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Dance (Artist-in-Residence)

Employer
Middlebury College
Location
Vermont, United States
Salary
Salary Not specified
Date posted
Dec 11, 2024
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Position Type
Faculty Positions, Performing Arts
Employment Level
Non-Tenured Track
Employment Type
Full Time

Job Details


Dance (Artist-in-Residence)

Location: Middlebury, VT.
Position Type: Faculty Position.

Description:
The Dance Department seeks half-time Artists in Residence for academic years 25-26, 26-27, 27-28 beginning September 2025. One artist will be hired for each academic year. Flexible scheduling.

Qualifications:
The successful candidates will:
  • Be an active dance artist with a background in teaching, performing, and creative work.
  • Teach courses in all levels of contemporary modern dance technique and choreography and offer expertise in one or more areas of our core curriculum; anatomy, creative process, cultural studies, dance for the camera or interactive media.
  • Offer classes in additional movement styles such as ballet, hip hop, contact or compositional improvisation, and/or a non-western or an African diasporic dance form.

  • The Dance Department at Middlebury College offers a minor and major in Dance. The Dance Department consists of four faculty members, a lighting designer/production manager, and two musical accompanists, and a part time Academic Coordinator. The Department maintains its own studios and theatre as part of the Mahaney Art Center. The Dance Company of Middlebury tours nationally or internationally each year. Visit us at www.middlebury.edu/academics/dance.

    We value progressive, hands-on learning. Our pedagogy is centered on developing students' technique, creative expression and scholarly work. We are deeply committed to the ongoing process of embodied inclusivity.

    Our Dance Department is seeking a half-time Artist-in-Residence who shares a commitment to student centered progressive pedagogy. The successful candidate will add their particular expertise and approach to their courses, further diversifying our curriculum and making it accessible to a broad range of students. The Artist-in-Residence models the daily life and responsibilities of an engaged creative artist.

    Application Instructions:
    Applications for this position will be accepted starting on December 11, 2024, priority will be given to applicants who submit all materials by January 22, 2025. Middlebury College uses Interfolio to collect all faculty job applications electronically. Email and paper applications will not be accepted. Through Interfolio, submit letter of application with a statement of teaching philosophy, pedagogy and interests, artist's statement (please include examples and outcomes of how your teaching addresses or has addressed access and inclusion), curriculum vitae, graduate degree or comparable professional experience, a sample of creative work (a current full-length piece, a work in which the artist performs, and one piece set on students are preferred), and three current letters of recommendation addressed to search committee chair.

    Please use this link to apply: https://apply.interfolio.com/160471

    Please follow these instructions to submit online samples of creative work:
  • Upload your work samples to Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/) or YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/).
  • When your upload is complete, create a one-page text document containing your name and the URL(s) for each sample. Use this document to label and provide context for your work samples. Please provide no more than three URLs.
  • Upload the text document to Interfolio where specified ("Other Document") along with the rest of your application materials.

  • Equal Employment Opportunity Statement: Middlebury College is a top-tier liberal arts college with a demonstrated commitment to excellence in faculty teaching and research. An Equal Opportunity Employer, the College is committed to hiring a diverse faculty as we work to foster innovation in our curriculum and to provide a rich and varied educational experience to our increasingly diverse student body. EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability.

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    Middlebury College

    Middlebury is one of the country's top liberal arts colleges. It offers its students a broad curriculum embracing the arts, humanities, literature, foreign languages, social sciences, and natural sciences. Middlebury is an institution with a long-standing international focus, a place where education reflects a sense of looking outward, and a realization that the traditional insularity of the United States is something of the past. We seek to bring to Middlebury those who wish not only to learn about themselves and their own traditions, but also to see beyond the bounds of class, culture, region, or nation. Indeed, the central purpose of a Middlebury education is precisely to transcend oneself and one's own concerns. This transcendence may come for some through the study of other cultures; for some through the study of the environment; for others it will come through inquiry into such fields as physics or philosophy, mathematics or music.

    Middlebury's undergraduate college is enriched by its other programs. Every summer, the main campus in Vermont is transformed into an institution single-mindedly devoted to the study of nine foreign languages and cultures, and the use of English is virtually banned for the participants, among whom are many Middlebury undergraduates. In the Green Mountains lies Middlebury's Bread Loaf campus, where for six weeks each summer the Bread Loaf School of English is in session. This is followed by the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which brings together 200 authors and aspiring authors for 11 days of intensive exchange about the art of writing. The Bread Loaf School of English is in session each summer not only in Middlebury but also at Lincoln College, Oxford, in the United Kingdom; at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico; and at the University of North Carolina at Asheville

    There is also an overseas dimension to Middlebury College. The C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad are located in Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bordeaux, Buenos Aires, Concepción, Córdoba, Ferrara, Florence, Getafe, Guadalajara, Hangzhou, Irkutsk, La Serena, Logroño, Madrid, Mainz, Montevideo, Moscow, Niterói, Paris, Poitiers, Santiago, Temuco, Tucumán, Valdivia, Valparaíso, Xalapa, and Yaroslavl. These schools enroll more than 300 undergraduate and graduate students who seek to further their foreign language skills and immerse themselves as fully as possible in the host culture through academic study as well as direct experience.

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