  {"id":6399,"date":"2025-12-10T09:53:56","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/?page_id=6399"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:54:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T14:54:42","slug":"bates-dance-festival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/bates-dance-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Global, celebratory, rigorous, and engaging, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival is dedicated to offering a transformative dance experience to all who participate, whether as practitioners, enthusiasts, or scholars.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-embed-aspect-16-9\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<lite-vimeo videoid=\"1099418165\" autoload><\/lite-vimeo>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dance majors participate in the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival at least once during their time at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½, as part of their major requirement (DANC 300). Full participation in this summer program requires 30 weekly hours of technical training across multiple dance disciplines and theoretical practices. Festival courses are taught by leading scholars, artists, and practitioners in their fields. An integral part of this course is attending festival concerts, informal showings, discussions, and video presentations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students have the opportunity to work with ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival artists-in-residence during the academic year through DANC 253 (Repertory) and DANC 270D (Studio: Repertory Styles). Through these residencies, students experience a variety of approaches to making and performing dance through intensive choreographic residencies with professional guest choreographers. DANC 253 culminates in the Marcy Plavin Dance Concert at the end of the semester, and students taking DANC 270D also have the option to participate in the concert.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">BDF Staff<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-directory-search-bates-profile bates-directory-profile _with-image\"><div class=\"_data-wrap\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"661\" height=\"661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2019\/02\/SHONI.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2019\/02\/SHONI.jpg 661w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2019\/02\/SHONI-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2019\/02\/SHONI-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2019\/02\/SHONI-200x200.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bates-directory-single-listing bates-directory-card\"><p class=\"directory-result-name\">Shoshona W. Currier<\/p><div class='directory-result-contact-wrap'><p class=\"directory-result-email\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/scurrier@bates.edu\">scurrier@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"directory-result-departmentWithTitle\"><span class=\"directory-result-title\">Director<\/span><br><span class=\"directory-result-department\">ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival<\/span><br><a class=\"directory-result-phone\" href=\"tel:http:\/\/207-786-6381\">207-786-6381<\/a><br><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-bates-directory-search-bates-profile bates-directory-profile _with-image\"><div class=\"_data-wrap\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"676\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/10\/Natalie-Gotter-headshot-edited.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/10\/Natalie-Gotter-headshot-edited.webp 676w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/10\/Natalie-Gotter-headshot-edited-400x400.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/10\/Natalie-Gotter-headshot-edited-150x150.webp 150w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/files\/2024\/10\/Natalie-Gotter-headshot-edited-628x628.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bates-directory-single-listing bates-directory-card\"><p class=\"directory-result-name\">Natalie E. Gotter<\/p><p class=\"directory-result-academic-title\">Visiting Lecturer and Director of Training Programs<\/p><div class='directory-result-contact-wrap'><p class=\"directory-result-email\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"mailto:http:\/\/ngotter@bates.edu\">ngotter@bates.edu<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p><p class=\"directory-result-departmentWithTitle\"><span class=\"directory-result-department directory-result-line\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"directory-result-phone directory-result-line\" href=\"tel:http:\/\/207-786-6367\">207-786-6367<\/a><span class=\"directory-result-address directory-result-line\"><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-left is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-63375db1 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button with-arrow with-arrow\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-text-align-left wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.batesdancefestival.org\/\">Learn more about the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global, celebratory, rigorous, and engaging, the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Dance Festival is dedicated to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1736,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"bates_author_byline_override":"","_hide_page_title":false,"_header_override":"","_template_width_override":"","_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"_sidebarChoice":"","footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-6399","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1736"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6399"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6399\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/theater-dance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}