{"id":21169,"date":"2001-08-03T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2001-08-03T21:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21169"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:53:57","slug":"lerman-dance-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2001\/08\/03\/lerman-dance-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Liz Lerman Dance Exchange premieres &#039;In Praise of the Creative Spirit&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2001\/08\/lerman_now.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"207\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2001\/08\/lerman_now.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Liz Lerman Dance Exchange\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Liz Lerman Dance Exchange culminates a two-year Maine Millennium Celebration with its Bates Dance Festival performance of <em>In Praise of the Creative Spirit<\/em> at 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16, and Friday, Aug. 17, in Schaeffer Theatre on the Bates campus. Tickets are $15\/10 (students and seniors) and may be purchased by calling 207-786-6161.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with this performance, dance scholar and critic Suzanne Carbonneau &#8217;76 presents <em>Inside Dance: Understanding Contemporary Performance<\/em>, a pre-performance discussion offering insight into Lerman&#8217;s process and this project. The discussion takes place at 7:15 p.m. Friday, Aug. 17, in Schaeffer Theatre<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following recent community projects in Eastport and Deer Isle, <em>In Praise of the Creative Spirit<\/em> combines movement, song and stories to celebrate the artistry of dancers and musicians. Developed in collaboration with members of the festival community, the work is part of Lerman&#8217;s four-year Hallelujah Project being developed in communities nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>For the past 22 years, choreographer and cultural activist Lerman has been a national pioneer in defining ways that innovative art making can be linked intrinsically to community building. Creating &#8220;visionary work of extraordinary elegance,&#8221; according to The New York Times, Lerman engages audiences with her pioneering approach to dance making that includes people of all ages and abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The renowned Liz Lerman Dance Exchange culminates a two-year Maine Millennium Celebration with its Bates Dance Festival performance of <em>In Praise of the Creative Spirit<\/em> Thursday, Aug. 16, and Friday, Aug. 17, in Schaeffer Theatre on the Bates campus.<\/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":[11010,11009],"tags":[1407,6135,6889],"class_list":["post-21169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-the-college","tag-bates-dance-festival","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169","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=21169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91205,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21169\/revisions\/91205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}