Who are the people who made you YOU? re{ACT} re{BUILD} re{COLLECT} uses dance theatre look at the ways we discover, connect with, and remember the people and relationships that shape our lives. These collaborative creations use metaphors to illustrate how imperfection can transform into physical poetry. A combination of movement and spoken word, partnered with … Continued
The salon highlights improvisations from the realms of movement/dance, theater, sound/music, poetry and visual art. With Trisha Zembruski & Lorraine Grosslight (action theater), Daniel Bear Davis (movement/dance), Nate Tucker (sound/music), Hanneke Cassel and Kieran Jordan (folk fiddle and percussive dance). An informal, curated performance series devotes itself to the art of improvisation. Artists whose collaborations and solo works celebrate live-time creation find a … Continued
Celebrate the Persian New Year! Learn about Nowruz traditions, explore Persian works of art and interactive activities for the whole family, and enjoy dance performances by Iranian modern dancer Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam, Boston born Shirin Shahin’s Azerbaijani influenced dance performance with both traditional and modern elements, and Aftab Dance Group, made up of students and young professionals. … Continued
Please come to a screening March 20, 6 p.m. at Regis College, 235 Wellesley St., Weston, MA, College Hall Room 202. Films featured: Award winning, “Making Mill Town”. A documentary about the process in making, “Mill Town” a multi-media, site specific dance work choreographed and directed by Stephen Koplowitz. Film directed and edited by Lindsay … Continued
In his Wellesley concert on April 6, Juanito will be joined by his acclaimed instrumental trio and dancer Nelida Tirado, and other special percussive dancers as guest artists in kathak and tap for a cross-genre collaboration! Jonathan “Juanito” Pascual is an internationally recognized guitarist and “flamenco phenom” (The Boston Globe). His sound is a truly … Continued
City Ballet of Boston presents our first iteration of Studio Sessions; an in-studio event. In its inaugural year CBB enjoyed successful runs of our fall endeavor, Souvenir, and winter Urban Nutcracker. These talented professional dancers and choreographers have volunteered their time to present two fabulous in-studio events in order to raise funds for future productions and … Continued
Boston Ballet presents George Balanchine’s Coppélia, a lighthearted comedy set in a country village about a life-size dancing doll created by Doctor Coppélius. The life-like doll becomes the source of love troubles for a village couple, Swanilda and Frantz, when Frantz mistakes the doll for a real girl and becomes infatuated with it. Mayhem … Continued
JUST ADDED, extra performance on Friday March 15 at 8:30 pm. All other performances are sold out. Monica Bill Barnes & Company – last seen on the Series as the titular dancers alongside Ira Glass in 2015’s Three Acts, Two Dancers, and a Radio Host – return with Happy Hour, an immersive show that finds the cringe-worthy … Continued
Samvād is a forum for professional artists and committed practitioners of classical Indian dance and music in the Greater Boston area to meet and interact in an informal environment. Samvād aims to create a space for artists to come together to converse, evaluate and reflect. 1. Samvād is not a platform for formal performances. Participants … Continued
Innovative, transformative and daring, Salomé: Woman of Valor is the culmination of five years of work by Grammy Award-winning composer/trumpeter Frank London and poet/performer Adeena Karasick. This “spoken word opera” features live music, poetry, dance and video, that refutes misogynistic and anti-Semitic interpretations of Salome and recaptures her rightful place as a powerful revolutionary matriarch. … Continued