July 2016

2016 Professional Training Program

Business of Dance: Vital to a Dancer’s Career

Here at Bates Dance Festival, we offer workshops and master classes in addition to the daily classes. Last night, Sara Juli, the Founder/Director of Surala Consulting and former Director of…

Sydney BurrowsJuly 29, 2016

2016 Professional Training Program

All About Michel Kouakou

This summer, I have had the privilege of being enrolled in Michel Kouakou’s Afro-Modern class at the Bates Dance Festival. It is first thing in the morning, and I always…

Sydney BurrowsJuly 29, 2016

2016 Young Dancers Workshop

Young Dancers Workshop: A Day in the Life with Camper Jill Savoca

The Bates Dance Festival begins each summer with the Young Dancers Workshop, a three week intensive for dancers aged fourteen through eighteen. The program is an “alternative educational experience designed…

Chava LanskyJuly 26, 2016

Youth Arts: In Their Own Words

The Making of YAP: Week One Progress

Day Three and Already Inspired! Although the Youth Arts Program only began on Monday, the YAP faculty are already feeling inspired and are exploring ideas for the final showing. This…

Sydney BurrowsJuly 22, 2016

2016 Professional Training Program

Farewell and Welcome: A Conversation with Outgoing and Future Admissions Directors

Throughout the whirlwind of this first week of the Professional Training Program, Meredith Lyons began her transition from Admissions Director/Operations Manager here at Bates Dance Festival to her new position…

Sydney BurrowsJuly 21, 2016

2016 Performances

Collaboration and Process: Doug Varone at MECA

On Friday, July 15 a few dozen people hugged, chatted, and greeted each other warmly as they milled around the Lunder Gallery at Maine College of Art (MECA) in Portland.…

Chava LanskyJuly 20, 2016

2016 Emerging Choreographer

Final Words from Emerging Choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky

Over the past three weeks, BDF Emerging Choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky has been fully immersed in our community: working with her company, taking class, teaching master classes, performing, and more.…

Chava LanskyJuly 15, 2016

2016 Young Dancers Workshop

Interview with Tristan Koepke, Co-Director of the Young Dancers Workshop

As the three week long Young Dancers Workshop winds to an end I sat down with Tristan Koepke, Co-Director and modern technique faculty member of the Workshop and longtime BDF…

Chava LanskyJuly 15, 2016

2016 Performances

Did you miss DanceNOW? Read about it here!

On Saturday, July 9, the 34th season of the Bates Dance Festival opened in Bates’ Schaeffer Theatre with DanceNOW, advertised as featuring “fresh voices from a new generation of contemporary…

Chava LanskyJuly 14, 2016

2016 Emerging Choreographer

Ali Kenner Brodsky: Process and Progress

Last week we got the chance to see the beginning of emerging choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky's work on her quintet titled PARt. Here she shares in her words the progress she's…

Chava LanskyJuly 5, 2016

Business of Dance: Vital to a Dancer’s Career

All About Michel Kouakou

Young Dancers Workshop: A Day in the Life with Camper Jill Savoca

The Making of YAP: Week One Progress

Farewell and Welcome: A Conversation with Outgoing and Future Admissions Directors

Collaboration and Process: Doug Varone at MECA

Final Words from Emerging Choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky

Interview with Tristan Koepke, Co-Director of the Young Dancers Workshop

Did you miss DanceNOW? Read about it here!

Ali Kenner Brodsky: Process and Progress

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