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2010 Director's Notes2010 Travels in Johannesburg

Arriving in Joburg, March 1, 2010

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…
laura
lauraMarch 5, 2010
2010 Director's Notes2010 Travels in Johannesburg

Travels in Johannesburg

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…
laura
lauraMarch 5, 2010
2009 Works-in-Progress

Adele Myers/Week 3: "Theater in the Head"

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.”…
adele
adeleAugust 12, 2009
2009 Works-in-Progress

Adele Myers/Week 2: Eureka's Everywhere!

“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…
adele
adeleAugust 3, 2009
2009 Works-in-Progress

Listen to John Cage

NPR put this on the web http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111388464 and an interview with Cage from Fresh Air --Debra
debra
debraAugust 1, 2009
2009 Works-in-Progress

When Giants Walked

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…
debra
debraJuly 28, 2009
2009 Works-in-Progress

Adele Myers Week 1: Making Normal

Week 1: A daily bog about the creative process of a new work by Adele Myers, Emerging Choreographer at the 2009 Bates Dance Festival
adele
adeleJuly 25, 2009
2009 Works-in-Progress

Welcome to the BDF Blog

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…
laura
lauraJuly 22, 2009
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