Over the past four years, we have been living in a bizarre mashup of 1984 and a Kanye West rant. Down is up, up is down, and left is the direction you swipe a 5″x 5″ human who doesn’t immediately tickle your fancy. Fires are burning, politicians are failing, and you can get cat treats…

This free concert features the world premier work of choreographers TJ Canlon, Lindsey Faber, Jocelyn Gonzalez, Kevin Lau, and Asia Pyron. These five senior dance students each offer a unique perspective of the human experience, exploring a range of emotional life through movement with their talented casts, the dancers of The Boston Conservatory’s pre-professional B.F.A…

The Dance Complex’s CATALYSTS artists-in-residence have created work throughout the 6-month residency culminating with performances. Performances take place on Friday & Saturday evenings with residency artists appearing in rotating repertory throughout three weekends. Performances are in our fully accessible, ground-level studio 7 and run approximately one hour. CATALYSTS artists-in residence are: contemporary partnering-based duo Em…

Groundbreaking Montréal-based company RUBBERBAND brings together contemporary dance composition and West Coast hip-hop like none other. Choreographer Victor Quijada, who was a b-boy in Los Angeles before signing on with Twyla Tharp and later Les Grands Ballets Canandiens de Montréal, creates an electrifying new style of dance inspired by breakdancing, ballet, and contemporary dance. Ever…

An eclectic mix of dance styles performed by OnStage Dance Company. With original choreography in Contemporary, Tap, Jazz, Modern and Street Styles, ​this show has something for everyone! ​​ Featuring choreography by: Shari Atamian – Michelle Block – Melissa deFriesse – Teresa Fardella Amy Foley – Willow Gertz – Nadya Karpova – Jennifer Kuhnberg Chelsea…

This free webinar is for artists/choreographers and/or dance companies interested in applying for the 2020 National Dance Project (NDP) Production Grant. NDP Production Grants provide funding to artists/companies to create new dance works and touring subsidies to the U.S. organizations who bring that work to their communities. This webinar, led by NDP staff, will guide artists…

This curated performance series devotes itself to the art of improvisation. Artists whose collaborations and solo works celebrate live-time creation find a home here. The multidisciplinary salon highlights improvisations from the realms of movement/dance, theater, sound/music, poetry and visual art. Four or five short works get presented in an informal setting, where we celebrate the…

Named Best Emerging Choreographer by Dance Magazine, Caleb Teicher is known for a unique style of theatricality, humor, emotional expression, and aesthetic exploration. Composer and pianist Conrad Tao is a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist regarded as “shaping the future of classical music” (New York Magazine). Teicher and Tao, both former teenage prodigies now in their…

Choreographer Ian Berg brings his Boston-based company for a night of live music and cutting-edge tap dance work to examine the intersection of tap and jazz. We welcome you through our red stage door to find The Z stage transformed into an intimate concert club! Reserved seats at premium tables ($29) are available and remaining…

PYDANCE presents its first full-length show, Graduation, a reflection on human development and experiences of adolescent life through the choreographic storytelling of director Asia Pyron. Graduation is a choreographic rendering of faceless, theatrical characters traveling through the world they inhabit, telling their nonlinear stories through physical expression and full body movement. Inspired by Kanye West’s…