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UN/Stable Landscape

A site-specific performance for horses and dancers created by JoAnna Mendl Shaw and Carl Flink on a farm in Pownal Maine in 2012.

Gregory Maqoma/Vuyani Dance Theatre

A mini documentary about Gregory Maqoma’s weeklong residency at Bates, Oct. 11-16, 2009. This was the first ever Festival presentation during the academic year engaging Bates College students and faculty in a myriad of activities.

Paradise Pond

A site-specific extravaganza created by Sara Pearson Patrik Widrig Dance Theater on and around Lake Andrews for the Festival’s 25th anniversary in 2012.

Seven Games

A interspecies work created by The Equus Projects: Dancing with Horses for the historic Bates Quad in 2006.

Terratrium

A site-specific performance created by Stephan Koplowitz in the Perry Atrium in Pettengill Hall at Bates College in 2003.

If Wishes Were Horses, Beggars Would Ride

A site specific, community based work created by Sara Pearson Patrik Widrig Dance Theater for the Portland Museum of Art in 2000.

A Curious Invasion

A site-specific work created by Sara Pearson Patrik Widrig Dance Theater for the 80 acres Gilsland Farm Audubon Sanctuary in Falmouth, ME in 1999.

Ghost Dance

A site-specific work created by Paula Josa Jones Performance Works set on the historic Bates Quad in 1997.

Breath of Earth

A site-specific work by Sham Mosher with musician Robert Mirabel, adapted to Mount David on the Bates campus in 1994.