Charlotte Brill '10 of Newton Highland, Mass., stands at the entrance to the new dining Commons to promote last spring's Art-In, held at Chase Hall to showcase student art at Bates.

Sociology professor Heidi Chirayath wondered what she was doing at an early meeting of a campus group formed to advance the arts at Bates.

All the others attending were faculty and staff involved in teaching and practicing the arts in myriad ways. After they introduced themselves, it was Chirayath's turn. (more...)

Terri Kapsalis in a photo by her Theater Oobleck collaborator John Corbett.

The Hysterical Alphabet, an acclaimed multimedia performance piece exploring the "female malady" of hysteria, will be performed at Bates College on May 20.

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From left, Yasin Fairley '12 and Claire Parker '11 rehearse "doesn't fall far from the," a piece choreographed by Lindsay Swan '11, for The Bates College Modern Dance Company 's annual spring concert of new works.

From left, Barbara Byers '10, Kate Taylor '11, Kaitlin Webber '11 and Megan Fahey '11 perform "Routine Facade" choreographed by Claire Parker '11 for a dance composition course taught by Assistant Professor of Dance Carol Dilley.

Margaret Koerber '10 tries on one of 80 scarfs for sale draped over chairs in Gannett Theater during the "Scarves and Shawls" Extravaganza, a fundraising hour for the Robinson Players to support the student theater group's 2009-10 season.

Bates students perform Closer, Patrick Marber's critically acclaimed dissection of love and lust, on April 4, 8 and 9. The performers are students in Katalin Vecsey's "Advanced Voice and Speech" course, a study of vocal and physical techniques in the exploration of theatrical texts. Her students study characterization through voice and speech, perform cold readings, and assess and prepare for the vocal demands of different roles. (more...)

Professor of Theater Paul Kuritz

Students in the Bates course "Acting and Directing for the Camera" screen their class projects on April 3. The projects are scenes adapted from well-known motion pictures such as Armageddon, 28 Days Later, Juno, Bridget Jones' Diary and American Beauty. (more...)

With the ultimate aim of teaching contemporary drama in her native Sri Lanka, a Bates College senior has received a 2009 Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study performance arts in South Africa and Indonesia. Sulochana Dissanayake of Pita Kotte, Sri Lanka, is one of 40 recipients of the 2009 fellowship, a $28,000 award supporting a year of independent research abroad. (more...)

Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of Alcestis, Euripides' tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in his place.

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