{"id":23551,"date":"2010-03-24T16:58:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T21:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=23551"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:24:37","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:24:37","slug":"bmdc-spring2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/03\/24\/bmdc-spring2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates College Modern Dance Company presents annual showcase of student work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/bmdc-2578-peck.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2010\/03\/bmdc-2578-peck.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large\" alt=\"Bates Modern Dance Company\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In two different programs presented over four performances, the Bates College Modern Dance Company offers its annual spring concert of new student works at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 2, and Monday, April 5; 5 p.m. Saturday, April 3; and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 4, all in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/p>\n<p>Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for seniors and members of organized groups. For more information, please contact 207-786-6135 or this olinarts@bates.edu, or visit www.batestickets.com.<\/p>\n<p>Thirty-five student dancers and choreographers present 11 dances, divided between two programs. Program A takes place April 2 (as part of a showcase of student works in the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/views\/2010\/02\/23\/mds2010-preview\/\">Mount David Summit<\/a>), and April 4; Program B will be performed on April 3 and April 5.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The show features projects from students in courses on dance composition, computer music and costume design, as well as contributions from student lighting designers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, five other students are contributing works created as independent studies.<\/p>\n<p>Four are seniors: Marlena Weinberg of Tampa, Fla., will showcase her research on the creative process of choreographing dance as a visual art form. Harita Daraneeswaran of Edison, N.J., and Nicole Kahn of Bellevue, Wash., combine the rhythmic patterns of American tap and &#8220;bharatanatyam,&#8221; one of India&#8217;s oldest classical dance forms. Gina Petracca of Irvine, Calif., will present a piece about the complexities of relationships in times of transition.<\/p>\n<p>Sophomore Victoria Lowe of New York City will showcase a duet she first created for a psychology course last year and has now revisited as a dance piece for a concert setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In two different programs presented over four performances, the Bates College Modern Dance Company performs its annual spring concert of new student works at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 2, and Monday, April 5; 5 p.m. Saturday, April 3; and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 4, all in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/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":[1360,60,6135],"class_list":["post-23551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-event-highlights","tag-bates-dance-company","tag-dance","tag-music-tag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551","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=23551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88096,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23551\/revisions\/88096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}