LEWISTON — The 2016 Bates Dance Festival gets underway with DanceNOW at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9, at Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 329 College St.
The performance will showcase fresh voices from a new generation of dance makers.
Featured are works by New York company Dante Brown’s Warehouse Dance; post-modernist Heidi Henderson’s elephant JANE dance; New England choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky & Co.; jazz and Broadway dance dynamo Courtney D. Jones; and hip-hop sensation Shakia Johnson.
Since 2014, Warehouse Dance has appeared at Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Dixon Place, LaMaMa Moves Festival, Movement Research at Judson Church, the New Museum, and Sam Houston State University. Brown serves on the Bates Dance Festival faculty and has been a guest artist at Bates College.
Ali Kenner Brodsky & Co. is gaining recognition for its driven and gesture-rich works. A 2014 recipient of the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts Fellowship for Choreography, Brodsky has presented her work in New York City at Joyce SoHo, the Puffin Room, DanceNow Festivals, WAX, Dixon Place and the Dumbo Dance Festival. She has been selected as a 2016 Emerging Choreographer at the Bates Dance Festival.
Henderson’s company elephant JANE dance has been presented at the Provincetown Dance Festival, Rochester Fringe Festival, Land Community College and the Bates Dance Festival. Henderson is on the dance faculty at Connecticut College and the Bates Dance Festival.
Jones, one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch” in 2012, is a professional dancer, actress and teacher. She performed in Broadway’s first national tour of “Wicked” in 2009 and performs frequently with the Houston Grand Opera, Houston Metropolitan Dance Company and Hope Stone Inc.
Johnson, a certified teacher with the National Dance Institute, has choreographed and directed more than 40 hip-hop, modern, African and lyrical works, including work for the Boston Celtics/NBA half-time show. Johnson has been a Bates Dance Festival student, emerging choreographer and guest teacher.
Admission is $20 for adults, $15 for seniors and $12 for students. Tickets are available at www.batestickets.com.
FMI: 207-786-6161, www.batesdancefestival.org.
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