Events + Classes
January 17, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
January 24, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Move to the music of the world and meet new people at Friday Night International Folk Dancing! Beginners and experienced dancers, singles, couples, and groups are all welcome! Marcie Van Cleave and guest teachers provide a fun program for new and experienced dancers alike at the Folk Arts Center (FAC) Friday folk dance. In a … Continued
January 18, 2025
2:00 pm
2:00 pm
January 18, 2025
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
OnStage Dance Company, is returning to the stage with its Season 27 Performance. The Season 27 Performance features work in jazz, tap, contemporary, commercial, fusion, modern, and filmed pieces by OnStage company members Lexine Brooks, Emily Chang, Mykayla Cohen, Danielle Doody, Melissa deFriesse, Jennifer Kuhnberg, Sara Lodgen, Catherine Shortliffe, Austen Starr, Lizzy Thaman, Erica Thorp, … Continued
January 19, 2025
1:00 pm
1:00 pm
January 19, 2025
3:30 pm
3:30 pm
Join local musicians alongside aerialists, dancers, acrobats, and more for an afternoon of circus, bold ideas, and brand-new sounds you won’t find anywhere else! The Circus Mixtape series brings together musicians and movement artists to create new pieces that could not exist without their collaboration. The result is a collection of heartfelt, bold, and innovative … Continued
The Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Boston with Morris’ newest evening-length work, The Look of Love. The piece is a wistful and heartfelt homage to the chart-topping hits of Burt Bacharach, a towering figure of popular music, newly arranged by jazz pianist, composer, and MMDG musical collaborator Ethan Iverson. Bacharach’s melodies and unique orchestrations … Continued
January 25, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dance Performance, fundraiser, and dance party Join this very special event showcasing the work of dancer-choreographer Myles Kercher. See two original choreographies – the powerful work “face” and a brand new duet – in a performance and fundraiser event, as he raises money to help fund his training opportunities overseas. After the performance will be … Continued
January 31, 2025
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
February 1, 2025
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Walking the Talk is a new day-and-a-half format event for dialogue discussion created in response to feedback from our communities. This event will bring dancers, choreographers, presenters, audience members, and funders together to engage in open dialogue and reflection. This event features a keynote address from Christal Brown, open space discussion times, learning circles, and … Continued
February 2, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
March 2, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
April 6, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
A community barn dance includes dances in circles, squares, and lines – the dancing is both easy and fun! Dances are led by a caller, who teaches every dance. It’s a community event – dancers of every age are welcome; singles, couples, and families. No previous dance experience necessary! Bring your friends! Wear cool, comfortable … Continued
February 8, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
JIG, a Trinity Irish Dance Company (TIDC) production, is a fresh take on TIDC’s internationally-renowned, alternative approach to a traditional form. Centered by a live band in a unique space, JIG immerses audiences in an authentic experience that celebrates the power of vibrations, rhythm, and movement—redefining what is possible for Irish music and dance.
February 8, 2025
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Come get your Bridgerton on and dance like Jane Austen. Get dressed in your Regency finest and dance the night away in the Great Hall of the Gore Mansion. Live musicians will play English country dances from the Regency Period. Social Dance Historian (and BDA member) Ruth Benson Levin will guide you through dances, involving … Continued
February 15, 2025
6:00 pm
6:00 pm
February 15, 2025
8:45 pm
8:45 pm
This Valentine’s Day, elevate your celebration with Arias Aloft: Love Languages, a spellbinding spectacle of love in all its forms! Aerial dance artists soar above the stage, accompanied by the passion and power of opera and musical theater favorites performed live. Hosted by the incomparable operatic diva, Donatella Fermata, this is a night of beauty, … Continued
It’s the fifth annual Motion State Dance Festival! This dazzling array of performances, dance films and artist/audience interactions presents the latest in contemporary dance and movement-based art. The Festival gathers local and national, emerging and established dance artists to share their boundary-pushing creative explorations with a growing Rhode Island dance audience in four different evening … Continued
March 1, 2025
6:00 pm
6:00 pm
This will be the 16th year thanks to the support of the teams, sponsors and community! They look to make this the BIGGEST SAS ever! Teams from all over North America & Canada have deemed us “one of the best Bollywood/Fusion competitions” in the North America, and we look forward to living up to that … Continued
March 14, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
March 15, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
Boston Dance Theater performs Red is a feeling—an evening of short dance works which present multi-faced expressions of love, longing, and the fight to live, woven together by the color Red. The program takes its title from a new commission by Iranian-Hispanic choreographer Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad who was diagnosed with two forms of cancer in … Continued
April 25, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
April 26, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
The Center Will Not Hold is an expanded and reimagined work born from a little room, a short duet created and performed by Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie in December 2022. The piece now features a collective of singular performers (including Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie) deeply rooted in one or many street, club, and … Continued
May 16, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
May 17, 2025
8:00 pm
8:00 pm
David Dorfman Dance’s truce songs explores how our world might look, and how we might feel, if traditional truces were extended by a day, then a month, then years—ending one small war on humanity at a time. DDD’s trademark risky, frisky, and vulnerable movement, accompanied by an original score by Lizzy de Lise and Sam … Continued