Stories about "hip hop"
Student research reveals China’s uneasy embrace of video gaming, hip-hop music
Tuesday, April 2, 2019 1:42 pm
Can "positive energy and socialist values" co-exist with Western pop culture? A Mount David Summit session takes a look.
Pringle ’98, star of hip-hop ‘Othello,’ tells Time Out Chicago how Bates theater helped his rap artistry
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 4:31 pm
Rapper, writer, actor and director Postell Pringle '98 is winning rave reviews for his star turn this spring in the title role of "Othello: The Remix" at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Rennie Harris and Puremovement open 2012 Bates Dance Festival
Thursday, July 5, 2012 9:16 am
Rennie Harris, proclaimed "hip hop's grandmaster" by Dance Magazine, returns to Bates with his company, Puremovement, to launch the Bates Dance Festival and present some greatest hits.
‘red, black & GREEN: a blues’ breaks boundaries April 27-28
Tuesday, April 24, 2012 1:22 pm
Bates College and the Bates Dance Festival present this widely acclaimed multimedia production "red, black & GREEN: a blues" April 27-28.
Rapper Macklemore and his DJ/producer, Ryan Lewis, to perform outdoor show
Friday, September 2, 2011 2:22 pm
Fresh from their triumphant national touring debut as headliners, Seattle rapper Macklemore and his DJ producer, Ryan Lewis, visit Bates College for an open-air performance on the Library Quad, accessed from Campus Avenue between Chase Hall and the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, at 8 p.m.Friday, Sept. 16.
Bates announces Commencement 2010 honorands, speakers
Wednesday, May 26, 2010 3:21 pm
The 2010 Bates honorands are: Rennie Harris, the choreographer who brought hip hop to the mainstream world of dance; James McCarthy, a scientist recognized internationally for helping to communicate the science of climate change; Jane Pauley, the veteran television journalist; Elizabeth Strout, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and 1977 Bates graduate; and Teresa Woodruff, a researcher responsible for pioneering work in the care of women who will become infertile due to cancer treatment.
Clyde Evans Jr. to hold hip-hop workshop
Monday, November 12, 2001 1:17 pm
Acclaimed dancer and choreographer Clyde Evans Jr. will discuss and demonstrate the art of hip-hop in a Bates College performance Monday, Nov. 12, in the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell Street.
Bates Dance Festival presents the high voltage hip-hop senasation Rennie Harris PureMovement
Friday, July 11, 1997 4:19 pm
Rennie Harris PureMovement, an electrifying eight member dance company rooted in hip-hop culture, will perform two powerful new works at The Bates Dance Festival, northern New England's leading contemporary dance presenting and training program, at 8 p.m July 25 and July 26, in Schaeffer Theatre, 305 College St.