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Stares and Stairs Official Website
Want to understand the goals behind Stares and Stairs and the experience of performing? Want to hear about the reactions of students walking by? This is a link to the Stares and Stairs website. This website includes performer accounts and…
Stares and Stairs Facebook Page
This is a link to the Stares and Stairs Facebook page. The group used this page to share information, photos, and reflections about their performances.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "What’s wrong with Rites of Spring"
This blog post reflects on the dynamics of power, class, race, gender, heteronormativity, and sexual violence present in the culture of Middlebury's "secret" fraternities and how this dynamic manifests in their annual invite-only dance, Rites of…
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Upcoming Exhibit: The Little Things"
This blog post describes a collaborative exhibit called "The Little Things" that Stares on Stairs later planned to show at M Gallery. This post described the exhibit's goal of bringing awareness to the parts of a survivor's experience that often go…
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Thoughts on BORNS and Beyond"
This blog post reflects on how the Stares and Stairs installation outside of the BORNS Spring Concert was different than other locations and performances. It also addresses the group's attempts to avoid triggering survivors and other questions that…
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "The Guy Who Raped Me Saw Me Half-Naked (and I liked it)*"
This blog post lays out the experience and reflections of an anonymous performer who came face to face with her rapist while performing outside of the Spring Concert. Stares and Stairs posted this to their website on April 11, 2016.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "The Atwater Staircase: Performance Activism"
This was the first blog post Stares and Stairs posted to their website on February 2, 2016. This post lays out the origin and goals of the group.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "So Many Stares: looking back at our first installation"
This blog post reflects upon the experience of the first ever Stares and Stairs instillation as well as the various supportive, kind, defensive, and violent reactions of students . Stares and Stairs posted this to their website on April 20, 2016.
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "Rites of Spring//Complacency"
This blog post reflects on an attempted installation at Rites of Spring, an invite-only annual dance held by the "secret" fraternities at Middlebury. It speaks to the fact that the performers were kicked off of the property/alpaca farm by the owner…
Stares And Stairs Blog Post: "REMINDER"
February 25, 2017