Moving in the Moment is designed to bring together the Bates Dance Festival faculty, guest artists and musicians to rehearse and perform in an improvised dance concert.  This concert is a yearly favorite of audiences, allowing them to experience a wide array of dance artists and musicians working together in a structured improvisation.  Performers attune themselves to one another and their surroundings with the goal of coherent action and thinking.  It is real time collaboration, which means that each performer has to continually recalibrate in relation to what is happening in order to discover and develop the form and content of the composition.  At times it feels like walking on a tightrope — where sometimes you fall and have to get back on.