Admission is $6 general admission and $3 for senior citizens and non-Bates students. For more information, please visit www.batestickets.com or call 207-786-6161.

Myers and her troupe also offer a master class for intermediate and advanced modern dancers at 11 a.m. Sunday, May 2, in Plavin Studios, Merrill Gymnasium, 141 Russell St. For more information about this free event, please call 207-786-8294.

The company’s residency is sponsored by the Bates dance program, with support from the Bates Learning Associates Program and the New England Foundation for the Arts.

The five-member Myers company combines robust athleticism, theatricality and social commentary in a style accessible to a wide audience. Myers’ choreography has been performed nationwide at venues including Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Tanglewood Music Center, Velocity Dance Center and DanceNowNYC, and in Maine at the Bates Dance Festival and Stonington Opera House.

The company wins praise for its way of connecting with audiences and conjuring up a world onstage. “Myers’ work bursts with the high-voltage kinetics, wit, quirks and most of all clear talent that characterize her mind, a place I always enjoy visiting,” says choreographer Nancy Smith Fichter of Florida State University.

Myers’ work has explored such engaging themes as personal interactions in an increasingly technological world and the “underbelly” of modern motherhood. Currently the troupe is completing a piece that explores drama and fame titled “Theatre in the Head” — a work described by Bates Dance Festival director Laura Faure as a “deeply investigative and playful journey.”

Company artistic director Myers is also a professor of dance at Connecticut College. Prior to founding her company in 2000 she performed as a dancer in New York City with Joy Kellman/Co. and as a guest artist with companies including Momix. She also worked as a choreographic assistant, including choreographing a record release event for Aerosmith.

Other members of the company are assistant artistic director Diana Deaver, Tara Burns, Kellie Ann Lynch, Philip Montana and Rebecca Woods.

The annual “Different Voices” concert features a wide range of dance from around the globe as visiting artists from the United States, Mexico, India, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Africa bring new works to the Bates Dance Festival stage. The festival presents “Different Voices” at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, and Friday, Aug. 11, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Tickets are $18/$12 (students and seniors) and may be purchased by calling 207-786-6161 after July 8.

Rani Khanam is one of India’s foremost Kathak dancer/choreographers. For 15 years, she was groomed under Birju Maharaj and Reba Vidyarthi, gurus at the Kathak Kendra, New Delhi, where she graduated with top honors in Kathak-Lucknow, a traditional style of Indian dance. The Kathak Kendra experience widened her horizons and enriched her repertoire so that her innovative choreographies are simultaneously traditional and contemporary.

Alicia Sanchez is the artistic director of El Teatro de Movimiento, a Mexico City-based contemporary dance company. She has received numerous choreographic awards at home and abroad and has preformed in the United States, Canada and the Czech Republic. Her most recent commission was for the Ririe Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City.

Po Lin Tso is an independent choreographer who danced for 12 years with the Hong Kong Dance Company, performing a repertoire of modern and traditional Chinese dance. In 1997 she was named “Artist of the Year” by the Hong Kong Artist’s Guild. Her interpretation of leading roles has won her critical acclaim in the local cultural community.

Wei Ching-Ju is a young dancer and actor from Taiwan who currently performs with Legend Lin Dance Theatre, a repertory company devoted to large-scale dance dramas. She has acted with several well-known Taipei theater troupes, including Shakespeare’s Wild Sister, that were instrumental in establishing the highly acclaimed Taipei international Theater Festival.

Lucky Kele is an emerging choreographer from Johannesburg, South Africa. Despite having no formal dance training, he has been creating engaging small works over the past several years. His work has been presented annually at two major dance venues, the FNB Dance Umbrella and The Dance Factory in Johannesburg.

In addition to main stage performances, the festival offers a selection of free and low-cost events. Complete information is available at the festival’s website

At press time the Bates Dance Festival gratefully acknowledges support from the National Endowment for the Arts, New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, Maine Arts Commission, Surdna Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, Altria, Fisher Charitable Foundation, Sam L. Cohen Foundation, Androscoggin Bank, Cole Hahn, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Mechanics Savings Bank and TD Banknorth.