This is my first entry of several from my trip to South Africa. I have come to attend FNB Dance Umbrella, the annual showcase of South African contemporary dance. This…
Festival Director, Laura Faure reports from the FNB Dance Umbrella Festival in Johannesburg, South Africa. After sixteen years of hosting choreographers from South Africa, Director Laura Faure finally travels to…
During the first week of rehearsals I thought I was making a dance titled “Normal.” By week three, the 15-minute ode to the pink shag became “Theater in the Head.”…
“Living is a form of not being sure…not knowing what next or how. The moment you know how, you die a little. The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We…
How strange, and apt, to be among a community of dancers the day Merce Cunningham passed from the earth. His death at 90 was softened with the lifework he was…
Welcome to the Bates Dance Festival blog. A place for sharing ideas about the study, creation and performance of contemporary dance. We begin with entries from Adele Myers -- one…