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
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