{"id":13784,"date":"2008-03-26T09:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=13784"},"modified":"2023-12-15T12:50:49","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T17:50:49","slug":"breaking-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/03\/26\/breaking-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Student choreographers present work in &#039;Breaking the Ice&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"height: 249px;width: 224px\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"left\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/images\/72ModernDance0753.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"219\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div>\n<p>Student choreographers will put their work to the test of public performance in Bates College Modern Dance Company concerts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 29 and 30; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p>The company has assembled two distinct programs, collectively titled <em>Breaking the Ice<\/em>, and will perform each of them twice. The four performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for members of organized groups, seniors, non-Bates students and Bates faculty and staff.<\/p>\n<p>The programs showcase not only the quality of Bates dance but the collaborative nature of creative work at the college. Students, including members of the course &#8220;Computers, Music and the Arts,&#8221; composed music for certain dances, and other students played important roles in costume and lighting design.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The two programs represent all stages of student choreography. Six students in a dance composition course make their choreographic debuts, while two others offer works &#8212; both including video components &#8212; created for their senior thesis projects. One of those projects is an excerpt from a longer site-specific piece that will be premiered at full length in May.<\/p>\n<p>Other students choreographed work specifically for these concerts. Carol Dilley, assistant professor of dance and director of the Bates dance program, also contributed a piece to the program.<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s performance coincides with the Mount David Summit, a showcase of student academic achievement at Bates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/communications-marketing\/\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student choreographers will put their work to the test of public performance in Bates College Modern Dance Company concerts at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 28; 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, March 29 and 30; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 31.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":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":""},"categories":[4,11010,39],"tags":[1360,2014,60,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-13784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-dance-company","tag-carol-dilley","tag-dance","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159593,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13784\/revisions\/159593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}