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LEWISTON – The Bates College Modern Dance Company will present new dances and dance videos at Schaeffer Theatre in four performances tonight through April 3.

The company’s annual spring concert of new works has been divided into two programs, collectively titled “Interior Dialogues.” The first program, featuring work by students in the dance composition course and videos from the “Atelier” course, will be presented at 8 p.m. today, and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 2.

The second program features dances composed by students in an advanced seminar, by faculty member Sarah McCormick and by Bates dance program director Carol Dilley, who collaborated on a piece with choreographer and teacher Jill Spiewak Eng.

This program can be seen at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 1, and Monday, April 3.

The company includes 40 student dancers and 11 student choreographers from the two composition courses, as well as five video artists from “Atelier,” a course in the music and dance programs that explores the use of high technology to foster creative collaboration.

Sarah McCormick received her bachelor’s degree in world arts and culture from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her master’s from the State University of New York in Brockport, where she taught as an adjunct lecturer.

She studied with Bella Lewitzky and Alwin Nikolai, who both encouraged her to choreograph. Her company, Tyndale/Sarah Pogostin, produced works in New York and abroad. Her work has been featured at various universities and festivals, including the Bates Dance Festival.

Carol Dilley joined Bates College in 2003. She has been an international choreographer, performer and teacher for nearly 20 years in New York, Barcelona, Seattle, Australia and now Maine.

She has performed with many companies and choreographers, directed two companies of her own and founded performance series in Europe and Australia. Recently, she premiered a piece with the National Dance Company of Costa Rica, and she will soon begin a piece for the Dirty Feet Dance collective in Sydney, Australia.

Jill Spiewak Eng has studied, performed and made dances in Boston, North Carolina, New York City and Maine since 1989. She founded a dance collective in North Carolina called Independent Dancemakers in 1996. She teaches dance at New Dance Studio, Portland.

Tickets: $6, $3 for seniors, children and full-time students. Call at 761-6161 or visit https://transact.bates.edu/boxoffice/. The theatre is at 305 College St.

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