Faculty

Nancy Salmon, Bates Dance Festival Assistant Director/Registrar, has been teaching various courses in Theater, Dance and Education at Bates since 2008. Nancy has a long career as dancer, choreographer, and teacher in Maine, including higher education positions at Washington University (MO), University of Southern Maine, New School for Social Research in NY.

Visiting Assistant Professor
207–753-6978
Pettigrew 202
rboggia@bates.edu

Pettigrew 203
207–753-6977
cdilley@bates.edu

Carol Dilley joined the Bates Dance Program in the Fall of 2003. She has been an international choreographer, performer and teacher for nearly 20 years. Based first in New York, then Barcelona, Seattle, Sydney and now Maine, she has worked with many companies and independent choreographers as well as her own companies, Radio Suec and Carol Dilley & Co. She has performed her work in the USA and Europe both as a solo artist and as director/choreographer of those companies.

Carol has also dedicated a lot of energy into the creation of opportunities for the development and performance of dance works. She co-founded La Porta, a performance series dedicated to the creation and promotion of independent dance in Barcelona and Europe, and later founded Dance Briefs, a similar initiative in Sydney, Australia. She received her MFA from the University of Washington and a Graduate Certificate in Arts Management from the University of Technology in Sydney. She served as Coordinator of the Bachelor of Dance Education at the Australian College of Physical Education before coming to Bates as Assistant Professor of Dance and Director of Dance at Bates College.

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.