{"id":40461,"date":"2011-02-15T14:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T19:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40461"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:23:06","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:23:06","slug":"bdf-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/15\/bdf-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates Dance Festival announces details of 2011 training programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/07\/dorfman4-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/07\/dorfman4-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"David Dorfman Dance\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the first preview of the 2011 season, the Bates Dance Festival announces its 29th summer of workshops and public events, taking place July 4 through Aug. 13 on the Bates College campus.<\/p>\n<p>The six-week festival will host creative residencies, workshops and performances by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.camilleabrown.org\/camilleabout.html\">Camille A. Brown &amp; Dancers<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nldnyc.org\/\">Nicholas Leichter Dance<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/web.me.com\/zoeandjuniper\/www.zoeandjuniper.com\/zoe|juniper.html\">Zoe | Juniper<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daviddorfmandance.org\/\">David Dorfman Dance<\/a>. Complementing the roster will be emerging choreographers and visiting artists from Africa and Asia who will develop and share new work with the dance festival community.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The festival offers two intensive three-week training programs. The Young Dancers Workshop is for pre-professional dancers ages 14-18, and the Professional Training Program is for dancers, choreographers and educators 18 and up. Both programs offer a wide range of dance and movement classes including modern, ballet, jazz, Mideast fusion, repertory, improvisation and yoga as well as computer-mediated composition, the business of dance and the &#8220;teacher&#8217;s toolkit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The acclaimed faculty of master artists includes members of the companies in residence as well as Andre Tyson, former dancer with Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; contact improviser Nancy Stark Smith; Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig; Onye Ozuzu; JoAnna Mendl Shaw; and Lisa Race, among others.<\/p>\n<p>All told, the festival comprises classes, performances, panel discussions, films and lectures by more than 30 internationally recognized dance artists from across the United States and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about faculty, courses and program enrollment, <a href=\"www.batesdancefestival.org\">visit the festival website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 1982 at Bates College, the Bates Dance Festival brings together an international community of contemporary dance choreographers, performers, educators and students in a cooperative community to study, perform and create new work.<\/p>\n<p>The festival serves as an annual destination for artists, students and audiences to engage in a full range of dance activities and performances that foster a creative exchange of ideas, encourage exploration of new ground and provide the opportunity to experience a wide spectrum of dance\/movement disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the first preview of the 2011 season, the Bates Dance Festival announces its 29th summer of workshops and public events, taking place July 4 through Aug. 13 on the Bates College campus.<\/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":[11010,133,11009],"tags":[1407,6889],"class_list":["post-40461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","category-the-college","tag-bates-dance-festival","tag-performing-and-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461","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=40461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86991,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40461\/revisions\/86991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}