One white female with long brown hair and bangs stands looking up at the camera while wearing a white turtleneck sweater. A white man with short dark hair stands behind her, with arms outstretched, wearing a checkered long sleeve button down shirt. The pair is framed by wooden floor boards, as the camera points down at them from an attic space.

Dance Date

The Dance Complex
February 14, 2025
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
DANCE DATE is a dance-for-all workshop that invites paired participants ages 8+ to explore communication, trust, and creativity with a loved one through contemporary dance and creative movement. Class requires no prior experience with dance: theater-based eye contact/focus exercises, ”trust fall” exercises, and elements of dance theory are employed to build trust and connection, while … Continued
Love Languages poster
February 15, 2025
6:00 pm
February 15, 2025
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
Gray Space/Blue Skies poster with event information and photo of Jenny Oliver.

Gray Space | Blue Skies

Multicultural Arts Center
February 22, 2025
3:00 pm
Through the metaphor of “gray space” and “blue skies,” this performance journey—driven by original marimba compositions blending African diasporic traditions—moves from melancholy reflection to a place of acceptance, unity, and joy. With layered choreography and a transformative emotional arc, the piece delves into the inner dialogue of the conscious creative navigating societal and cultural expectations … Continued
Motion State Dance Festival

Motion State Dance Festival

The Wilbury Theatre Group
February 26, 2025
7:30 pm
February 27, 2025
7:30 pm
February 28, 2025
7:30 pm
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
South Asian Showdown XVI
March 1, 2025
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
Photo of performer in all white looking up holding on to fabric hanging from above

Varvara

The Dance Complex
March 1, 2025
8:00 pm - 9:30 pm
March 2, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Varvara is both a response to Alexander Rodchenko’s photograph “Performing Furniture” (1922), which features his artistic collaborator and life partner Varvara Stepanova, and to Stepanova’s body of creative work. One of the prominent Russian Constructivist artists, Stepanova’s endeavors include textiles, visual poetry, costumes, and set designs. Konstantin Rudnitsky, a Soviet theater critic of their time, … Continued
People dancing in a circle with hands joined.
March 2, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
April 6, 2025
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
May 4, 2025
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
Two dancers from Boston Dance Theater, a woman on the right and a man on the left, stand and partially embrace in front of a beige backdrop.

Boston Dance Theater: Red is a feeling

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
March 14, 2025
8:00 pm
March 15, 2025
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
A dancer clad in black approaches a cymbal-player during a performance.
April 25, 2025
8:00 pm
April 26, 2025
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
A dancer kneels atop a black floor, with another dancer sitting in the distance against a dark background.

David Dorfman Dance

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
May 16, 2025
8:00 pm
May 17, 2025
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

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