{"id":4114,"date":"2023-08-29T13:51:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/?page_id=4114"},"modified":"2024-11-01T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:25:56","slug":"marita-kennedy-castro","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/faculty\/marita-kennedy-castro\/","title":{"rendered":"Marita Kennedy-Castro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-7387b849 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<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-style-rounded\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/08\/MaritaKC.LianyMediaLLC.crop-1.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/08\/MaritaKC.LianyMediaLLC.crop-1-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/08\/MaritaKC.LianyMediaLLC.crop-1-edited.webp 367w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/08\/MaritaKC.LianyMediaLLC.crop-1-edited-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/files\/2023\/08\/MaritaKC.LianyMediaLLC.crop-1-edited-150x150.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:60px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"mailto:mkennedycastro@bates.edu\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>mkennedycastro@bates.edu<\/strong><\/a><\/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\">Marita Kennedy-Castro<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Studio Faculty (West African)<\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dance<br>Pettigrew Hall, Room 208<\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marita&nbsp;Kennedy-Castro (she\/her) is an embodied movement artist, dance educator and intercultural bridge-builder residing in the unceded Wabanaki territory we now call Maine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharing from over twenty five years of study with master West African dance and drum artists,&nbsp;Marita&nbsp;received the encouragement and blessing to teach Guinea\u2019s traditional dance from world-renowned dance artist and cultural ambassador, Youssouf Koumbassa. She collaborates with&nbsp;djembefola (master drum artist) Sayon Camara of Guinea to offer community classes, workshops and performances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marita&nbsp;believes that every body deserves access to dance and a relationship of expression and connection through movement. She supports individuals in deepening their somatic exploration and increased movement freedom through individualized movement lessons and community classes.&nbsp;She is passionate about contributing to cultural preservation, a responsible approach to intercultural learning, building community and illuminating avenues to healing through movement as medicine. Marita&nbsp;completed her thesis in&nbsp;<em>Dance &amp; Performance Art for Healing &amp; Social Change<\/em>&nbsp;at Goddard College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Photo credit: Liany Media LLC<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mkennedycastro@bates.edu Marita Kennedy-Castro Studio Faculty (West African) Associations DancePettigrew Hall, Room 208&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":true,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"Brief Bio for Rachel Ganteaume Richards, Studio Faculty for Ballet, in 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-4114","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4114","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4135,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4114\/revisions\/4135"}],"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=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}