{"id":2528,"date":"2010-04-21T17:46:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T17:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/magazine\/?page_id=2528"},"modified":"2017-09-06T11:41:05","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T15:41:05","slug":"scene-again","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/magazine\/back-issues\/y2004\/summer04\/departments\/scene-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Scene Again"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Richard Patridge '73, Mary Griffin, '73, Johanna Smith Bazzolo '73, Anne Baker Lewis '73, Geri FitzGerald '75, John Carrafa '76.<\/p><\/div>\n

They don’t recall posing for this 1973 Modern Dance Company publicity photo, nor do they remember which production it was.<\/p>\n

Richard Partridge ’73 (left) thinks it was an Alvin Ailey-inspired piece. MaryGriffin ’73 (second from left) wonders if it’s from the dance inspired by Jonathan Livington Seagull <\/em>and choreographed by John Carrafa ’76 (far right). “Thus the arms,” she says. “But the costumes aren’t right.”<\/p>\n

Johanna Smith Bazzolo ’73 (third from left) recalls what she might’ve been thinking: “Not to lose sight of Mary, who always remembered what to do.” Anne Baker Lewis ’73 (front) says she was likely “wondering how long I was going to have to hold the pose” for the camera. Geri FitzGerald ’75 (second from right) admits being “blurry” on the details.<\/p>\n

So their Bates dance memories are fading, right? Hardly. Our memories evolve from literal recollections into an eternal, internal poetry, at least by Wordsworth’s definition of poetry as “powerful feelings … recollected intranquility.”<\/p>\n

A title might fade from memory, but emotions \u2014 in this case, alumni emotions surrounding Bates dance \u2014 are colorfast.<\/p>\n

To this day, Bazzolo says, “When I am struck by something beautiful, or am immensely happy, I find myself dancing \u2014 in my mind, at least!”<\/p>\n

“The sheer joy and excitement of those years, and my gratitude to Marcy Plavin, will always be with me,” Partridge says. Adds FitzGerald:”She found a place in dance for all of us.”<\/p>\n

See coverage of Plavin’s retirement celebration at the College, May 1-2, in\u00a0 Quad Angles<\/a> and the profile on John Carrafa ’76.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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