (bowl lyres), ng’oma (drums), and nsaasi (gourd shakers).

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Student performers for this concert will include Alex Eppler ’12, Alexander Tipper ’15, Alexandra Vasquez ’12, Allison Lacroix ’12, Benjamin Goldstein ’12, Carllee James ’13, Christine Valentin ’12, Connie Ruth Sanabria ’12, Dane Verret ’12, Deborah Wakefield ’12, Dominic Matthew Atkatz ’12, Erin Prak ’12, Hannah Clarke ’12, Heather Stefek ’12, Jeremy Cline ’11.5, Kelsey Calhoun ’12, Kira Gordon ’12, Lynn Noble ’11.5, Nathan Kloczko ’12, Rebecca Shaw ’12, Ryan Hershey-Van Horn ’12, Sarah Chapin ’12, Vincent Jones ’12, and Yuan Kang Lim ’12.
damascuskafumbe1Dr. Kafumbe is the newest faculty member in the Department of Music. In addition to directing the Middlebury African Music and Dance Ensemble, he teaches courses in ethnomusicology and world music. Dr. Kafumbe also an expert performer on various East African musical instruments and of numerous East African dance traditions. He holds a bachelor’s degree in  music from Makerere University in Uganda (2004) and two graduate degrees in musicology from the Florida State University College of Music (2006 and 2011).
Sponsored by the Department of Music, the concert will be free and open to the general public. For more information, call ext. 3168 or go to http://go.middlebury.edu/arts.