The Bates Dance Festival is an international destination for dance located in Lewiston, Maine.
BDF provides rigorous training for dancers, offers residencies for practicing dance artists, and presents performances by a renown roster of local, national, and international dancemakers. Serving Maine, as well as a diverse community of dance audiences and arts lovers, BDF offers unprecedented access to and fosters deep appreciation for contemporary dance.
On this podcast you will hear highlights from the events and interviews from the past 30 years with more to come.
In 2007 the Bates dance festival was having its 25th anniversary. Suzzane Carbonneau facilitated a panel discussion with festival founder Marcie Plavin and Dan Wagoner - the first artist to be presented in the summer of 1983.
The following day Suzanne sat down with Dan Wagoner for a more in depth conversation about his work and ideas as a dance maker.
28 Oct 2022
S308 Inside Dance - Moncell Durden
Moncell Durden is a dance educator, choreographer, ethnographer, embodied historian, author and assistant professor of practice at University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman International School of Dance who specializes in pedagogical practices that prove cultural and historical context in what he calls the morphology of Afro-kinetic memory.
28 Oct 2022
S306 Inside Dance - David Dorfman | Stefanie Batten Bland
For this episode we will share excerpts from the artist's talks with David Dorfman and Stephan Batten Bland.
David Dorfman and his collaborators were scheduled to present their work, (A)way out of my body, in 2020. Due to the pandemic now Two years later they were able to bring this work to the festival.
(A)Way Out of My Body uses “out of body” experience as a metaphor for our times and our body politic. DDD’s bodies propel themselves through space and time, attempting to pass the barrier of reality and plight into the realm of positivity and growth.
Stephanie Batten Bland brought her Company SBB with the work: Embarqued: Stories of Soil. Originally this performance was scheduled to be shown outside but due to the high temperatures the show was moved into the Bates College Schaeffer theater.
Embarqued: Stories of Soil is a dance-theatre work centered around a transformative shipmast inviting ˈmīɡrəˌtôrē/ reflections, revealing post-colonial foundations and mythology. Through questioning existing relationships to memorials - they call up all who made our united history, enabling audiences to viscerally and holistically connect our country both forwards and backwards in space and time.
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