LEWISTON — As the students swirled and skipped across the rehearsal stage Friday afternoon, performing their own hip-hop choreography, Bates Youth Arts Program Director Priscilla Rivas looked at another teacher with wide eyes. “That was beautiful,” Rivas said. Rivas knows every single kid on stage at Bates’ Schaeffer Theatre. They’ve been together, performing and practicing […]
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Doug Varone and Dancers returning to Bates Dance Festival
LEWISTON — Doug Varone and Dancers will return to the Bates Dance Festival at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, July 22 and 23, in Schaeffer Theatre, 329 College St. The company will offer a Show & Tell lecture demonstration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, in Schaeffer Theatre. Dance writer Debra Cash will give an […]
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Bates Dance Festival: ‘Tap nerd’ dazzles and teaches
LEWISTON — On stage, Michelle Dorrance told her audience she’s a passionate “tap nerd.” New York City-based Dorrance — one of the best tap dancers around — performs around the world. The winner of numerous awards, she’s been called a tap genius. Dorrance is one of the key performers in this summer’s Bates Dance Festival. […]
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DanceNOW kicking off Bates Dance Festival
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; […]
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Dance, dance, dance, dance and dance at Bates
DanceNow, Dorrance Dance,Doug Varone and Dancers, and Kate Weare Company among performances slated for 2016 Bates Dance Festival LEWISTON — The Bates Dance Festival announces its 2016 season of public events, taking place July 9 through Aug. 6 on the Bates College campus. The renowned contemporary artists who will present stunning work, much of it […]
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Bates Dance Fest announces 2016 training programs
LEWISTON — The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England’s leading training and presenting program in contemporary dance, announces its 33rd season, June 24-Aug. 7, 2016. The festival includes the renowned professional training program for dancers 18 years and older (July 16-Aug. 7), offering 31 classes a day in a wide range of disciplines; and the […]
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Bates offering weekend of dance, theater, film, music
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 […]
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Body language speaks volumes at Bates Dance Festival
Body language speaks in a way more primitive, more intuitive, and more truthful than words can achieve. Dancer and choreographer Robert Moses of Robert Moses’ KIN dance company in San Francisco, credits the body as the most communicative device humans have. For Moses, dance is the perfect medium to begin, to challenge, and to pursue […]