{"id":25912,"date":"2002-01-08T16:01:17","date_gmt":"2002-01-08T20:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=25912"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:49:36","slug":"modern-dance-company-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/01\/08\/modern-dance-company-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Dance Company showcases new work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/01\/nies-1.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2002\/01\/nies-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"nies-1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bates College Modern Dance Company, under the artistic direction of  Marcy Plavin, showcases the talents of students and a guest  choreographer in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11; 8 p.m. Saturday,  Jan. 12; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, in Schaeffer Theatre, 350 College  Street. The public is invited to attend free of charge. No reservations  are accepted and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis. For  more information, call the Schaeffer Theatre box office at 207-786-6161.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The concert features a five-dance suite, <em>More Drama than Advisable<\/em>,  choreographed by Portsmouth, N.H., senior Kate Nies, as a component of  an interdisciplinary senior thesis in the fields of dance and women&#8217;s  studies. &#8220;Unlike pieces I&#8217;ve choreographed in the past that were  psychologically driven, this work is about movement,&#8221; Nies says. &#8220;I  wanted to move in different ways and develop a style.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The program includes a solo, <em>Pangs<\/em>, by Bates senior Devon Fitchett  of Woburn, Mass., and <em>The Shark Attack and Other Dating Rituals<\/em>, a  dance\/theater work by New York choreographer Alexandra Beller that  examines the struggle and hilarity of human mating habits. A member of  the Bill T. Jones\/Arnie Zane Dance Company from 1995 through 2001,  Beller has performed in more than 50 countries and throughout the United  States. She teaches at Dance Space and Sal Anthony&#8217;s Movement Salon in  New York. Beller&#8217;s work will be performed next month at Joyce Soho in  New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Modern Dance Company, under the artistic direction of Marcy Plavin, showcases the talents of students and a guest choreographer in concerts at 8 p.m. Friday, Jan. 11; 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12; and 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 13, in Schaeffer Theatre on College Street.<\/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":[11010,39,14,11012],"tags":[1360,5623,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-25912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-event-highlights","category-faculty-staff","category-student-life","tag-bates-dance-company","tag-marcy-plavin","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912","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=25912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91119,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25912\/revisions\/91119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}