{"id":21872,"date":"2026-03-18T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=21872"},"modified":"2026-03-23T10:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T14:08:57","slug":"the-oath","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/the-oath\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover is-light has-custom-content-position is-position-bottom-center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-21873\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-900x506.webp\" style=\"object-position:51% 53%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"51% 53%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-900x506.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-400x225.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-1117x628.jpg 1117w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web-200x112.webp 200w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2026\/03\/The-Oath-web.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-20 has-background-dim\"><\/span><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4ed4c9b6e91da3d3e7ee3a193b54481b\">The Oath<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">June 12 &#8211; September 5, 2026<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Created by Annie-B Parson and Alla Kovgan of Big Dance Theater, <em>The Oath <\/em>(2025) is a large-scale work of dance and cinema that interrogates the human impulse to move in unison. Screened at the Museum in collaboration with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bates Dance Festival<\/a>, the short film features seventeen dancers who move through a series of synchronized actions\u2014from prayer to kick-lines to pop dance\u2014within an environment saturated in bold colors that shift in tone with the performers\u2019 movements. The result is a hypnotizing experience that explores what it means to embody one-ness.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Opening Reception<\/strong>: Friday, June 12, 7-9 PM<br><br><em>The exhibition is made possible with funding from the Alex Katz Foundation.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 12 &#8211; September 5, 2026 Created by Annie-B Parson and Alla&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":21873,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":true,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_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":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-21872","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21872"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21922,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21872\/revisions\/21922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}