{"id":2651,"date":"2016-08-25T15:23:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T19:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/?page_id=2651"},"modified":"2023-11-30T13:02:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T18:02:32","slug":"bell-alexandra","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/faculty\/bell-alexandra\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra James"},"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%\"><div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"1350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James-200x300.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James-600x900.webp 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James-768x1152.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/11\/Allie-James-419x628.jpg 419w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>207-786-6381<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"mailto:ajames@bates.edu\">ajames@bates.edu<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\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\">Alexandra James<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Admissions Director, Bates Dance Festival<\/strong><br><strong>Studio Faculty<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Associations<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dance<br>Pettigrew Hall, Room 309<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Alexandra James<\/strong>&nbsp;is a Southern Maine-born maker, mover and mother.&nbsp; As an independent artist, she\u2019s engaged with improvisation and interdisciplinary investigation, the interrogation of pedagogy and craft, seeking liberation through the integrity of embodied knowledge and the sharing of practice. In addition to her role as BDF\u2019s Director of Training Programs, Alexandra is a professor of dance at Bates, and artistic director of a youth Hip Hop company. Her work has been presented in Chicago, New York and South Africa, with a teaching practice that carries her nationally. She earned her BFA from the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago in 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, check out the Bates Dance Festival website: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>207-786-6381 ajames@bates.edu Alexandra James Admissions Director, Bates Dance FestivalStudio Faculty Associations DancePettigrew&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 Alexandra Bell, Admissions Director for 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-2651","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4126,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2651\/revisions\/4126"}],"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=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}