{"id":68923,"date":"2013-09-26T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=68923"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:17:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:17:21","slug":"dance-company-offers-two-daytime-performances-for-parents-family-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/09\/26\/dance-company-offers-two-daytime-performances-for-parents-family-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance Company offers two daytime performances for Parents and Family Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_68928\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Edit_121109_Modern_Dance_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68928\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68928\" alt=\"The Bates Dance Company in November 2012. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Edit_121109_Modern_Dance_1920-600x400.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Edit_121109_Modern_Dance_1920-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Edit_121109_Modern_Dance_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2013\/09\/Edit_121109_Modern_Dance_1920.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-68928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bates Dance Company in November 2012. (Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Student performers show off the vitality of dance at Bates College in noontime concerts on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28-29, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.<\/p>\n<p>The performances are open to the public at no cost. For more information, please call 207-786-8294.<\/p>\n<p>Taking place during Parents &amp; Family Weekend, the program features works in a variety of styles, choreographed by students as well as by faculty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This program celebrates the variety of approaches to dance performance that we do not get to see on television,&#8221; says Carol Dilley, associate professor and director of dance at Bates. &#8220;We&#8217;re excited about the growth of the students&#8217; work and their daring to try new things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The works choreographed by faculty are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a duet for first-year students by Rachel Boggia, assistant professor of dance;<\/li>\n<li>a group piece by Dilley to be performed by advanced dancers in a repertory performance class;<\/li>\n<li>and a trio choreographed by Debi Irons for the advanced jazz repertory class.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The four dance majors in this year&#8217;s senior class will all perform original choreography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student performers show off the vitality of dance at Bates on Sept. 28-29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":68924,"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":[60,6763,6889,9087],"class_list":["post-68923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-life","category-arts","tag-dance","tag-parents-families-weekend","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68923","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=68923"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82915,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68923\/revisions\/82915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}