Dance, music, text, and video come together in David Roussève/REALITY’s new work Halfway to Dawn, a “heartfelt and heart-breaking homage” (Times Quotidian) to Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington’s prolific but long-obscured collaborator, known for singles like “Take the ‘A’ Train”, “Satin Doll”, and “Lush Life”. Interpreting Strayhorn’s signature music sensibility through a dynamic movement vocabulary which … Continued
Angie Neylan Wimmer, Tanya Gorriaran Goodwin, Raylyn Dipaolo are Blue Moon Caravan. The dancers join together to share the joy and passion of tribal bellydance, moving together in group improvisation and incorporating flavors of traditional bellydance, Indian, Flamenco, and North African dance. Troupe director Neylan has devoted over 18 years to the growth of tribal … Continued
Circus Dynamics is Providence’s local circus and fire entertainment company. Circus dancers will parade the city with glowing LED wings, hoops, poi, staff, and juggling props and fire dancers will perform mesmerizing skills and daring stunts in choreographed routines. For the fifth year, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture+ … Continued
LTNX is a local vocal dance group joined with various local Latinx performers from RI. The main focus is to embrace and sing Latinx communities greatest hits from Selena Quintanilla’s “Como La Flor” to Gloria Estafan’s “Conga.” LTNX’s singers and performers have performed with local mariachi bands, in RI’s best musicals and even at your … Continued
Performing at 3 pm in Burnside Park, the Rhode Island Kung Fu & Lion Dance Club is a non-profit martial & cultural arts group practicing kung fu & Chinese lion dance. Lion dance is a festive, cultural performance combining the movement and spirit of kung fu with drumming and symbolizing good luck and positive energy. … Continued
Dance BFF, featuring Rupa Datta, Rutuja Patil, Isha Magavi, Vaishnavi Parasarthy, Shany Rajagopalan, Kunjal Patel, and Manjiri Kulkarni, works towards bringing awareness and experience about Indian dance as an art form in greater RI cultural communities and among the state’s young people. The group is a hub for Bollywood and Indian dances in the Ocean … Continued
Natyamani School of Dance from Westborough, MA will showcase Bharatanatyam – a popular classical dance style from southern India. The dancers, under the direction of their Guru, Sridevi Ajai Thirumalai, will enthrall you with their colorful costumes, intricate footwork, facial expressions, and synchronized rhythms, all choreographed to traditional upbeat music! For the fifth year, Mayor … Continued
“A tour de force of artistic storytelling” (The Los Angeles Times), this audience favorite returns to the Ted Shawn Theatre for the first time in five years with seven performances, having amassed one of the most extensive Jacob’s Pillow performance record of any artist, appearing more than 20 times since 1986. In a special remounting, … Continued
“One of the brightest lights in tap today” (The New Yorker) Caleb Teicher and innovative pianist and composer Conrad Tao collaborate in “More Forever,” a new evening-length work. On a stage filled with a thin layer of sand, dancers explore American dance forms such as tap, vernacular jazz, and Lindy Hop, set to Tao’s new … Continued
World-renowned cellist Maya Beiser, legendary dancer Wendy Whelan, and seminal choreographer Lucinda Childs join forces to present the highly-anticipated world premiere of “THE DAY,” with music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang. This momentous melding of multi-genre creative genius, created collaboratively by Beiser and Childs, explores memory, life’s journey, resilience, and survival of the soul … Continued