Three dance performances featuring work by local and New York choreographers, a film from Serbia in the Global Lens films series, concerts by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the combined Bates and Bowdoin college orchestra featuring pianist Frank Glazer: Why stay home?

• Works by New York choreographers Ford, Barnes on Modern Dance Company program
• Global Lens series presents Serbian film Ordinary People
• Pianist Glazer and Bates, Bowdoin orchestras join forces for Chopin concerto

Readers, please note: The schedule of performances has been changed since the concerts were first publicized. A show Friday, Oct. 2, has been canceled and the Sunday show added.

These Parents & Family Weekend events are open to the public at no charge.

On the program: students in the course “Studio Dance: Advanced Jazz Repertory” with several new works; a modernist piece choreographed by dance program director Carol Dilley; and work in a variety of styles choreographed and performed by Bates students.

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Seven dances are featured in Suite Movement. Four are by students: “Kooky Little Psyches,” by Amy Burkhardt, a junior from Sudbury, Mass.; “Trepid,” by Claire Schneider, a junior from Madison, Wis.; “Now,” a solo by senior Devon Fitchett of Woburn, Mass.; and “Release,” by senior Sara Miller of Farmington. The student works are set to music by Ani DiFranco, Guster and other contemporary artists.

The guest choreographers’ four works, all for more than a dozen dancers, are: “Changing Winds II: Textured Fields,” by Lisa Schmidt; an excerpt from “Gettin’ Busy,” by Patrik Bordovsky; and “Ellington Suite,” by Stephanie Powell, with music by Duke Ellington.

Lisa Schmidt was a member of the Trisha Brown Company from 1985 to 1992 and has taught and performed throughout the United States and abroad. In addition to performing, this resident of western Massachusetts teaches dance and healing through movement. She is a certified practitioner of body-mind centering.

Patrik Bordovsky began performing professionally in 1995 and has taught and performed all over the East Coast. An award-winning dancer, he has collaborated with the John Gamble Dance Theater at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, and currently attends Columbia University in New York City.

Stephanie Powell has choreographed for numerous companies, colleges and universities throughout the East and Midwest and currently teaches at the Baltimore School for the Arts and Towson University. She is artistic director of the Stephanie Powell Danse Ensemble, the Glory to God Arts Ministry, and In the Spirit Dance Ministry. Powell is a director of the Baltimore Dance Tech Inc. Dance Center, which has a comprehensive dance program with more than 100 students.

For more information about this performance, call the box office at 207-786-6161.

The Bates College Modern Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Marcy Plavin, showcases the talents of students and a guest choreographer in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11; 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, in Schaeffer Theatre, 350 College Street. The public is invited to attend free of charge. No reservations are accepted and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, call the Schaeffer Theatre box office at 207-786-6161.

The concert features a five-dance suite, More Drama than Advisable, choreographed by Portsmouth, N.H., senior Kate Nies, as a component of an interdisciplinary senior thesis in the fields of dance and women’s studies. “Unlike pieces I’ve choreographed in the past that were psychologically driven, this work is about movement,” Nies says. “I wanted to move in different ways and develop a style.”

The program includes a solo, Pangs, by Bates senior Devon Fitchett of Woburn, Mass., and The Shark Attack and Other Dating Rituals, a dance/theater work by New York choreographer Alexandra Beller that examines the struggle and hilarity of human mating habits. A member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1995 through 2001, Beller has performed in more than 50 countries and throughout the United States. She teaches at Dance Space and Sal Anthony’s Movement Salon in New York. Beller’s work will be performed next month at Joyce Soho in New York.

Lionel Popkin, a visiting member of the Bates College dance faculty, will perform two pieces in an informal 40-minute presentation titled Lionel At-Large. His performance will include “Are You Done Yet?,” set in an absurdist and humorous world housed with furniture made entirely from newspapers, and “Lost Verses,” a scored improvisation that investigates the adaptation of movement when things spiral out of control.

Currently a master of fine arts candidate and teaching assistant at Bennington College, Popkin holds a bachelor of arts in dance from Oberlin College. From 1992-96, he performed as a member of the Seattle-based Stephanie Skura Dance Company and also served as its administrative director.

Popkin’s own work was nominated for a Seattle dance and performance award in 1996. He has performed throughout Seattle, including the On the Boards Northwest New Works Festival. A certified teacher of the Skinner releasing technique, he was a member of the faculty of the 1997 Annual Summer Releasing Intensive in Seattle.