Bates Dance Festival Artist Blog

Tribute To Niles Ford

Laura — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 03:58:38 +0000

As I mentioned in my last post our dear friend and frequent BDF visitor, Niles Ford passed away this week at 52–way too early. The dance community has lost a very special person. It is heartwarming and heartwrenching to read the Facebook posts on his page of the many people whose lives he touched, and [...]

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Director Announces 30th Anniversary Season

Laura — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:45:45 +0000

BDF launches its 30th anniversary season and begins accepting applications.

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2011 Works-in-Progress

catherine — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:54:05 +0000

After an incredible, all-night “last dance” with the Bates 2011 community, I returned to Seattle feeling both entirely empty and full to the point of overflowing. I wore myself out in the three weeks of classes, performances, experiments, conversations, work and play. But one of the reasons I have chosen to stay in the field [...]

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Different Voices/The Amazing Finale

michael — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 02:44:16 +0000

The teens went to go see Different Voices on Friday, and I thought it was amazing to see what other people from around the world show for dances and to tell stories of their life through movement of the body not lips. The Finale which was tonight was AMAZING!!!!!!! I thought Healthy Hoopla(YAP), Twenty, Dance [...]

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Think Flink

Sophie — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:53:23 +0000

I talked with faculty member Carl Flink in Commons about his background, company, and, of course, food! Take a look at some of my short notes from our conversation. Tell us a little about your background outside of dance. What made you return to dance and how does it influence Black Label Movement? -First of [...]

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The Little’s and the Finale

michael — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 22:23:54 +0000

The Little’s (students ages 6-8 years old) went to a Lots to Gardens site today at Franklin Pasture. They did different things like, picking horn worms from tomato plants, Japanese beetles from plant leaves, and weeded and composted! They also learned about what plants are edible in the wild. Lots to Gardens has loads of [...]

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The show

michael — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 21:11:22 +0000

Today each group at YAP started showing their dances and Dana Reed used her magic to start piecing the show together inch by inch, the teens after YAP got to go see Jennifer Archibald’s Rep. class and it was amazing!!! Jennifer is doing a piece in the different voices show and we’re psyched to see [...]

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Getting ready for the Finale

michael — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:32:32 +0000

The Youth Arts Program is starting to piece together their final show and it looks amazing if I say so myself. On Friday the YAP will have a free showing at Olin Arts Center at Bates College at 2:30 for parents and friends to see what YAP is all about. Getting ready for the Finale [...]

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Beating the Heat.

Sophie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:10:50 +0000

This Saturday I was an usher at the UN/Stable Landscape performance. The work is collaboration between JoAnna Mendl Shaw’s company, The Equus Projects, and Carl Flink’s company, Black Label Movement. It also featured some of the BDF students! Woo! The blazing day seemed to not bother the dancers or the horses, as all the performers [...]

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Preach It.

Sophie — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:40:17 +0000

One of my roommates was away this weekend, so I was lucky enough to steal her ticket and see both performances of “Prophets of Funk,” from David Dorfman Dance. This was the third time I saw a version of the piece, the first being in January 2011 at APAP in New York. Here are some [...]

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