The arts take many shapes at Middlebury, be it student dance groups, basement bands, theater productions, improv, or just collaborating on Battell Beach. Students’ art passions are evident around the campus, but when students need an academic roost, they head to the MAC.
From an expansive lobby, tiled with the otherwise cast-off ends of two-by-fours, performance can take you in many directions—to the dance theater, large acting classrooms, the art museum, Rehearsals Café, the black box theater, up the stairs to one of many practice rooms, the costume shop, or through the double doors of the 370-seat recital hall with its nine-foot-long Steinway. Following your passions at Middlebury takes little more than choosing which door to walk through.
And when you need a minute to pause, catch your breath, or reflect, burrow into one of the secluded corners, or look out past the patio, over the reflecting pool, to the public art of Robert Indiana and Clement Meadmore.
“Having this place to work in was completely a draw to Middlebury,” says Emily Ballou ’21. “I spend a lot of time here. I joke that I live in the MAC; I’m always doing a show, and I have at least one theater class. Everything is so well set up to target shows and high-end pieces of art.”
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