Dance the afternoon away while raising money for Hyde Square Task Force’s youth arts programs! The afternoon will kick off with the chance to take lessons from incredible instructors: Burju & Victor Perez, Masacote Dance School Director, Angie Egea, and Sasi Marcelino! The lessons will be followed by social dancing, activities for children, and a … Continued
OnStage Dance Company and Nozama Dance Collective present “Empower One Another,” a performance series exploring the theme of the female experience and female empowerment – with a strong focus on collaboration. Featuring original work performed by: OnStage Dance Company // Nozama Dance Collective // The END Ensemble // Kaleidoscope Dance // Sasso & Company // … Continued
Kicking & Screening is an evening of short experimental dances created specifically for the camera. The films collected here represent a diversity of cultural backgrounds and artistic languages; and though all are concerned with the capture of the moving body within the moving frame, each does so in its own unique way – crafting worlds … Continued
An evening of new experiments with the methods of three visionary artists who expanded the meaning of choreographic practice, and still do: Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, and Bill T. Jones. See Harvard students perform and engage with work that spans 90 years of dance history. Evocative, idiosyncratic, distinctive, and infinitely expressive, each of these works … Continued
Boston’s own Danny McCusker and Portland’s Riley Watts, plus Vermont dancers Polly Motley and Laurel Jenkins, are featured in this international cyberspace extravaganza, Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event. (Check the website for the amazing list of performers) Each of the three participating institutions—the Barbican, London, BAM in New York City, and CAP UCLA in … Continued
No experience necessary- This is an intergeneration dance around the shores of Crustal Lake in Newton. Dancers and musicians wanted to learn simple combinations to be a part of this community dance honoring the water as our wealth.
teXtmoVes, a poetry/dance intergenerational collaborative, will be performing as part of the Boston Poetry Festival. Organized by Berklee Music Professor Lucy Holstedt, the event will include live jazz, ethnic music, dance improvisation and choreography, and poetry. Come and enjoy the evening.
José Mateo Ballet Theatre’s YOUTHWORKS, now in it’s 25thyear, is joined by faculty and other guest dancers in an exciting “coming out” celebration of the school’s advanced students who assuredly will help shape tomorrow’s dance landscape. Guest dancers include Angie DeWolfe, Brittany Bush, Janelle Gilchrist and Haruka Tamura.
Adrianne Tabet’s Moving Steps Foundation, a powerful model of how dance can transform lives, entrusts her troupe of dedicated women to the artistic imagination of acclaimed local choreographer Lorraine Chapman for a new experimental work. The anticipation of unknown possibilities at the intersection of socially conscious dance and movement for art’s sake adds to the … Continued
An immersion into Spanish culture highlighted by the impassioned performances by acclaimed Flamenco artist Yosi Karahashi whose personal journey from Japan to Spain and ultimately to the U.S. provides the compelling story that drives her dramatically charged work.