Name: The Institute for Folding
Start: 2025-09-26T19:00:00
End: 2025-07-21T23:00-05:00
Location: Next Stage Arts

Tickets $20 / $10 StudentsCredits Created by Michael Bodel Choreography and Performance by Michael Bodel, Caitlin Morgan, Hanna Satterlee Original score by Rodrigo MT&nbsp;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.This is a dance for our precipitous moment when adult trust in knowledge (such knowledge) has faltered and we have lost the collective wonder (such wonder) that once filled the eyes of our children and early civilizations. And it lasts about an hour.Special thanks to our partners: Vermont Arts Council, the Byrne Foundation, Middlebury Dance Department, Next Stage Arts Project, Highland Center for the Arts, Mascoma Bank, Junction Dance Festival, LINES Vermont Dance Studio, The Flynn, The Dance and Movement Center, The Putney School, The Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth, Junction Arts &amp; Media.Vermont Dance Alliance celebrates dance as a powerful force to connect, inspire, and transform. We support artists statewide through community, resources, and events that make Vermont a vibrant place for dance.