Here at Bates Dance Festival, we offer workshops and master classes in addition to the daily classes. Last night, Sara Juli, the Founder/Director of Surala Consulting and former Director of…
Sydney BurrowsJuly 29, 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
Day Three and Already Inspired! Although the Youth Arts Program only began on Monday, the YAP faculty are already feeling inspired and are exploring ideas for the final showing. This…
Sydney BurrowsJuly 22, 2016
Throughout the whirlwind of this first week of the Professional Training Program, Meredith Lyons began her transition from Admissions Director/Operations Manager here at Bates Dance Festival to her new position…
Sydney BurrowsJuly 21, 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
