This summer the Bates Dance Festival had nineteen interns working behind the scenes of the theater, office, and more to help keep this vibrant festival up and running. The BDF interns…
Chava LanskyAugust 5, 2016
On Wednesday, July 28 the Bates Dance Festival presented Moving in the Moment, the annual improvisatory performance by the Festival’s faculty and musicians. The show is an iconic part of…
Chava LanskyAugust 3, 2016
The Bates Dance Festival begins each summer with the Young Dancers Workshop, a three week intensive for dancers aged fourteen through eighteen. The program is an “alternative educational experience designed…
Chava LanskyJuly 26, 2016
On Friday, July 15 a few dozen people hugged, chatted, and greeted each other warmly as they milled around the Lunder Gallery at Maine College of Art (MECA) in Portland.…
Chava LanskyJuly 20, 2016
Over the past three weeks, BDF Emerging Choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky has been fully immersed in our community: working with her company, taking class, teaching master classes, performing, and more.…
Chava LanskyJuly 15, 2016
As the three week long Young Dancers Workshop winds to an end I sat down with Tristan Koepke, Co-Director and modern technique faculty member of the Workshop and longtime BDF…
Chava LanskyJuly 15, 2016
On Saturday, July 9, the 34th season of the Bates Dance Festival opened in Bates’ Schaeffer Theatre with DanceNOW, advertised as featuring “fresh voices from a new generation of contemporary…
Chava LanskyJuly 14, 2016
Last week we got the chance to see the beginning of emerging choreographer Ali Kenner Brodsky's work on her quintet titled PARt. Here she shares in her words the progress she's…
Chava LanskyJuly 5, 2016
Today the students in the Young Dancers Workshop dove into their second full week of dancing. At the end of their first week we chatted with a few dancers over…
Chava LanskyJuly 4, 2016
