{"id":1222,"date":"2012-09-12T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T13:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/?page_id=1222"},"modified":"2021-10-19T14:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T18:14:30","slug":"faure-laura","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/faculty\/faure-laura\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Faure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2021\/10\/laura.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"221\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2021\/10\/laura.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3839\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2021\/10\/laura.webp 221w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2021\/10\/laura-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 221px) 100vw, 221px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laura Faure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Lecturer in the Arts, Retired<br>Founding Director of the Bates Dance Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Laura Faure\u00a0was the founding director of the Bates Dance Festival held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Since taking this position in 1988 she had developed the Festival into an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance program known for its artistic excellence, curatorial vision, and commitment to building community through dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A former dancer, choreographer and teacher with thirty + years of experience in the field of dance, Ms. Faure also works as a freelance arts manager and consultant specializing in the performing arts. She has been a project coordinator and consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts Advancement Program, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Maine Performing Arts Network, as well as for individual artists and arts groups. She has served as an evaluator for the many state and regional arts agencies, the NEA, Creative Capital, Rockefeller Foundation, US Artists, and the Alpert Foundation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She served two terms on the Maine Arts Commission, where she chaired the Dance Panel. Ms. Faure is a founding member of The African Contemporary Arts Consortium and has been developing a cross-cultural exchange program with artists from Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Cuba, Portugal and Mexico since 1994.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, check out the Bates Dance Festival website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Faure Lecturer in the Arts, RetiredFounding Director of the Bates Dance&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"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":"Bio for Laura Faure, Director of the Bates Dance Festival, in Maine","_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-1222","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1222"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3858,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1222\/revisions\/3858"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}