{"id":55501,"date":"2012-07-30T13:00:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T17:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=55501"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:18:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:18:18","slug":"bdf12-keigwin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/07\/30\/bdf12-keigwin\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 30th, dance fest hosts Keigwin, Musicians’ Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Keigwin + Company photograph by Matthew Murphy.<\/p><\/div>\n

The opening days of August 2012 bring fresh excitement to Lewiston stages as the Bates Dance Festival’s 30th anniversary season presents both the popular Musicians’ Concert on Aug. 1 and, for the following three evenings, performances by festival favorites Keigwin + Company.<\/p>\n

Weaving a tapestry of original and improvised music from global sounds, Bates Dance Festival composers and instrumentalists present the Musician’s Concert at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 1, at the Franco-American Heritage Center, 46 Cedar St.<\/p>\n

Tickets cost $14 for the general public and $7 for students and seniors. Seating is by general admission. For more information or to buy tickets online, please visit the festival website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Presenting four Maine premieres, Larry Keigwin and his dancers perform at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 2-4, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. The Saturday performance is a one-of-a-kind gala event followed by an anniversary party with the artists.<\/p>\n

Tickets cost $50 for the Aug. 4 gala performance-party package; and for all performances, $24 for the general public, $18 for seniors and $12 for students. For more information or to buy tickets online, please visit the website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All Bates Dance Festival tickets may also be purchased by phone at 207-786-6161, or by mail or in person; learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keigwin + Company offer a free lecture-demonstration at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, July 31, in Schaeffer. A discussion with the artists immediately follows the Aug. 2 performance. Dance writer Debra Cash offers an Inside Dance: Understanding Contemporary Performance<\/em> lecture prior to the Aug. 3 performance, at 7:15 p.m. in Schaeffer Theatre.<\/p>\n

The Bates Dance Festival, an annual summer series of renowned contemporary dance, celebrates its 30th anniversary by highlighting choreographers whose creative development has been nurtured by the festival.<\/p>\n

Founded in 1982, the acclaimed 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. This season also marks Laura Faure’s 25th anniversary as festival director.<\/p>\n

Musicians’ Concert<\/h3>\n

The Musicians’ Concert is an evening of thoughtful, playful and profound music provided by the musicians who work each year with festival dancers. These extraordinary composers perform a program of original and improvised works that blend musical styles from around the globe.<\/p>\n

The evening features multi-instrumentalists Tigger Benford, Glen Fittin, Terrence Karn, Jesse Manno and Shamou, a group whose collective musical repertory spans Africa, Asia and the Middle East; composers and pianists Peter Jones, Carl Landa and John Clark Stiefel; and the exceptional tabla player, Rajesh Bhandari.<\/p>\n

Keigwin + Company<\/h3>\n

Larry Keigwin first attended the Bates Dance Festival more than 20 years ago and has participated as a dancer, choreographer, faculty member and as a featured mainstage performer with his own troupe, Keigwin + Company<\/a>. Founded in 2003, the group has performed Keigwin’s distinct and electrifying brand of contemporary dance nationally and internationally.<\/p>\n

Keigwin’s work is clever, kinetic, theatrical — but unpretentious. The choreography is visually stimulating and ambitious, but accessible thanks to its pop-culture savvy and an engaging unpredictability.<\/p>\n

“Keigwin\u2019s mix of kinetic street energy and academic technique is always pleasing,” a New York Times<\/em> reviewer wrote. “He is adept at creating and then disrupting rapidly shifting spatial patterns, so that the eye is engaged on both the macro and micro levels.”<\/p>\n

Highly sought after as a choreographer, Keigwin has recently received commissions from Works & Process at the Guggenheim; The Juilliard School; the New York City Ballet’s Choreographic Institute; the Royal New Zealand Ballet; and the Martha Graham Dance Company, among others.<\/p>\n

In 2010, Keigwin was named the Vail International Dance Festival’s first artist in residence, creating and premiering a work with four of ballet’s most prominent stars. Also in 2010, he staged the opening event of Fashion Week: Fashion’s Night Out: The Show<\/em> was produced by Vogue and featured more than 150 of the industry’s top models.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Keigwin choreographed a new musical, Tales of the City<\/em>, at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, and a new off-Broadway production of Rent<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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