"DanceNOW" opens the festival with fresh voices from a new generation of festival faculty and alumni. The evening offers engaging works by post-modernist Karl Rogers’ Red Dirt Dance and Annie Kloppenberg and Company; modern dance dynamos Kellie Ann Lynch and Erika Pujic; jazz theater artist Courtney D. Jones; hip-hop choreographer Shakia Johnson; and poignant storyteller Lida Winfield. A talkback with the artists follows. Admission: $20 adults / $15 seniors / $12 students. FMI http://www.batesdancefestival.org.