{"id":1851,"date":"2014-09-22T10:47:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/?page_id=1851"},"modified":"2023-10-12T11:33:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-12T15:33:49","slug":"mission-statement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/about\/mission-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission &amp; Vision"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover aligncenter wp-duotone-8c00b7-fcff41-1\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1919\" height=\"1279\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-3374\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035.jpg 1919w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035-900x600.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2019\/10\/191004_Modern_Dance_Dress_Rehearsal_0035-200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1919px) 100vw, 1919px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><em>Valuing community over competition, we welcome movers of any level of experience.<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:24px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2014\/09\/Dance-Photo.jpeg-300x198.png\" alt=\"Fall Dance Concert 2013 - Photo by Phyllis Graber Jensen\" class=\"wp-image-1852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2014\/09\/Dance-Photo.jpeg-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2014\/09\/Dance-Photo.jpeg-600x397.png 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2014\/09\/Dance-Photo.jpeg.png 1022w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Mission:<\/strong>\u00a0The Bates Dance program approaches the field as embodied activism, artistry, and scholarship. Through robust conversation around equity and inclusion, our curriculum balances critical studies in the histories of dance, creative process, physical practice, and culturally inclusive engagement with contemporary performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Disposition:\u00a0<\/strong>We welcome movers of any level of experience, valuing community, experimentation, interdisciplinarity, and equity. The Bates Dance program acknowledges its part in addressing the systemic nature of oppression through the arts, which necessitates a critical understanding of the forms we engage and the histories of exclusions and trauma therein. We seek to catalyze discernment in holding both the joy of dance and the harm that may occur when seeking embodiment, while providing students the knowledge and tools to dismantle structural inequities and personal biases in dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Our Vision:<\/strong>\u00a0The Bates Dance program empowers a diverse community of students to cultivate their unique, sustained, and expansive approaches to dance artistry and activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Mission:\u00a0The Bates Dance program approaches the field as embodied activism, artistry,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"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":"Mission Statement for the Bates College Dance Program","_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-1851","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851","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=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4131,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1851\/revisions\/4131"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}