August 10, 2018

It was hot as hell. At Brooklyn Studios for Dance on the weekend of August 10, Jessie Young and Jordan Demetrius Lloyd presented “Come Through”, a shared evening of sharing work, experiences, and space. The heat lined the walls and invited those who had come through to come together--- to talk, to reconnect, to linger between the seats carefully placed on a staggered diagonal across the studio---to warm up the labyrinth of space with and for each other.

July 15, 2018

I am sitting in a coffee shop, listening to my playlist entitled ‘Thesis’, thinking about the shatteringly frustrating and invigorating mess of time known as ‘transition’. It feels like floating, like scribbling, like passing time and marking time and wasting time and figuring out what place time really holds in this transitory space.

March 19, 2018

I am interested in the repetition of a word, of a movement, until it becomes something else. Or until it just becomes a thing. How many times do we need to see something for it to resonate with us in a way that is more than just a wash?

November 25, 2017

Written in response to Contact Quarterly's call for submissions on influence and acknowledgment. A shortened version to be published in Contact Quarterly Vol.43 No.1, Winter/Spring.

November 09, 2017

The front page of my notebook is comprised of a long list of things—of whims—that have come to me over the past few months as things—as whims—I just HAVE to include in my thesis. The list reads as follows: gargling, eyebrows, slam poetry, lip syncing songs you’ve never heard...

July 29, 2017

This weekend is a celebration. The 35th Anniversary Gala brings together artists who have been integral to the festival’s trajectory, replenishing and reinventing the spirit of Bates Dance Festival summer after summer. 

July 15, 2017

David Dorfman is a champion of the dance world and a veteran of the Bates Dance Festival, returning to the festival regularly for the past twenty-two years. His company members are also familiar faces to the BDF community, having seen both sides of the Schaeffer Theatre, once sitting in the audience as students, interns, and counselors, and now, looking out on the view from the stage.