Founded in the fall of 2011 by Joy French, Bare Bait Dance offers fresh, original, professional dance-works in Montana for Montanans. Under the direction of Joy French, Bare Bait Dance company aims to:
- make contemporary dance more accessible to both the Missoula community as well as rural Montanan communities which are largely under served in the performing arts
- collaborate directly with loc
al artists (filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, directors, actors) to create interdisciplinary dance-theatre works
- strengthen the Montanan dance community by providing paid performance jobs to highly skilled professional dancers, nurturing their creative work as choreographers, and facilitating opportunities for them to expand as teachers
- present performers and choreographers from around the region and nation in order to cultivate a richer appreciation for contemporary dance and dance field as a whole
