Tania Isaac is a former Pew Fellow and McDowell fellow; a choreographer, dancer, writer who has led international performances while creating models for thoughtful, audience-centered engagement. During that time, she also presented papers, publications and projects on creative process in the arts and its potential applications across multiple fields.  A self-described kinesiophile and lover of information—both physical and verbal—she is a dancer because she loves language; a choreographer because she love conversations and an artist because she never run out of questions. She is unrelentingly curious, and her published writing explores the spectrum of contemporary dance ranging from essays/commentary to comparative literary esthetics in performance. In addition to numerous independent projects, Tania has been a member of David Dorfman Dance, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Urban Bushwomen and a collaborator with Emily Johnson/Catalyst. Her company, TaniaIsaacDance has been supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, The National Performance Network, and The Independence Foundation & Bates Dance Festival, among others. In addition, her “Living Notebook” – a way of turning a room into a laboratory of investigation and participation in multiple forms- initially developed during a 2006 residency at the Maggie Allesse national Center for Choreography and continues to be an essential element of her creative work. She is a former MANCC Fellow, Pew Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Tania holds a Bachelor of Science -Dance from UW-Madison, an MFA from Temple University and is currently completing an MPA from University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Institute for Government.

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S202 Inside Dance - Tania Issac

Get your global grooves on with multi-instrumentalists Rob Flax &  Terrence Karn, long-time BDF musicians and Youth Arts Program faculty members. They present eclectic and organic melodies and rhythms from around the world in the family-friendly 75-min concert.

Recorded at Simard Payne Park Amphitheater 
Monday July 19, 2021

S204 Inside Dance - Terrence Karn and Rob Flax - In Concert

The field of dance moved from a physical world to a virtual world at a rapid pace this past year - leaving many to question, How will I make money?  Does dance serve me at this time? How can I keep moving forward with my art? For the next two episodes we are taking the opportunity to check in with a few of the artists who are here in person for BDF 2021. These artists share their stories about how their lives, teaching, and art making have shifted this past year in response to the pandemic and in response to the various socio-political forces at work in the U.S. BDF 2021, a smaller, more intimate festival working in both live and virtual exchanges, offered an opportunity for faculty, artists, and students alike to ease back into movement, support each other, heal and make, moving towards the future world we are building. Thanks for listening and your continued support of the Bates Dance Festival.

Featuring:
Tania Issac
http://www.taniaisaacdance.com

Terrance Karn
http://www.terrencekarn.com

Sara Juli
https://www.sarajuli.com

Music Featured:
Albert Mathais
https://albertmathias.bandcamp.com

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S207 - Inside Dance - Stories from the Pandemic - Part 2

Listen to testimonials from those who have had an internship at The Bates Dance Festival.

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S205 Inside Dance - Internships

Same but Different is a collaboration between Christal Brown and Lida Winfield, exploring their similarities and differences in a cultural commentary on race, age, and gender. 42 years young and recently orphaned, Lida grew up in the North, Christal grew up in the South, both of them grew up inhabiting small towns. Lida is white, Christal is black. As children, Christal was considered a genius and Lida was labeled dumb. At this point in their lives, Lida and Christal have both lived the rigors of being artists, professors, educators, and survivors of life.

Christal Brown is the Founder of INSPIRIT and Project:BECOMING, the creator of the Liquid Strength training module for dance, an Associate Professor of Dance at Middlebury College and the CVO of Steps and Stages Coaching, LLC. Brown received a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from UNCG and her MFA in New Media Art and Technology from LIU. Brown is a mover and a warrior of change and transformation. Brown combines her athleticism, creativity, love for people, and passion for teaching to create works that redefine the art of dance, the creation of identity and structures of power. https://christalbrown.com/

Lida Winfield is an innovative and accomplished dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist and educator, who has created original work merging storytelling, dance and visual art. As an artist, educator and keynote presenter, she has performed and taught nationally and internationally in traditional and non-traditional environments. Lida’s artistic practice is inextricably linked to her role as an educator and her pedagogy is rooted in inclusion, access, and the recognition that our brains and bodies work differently and this difference is a valuable asset. www.lidawinfield.com

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S208 Inside Dance - Christal Brown and Lida Winfield

Primo Cubano specializes in traditional Cubano Son, the most popular style to come out of Cuba and the primary influence to the blend of Latin styles today known as Salsa.

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S210 Inside Dance - Primo Cubano

Legendary choreographer, Rennie Harris has restaged his classic work, ‘Rome & Jewels' to honour the company's anniversary. 25 years later this critically acclaimed Elizabethan masterpiece, Rome & Jewels is a retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet set in the streets of Philadelphia.

S301 Inside Dance - Rennie Harris Puremovement

Bebe Miller was in attendance  as a guest teacher with  her long time collaborator Angie Hauser . 
In this episode you will hear an interview with Bebe Miller that was conducted in 2013 while she was here at the festival restaging her piece The Hendrix Project with the students as well as presenting her work A History.

S302 Inside Dance - Bebe Miller

This episode features dance and music collaborators who without each other their piece would not exist.
We will begin with the piece, Two,  with dancer, Shura Baryshnikov and cellist Adrienne Taylor, long term collaborators, that have drawn upon their creative history together to build a process focused on deep listening, observation, and response.
Next we have the work: IzumonookunI is a dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni, founder of the Japanese dance-drama form, Kabuki—a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric, grassroots origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald re-imagine Okuni as a punk rock/sci-fi figure in a landscape of built objects, digital design and live synthesizer. The piece touches on the tensions between erasure and hyper visibility and is an ode to the women in Aoki’s ancestry of whom little is known.
Next we have the work: IzumonookunI is a dance inspired by Izumo no Okuni, founder of the Japanese dance-drama form, Kabuki—a form that currently contains little trace of its female-centric, grassroots origins. Choreographer Aretha Aoki and sound and visual designer Ryan MacDonald re-imagine Okuni as a punk rock/sci-fi figure in a landscape of built objects, digital design and live synthesizer. The piece touches on the tensions between erasure and hyper visibility and is an ode to the women in Aoki’s ancestry of whom little is known.

S303 Inside Dance - Aretha Aoki | Ryan MacDonald & Adrienne Taylor | Shura Baryshnikov

This episode features Joanna Kotze a Brooklyn-based, Bessie-award winning dancer, choreographer and teacher. She creates highly physical dance performances through a collaborative, multi-disciplinary process, presenting ways to look at effort, labor, humor, violence, unpredictability, and beauty through movement as well as the body’s relationship to sound, materials, light, and space.

S304 - Inside Dance - Joanna Kotze

Onye Ozuzu is back this season sharing her ideas and beginnings of her new work - Space Carcasses. Space Carcasses is an interdisciplinary performance that juxtaposes, superimposes, and asserts the body’s relationship to its built environment, particularly spaces that echo with Afrodiasporic forced migrations

S305 Inside Dance - Onye Ozuzu - Space Carcasses

For this episode we will share excerpts from the artist's talks with David Dorfman and Stephan Batten Bland.
David Dorfman and his collaborators were scheduled to present their work, (A)way out of my body, in 2020. Due to the pandemic now Two years later they were able to bring this work to the festival.
(A)Way Out of My Body uses “out of body” experience as a metaphor for our times and our body politic. DDD’s bodies propel themselves through space and time, attempting to pass the barrier of reality and plight into the realm of positivity and growth.

Stephanie Batten Bland brought her Company SBB with the work: Embarqued: Stories of Soil.  Originally this performance was scheduled to be shown outside but due to the high temperatures the show was moved into the Bates College Schaeffer theater.

Embarqued: Stories of Soil is a dance-theatre work centered around a transformative shipmast inviting ˈmīɡrəˌtôrē/ reflections, revealing post-colonial foundations and mythology. Through questioning existing relationships to memorials - they call up all who made our united history, enabling audiences  to viscerally and holistically connect our country both forwards and backwards in space and time.

S306 Inside Dance - David Dorfman | Stefanie Batten Bland

In 2007 the Bates dance festival was having its 25th anniversary.  Suzzane Carbonneau facilitated a panel discussion with festival founder Marcie Plavin and Dan Wagoner - the first artist to be presented in the summer of 1983.

The following day Suzanne sat down with Dan Wagoner for a more in depth conversation about his work and ideas as a dance maker.

S307 Inside Dance - Dan Wagoner

Moncell Durden is a dance educator, choreographer, ethnographer, embodied historian, author and assistant professor of practice at University of Southern California Glorya Kaufman International School of Dance who specializes in pedagogical practices that prove cultural and historical context in what he calls the morphology of Afro-kinetic memory.

S308 Inside Dance - Moncell Durden

d. Sabela Grimes is a choreographer, writer, composer and educator whose interdisciplinary performance work and pedagogical approach reveal a vested interest in the physical and meta-physical ef-i-kuh-see of Afro-diasporic cultural practices.

Sabela was one of the co-writers of Rome & Jewels with Rennie Harris Puremovement.  The interview you are about to hear was recorded in 2013 when we was at the festival teaching at the Young Dancers Workshop.

S309 Inside Dance - d. Sabela Grimes

Our annual musicians concert was back this season.  Featuring: Carl Landa, Peter Jones, Terrence Karn, Jesse Manno, Rob Flax and Albert Mathais.

S310 Musicians Concert

Inside Dance is a podcast that celebrates the artists and teachers of the Bates Dance Festival.

This episode features: nora chipaumire during her time at the Bates Dance Festival in 2018
Born in Mutare, Zimbabwe and based in NYC, nora chipaumire has been challenging and embracing stereotypes of Africa, the black performing body, art and aesthetics since she started making dances in 1998. chipaumire is currently touring #PUNK 100%POP *NIGGA (verbalized as hashtag punk, one hundred percent pop, star nigga), a three-part live performance album which had its full world premiere at The Kitchen in NYC in October 2018. Her current and ongoing work includes a digital book project – nhaka – a theory, technology, practice and process to her artistic work. Her upcoming work will be an opera entitled “Nehanda” (2020). chipaumire is a 2018 Guggenheim fellow and a three-time Bessie Award winner.

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S1:04 Inside Dance - nora chipaumire

Inside Dance is a podcast that celebrates the Bates Dance Festival dance artists and teachers. 

This episode features Amirah Sackett and her collaborator Asad Ali Jafri who were both here presenting a show with the music duo, The Reminders and dancer Mary Mar (“BGirl Ma-Ma”) 
Amirah’s love of hip-hop dance and devotion to her faith fused to inspire a contemporary dance collective called We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic, which is dedicated to elevating the status of women and educating the public on women’s issues. Asad Ali Jafri, aka DJ Man-O-Wax, is a cultural producer, global arts leader and interdisciplinary artist with a creative vision for sustainable social change.

S1:03 Inside Dance - Amirah Sackett

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

Artists Featured:
Netta Yerushalmy - www.nettay.com/
Doug Varone - www.dougvaroneanddancers.org/
Scholar: Lauren Warnecke - https://laurenwarnecke.com/
jumatatu m. poe & Jermone Donte Beacham - https://www.jumatatu.org/
Lida Winfield - www.lidawinfield.com/

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S1:01 Inside Dance - Bates Dance Festival Highlights 2019 Part 1

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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S1:05 Inside Dance Bates Dance Festival Highlights 2019 Part 2

http://www.la-alternativa.us/

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.

S1:10 Inside Dance - Kathleen Hermestorf

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

S1:06 Inside Dance - Musicians Concert 2019 Part 1

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

S1:07 Inside Dance - Musicians Concert 2019 Part 2

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

S1:08 Inside Dance - Musicians Concert 2018 Part 1

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

S1:09 Inside Dance - Musicians Concert 2018 Part 2

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.

For more information, check out the Bates Dance Festival website: http://www.batesdancefestival.org/

S1:11 Laura Faure

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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S1:12 Jennifer Nugent

Chris Aiken is an internationally recognized performer and teacher of dance improvisation performance and contact improvisation. He has performed and collaborated with many renowned dance artists including Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Peter Bingham, Andrew Harwood, Ray Chung and Angie Hauser, as well as musicians such as Mike Vargas, Peter Jones, Tigger Benford, Philip Hamilton and Andre Gribou.  Chris’ collaboration with Angie Hauser has toured nationally and internationally and been supported by numerous grants from the National Performance Network.  His work has evolved through ongoing investigations of poetics, design, and performance.  It is also grounded by years of research in the science of movement, perception and learning. Chris has received numerous awards for his artistic work, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, as well as commissions from the Walker Art Center, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Dance Theater Workshop and the National Performance Network. He is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Smith College and the Five College Dance Department.

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S1:15 Chris Aiken

Shonach Mirk-Robles received her classical training in some of the world’s best schools, including the School of American Ballet, The Royal Ballet School of London and Maurice Béjart’s MUDRA. She was a member of Bejart’s famed Ballet of the Twentieth Century from 1974 to 1986 and also performed with Switzerland’s Zurich Operhaus, Germany’s Hamburg Ballet and Italy’s Ballet de Torino. Shonach’s advanced studies in Spiraldynamik® have become the major influence in her method of teaching classical ballet. She studied Spiraldynamik® while also completing her MDEd. The combination of these two advanced trainings has dramatically informed her approach to teaching technique through the integration of Spiraldynamik® principles. Through her collaboration with acclaimed choreographers she has developed a deep understanding of what today’s dancers need in the way of a classical base for contemporary performance. Shonach founded her own school in Zurich in 2009 and also teaches, internationally in the US, Japan, Spain and Germany.

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S1 - 16 Shonach Mirk Robles

Jennifer Archibald is the founder and Artistic Director of the Arch Dance Company and Program Director of ArchCore40 Dance Intensives.  She is a graduate of The Alvin Ailey School and the Maggie Flanigan Acting Conservatory where she studied the Meisner Technique.   Archibald has choreographed for the Atlanta Ballet, Ailey II, Cincinnati Ballet, Ballet Memphis, Kansas City Ballet, Tulsa Ballet, Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre, and worked commercially for Tommy Hilfiger, NIKE and MAC Cosmetics as well as chart-listed singers and actors. She was recently appointed as the first female Resident Choreographer in Cincinnati Ballet’s 40-year history. In 2018 she created new works for Cincinnati Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery, and Stockholm’s Balletakademien and will create a new works for Ballet West, Ballet Nashville, and Sacramento Ballet in 2020. She was recently Movement Director for Michael Kahn’s The Oresteia at the Shakespeare Theatre Company.

Jennifer is currently an Acting Lecturer at the Yale School of Drama. She was appointed as Guest Faculty Lecturer to develop the Hip Hop dance curriculum at Columbia/Barnard College. Jennifer is also a guest artist at several universities including Fordham/Ailey, Purchase College, Princeton, Virginia Commonwealth University, University of South Florida, Goucher College, Columbia College Chicago, and Bates College. In 2019, she premiered new works for Miami New World School of the Arts, South Carolina’s Governor’s School of the Arts, Ailey Fordham, Boston Conservatory, and Point Park and will create new works for Missouri State, University of Alabama, Jacksonville University, and South Carolina’s Governors School for 2020.

Please also note the opening statement from the director Shoni Currior.
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S1 - 17 Jennifer Archibald

The Bates Dance Festival is an international destination for dance located in Lewiston, Maine.
BDF provides rigorous training for dancers, offers residencies for practicing dance artists, and presents performances by a renown roster of local, national, and international dancemakers. Serving Maine, as well as a diverse community of dance audiences and arts lovers, BDF offers unprecedented access to and fosters deep appreciation for contemporary dance.
On this podcast you will hear highlights from the events and interviews from the past 30 years with more to come.

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