Maree ReMalia, center, leads a Bates Dance Festival class at Lewiston Middle School on Friday. The Gaga class teaches movement through nuanced gestures, over-the-top physicality, meditative moments, and absurd exchanges that aim to uncover new ways of moving, accessing the subconscious and cultivating fluidity between following bodily impulse and making decisions. The festival continues through the summer with many public performances. For more information visit batesdancefestival.org. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

Maree ReMalia, center, leads a Bates Dance Festival class at Lewiston Middle School on Friday. The Gaga class teaches movement through nuanced gestures, over-the-top physicality, meditative moments, and absurd exchanges that aim to uncover new ways of moving, accessing the subconscious and cultivating fluidity between following bodily impulse and making decisions. The festival continues through the summer with many public performances. For more information visit batesdancefestival.org. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

Fabi Guinnen, left, and Amanda Boike, second from right, dancers in the Bates Dance Festival at Bates College in Lewiston, participate in a class at Lewiston Middle School on Friday. The Gaga class teaches movement through nuanced gestures, over-the-top physicality, meditative moments, and absurd exchanges that aim to uncover new ways of moving, accessing the subconscious and cultivating fluidity between following bodily impulse and making decisions. The festival continues through the summer with many public performances. For more information visit batesdancefestival.org. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)

Sarah Foucher, a student in the Bates Dance Festival at Bates College in Lewiston, participates in a class at Lewiston Middle School on Friday. The Gaga class teaches movement through nuanced gestures, over-the-top physicality, meditative moments, and absurd exchanges that aim to uncover new ways of moving, accessing the subconscious and cultivating fluidity between following bodily impulse and making decisions. The festival continues through the summer with many public performances. For more information visit batesdancefestival.org. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal)