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. www.batesdancefestival.org

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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. www.batesdancefestival.org

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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. www.batesdancefestival.org

S1:15 Chris Aiken

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. www.batesdancefestival.org

S1:14 Angie Hauser

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. www.batesdancefestival.org

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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. www.batesdancefestival.org

S1:12 Jennifer Nugent

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

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 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

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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

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 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

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 www.batesdancefestival.org

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

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. www.batesdancefestival.org www.companychipaumire.com

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

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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