Current Supporters
The Bates Dance Festival gratefully acknowledges the following contributors for their generosity (gifts received 11/1/17 to 10/1/18):
$10,000 +
National Endowment for the Arts, National Performance Network, New England Foundation for the Arts, Onion Foundation, The Sequoia Foundation
$5,000 – $9,999
Bates College, Crewe Foundation, The Leonard C. and Mildred F. Ferguson Foundation, Maine Arts Commission, Maine Humanities Council, Platz Associates, John Vail
$1000 – $4999
Anonymous, Androscoggin Bank MainStreet Foundation, Bingham Betterment Fund, Steven Edwards, Ginger Farley & Bob Shapiro, I.Dres, Marie Haas, Alison Hildreth, L.L. Bean, David Lakari, Maple Way Dental Care, Norway Savings Bank, Paula Marcus-Platz, Kirk Read & Camille Parrish, Shapiro Family Foundation, Tegna Foundation
$500 – $999
Thomas Colby, Lisa Henner, Anne Lowenthal & Eric Shain, Dr. Greg & Michelle Maynard, Darby Ray, Bette Swett-Thibeault, Jean Wilson & John Roberts, Edie Woodward
$250 – $499
Suzanne Crowell, The Estate of Marcia Plavin, Vallejo Gantner, April & Malcolm Hill, Sara Juli & Chris Ajemian, Annie Kloppenberg, Jessica Lockhart, Jolene McGowan & Thomas McAdam, Rick Speer & Judith Frost, Riley Watts, Susan & Robert Weiss
$100 – $249
Amy & Butch Baxter, Bonnie Brooks, Becky Dacus, Laura Faure, Peg Foley, Judith Head, Raymond James, Harriet Juli, Kim Konikow, Stephan & Jane Koplowitz, Elaine Makas, Paula McArthur, Heather McCargo, Elaine McCarty, Chip Morrison, Radmilla Olshansky, Richard Partridge, David Plavin, Nancy Salmon, Ron Sepielli, Nancy Smith, Sharon Townshend, Doug Varone, Galina Vernik, Edward & Candace Walworth
Up to $99
Afarin Assadian, Ann Babbit, Nancy and Warren Berkowitz, Gretchen Berg, Rachel Boggia, Pamela Brackett, Sarah Brent, Shari Broder, Anne & Richard Brown, Barbara Chenoweth, Robert & Joanne Derrah, Frank & Jane Dilley, Betsy Dunphy, Holly Ewing, Gina Fatone, Peg Foley, Susan Gould, Mary Griffin, Lindsay Hancock, Elizabeth Hansen, Laura Juraska, Rachel List, Dana Little, Ben & Bonnie Lounsbury, Deborah Luhrs, Ann & Barney McGowan, Jean O’Brien, Barbara Parish –Scillieri, Babe Paul, Derek Pierce, Mark & Judith Reuter, Linda & Martin Rogoff, Stephen & Wilma Rose, Ann Sanders, Gillian Schair, Erica Schair-Cardona, Linda Shary, Ann Shopbell, Bonnie Shulman, Pamela & William Sickinger, Nancy Wagner, Lois & Richard Wagner, Cathryn Wilson
Additional thanks to:
The Bates Dance Festival wishes to thank these individuals for their valued contributions:
Victoria Blaine-Wallace, Rachel Boggia, Phyllis Graber Jensen, Lindsay Hancock, Doug Hubley, Tracey Miller, Jason Moreau, Darby Ray, Michael Reidy, Allison Webster, and the many Bates College employees who provide ongoing support and assistance.
Additional Support:
Residencies and performances are supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, Art Works program.
Significant support has been provided by the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts; and the New England States Touring Program made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
The Bates Dance Festival is a member of the National Performance Network which supports artist’s residencies and performances with funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency).
The Bates Dance Festival is a summer program of Bates College. The brainchild of former Bates College President, Hedley Reynolds, and professor emeritus of dance, Marcy Plavin, BDF has evolved over its 35-year history into an internationally recognized laboratory for contemporary dance.
