The Bates Dance Festival and Bates College Theater and Dance Department have collaborated on the Marcy Plavin Spring Dance Concert, which will run at the Schaeffer Theatre April 5-8, 2024.

Devised and Directed by Miguel Ángel Pacheco ’24 | March 28 – 31

Actor, director, and educator Kevin R. Free carried a binder with the script for The Gravediggers Union around the Gannett Theater stage, reading alongside Bates students as he filled in for an absent cast member in a dress rehearsal.

A narrative and photographic profile of select Maine-based activists who served as community educators for the First Year Seminar, Embodying Activism, during Fall 2023.

“I appreciate Bates’ dance department so much because of the free create reign that we’re given during this past semester” – Lola Buczkowski ’25

There is a lot to look forward to for Winter 2024! Check out our upcoming January events, and meet a few of our exciting guest artists.

So he turned to a fellow Hungarian who is a Bates faculty member: Kati Vecsey, a senior lecturer in theater, vocal director for all Bates theater productions, and a noted speech and language pathologist and therapist. 

It’s about four white actors, two of whom are teachers and all of whom consider themselves liberal, woke, and forward-thinking, and how they go about rehearsing a Thanksgiving pageant that celebrates Native American Heritage Month for elementary school students.

We are delighted to welcome two new tenure-track faculty to the department, and to celebrate the promotion of one of our beloved faculty!