﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Arts-Dance</title><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/</link><description /><pubDate>Tue, 01 Oct 2013 13:49:52 GMT</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 13:14:39 GMT</lastBuildDate><category>Calendar of Events</category><atom:link href="https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/RSSFeeds.aspx?data=lHvYsBf4encWo1oY4bd%2bg0m2%2fPIPZuhj6G%2bg2fmmr9c%3d" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><generator>:: Master Calendar ::</generator><copyright>2026</copyright><ttl>30</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Cynthia Oliver Co. Dance Theatre: Turn. Turning. Turnt.]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 11:30 PM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “Oliver works with members of our community to embody her artwork and present masterful, immersive experiences for her dancers and the audience. There’s music. There are visuals and graphics and singing and language and text. The costuming is incredible. Every single detail is considered equally, and that shows in each and every performance she stages.” – Jessica Hammie, Smile Politely Turn. Turning. TURNT  is Cynthia Oliver’s movement meditation tryptic. Tether, Fallow and Summon. Sow. Reap negotiate temporalities and relationships before, during and after collective life changing conditions.     Cynthia Oliver (choreographer/Director) is a Bronx born, Virgin Island reared dance maker and scholar. Her work incorporates textures of Caribbean performance with African and American aesthetic sensibilities. She has toured the globe as a featured dancer with numerous contemporary dance companies, including David Gordon Pick Up Co., Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor Dance and in theatre works by Laurie Carlos, Ntozake Shange, and Deke Weaver. She earned a PhD in performance studies from New York University, is widely published, and has won numerous awards including a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award, United States Artist, Doris Duke and Guggenheim Fellowships. She is a Gutgsell Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois and Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Arts Integration.   www.cynthiaoliver.com/ IG: @olicynt  Turn. Turning. TURNT is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Lead Partner / Bates Dance Festival, in partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Red Eye Theater of Minneapolis, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. TURNT is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, with additional commissioning funds provided by Harlem Stage’s WaterWorks program and a technical residency at the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance at the School of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies – University of Maryland, College Park. Other support has been provided by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The National Performance Network is the Fiscal Sponsor of Turn. Turning. TURNT/Cynthia Oliver Co. Dance Theatre (COCo)TURNT is a triptych made up of three movement experiments explored before, during, and “after” (if there is one) the global pandemic. Tether, is an AfroFuturistic aspirational experiment. A meditation on black girls’ creativity, drawn from double dutch practices as life skill training. Fallow, was a direct response to where we collectively were in 2021– run ragged by ever changing threats, pivoting quickly and persistently. Yet determined to slow, to stop. Summon. Sow. Reap. considers  what we have summoned post-fallow, what seeds are sown, and just or unjust rewards we reap. We collect, reflect and return, more fiercely, to moving, remembering, hoping, and recovering ourselves for a world anew.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5q7JrZecEnXL7590FR2dXSov6OlkDBRamHrI8gGH3uq92l%2f%2bqyFHOh</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5q7JrZecEnXL7590FR2dXSov6OlkDBRamHrI8gGH3uq92l%2f%2bqyFHOh</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cynthia Oliver Co. Dance Theatre: Turn. Turning. Turnt]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “Oliver works with members of our community to embody her artwork and present masterful, immersive experiences for her dancers and the audience. There’s music. There are visuals and graphics and singing and language and text. The costuming is incredible. Every single detail is considered equally, and that shows in each and every performance she stages.” – Jessica Hammie, Smile Politely Turn. Turning. TURNT  is Cynthia Oliver’s movement meditation tryptic. Tether, Fallow and Summon. Sow. Reap negotiate temporalities and relationships before, during and after collective life changing conditions.     Cynthia Oliver (choreographer/Director) is a Bronx born, Virgin Island reared dance maker and scholar. Her work incorporates textures of Caribbean performance with African and American aesthetic sensibilities. She has toured the globe as a featured dancer with numerous contemporary dance companies, including David Gordon Pick Up Co., Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Bebe Miller, Tere O’Connor Dance and in theatre works by Laurie Carlos, Ntozake Shange, and Deke Weaver. She earned a PhD in performance studies from New York University, is widely published, and has won numerous awards including a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award, United States Artist, Doris Duke and Guggenheim Fellowships. She is a Gutgsell Professor of Dance at the University of Illinois and Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Arts Integration.   www.cynthiaoliver.com/ IG: @olicynt  Turn. Turning. TURNT is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation Fund Project co-commissioned by Lead Partner / Bates Dance Festival, in partnership with Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Red Eye Theater of Minneapolis, The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and NPN. The Creation Fund is supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency). For more information: www.npnweb.org. TURNT is supported in part by the Illinois Arts Council, with additional commissioning funds provided by Harlem Stage’s WaterWorks program and a technical residency at the Maya Brin Institute for New Performance at the School of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies – University of Maryland, College Park. Other support has been provided by the Doris Duke Foundation and the Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The National Performance Network is the Fiscal Sponsor of Turn. Turning. TURNT/Cynthia Oliver Co. Dance Theatre (COCo)TURNT is a triptych made up of three movement experiments explored before, during, and “after” (if there is one) the global pandemic. Tether, is an AfroFuturistic aspirational experiment. A meditation on black girls’ creativity, drawn from double dutch practices as life skill training. Fallow, was a direct response to where we collectively were in 2021– run ragged by ever changing threats, pivoting quickly and persistently. Yet determined to slow, to stop. Summon. Sow. Reap. considers  what we have summoned post-fallow, what seeds are sown, and just or unjust rewards we reap. We collect, reflect and return, more fiercely, to moving, remembering, hoping, and recovering ourselves for a world anew. ]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5sJQ%2fZX%2b4%2fMazyzy%2baCxGWMaMLR9OvWNDh6man0AsOUfSdm2Js3Ltg</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5sJQ%2fZX%2b4%2fMazyzy%2baCxGWMaMLR9OvWNDh6man0AsOUfSdm2Js3Ltg</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cara Hagan: Choose a Spot in the Sun (working title)]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Pettigrew Hall 103 - Gannett Theater: A work in progress showing  Using our current geopolitical moment as a point of ignition, Choose a Spot in the Sun channels global tensions, uncertainty, and transformation into a call for embodied activation and creative response. The work invites us to move beyond passive observation and instead engage physically, emotionally, and intellectually with the possibilities of change. By foregrounding radical imagination, the project encourages envisioning futures that break from extractive or hierarchical systems. It centers practices and structures rooted in collective sovereignty, mutual care, and shared agency, proposing new ways communities might organize, sustain themselves, and reclaim power in an era defined by instability and urgent social reconfiguration.]]></description><author>Inactive__Jun 16 2022  7:57AM (Bates Dance Festival)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7oATwgP7I7dmmB19PJcVp3NhyhTtctGfz5q16bVIzNtcN7kIDUrHHU</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7oATwgP7I7dmmB19PJcVp3NhyhTtctGfz5q16bVIzNtcN7kIDUrHHU</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyle Marshall Choreography: Feminine]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “Marshall seems to build an entire world in the movement, somehow creating a set of rules the dancers must live (and dance) by…the world he creates is so distinctly individual and captivating…” – Alex Bloomstein, The Berkshire Edge The cornerstone of Kyle Marshal Choreography’s Julius Eastman Trilogy, Femenine is an evening-length dance set to Eastman’s most joyous works “Femenine” (1974). Dressed in non-binary expressions designed by KMC Creative Director Edo Tastic, our cast of six performers, Khalid Dunton, Alex Francois, Niara Hardister, Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez, Kyle Marshall and Syd Worthy create a community onstage in lighting by Connor Sale. Ebbing between joyfully queer geometry and dense solos of honesty, the dance is driven by musicality and dramatic moments of power. Washed in an ocean of bells, instruments including vibraphone, brass, woodwinds, and strings carry us through spaces for softness and affirmation revealing the shadows and shimmers of Eastman’s life and legacy. Femenine, a full evening of music and dance is a celebration of Black andBrown LGBTQ+ people and artistry in times of resilience and solidarity.  The presentation of Femenine was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J41GTxB1tPjE%2bOf%2fFMRFM2tga3L1aXIlIePFbCFlr7lfU1NViYX%2bIj8</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J41GTxB1tPjE%2bOf%2fFMRFM2tga3L1aXIlIePFbCFlr7lfU1NViYX%2bIj8</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kyle Marshall Choreography: Feminine]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “Marshall seems to build an entire world in the movement, somehow creating a set of rules the dancers must live (and dance) by…the world he creates is so distinctly individual and captivating…” – Alex Bloomstein, The Berkshire Edge The cornerstone of Kyle Marshal Choreography’s Julius Eastman Trilogy, Femenine is an evening-length dance set to Eastman’s most joyous works “Femenine” (1974). Dressed in non-binary expressions designed by KMC Creative Director Edo Tastic, our cast of six performers, Khalid Dunton, Alex Francois, Niara Hardister, Jose Lapaz-Rodriguez, Kyle Marshall and Syd Worthy create a community onstage in lighting by Connor Sale. Ebbing between joyfully queer geometry and dense solos of honesty, the dance is driven by musicality and dramatic moments of power. Washed in an ocean of bells, instruments including vibraphone, brass, woodwinds, and strings carry us through spaces for softness and affirmation revealing the shadows and shimmers of Eastman’s life and legacy. Femenine, a full evening of music and dance is a celebration of Black andBrown LGBTQ+ people and artistry in times of resilience and solidarity.  The presentation of Femenine was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Foundation and the Mellon Foundation. This project is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities, visit www.arts.gov.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6OXijufB76Y%2fOnGOE7o2tv3whconffNHTRZ0yWA%2b%2b0KzD0LeXfv1iO</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6OXijufB76Y%2fOnGOE7o2tv3whconffNHTRZ0yWA%2b%2b0KzD0LeXfv1iO</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BDF/Flatlands Dance Film Festival]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: Bates Dance Festival is happy to partner with The Flatlands Dance Film Festival to curate an evening of screendance that touches on the themes of autobiography, time, comedy, and social systems as found in Leslie Cuyjet’s For All Your Life. Drawing from finalist submissions from the last three years of The Flatlands Film Festival, a BDF panel has chosen short films that highlight these themes and offer deeper insight into the intersection of dance and media. The selected films will be announced in April.   The Flatlands Dance Film Festival is dedicated to supporting and presenting Dance Cinema, a medium that explores and innovates the intersections between filmmaking and dance making. The festival builds educational platforms, encourages dialogue, and promotes a diverse range of cultural perspectives from around the globe. Learn more about FDFF here.   The BDF/Flatlands Dance Film Festival 2026 jury is Leslie Cuyjet, Natalie Gotter, Cara Hagan, and Laura Chiaramonte.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J545niUSRkPy1JJVA%2bR9%2frmAMrQ16cZj1PEJK4UNkddnpRz35rmcrjl</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J545niUSRkPy1JJVA%2bR9%2frmAMrQ16cZj1PEJK4UNkddnpRz35rmcrjl</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Miguel Gutierrez: Welcome to the Jungle (Working Title)]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Pettigrew Hall 103 - Gannett Theater: A work in progress showing  At Bates, Miguel will begin a new project inspired by his first sabbatical as a UCLA professor this past winter. During this time, he traveled through Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, and Puerto Rico to immerse himself in the local dance and performance communities.  Miguel is also delving into the political histories of these nations, noting that many have weathered military dictatorships that utilized repressive playbooks similar to current trends in the U.S. Through this work, he asks what might be yielded by examining these parallels and considering the ways in which artists persist and create in times of crisis.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6%2fxh3yQBHGD8aUQ5FVFp2ViuVuDxO4NMLUfegh6PkmopSyJd39aHFx</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6%2fxh3yQBHGD8aUQ5FVFp2ViuVuDxO4NMLUfegh6PkmopSyJd39aHFx</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leslie Cuyjet: For All Your Life]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “Leslie Cuyjet is a master of layers.” – Dance Enthusiast For All Your Life is an ongoing performance project that examines the value of black life and black death, through the mechanism of life insurance. In the presentation, Brooklyn-based choreographer Leslie Cuyjet delivers a seminar that teaches us about the insurance industry and its direct connection to the transatlantic slave trade, highlights the way we respond to death, and provokes a reflection on how we regard life.  For All Your Life was originally commissioned by and performed at The Chocolate Factory Theater in New York and developed with residency support from the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the six New England state arts agencies.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6sPncIzsWyycQPSvl5uLL8v7Bulx4TBkiu%2fr%2bbfoEapHgWuAREoaL5</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6sPncIzsWyycQPSvl5uLL8v7Bulx4TBkiu%2fr%2bbfoEapHgWuAREoaL5</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dan Safer & Tommy DeFrantz: Particles, Fields, & The Void]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Pettigrew Hall 103 - Gannett Theater: A work in progress showing  An encounter between Thomas F. DeFrantz and Dan Safer about: Godzilla, personal demons, Basquiat, Abstract Expressionism, drone strikes, treating each other kindly, dancing, wrestling, and how maybe according to the laws of physics it should be impossible to make physical contact with someone but look that is what we’re doing anyway.]]></description><author>scurrier@bates.edu (Currier, Shoni)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5fubEg%2f1%2f4D3vCoUrP3Nmy52ECa4T4sQbmskMz2KmQgMny6YrNmSFm</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J5fubEg%2f1%2f4D3vCoUrP3Nmy52ECa4T4sQbmskMz2KmQgMny6YrNmSFm</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesse Factor: The Marthaodyssey]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “A delectable spectacle that merges Graham’s rigor, pop’s ecstasy, and drag’s defiance.” – Elise Ryan, Petrichor Pittsburgh What happens when the “High Priestess of Modern Dance” meets the “Queen of Pop”?  Step into a world where the rigid lines of the proscenium arch melt into the neon glow of a stadium tour. The Marthaodyssey is a solo, evening-length spectacle by dance artist Jesse Factor that dares to ask: What if Martha Graham choreographed Madonna’s 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour?  It’s a high-camp, high-art drag transformation. Factor siphons the rich, visceral physicality of Martha Graham’s legendary archive and recontextualizes it through the sonic landscape of Madonna’s most iconic era.  Expect a lip sync like you’ve never seen before—where the angular contractions of modern dance collide with the fierce attitude of the 90s ballroom scene.  Jesse Factor’s obsession with the cultural phenomenon of the diva figure, iconicity, and remembering provides an entry point into his solo work. This growing repertoire centers artifice, nostalgia, and cross gender-identification. His ongoing ‘Marthaodyssey’’ series builds imagined combinations of archival Graham movement and themes with popular music and takes delight in the dissonant intersections of these worlds. Other works such as ‘Relic’, ‘Mommie Queerest’ and ‘Kween Kong’ embody impossible fusions, bridge cultural worlds, and play with concepts of the monstrous and sublime. Awards include National Dance Project Finalist and Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Arts Revival Grant for ‘Show Queen’, Twin Cities Arts Reader Critics Pick and Minnesota Fringe Staff Pick for ‘RELIC’ at the MN Fringe Festival, and Outstanding Dance Performance for ‘Marthagany’ at the Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC). Factor received a Kelly Strayhorn Theater Freshworks residency (Pgh) for ‘I am a Haunted House’, a collaborative work with multimedia artist Scott Andrew in 2020. Factor’s work has been presented at TQ Live! – Andy Warhol Museum (Pgh), Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, KYLD Inhale (Phila), OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank (Milton), RADfest (Kalamazoo), Fierce Queer Burlesque (Toronto), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC) and House of Yes (NYC). Factor danced professionally with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Graham II, National Touring Company of CATS, and earned a BFA from Tisch/NYU, MFA from the University of Iowa.  Website:. jessefactor.com/marthaodyssey Follow on Instagram:  @jessefactor]]></description><author>Inactive__Jun 16 2022  7:57AM (Bates Dance Festival)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6o5ADA6AqEP%2bSsOpGdOiF2eSLYhIenqRZ8bvIDQYlNV%2fRlrGagVM1f</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6o5ADA6AqEP%2bSsOpGdOiF2eSLYhIenqRZ8bvIDQYlNV%2fRlrGagVM1f</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jesse Factor: The Marthaodyssey]]></title><description xml:space="preserve"><![CDATA[ 7:30 PM to 12:00 AM - Schaeffer Theatre 204 - Theatre: “A delectable spectacle that merges Graham’s rigor, pop’s ecstasy, and drag’s defiance.” – Elise Ryan, Petrichor Pittsburgh What happens when the “High Priestess of Modern Dance” meets the “Queen of Pop”?  Step into a world where the rigid lines of the proscenium arch melt into the neon glow of a stadium tour. The Marthaodyssey is a solo, evening-length spectacle by dance artist Jesse Factor that dares to ask: What if Martha Graham choreographed Madonna’s 1990 Blonde Ambition World Tour?  It’s a high-camp, high-art drag transformation. Factor siphons the rich, visceral physicality of Martha Graham’s legendary archive and recontextualizes it through the sonic landscape of Madonna’s most iconic era.  Expect a lip sync like you’ve never seen before—where the angular contractions of modern dance collide with the fierce attitude of the 90s ballroom scene.  Jesse Factor’s obsession with the cultural phenomenon of the diva figure, iconicity, and remembering provides an entry point into his solo work. This growing repertoire centers artifice, nostalgia, and cross gender-identification. His ongoing ‘Marthaodyssey’’ series builds imagined combinations of archival Graham movement and themes with popular music and takes delight in the dissonant intersections of these worlds. Other works such as ‘Relic’, ‘Mommie Queerest’ and ‘Kween Kong’ embody impossible fusions, bridge cultural worlds, and play with concepts of the monstrous and sublime. Awards include National Dance Project Finalist and Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council Arts Revival Grant for ‘Show Queen’, Twin Cities Arts Reader Critics Pick and Minnesota Fringe Staff Pick for ‘RELIC’ at the MN Fringe Festival, and Outstanding Dance Performance for ‘Marthagany’ at the Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC). Factor received a Kelly Strayhorn Theater Freshworks residency (Pgh) for ‘I am a Haunted House’, a collaborative work with multimedia artist Scott Andrew in 2020. Factor’s work has been presented at TQ Live! – Andy Warhol Museum (Pgh), Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, KYLD Inhale (Phila), OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank (Milton), RADfest (Kalamazoo), Fierce Queer Burlesque (Toronto), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery, Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC) and House of Yes (NYC). Factor danced professionally with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Graham II, National Touring Company of CATS, and earned a BFA from Tisch/NYU, MFA from the University of Iowa.  Website:. jessefactor.com/marthaodyssey Follow on Instagram:  @jessefactor]]></description><author>Inactive__Jun 16 2022  7:57AM (Bates Dance Festival)</author><category>Dance</category><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate><link>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6MFi5IkKwFBRPkW3QdFkn3gyHvqqtRdSFcaphi8XVy6BUfN0Ki3ExV</link><guid>https://events.bates.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J6MFi5IkKwFBRPkW3QdFkn3gyHvqqtRdSFcaphi8XVy6BUfN0Ki3ExV</guid></item></channel></rss>