Events

The Festival of the Arts will be a two month long, citywide celebration and showcase of Newton’s talented citizens and organizations.  There are numerous events throughout the month that cover almost every art form. Participating groups include CreationDance, directed by Helena Froehlich, Dance Currents Inc., directed by Kathy Hassinger, Selmadanse, directed by Joanie Block, and … Continued

Dance Shorts: Short works, short show, average height dancers. This project will present the work of seven strong female choreographers based in the Boston area, some working collaboratively. Each choreographer or choreographic team works independently, without the structure of a company. We are challenging ourselves and our fellow choreographers by time-limiting each work, keeping both … Continued

Tense Vagina: an actual diagnosis is about motherhood- its beauty, challenges, isolation, comedy and influence on the human experience. This hour-long evening-length solo uses humor, movement, sounds, songs, text and audience participation to reveal all that is awesome and all that sucks when it comes to being a mother. Tense Vagina focuses on the seldom-discussed … Continued

SOLA is an evening of solo dances choreographed for and by women. Curated by University of South Florida assistant professor Andee Scott, the concert showcases the work of female dance artists from around the country, with Elizabeth Weil Bergmann, Amy Chavasse, Tzveta Kassabova, Bliss Kohlmyer, Pamela Pietro, and Andee Scott performing self-choreographed work, and Mary … Continued

Overdoses, gossip queens, long lost friends, prostitution, mental illness, lovers, backstabbing, drug addicts… recovery. This is Treatment, a new urban musical about a group of women living together at a long term, residential treatment facility for substance abuse. Described as a “drama filled, emotional rollercoaster,” Addison’s new musical allows us to enter the world of … Continued

From the Paris Opera Ballet. At the beginning of the last century, Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes shook conventions and threw open the door to modernity, initiating a collaboration between painters, musicians and choreographers of the avant-garde. The artistic elite of the era was brought together under one breathtaking playbill: Debussy, Stravinsky, Falla, Picasso, Bakst, Massine, Nijinsky, Fokine… And … Continued