INSIDE DANCE

Angie Hauser is a choreographer, performer and teacher. Since 2000, Hauser has been a member of the Bebe Miller Company, receiving a BESSIE Award for her creative work with the company. Her work is featured in the online score “TWO” as part of MotionBank a Forsythe Company project (http://scores.motionbank.org/two/#/set/sets) and in the 2015 eBook “Dance Fort.” Other choreographic projects include collaborations with gifted dance artists including Chris Aiken, Jennifer Nugent, K.J. Holmes, Darrell Jones, Kathleen Hermesdorf, and musicians Mike Vargas, Jesse Manno, Tigger Benford, and Andre Gribou & Roger Baum. Her long time collaboration with Chris Aiken has yielded multiple grants and work presented at national and international venues. In addition to her long-time relationship as a teaching artist at Bates Dance Festival, Hauser has also taught dance technique, choreography, contact improvisation, and improvisation for many other national and international festivals/organizations including American Dance Festival, SaltFest, Earthdance, International Contact Festival (Freiburg), Transformation Danse (Montreal), and La Escuela Profesional de Danza (Mazatlan). She is currently an Assistant Professor at Smith College in the Department of Dance.

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David Dorfman has been creating movement-based theater in and around NYC and internationally since 1981. He has received numerous fellowships and awards including a “Bessie” for DAVID DORFMAN DANCE’s community-based project Familiar Movements (The Family Project), a Guggenheim for his research on power and protest which led to DDD’s underground, NEA support, a Lucille Lortel for choreographing INDECENT’s Off-Broadway run, and a 2019 USA Fellowship. Recent DAVID DORFMAN DANCE highlights include a 30th Anniversary Season at BAM’s Next Wave Festival with Aroundtown in Nov. 2017, and a State Department-sponsored trip to El Salvador to do work on violence prevention with young people. An avid fan of live music and collaboration, he continues his serio-comic work, Live Sax Acts, with Dan Froot. Since 2004 David has been a full-time faculty member of Connecticut College where he Chaired the Dance Department for a decade while teaching classes ranging from Performing Citizenship, Acting for Dancers, Religious Expressions of Everyday Life to all levels of Modern/Post-Modern Technique, Choreography, and Improvisation. DDD has been Company-in-Residence at Connecticut College since 2007.

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Jennifer Nugent danced with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2009-2014 and David Dorfman Dance from 1999-2007, receiving a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for her work in the company. She has also performed with Martha Clarke, Lisa Race, Doug Elkins, Bill Young, Colleen Thomas, Kate Weare, Barbara Sloan, and Dale Andree. Jennifer’s movement and teaching are inspired by all her teachers and mentors, most profoundly by Daniel Lepkoff, Wendall Beavers, Gerri Houlihan, David Dorfman, Bill T. Jones, Janet Wong, Wendy Woodson, and Patty Townsend. She has been working collaboratively with Paul Matteson for the past nineteen years Their recent duet collaboration another piece apart premiered in 2018 at New York Live Arts (NYC) and was presented Emory University (GA), The American Dance Festival (NC), and The Boston Dance Complex (MA). Jennifer received a Master of Fine Arts degree in 2019 from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a teaching artist at Sarah Lawrence College, Gibney Dance NYC, and Movement Research NYC.

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Laura Faure was the former director of the Bates Dance Festival which is held at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Since taking this position in 1988 she had developed the Festival into an internationally acclaimed contemporary dance program known for its artistic excellence, curatorial vision, and commitment to building community through dance.

A former dancer, choreographer and teacher with thirty + years of experience in the field of dance, Ms. Faure also works as a freelance arts manager and consultant specializing in the performing arts. She has been a project coordinator and consultant for the National Endowment for the Arts Advancement Program, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Maine Performing Arts Network, as well as for individual artists and arts groups. She has served as an evaluator for the many state and regional arts agencies, the NEA, Creative Capital, Rockefeller Foundation, US Artists, and the Alpert Foundation.

She served two terms on the Maine Arts Commission, where she chaired the Dance Panel. Ms. Faure is a founding member of The African Contemporary Arts Consortium and has been developing a cross-cultural exchange program with artists from Japan, Indonesia, Africa, Cuba, Portugal and Mexico since 1994.

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Kathleen Hermesdorf is a dance maker, teacher, improviser and producer based in San Francisco. She is the Director of la ALTERNATIVA & Alternative Conservatory, in collaboration with musician Albert Mathias. la ALTERNATIVA is an apparatus for deeply integrated dance and music via creation, improvisation, performance and production. Alternative Conservatory is a modular, mobile and intensive training ground in dance and related forms. Hermesdorf was a member of Bebe Miller Company, worked extensively with Sara Shelton Mann/Contraband, and was a member of Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. She co-directedHermesdorf & Wells Dance Company with Scott Wells, and is in collaboration with Stephanie Maher in Berlin and Stolzenhagen, Germany, creating performance work and training opportunities through Ponderosa Festival and PORCH. Hermesdorf holds a BFA and MFA in Dance alongside extensive experience in the field and performs, creates and teaches around the world.

Bates Dance Festival

MUSICIANS’ CONCERT
Gendron Franco Center

July 23, 2018

Jugal Bandi

Terrence Karn, tabla, with Robbie Cook, tambura and ensemble

Out of Nowhere

Carl Landa, text and electronics, with Priscilla Rivas and ensemble

Ankaranın Bağları

by Coşkun Direk, performed by Jesse Manno, bağlama, with ensemble

Ephesus

Jesse Manno, Bouzouki and vocals, with ensemble

Bates Dance Festival

MUSICIANS’ CONCERT
Gendron Franco Center

July 23, 2018

Seven Heaven

by Glen Velez, performed by Glen Fittin, riq, with ensemble

Fragment 22

Peter Jones, piano, with ensemble

We Can’t Do it Alone

Rob Flax, violin and vocals, with ensemble

Call it What You Will

Carl Landa, text, piano and electronics, with Annalyn Lehnig and ensemble

Ex Tenebris Lux

Rob Flax, violin and vocals

Mini Wolf Teddy Bear (Reprise)

Albert Mathias, electronics

Finale

Ensemble

Bates Dance Festival

MUSICIANS’ CONCERT

Gendron Franco Center Monday July 29, 2019

Prelude

Ensemble

Olive Memos

Adam Crawley, electronics

Fragment 36

Peter Jones, piano

Membranophonolicious

Terrence Karn, congas, with ensemble

Toujours Quand Vous Dancez

Jesse Manno, bouzouki and vocals, with ensemble

Anadolu Çiftetellisi

Traditional Romany/Turkish, performed by Jesse Manno, Bouzouki and vocals, with ensemble

Inside Dance is a podcast that features the artists and teacher of The Bates Dance Festival.

Teachers and Students Featured:

Professional Training Program - Student - Meghan McLyman

Youth Arts Program - Music Director Terrence Karn

Youth Arts Program - Student - Louisa Armstrong

Young Dancers Workshop - Faculty:

Melissa Alexis: https://vimeo.com/356948001

Aretha Aoki: https://vimeo.com/356947669

Mary Ann Bradley: https://vimeo.com/356947926

Kevin Iega Jeff: https://vimeo.com/356947751

Nicole Klaymoon: https://vimeo.com/356948086

Tristan Koepke: https://vimeo.com/356948299

Shonach Mirk-Robles: https://vimeo.com/356948195

Martha Tornay: https://vimeo.com/356947842

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