{"id":661,"date":"2016-06-13T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/?page_id=661"},"modified":"2016-06-13T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T20:22:20","slug":"dance-performances","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/dance-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Performances"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Department\u00a0Concerts<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-664 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/160331_Dance_Dress_0789-e1465845703414-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"160331_Dance_Dress_0789\" width=\"249\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/160331_Dance_Dress_0789-e1465845703414-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/160331_Dance_Dress_0789-e1465845703414-768x1000.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/160331_Dance_Dress_0789-e1465845703414-691x900.jpg 691w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/160331_Dance_Dress_0789-e1465845703414-154x200.jpg 154w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/160331_Dance_Dress_0789-e1465845703414.jpg 931w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/>The\u00a0Department of Theater and Dance produces dance concerts throughout the year.\u00a0First we have the <strong>Back to Bates Weekend Dance Concert<\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0which\u00a0highlights the breadth of the program\u00a0with works by guests, faculty and students. The <strong>Fall Dance Concert<\/strong> celebrates\u00a0the completion of the Fall Semester&#8217;s projects by faculty and guest artists. The highlight of winter semester is the <strong>Spring Dance Concert<\/strong>, which features student choreography of all levels from beginner to thesis.<\/p>\n<p>Other performances of interest include Sankofa, Asia Night,\u00a0and the Short Term Variety Show, a campus favorite produced by students in Dance Club.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/season\" target=\"_blank\">www.bates.edu\/dance\/season<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Bates Dance Festival<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-668\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o\" width=\"208\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o-600x900.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o-133x200.jpg 133w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/files\/2016\/06\/8338841861_f51b4cc13d_o.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>Every summer,\u00a0the Bates Dance Festival brings together an international community of choreographers, performers, educators and students in a cooperative community to study, perform and create new work. Through this community the Festival encourages a creative exchange of ideas and offers audiences\u00a0a wide range of opportunities to\u00a0experience contemporary dance, thus affirming the essential power of the arts to enrich our lives.<\/p>\n<p>The five week season showcases acclaimed and emerging contemporary dance artists in main stage performances, free lecture\/demonstrations, master classes, scholar&#8217;s notes, talks and Q &amp; A&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/performances\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/performances\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department\u00a0Concerts The\u00a0Department of Theater and Dance produces dance concerts throughout the year.\u00a0First&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-661","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/661\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}