Marcy Plavin: Lecturer Emeritus in Dance

Marcy Plavin is responsible for the development of the Dance Program from the time she arrived at Bates in 1965. She launched the Bates Dance Company four years later in 1969 and became a Lecturer in Dance in 1971. Marcy has an M.A. in Dance from Wesleyan University. In addition to teaching academic and studio courses, she has produced over 100 dance concerts, contributing choreography of her own as well as advising student choreographers and touring with the Company to schools around the State. She has always encouraged an active guest artist residency program and has brought to Bates such artists as Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio, Doug Varone, Mark Dendy, Pilobolus, Eiko and Koma, Kei Takei, Murray Louis, Doug Elkins, Tere O’Connor and others. She is an active member of the national academic dance community and has served on the Board of the American College Dance Festival Association as well as hosting the American College Dance Festival six times at Bates. She was founder and co-director of the now internationally renowned Bates Dance Festival and still serves on the Artistic Advisory Board of the Festival. Marcy is active in the Maine dance community and has lectured at a variety of institutions as well as contributing articles to the Maine press and National Dance Journals.