{"id":30967,"date":"1999-03-04T16:08:52","date_gmt":"1999-03-04T20:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=30967"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:33:57","slug":"modern-dance-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/03\/04\/modern-dance-30-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern dance at Bates celebrates 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Modern Dance Company, founded and directed by Marcy Plavin, lecturer in dance, will celebrate its 30-year anniversary with a concert performance, titled <em>Slightly Hysterical (So, You Think This Has Been Easy?)<\/em> at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 20, in Schaeffer Theater, 305 College St. Admission is free, but no reservations are accepted. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Featuring original music by William Matthews, Alice Swanson Esty Professor of Music at Bates, <em>Slightly Hysterical<\/em> is a two-hour program of dance pieces performed by more than 150 Bates alumni who have participated in Plavin&#8217;s dance program over the last three decades. Alumni from as far away as Central Europe will return to Bates to begin rehearsing <em>Slightly Hysterical<\/em> the morning of the performance. Among those returning for the anniversary celebration and performance are former Lewiston mayor John Jenkins &#8217;74, Lewiston-based cardiologist Dervilla McCann &#8217;77, and award-winning poet Jean Monahan &#8217;81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Modern Dance Company, founded and directed by Marcy Plavin, lecturer in dance, will celebrate its 30-year anniversary with a concert performance, titled Slightly Hysterical (So, You Think This Has Been Easy?) at at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 20, in Schaeffer Theater, 305 College St. Admission is free, but no reservations are accepted. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.<\/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":[4,7,11010,130,133,39,14],"tags":[1360,60,5623,6135,6889,9087,9244],"class_list":["post-30967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-arts","category-collaboration","category-creativity","category-event-highlights","category-faculty-staff","tag-bates-dance-company","tag-dance","tag-marcy-plavin","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts","tag-william-matthews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967","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=30967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92429,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30967\/revisions\/92429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}