A brief introduction. My name is Alexandra (Alex) Mathews and I am delighted to say that it’s my first year at Bates Dance Festival! I’ve come to BDF as an…
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Hi, this is Michael again. This year’s theme for the YAP is Green Energy. The theme guides everything that will be in the final performance: it will define the choreographer’s…
On the eve of the 2012 Summer Olympics, week one of the Professional Training Program is almost to a close. Most of my recent cafeteria conversation swings from what Olympic…
This is Michael again, doing another update on the program! At YAP today the seniors had a lesson on video cameras, the juniors had an intense workout in hip hop,…
Hello! My name is Michael. This my eleventh year at YAP. YAP is a dance and music camp that is about three weeks long for children between the ages of…
I think the best way to evaluate your first day at the Bates Professional Training Program is to see how you feel on the second (and the third and fourth,…
I was lucky enough to escape the oppressive NYC humidity and come up to Bates early to catch the end of the Young Dancers Workshop. My roommate is a counselor…
A stomach flu has sent me home from the office with time to stop and enough of my wits to write about how things are going so far this summer. …
My artist friend and colleague puppet master, John Farrell of Figures of Speech Theatre wrote a moving response to “red, black & GREEN: a blues” that he has allowed me…
The past weekend (April 27 & 28, 2012) we presented Marc Bamuthi Joseph’s and The Living Word’s production of “red, black & GREEN: a blues” (rbGb) a funky, soulful, irreverent and profound meditation on social responsibility and environmental justice in the climate change era.
