Join us to celebrate Jamila’s Salimpour 90 year old birthday. A tribute show with dancers from New England sharing the stage in a very special homage to the Salimpour legacy. Snacks and refreshments will be provided.
Using the vehicle of dance as an artistic voice, The Project Moves Dance Company holds as its core mission the advocacy for, and the empowerment of, our youth. Our goal is to bring attention to the mistreatment of young people – and all other acts of injustice against humanity – and more importantly offer solutions … Continued
Three members of the Paul Taylor 2 Dance Company will be at Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, MA teaching teach master classes for all levels and performing informally at a picnic benefit on Thursday, Aug 18th. Taylor 2 class schedule: Wednesday, August 17th from 5:00-6:30pm modern Taylor technique class for all ages and basic … Continued
Luminarium’s 24-Hour ChoreoFest is back – the only twenty-four hour choreography festival in America! Six local dance companies will convene at the Dance Complex to pick themes from a hat and create brand new choreography overnight. The overnight creation period will be broadcast live on the internet, so that anyone can watch and interact with … Continued
ali kenner brodsky & co. will preform a “sneak peak” of PARt outside in the sculpture garden at the Dedee Shattuck Gallery in Westport, MA. Come and see a first look at an excerpt from the new evening-length work choreographed by Kenner Brodsky with music composed by MorganEve Swain. PARt will have its premiere October … Continued
It’s coming up Sept 18! Help us spread the word! Every fall, approximately 100 Boston area dancers gather to audition for 40 different companies and choreographers by participating in a series of ballet, modern, jazz, and hip hop classes. BDA’s Open Call Audition is one of the highlights of our year: a friendly day of … Continued
Boston Landmarks Orchestra gets a well-deserved night off with a screening of the classic 1949 movie musical On the Town, starring Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, and Ann Miller. The film is based on the 1944 Broadway musical by Leonard Bernstein, which in turn is based on his ballet Fancy Free—which the Landmarks Orchestra performs on August 17. Hit songs such as ‘New York, New York’ and Kelly’s iconic dancing are among the highlights. Pack your picnic for an old school Hollywood musical film under the stars.
2015 Guggenheim Fellow and Doris Duke Impact Award winner Beth Gill makes her Boston debut with a new work premiering only a week earlier at the Walker Art Center in conjunction with the exhibition Merce Cunningham: Common Time. Gill, a three-time Bessie Award winner, is perhaps best known for her 2011 breakout work, “Electric Midwife,” … Continued
Photo by Paolo Porto Lauded Italian choreographer and theater director Alessandro Sciarroni is known for stagings that straddle dance, performance art, and ritual anthropology. In FOLK-S he refines the Schuhplatter, a Bavarian folk dance whose title translates to “shoe batter,” to its most essential form, invoking a sense of playful experimentation and ritualized trance. Starting … Continued
A Letter to my Nephew, Bill T. Jones’s latest work, makes its U.S. premiere at the ICA. The work brings together two impulses: the social/political and the deeply personal. A Letter to my Nephew is a street scene or a still from the evening news that superimposes violent street battles in the U.S. and desperate … Continued