{"id":28918,"date":"2010-07-07T15:05:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T19:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=28918"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:24:08","slug":"telegram-dance-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2010\/07\/07\/telegram-dance-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine Sunday Telegram notes great appetite for Bates Dance Festival offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Maine Sunday Telegram<\/em> arts reporter Bob Keyes opens his preview of the 2010 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/\">Bates Dance Festival<\/a> by noting that the 2009 edition &#8220;had its best year in terms of   attendance at its public performances.&#8221; Laura Faure, who directs the six-week   festival, explains the uptick: &#8220;I think  people are staying close to home and not traveling as much,  and they&#8217;re  looking for things to do,&#8221; she says. The more audiences watch and learn, she says, the greater their appetite is for dance. Noted dancer Doug Varone tells Keyes that &#8220;people from all over the world come to Bates. The  creative atmosphere&#8230;is pretty remarkable and pretty unique. It&#8217;s a supportive  atmosphere that is completely nonjudgmental. There is feedback if you  want it, and if not, you create from a place that feels as if it gives  you breathing room.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressherald.com\/life\/audience\/best-feet-forward_2010-07-04.html\">View story from the <em>Maine Sunday Telegram, <\/em>July 4, 2010.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine Sunday Telegram arts reporter Bob Keyes opens his preview of the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"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":[1407,11051,6889],"class_list":["post-28918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-the-college","tag-bates-dance-festival","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-performing-and-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918","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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93372,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28918\/revisions\/93372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}