March 28, 2024
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Bangor High to present original dances

BANGOR – Bangor High School will offer a performance of original dances at 7 p.m. Monday, March 7, at Peakes Auditorium in the school.

As part of a project designed to integrate performance with academic studies, Emilie Manhart’s British literature class and Meredith O’Reilly’s American literature class each spent two weeks working with dancer and choreographer Louis Gervais.

Working with Gervais, Manhart’s juniors created a dance based on William Goldings “Lord of the Flies.”

O’Reilly’s sophomores created a dance based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Great Gatsby.”

The community is invited to attend the performance. The event will help the audience learn more about the creative process that enabled high school English students to successfully interpret and express their class reading through dance.

A short performance by Gervais also will be part of the evening. Parents, teachers, students, school board members and administrators are encouraged to attend this free event. Refreshments will be served.

The performance is sponsored by Bangor High School in partnership with the Acadia Hospital Community Conversations Program and the Maine Alliance for Arts Education’s Building Community Through the Arts Project.


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