LEWISTON – Rhode Island-based Everett Dance Theatre will return to Bates College this summer to present the world premiere of “Home Movies.”

Incorporating dance, theater and video, “Home Movies” explores today’s American family, tackling such issues as mental illness, homelessness and immigration.

“Home Movies” draws on Everett’s multicultural makeup to depict the many ways families provide a sense of belonging and safety, to explore how we identify our families, and to ask where we find home.

With video in the mix, Everett will bring family members to the stage using humor to look at the many difficulties harbored amid the love.

Everett is an intergenerational company nationally recognized for its evening-length, theme-based concert works and innovative educational programs.

Everett works in depth in its community at the company’s Carriage House Stage and School, providing long-term, professional-level training in the arts to inner-city youths and young adults and bringing arts performances to its community.

Artistic Director Dorothy Jungels has received four choreographer’s fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, four fellowships from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, and one from the Rhode Island Foundation.