HORSES / If Wishes Were Horses

Role: Performer, Producer Description: I commissioned HORSES  from ALTERNATIVA/Kathleen Hermesdorf +Albert Mathias by writing a grant for Bates College Faculty Development Funds. The project brought 9 Maine-based dancers and one Rhode Island-based dancer together in an intensive two week residency to create the work and take classes that Hermesdorf and Mathias were teaching in the Bates curriculum. As much about creating a dance community in Southern Maine as it was about creating a work, the project had a successful run of performances in Portland, Boston, Lewiston, and at the Bates Dance Festival.

Bates Dance Festival Performance, Summer 2015 with 6 performers
Password: BDF_Kathleen

“Horses” at the Bates College Spring Dance Concert with the original cast.

Performances:

• 1. SPACE Gallery. Portland, Maine. March 21, 2014. Audience: Approx 100.
• 2. Bates College Spring Dance Concert. Schaeffer Theater. Lewiston, Maine March 29­30, 2014. Audience: Approx. 300.
• 3. Women at Work. Evening Length Showcase The Dance Complex. Boston, MA. May 16­17, 2014. Audience: Approx. 40.
• 4. First Friday Portland. A production of the Bates Dance Festival at the Portland Public Library. Portland, Maine. June 6, 2014 Audience: Approx. 75.

We also have an upcoming show:
5. Bates Dance Festival Different Voices Concert. Lewiston, Maine. August 6 and 7,

2015.

In addition to the aesthetic value of the work to the approximately 500 people who saw HORSES, these performances create an identity for Bates and southern Maine as a place

where experimental dance is blossoming.