“Music to move by” from many cultures features dancers from across the city. Composer and drummer Ryan Edwards teams up with Apostolos Paraskevas to create a new work for young drummers and dancers from Camp Harbor View and the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston. The evening culminates in a grand performance of Copland’s Rodeo, … Continued
Free informal showing featuring work by Hollis Bartlett, McKersin Previlus, and Dante Brown. Work developed during Dante Brown’s Repertory class will also be presented. Following the informal showing, we invite you to join Emily Beattie for a showing of her work. More information about Summer Sizzle Dance Festival available at www.dancecomplex.org
Free informal showing of the work developed during Ricarrdo Valentine’s (INSPIRIT) repertory class. This showing will also feature work by Soumaya MaRose, Sharon Montella, and Papa Sy, and will serve as a reception for all students participating in the first week of the Summer Sizzle Dance Festival! Public is welcome! More information about the Summer … Continued
Don’t miss the Melaza World Premiere! A dance theater piece that explores the relationship between Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, and the United States- as it pertains to race, language, and the socioeconomic and political status that propels the constant migration.
Join choreographer/Director Sarah Slifer Swift, Composer Kirsten Miller, Filmmaker Andrea Minicozzi, and many performers for dance installation “Sphere.” In this durational performance, Swift and company explore women’s social and political power through the lens of the historic White-Ellery House. Using movement, film and sound, the performers will examine the complexities of labor, value and respect, … Continued
Jimena Bermejo and Chris Brokaw present a one-night meeting of select talents in music, dance, and literature from Eastern and Western Massachusetts; new works and new configurations for this occasion. Artists include Alissa Cardone, Bill Nace, Jake Meginsky, Jen Polins, Matt Krefting, Sean and Dan McCarthy, The Empty House Cooperative, Bermejo + Brokaw and more…
The Trisha Brown Dance Company continues Brown’s legacy through its Trisha Brown: In Plain Site initiative. Through this effort, the company draws on Brown’s model for reinvigorating her choreography at new sites and in new contexts. In a co-presentation by Jacob’s Pillow and the Clark, the company will present Trisha Brown: In Plain Site on … Continued
Come experience the infectious spirit of dance …learn the official National Dance Day routine at 1:30 . At 2pm the multi-cultural dance performance begins featuring the traditional rhythms of Benkadi Drum and Dance, Flamenco Boston, Irish step to Bollywood, Spirituals, Swing , Hip Hop and more!
The Ghost Festival is the first multi-disciplinary solo project by Koma. Using a mobile trailer, he creates a gallery of works meant to be both an interactive visual art installment and performance space. Koma envisions a meditative and communal space to honor the connection between past and present, and provide a home for lost … Continued
In times of struggle, women must support one another. In times of triumph, women must celebrate one another. We are bolder and stronger as a collective. This is what drives “Bodies & Choices”. This performance is centered around the theme of female empowerment. The dances will depict the full spectrum of this concept, from the … Continued