LEWISTON — Making their seventh appearance at the Bates Dance Festival, Doug Varone and Dancers will perform stunning new works including “Carrugi” and “Able to Leap Tall Buildings” as well as the company’s signature work “Rise.” From the smallest gesture to full-throttle bursts of movement, Varone’s dance can be breathtaking.
Since its founding in 1986, Varone and Dancers have commanded attention for their expansive vision, versatility and technical prowess. On the concert stage, in opera, theater and on the screen, Varone’s kinetically thrilling work makes essential connections and mines the complexity of the human spirit.
“Able to Leap Tall Buildings” is set to “Cruel Sister,” a haunting score premiered in 2011 by Julia Wolfe. Varone’s signature tour de force “Rise” is inspired by John Adams’ ecstatic music “Fearless Symmetries.”
Performances take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Saturday, July 18 and 20, in Bates College’s Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St. For more information, visit: www.batesdancefestival.org/EventNotes/DougVarone.html
Tickets are $25 for the general public, $18 for seniors and $12 for students. Tickets may be purchased online; by phone at 207-786-6161 from 1-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday; or by mail or in person. Learn more at batesdancefestival.org/tickets.php.
The company will present a free Show & Tell lecture-demonstration at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, in Schaeffer Theatre. Varone and dancers will hold talkbacks immediately following the mainstage performances. Dance writer Hannah Kosstrin will offer a pre-performance Inside Dance lecture at 7 p.m. Saturday, July 20, in Schaeffer.
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