{"id":5738,"date":"2008-10-01T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesthisweek.wordpress.com\/?p=410"},"modified":"2024-07-01T15:47:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T19:47:39","slug":"dance-concert-works-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2008\/10\/01\/dance-concert-works-lynch\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance concert features works by students, visiting artist Kellie Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dances created by students and by visiting choregrapher Kellie Lynch are on the program for a Bates College Modern Dance Company concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/p>\n

Taking place during the college’s annual Parents & Family Weekend, the event is open to the public at no cost.<\/p>\n

For more information, please call 207-786-6161 or visit the online box office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In addition to the work by Lynch, one of four choreographers coming in to work with the Bates dance program this fall, the concert features a dance in the classical Indian form called “Bharatanatyam,” a new duet created by Bates students and the reprise of a student work created last spring and accompanied by accordion.<\/p>\n

“The most important aspect of the Parents & Family Weekend<\/a> show is its diversity,” says assistant professor Carol Dilley, director of the dance program. In addition to department-sponsored work, the concert includes dances made “by students who are not necessarily regular participants in the modern dance program. It is the most open showcase of our whole season.”<\/p>\n

Lynch is working with 11 students in a Bates repertory performance class on a piece titled “What If I Don\u2019t Want To,” featuring a lighting design by Justin Moriarty. The piece will be shown this weekend as a work in progress and performed with full costumes and lighting design in November.<\/p>\n

Lynch is one of three choreographers with whom the class is developing material for the its fall concert, scheduled for Nov. 15-17; the others are Janis Brenner, of New York City; and Tania Isaac, of Philadelphia. In addition, Portland choreographer Tina Rae Kelly is working with students on a fourth piece for the November program on an extracurricular basis.<\/p>\n

Also on the program: Abritee Dhal, a junior from Westford, Mass., performs a piece in the Bharatanatyam genre that she learned during the summer with her teacher, Ranjani Saigal.<\/p>\n

Marlee Weinberg, a junior from Tampa, Fla., and Jake Lewis, a senior from Katonah, N.Y., offer a duet created for this performance, informed by Weinberg’s summer at the Bates Dance Festival and Lewis’ introduction last year to contact improvisation.<\/p>\n

Barbara Byers, a junior from Elkins, W.Va., shows a piece she created last spring, accompanied by Byers’ own accordion music.<\/p>\n

Lynch works with choreographer-dancer Ariel Cohen Gonzalez in the two-woman company “slipperyfish dance.” Slipperyfish dance received a 2008 Choreographic Fellowship from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, which the pair will use to introduce their work to communities throughout New England.<\/p>\n

Lynch currently dances in New Haven, Conn., with Nazorine Ulysse & Dancers and Bronwen MacArthur’s MacArthur Dance Project. She is a member of Heidi Henderson\u2019s “elephant JANE dance.” In summer 2008 she premiered new work at the Built on Stilts Festival, Martha\u2019s Vineyard, and the Fledgling Festival, Providence, R.I.<\/p>\n

Other Bates students performing in the concert are first-year student Kristen Gavin of Lewiston; sophomores Sarah O\u2019Loughlin of Big Flats, N.Y., Lindsay Swan of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Elizabeth Sweet of San Francisco; junior Katie Mack of Trumbull, Conn.; and seniors Samantha Coran of Philadelphia, Kelly Griffin of Turners Falls, Mass., Katherine Reilly of Merrimack, N.H., Elizabeth Rogers of Mansfield, Mass., and Kimberly Russell of Old Lyme, Conn.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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