Parents & Family Weekend highlights include annual smorgasbord of dance

One of the most diverse performance programs in Bates College dance, the Parents & Family Weekend Dance Concert takes place at noon Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 11-12, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.

Admission is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6161.

Three works related to dance curriculum are included. Students perform an excerpt from “The Secret History of Love,” a work by renowned choreographer and transgender activist Sean Dorsey, who has been in residence this fall at Bates.

Also curriculum-related are a study for the senior thesis piece by dance major Talia Mason of Silver Spring, Md.; and a piece from the course Introduction to Composition.

The program features works by independent student choreographers including dance majors Isaiah Rice ’15 and Kelsey Schober ’16, and first-years Meg DiRuggiero and Jorge Piccole in their Bates debuts.

The Dynasty Step Team and Bollywood Dance Club perform as well. And the concert features the return of Marlee Weinberg ’10, coming from New York City to dance again on the Schaeffer stage.