Events

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

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

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