LEWISTON — The Back to Bates Weekend Dance Concert will be held at noon Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 3-4, in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 329 College St.
The event combines the traditional Parents & Family and Homecoming weekends.
Representing work by Bates faculty, students and artists in residence, the performances are open to the public at no cost. Besides dance, there will be theater, film and music.
Students in a 200-level repertory and performance class taught by Carol Dilley, professor of dance and chairwoman of the theater and dance department, will perform two works: A modern partners piece by Dilley and a jazz dance by guest artist Cathy Young, director of the Dance Division at the Boston Conservatory.
Rachel Boggia, assistant professor of dance at Bates, has collaborated with first-year students to make a modern work set to live a cappella music sung by first-years.
“This year both of the Bates faculty choreographers are making dance pieces with student musicians as well as student dancers,” Dilley said.
Ben Cuba, a senior from Worcester, Mass., “has been studying the composition of music for dance for a few semesters now and is creating the score for my piece,” she said. “Rachel is taking advantage of the wonderful crossover between dance and the lively a cappella community here at Bates.”
Also on the program are works by student choreographers. Jorge Piccole, a sophomore from Middleton, Mass., and Bryana Newton, a senior from Granby, Conn., will present a hip-hop duet.
A senior dance major, Mary Anne Bodnar of New York City will present the first phases of her dance thesis research in a solo and in a duet with Kelsey Schober of Palmer, Ark.
A junior from Yarmouth, Laura Pietropaoli, will screen a film she made this summer at Bates Dance Festival featuring Alexandra Freed, a senior from Magnolia, Mass. A sophomore from Sherrill, N.Y., Emma Zulch will perform a solo.
Finally, students in the cast of the forthcoming Bates theater production of “Marie and The Nutcracker” will perform a scene from the play. The Nov. 5-9 production will be the world premiere of a dramatic adaptation by Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater at Bates, of the classic story by E.T.A. Hoffman.
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