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The Dance Complex resumes the DIY Performance Series in the new year on January 27 and 28 with NATyA Dance Collective’s Radical Love: A Collective Movement. Experience Bharatanatyam, folk dance, contemporary storytelling, a Sikh shabad, and live music of acclaimed singer/songwriter Anju in this suite of new pieces. Radical Love: A Collective Movement will explore … Continued

FirstWorks Global Journeys, Small Island Big Song, March 15, 2024 at The Strand in Providence

“Beautiful cinematography and incredible music … one coherent, jaw-dropping piece.’’ — Billboard Asia, Japan Experience a transcendent musical journey combining song, spoken word and cinematic visuals filmed over a three-year voyage across 16 island nations. The musicians in “Small Island Big Song” would tell you that the ocean does not divide their island homes — … Continued

Dancer/performance artist K.J. Holmes performs in a synesthetic evening of art, dance, poetry, and music.

A Winter Solstice “Third Thursdays”

Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church

December’s special edition of the “Third Thursdays” monthly harmolodic jazz series promises to be a synesthetic evening of art, dance, poetry, and music curated by harmolodic scholar and practitioner Matt Lavelle, who is also a multi-instrumentalist (trumpet, alto clarinet), a visual artist and poet in his own right. For this performance, Lavelle has created a … Continued

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Circus Up is proud to announce that their annual benefit will be on Saturday, December 16th. The show will start at 7pm and doors will open at 6:15pm! This year’s benefit will be at the beautiful Arts at the Armory and will feature delicious treats and refreshments, an exciting raffle, and a live performance. They … Continued

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Please join us for a wonderful holiday event-Black Santa is coming to the Vine Street Community Center for a wonderful BalletRox Holiday Party! Photos, treats, crafts, and dance with Santa. All ages welcome, no experience necessary.

A dancers with brown curly hair in a bright blue suit and heeled Converse reaches to the left of the image with her back leg swinging up behind her. The text reads: In celebration of our 10th anniversary season Nozama Dance Collective Presents RECLAIM December 2 7:30PM Boston University Dance Theater.

RECLAIM

Boston University Dance Theater

In celebration of their 10th anniversary season, Nozama Dance Collective presents RECLAIM, an evening-length concert of live contemporary dance. The performance will include multiple world premieres, your favorite Nozama repertory works including a historical restaging, and guest artists from the greater Boston dance community. With a focus on storytelling, and the celebration and reclamation of … Continued

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A dance company of the people, Lakaï Dance Theatre roots itself in stories of home to highlight the issues affecting our communities and neighborhoods. Fèt Lakaï launched in New York City in 2022. Now it is time to bring the party home to Boston for a full weekend of events. Lakaï Dance Theatre will be … Continued

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For You, I Dream of Me

JMAC Brick Box Theater

“For you, I dream of me” explores through contemporary dance theater the themes of love, sacrifice, and violence depicted in fairy tales, lore and myth from various cultures and traditions around the world as it affects female characters and society’s understanding of the feminine experience. Fairy tales are stories that describe a society’s cultural morals. These … Continued