{"id":32662,"date":"1998-07-14T13:54:27","date_gmt":"1998-07-14T17:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=32662"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:56:19","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:56:19","slug":"benoit-bourque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1998\/07\/14\/benoit-bourque\/","title":{"rendered":"Benoit Bourque presents dance workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates Dance Festival presents a French- Canadian Step  Dancing Workshop with Benoit Bourque, renowned Quebecois step dancer and  musician, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Chase Hall. Admissions is  $5, and the fun-filled workshop is open to all levels of experience. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Energetic and enthusiastic, the  Montreal-based Bourque is a musician and dancer who has been thrilling  audiences for 25 years. Known as an expert step dancer, caller and bones  player, Bourque also plays guitar, accordion, recorder and mandolin.  Performing first as a member of the famed ensemble Eritage, he later  performed and taught extensively throughout the United States and  Canada, made many appearances on television and radio and produced five  recordings plus a cassette and book aimed at teaching French-Canadian  step dancing. Bourque has won prizes from the Moscow International Folk  Dance Festival and Kolobrzeg Folk Festival in Poland. He currently tours  and performs with Gaston Bernard and Simon LePage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates Dance Festival presents a French- Canadian Step Dancing Workshop with Benoit Bourque, renowned Quebecois step dancer and musician, July 28 at 7:30 p.m. in Chase Hall. Admissions is $5, and the fun-filled workshop is open to all levels of experience.<\/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":[1407,1607,6135,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-32662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-the-college","tag-bates-dance-festival","tag-benoit-bourque","tag-music-tag","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662","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=32662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92546,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32662\/revisions\/92546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}