{"id":60129,"date":"2012-11-07T03:57:55","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T08:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=60129"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:12:29","slug":"autumn12-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/07\/autumn12-dance\/","title":{"rendered":"From hip hop to videodance to 1953 classic, dancers leap across genres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_60130\" style=\"width: 342px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/121005_DanceRehearsal_102.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60130\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60130 \" title=\"121005_DanceRehearsal_102\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/121005_DanceRehearsal_102-332x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"332\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/121005_DanceRehearsal_102-332x500.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/121005_DanceRehearsal_102-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2012\/11\/121005_DanceRehearsal_102.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-60130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students rehearse Alwin Nikolais&#8217; &#8220;Tensile Involvement&#8221; in October. Photograph by Michael Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bates&#8217; Fall Dance Concert brings together a wide range of styles, representing choreographers from across the country and here in Maine, in performances at 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 10; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 11; and 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The performances take place in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. Admission is $6 for the general public and $3 for students and seniors, available at <a href=\"http:\/\/batestickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event_listings.asp\">batestickets.com<\/a>. For more information, please call 207-786-6161 (box office) or 207-786-8294.<\/p>\n<p>On the program for the three performances:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New hip hop and modern choreography by guest artists Robin Sanders of San Antonio, Texas, and Tiffany Rhynard of Gainesville, Fla.;<\/li>\n<li>The 1953 piece &#8220;Tensile Involvement&#8221; by modern-dance master Alwin Nikolais;<\/li>\n<li>Students in Debi Irons&#8217; advanced Jazz Repertory class;<\/li>\n<li>A videodance and a solo by Assistant Professor of Dance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/ttfac12-boggia\/\">Rachel Boggia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Robin Sanders&#8217; &#8220;Rhythm-n-Roots&#8221; highlights the history of hip hop dance, which is often omitted from history books. At Bates this fall, Sanders taught student dancers such classic hip-hop techniques such as popping and tutting. The roots of hip-hop reach into traditional West African dances, which make an appearance in the blood-pumping finale.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Subverting Normal: Ensemble #2&#8221; by Rhynard uses movement and spoken language to examine the complexities of social behavior. The piece &#8220;challenges our assumptions and expectations of normalcy,&#8221; says the choreographer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Drawing from personal reflections on identity, the dancers demonstrate similarities and differences that ultimately connect them as human beings.&#8221; The piece is athletic, incorporating swing-era partnering among other genres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tensile Involvement&#8221; is a feast for the senses, structured around elastic bands that criss-cross the stage and extend the dancers&#8217; sharp and sinewy movements to the rafters. Combined with Nikolais&#8217; original score and rich lighting, reconstructed by Michael Reidy of the Bates faculty, the piece creates a world that feels fresh and exciting despite its 50-plus years of age.<\/p>\n<p>The piece was taught to Bates students by Alberto del Saz, artistic director for the Nikolais-Louis Foundation for Dance. Dance reconstructions at colleges form an important link in the chain that preserves ephemeral historical dance works, del Saz says.<\/p>\n<p>Maine choreographer Irons presents jazz as a melting pot, with influences ranging from the Caribbean to Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Boggia&#8217;s new solo &#8220;Shadow Game,&#8221; is really a duet: Her father, Chris Boggia, is shown training a horse in video projections that figure heavily in the piece.<\/p>\n<p>Boggia also collaborated with students to make a videodance in the Bates squash courts.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Choreographing for the camera in a nontraditional space is very different from choreographing for the stage,&#8221; says Boggia. &#8220;It allows me to play with time and space in ways that are impossible in live performance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The students featured in the videodance also shot much of the footage.<\/p>\n<p>Student performers from many backgrounds and with diverse levels of experience worked with the guest artists. &#8220;The students rehearse 15 hours per week. While challenging, it&#8217;s a memorable learning experience to work through so many different perspectives in such a short period of time,&#8221; says Carol Dilley, director of the Bates dance program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fall Dance Concert represents choreographers from across the country and here in Maine in performances Nov. 10-12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":60131,"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],"tags":[60,9735,9080],"class_list":["post-60129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","tag-dance","tag-tensile-involvement","tag-visiting-artists"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60129","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=60129"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60136,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60129\/revisions\/60136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}