Jennifer Nugent and Paul Matteson, both Bessie Award-winning performers and former Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company dancers (2008-2014), are known for their phenomenal partnering work, creating duets that are intense, forceful, and passionate. Their latest duet, another piece apart, reflects on a history of a fractured togetherness and blurred boundaries. The multi-focused movement fluxes in … Continued
Experience in Motion is both music concert and dance concert. Featuring original music by local folk/Americana band Town Meeting, and original choreography by Tony Guglietti, formerly of Sean Curran Company, this evening will pair live music and dance for a seamless blending of movement and sound. Town Meeting prides themselves on being a band that … Continued
Hosted in The Dance Complex’s Cozy Studio 7, 4 on the Floor will be a cabaret of tap and rhythm, showcasing tap dance, music and movement from the mind of Touché Taps Artistic Director Shaina Schwartz. Feature some tunes you may have heard before and some you definitely have not, this show explores various and … Continued
Exit Dance Theatre’s October 20th performance of “Still Undone” is a collection of seven pieces from its highly successful 2017 and ‘18 seasons. Themes range from family and marital bonds to societal burdens and expectations. True and Exit’s style, dances are rich in content and character development, leaving a deep impression on its audience. More … Continued
In 1979, at the age of 71, Ethel Merman recorded her last studio album before her death. “The Ethel Merman Disco Album” exists as a centerpiece of gay camp culture that raises questions of artistic integrity, the commercialization of queer culture, and gay male/straight female relationships. According to some VERY credible and rigorous research, there … Continued
Gender free dancing is the theme of LCFD dance camps. Our main focus is Contra dancing, but we regularly supplement the program with English Country dancing and occasionally have some other form of folk dancing. Dancing is pretty much non-stop, with meal and sleeping breaks. The program is organized as a single main track, with part time alternate tracks … Continued
In this dance/theater performance based on her experience growing up with a learning disability, Vermont dancer, choreographer and spoken word artist Lida Winfield shares the gifts and heartache that accompanied her struggle to learn to read – which did not occur until her early twenties. The evening includes a discussion with Lida Winfield immeidately following … Continued
“Are You Buying?” is a new theatrical dance performance by Somerville-based artist Catherine Siller. A fashion mannequin in a Downtown Boston storefront dreams she has it all, traveling back in time through fashion and beauty advertisements from the 1920s to today. Initially thrilled to constantly reinvent herself, she ultimately realizes she’s caught in a loop … Continued
Visit a new exhibition, Step Back: Seeing Ballet’s Future in the Past, based on Harvard’s remarkable Sergeyev collection. This exhibit celebrates the bicentenary of Marius Petipa’s birth. Petipa (1818–1910) came to Russia in 1847, and spent the rest of his career at the Maryinsky Imperial Ballet. He created more than 50 ballets, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, and The Sleeping … Continued
Please join us for the premiere screening of “Deviation, Twice Removed,” a short contemporary dance film inspired by research into the concept of genetic memory. A collaboration between choreographer Erin McNulty, filmmakers Chris Di Nunzio and Skip Shea, and musician Josh Knowles, the film was shot in the Madame Sherri Forest of NH as a … Continued