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
In celebration of Big Dance Theater’s 25 th anniversary, artistic leaders Annie-B Parson—known for her work with David Bowie, David Byrne, and St. Vincent—and Paul Lazar theatrically re-imagine the conventions of a repertory program. Inspired by disciplines of the concise—novellas, folk tales, diary entries, pencil drawings, thumbnail sketches—Big Dance performs five distinct short works, … Continued
Celebrate National Dance Day with Boston Ballet for a one-day-only performance, First Look. This exclusive performance will feature new and returning dancers in Boston Ballet II (BBII), the second company, and select Boston Ballet School Summer Dance Program (SDP) students in a range of works curated to reflect the main Company’s diverse repertoire, including George … Continued
HEELS DANCE & FITNESS TECHNIQUE WITH JOLIE LAVIE BEGINS, TUESDAY JULY 26 Open, ongoing class in Heels Dance Fitness & Technique with #BostonBurlesque performer Jolie LaVie. Participants will gain confidence walking, moving and being fierce in their heels. This class will begin with basic moves that will be used throughout instruction and performances that will … Continued
Join us for a night of celebrating community and strength, at the first annual More than Moves Festival! Hosted by Paradise Lost: A Movement Collective, the More than Moves Festival bands together the influence of narrative and the beauty of movement to benefit Transition House — Cambridge’s domestic violence agency for community education, outreach and … Continued
Gathering together the many talents at the Dance Complex and having a showing of work by choreographers that teach and frequent the Dance Complex Performing Dance Companies Impulse Dance Co. – Adrienne T. Hawkins Off Beat – Ryan P. Casey Freedom Dances – Nicole C. Laliberte’ Present Day Dance Theatre – McKersin Previlus Mystique Illusion … Continued
UK-based dance maker Vincent Cacialano brings the second installment of his radical dance performance Auto-Body-Graphic. Also featured in the evening are two collaborative dance-film projects by Vincent Cacialano and Alan McDermott, and an opening act of electronic music by My Brother Daniel (Scott Buchanan). A $10 donation to the artists is suggested. Seating is … Continued
Forty Steps Dance gets set to deliver another fun-filled outdoor summer performance in Swampscott, on Fisherman’s Beach, Saturday, August 6, at 5:30 p.m. (rain date August 7). The troupe will present a new site-specific dance with specially adapted selections from its critically acclaimed “Spirits,” a new work that debuted in April of this year. “Spirits,” … Continued