After embracing a different identity for his company, A.I.M makes its Ted Shawn Theatre debut performing a mixed repertory program that demonstrates the company’s diverse range of styles and Abraham’s own artistry as a performer with INDY, his first major solo in nearly a decade. A.I.M’s dynamic dancers perform Andrea Miller’s all-female state set to … Continued
For more than a decade, Brooklyn-based Gallim has embodied human connection through bold, raw, transformative works. A former dancer with Batsheva Dance Company and, most recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first choreographic Artist-in-Residence, Artistic Director Andrea Miller has established herself as a perpetually groundbreaking artist who brings unbridled vulnerability and sensitivity to her work. … Continued
Boston Ballet returns to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time in over a decade, performing work by choreographic and visual artist William Forsythe, currently in a five-year artistic partnership with the Company, classics by Russian choreographer Leonid Yakobson, and resident choreographer Jorma Elo’s Bach Cello Suites.
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