{"id":48969,"date":"2011-09-26T10:36:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=48969"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:54","slug":"pf-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/09\/26\/pf-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents &amp; Family Weekend dance concert showcases work by guests, students, faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/dancemajor-100331_modern_dance_4544-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"590\" height=\"393\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/09\/dancemajor-100331_modern_dance_4544-web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large alignright\" alt=\"Bates Modern Dance Company\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Bates College Modern Dance Company offers its annual Parents &amp; Family Weekend dance concerts at noon Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-6161.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Choreography resulting from artist residencies at the college is prominent on the program. World music and dance specialists Kwame Ross and Michael Wimberly, who have just completed a two-week residency, created a piece that reflects African dance performance practices while showcasing the talents of the students involved in the project. The piece will be supported by live music from a student band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a true celebration of the diversity of the student body and the power of collaboration between live music and dance,&#8221; says associate professor Carol Dilley, director of the dance program. Fifteen dancers and six musicians will perform in the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Midway through her residency, New York choreographer Kendra Portier will preview a work still in development with the dance students and likely to be premiered during the college&#8217;s fall concert in November.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the Bates faculty, jazz dance instructor Debi Irons presents a piece supported by music commissioned from, and performed live by, composer Philip Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Student choreographers will also offer dances, including the Dynasty Step Team, the popular Bollywood Dance Club and Isaiah Rice, a first-year student from Dallas who will perform a solo hip hop piece that he created.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Sunday program includes a special performance by Bates alumni who are professional dancers in New York City. Choreographed by Tony Award-winning choreographer John Carrafa, a member of the college&#8217;s class of 1976, the piece is intended as a gift to a former Bates classmate who is ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bates College Modern Dance Company offers its annual Parents &amp; Family Weekend dance concerts at noon Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 1 and 2, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/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":[4,11010,133],"tags":[60,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-48969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-dance","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48969","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=48969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86162,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48969\/revisions\/86162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}