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Running until 08/31, Mondays @ 6:00 PM, MetaMovements presents Salsa in the Park @ 50 West Brookline St, Boston Ma

MetaMovements Salsa Night

Join MetaMovements for FREE salsa dancing under the stars! Every Monday night, starting June 22 from 6pm-9pm at the Blackstone Community Center Park (50 West Brookline Street, Boston's South End). Free lessons provided by SalsaBoston.com

Phone: 617.983.1418
Website: www.MetaMovements.com
E-mail: anara@MetaMovements.com
Contact: Anara

Tickets: Free!

 

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July

07/08 @ 6:30 PM, the Museum of Fine Arts presents You! at their Free Outdoor Karaoke Event: Seeing Songs @ 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston MA 02115

Museum of Fine Arts Karaoke*NEW DATE* Event has been rescheduled from 7/1 due to weather. Don't miss the free Outdoor Karaoke Party at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on Wednesday, July 8th from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. The MFA will debut the video installation Queen (A Portrait of Madonna) as WFNX's Julie Kramer DJs. Join hundreds of Bostonians for group karaoke on the Museum's front lawn. Then, check out art inspired by music in their new exhibition Seeing Songs. It's free!

Website: http://www.mfa.org

Tickets: Free!

Image Credit: Still from Queen (A Portrait of Madonna), 2005
Candice Breitz (South African, born in 1972)
*Courtesy of the Artist and Yvon Lambert Gallery

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07/09 @ 08:00 PM, Summer Stages and Armitage Gone! Dance present Ligeti Essays and The Watteau Duets @ Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord MA

Armitage Gone! DanceTwo works of edgy classicism: Ligeti Essays to music from the late Hungarian composer Gyorgy Ligeti, and an explosion of the pas de deux with The Watteau Duets to live music by David Linton with keyboard-and-drum duo TALIBAM!

All performances run one hour, end with an additional 15-minute Q&A with the artists, are are held in Concord Academy's fully air-conditioned 400-seat Performing Arts Center. On Thursday evenings, audience members may also attend a pre-performance open rehearsal in the Studio/Performance Space.

Reservations: Reserved seating

Phone: 978.402.2339

Website: www.summerstagesdance.org

E-mail: summerstagesdance@concordacademy.org

Contact: April Stone

Tickets: $25, $15 students and seniors
$100: 5-performance subscription

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07/11 @ 7:30 PM, Summer Stages and Nell Breyer/Alissa Cardone/Lorraine Chapman/Bronwen MacArthur present The Disappearing Woman @ The Institute of Contemporary Art, 110 Northern Avenue, Boston

The Disappearing WomanThe world premiere of a new media/movement collaboration that addresses the anxieties of self-expression in an increasingly fragmented and distributed culture. The artists use the metaphor of digital media as an enveloping, inescapable extension of the body itself. The piece was commissioned and developed by Summer Stages Dance, in association with the Baryshnikov Arts Center, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the Regional Dance Development Initiative of the New England Foundation for the Arts, and Vermont Performance Lab.

Reservations: Reserved seating

Phone: 617-478-3103

Website: icaboston.org

E-mail: kkerrigan@icaboston.org

Contact: Kelli Kerrigan

Tickets: $25, $15 ICA members, students, and seniors

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07/13 - 07/18 @ 8:00 PM, The Boston Babydolls present The Wrathskellar @ Arsenal Center for the Arts Black Box, 321 Arsenal Street, Watertown, MA 02472

The Boston Babydolls

 

The Boston Babydolls present a very dark shade of burlesque in this archetypal underworld tavern where hearts, promises, and crockery are broken with abandon and secrets are hidden just below the surface.

Reservations: General Seating

Phone: 1-800-838-3006

Website: www.tinyurl.com/wrathskellar

E-mail: support@brownpapertickets.com

Tickets: $5 - $18

 

 

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07/14 - 08/18, Tuesdays @ 11:00 AM, Seekers of Knowledge presents Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park @ The Playstead, 1 Franklin Park Drive, Roxbury, MA 02119

Celebrate the legacy of Elma Lewis with free performances in Franklin Park. Every Tuesday at 11am. With Seekers of Knowledge, Contemporary Dance, and Origination.

Phone: 617-442-4141
Website: www.franklinparkcoalition.org

Tickets: Free!

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07/15 @ 7:00 PM, Reach Intergenerational Dance Company presents Reach Annual Summer Dance Concert @ Bishop Allen Drive parking lot, behind the Harvest Cooperative Market in Cambridge, MA

Reach

On Wednesday, July 15, at 7:00 p.m., Reach's intergenerational dance company will give a free 45-minute performance at the Bishop Allen Drive parking lot, behind the Harvest Cooperative Market in Cambridge, MA.

Phone: 617-353-1597
Website: http://www.bu.edu/fitrec/programs/dance/reach/
E-mail: budance@bu.edu
Contact: Micki Taylor-Pinney

Tickets: FREE!

 

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07/16 @ 8:00 PM, Summer Stages and Chris Elam/Misnomer Dance Theater present Being Together @ Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord MA

Misnomer Dance TheaterWhether creating dance for film, the web, installations or the stage, Misnomer is daring, inventive, and unpredictable. Being Together continues Misnomer's history of collaborating with renowned composers, featuring original music by Bang on a Can All-star's Evan Ziporyn. Known for its improbable partnering and unique movement language, Misnomer offers an evening of curious encounters, outrageous undertakings and transformative dance. Mirroring the company's innovative off-stage efforts to find new ways of connecting, the three dances comprising Being Together Too Late Tulip, Rock.Paper.Flock. and Zipper are themselves about the nuances and complexities of human interaction: our quest to connect, understand and be understood.

Reservations: Reserved seating

Phone: 978.402.2339

Website: www.summerstagesdance.org

E-mail: summerstagesdance@concordacademy.org

Contact: April Stone

Tickets: $25, $15 students and seniors
$100: 5-performance subscription

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07/17 from 10:00 AM - 10:00 PM, Peabody Essex Museum presents Surf's Up! A PEM beach party @ Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, Salem - MA 01970

Join us for PEM's Surf's Up beach party! Enjoy surfing workshops, sand-castle building competitions, beach tunes, classic films, and watch professional surfboard designer, Kevin Cunningham, make a surfboard right before your eyes! You won't go hungry because there will be casual summer food including beef & veggie burgers, hot dogs, veggies, fruit salad, and cool drinks. Stop by PEM's acclaimed summer exhibition, SurfLand: Photographs by Joni Sternbach to see the surfing images that inspired the party.

Phone: 978-745-9500

Website: http://www.pem.org/events

Tickets: Included in general museum admission

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07/18, from 2:00 PM to 1:00 AM, Losst Unnown Presents "Pre-Skillz" All ages event @ Brookline Academy of Dance, 136 Westbourne Terrace, Brookline, MA

Fashion Show, Games, BBQ (if no rain) & Dance battles! We will also have Cards, Dominoes, Connect 4 and more. It's all about having fun with friends you haven't met yet. So who's got skillz here?

Directions:
Take Green line B-Boston College to Washington street Station. Turn left on Washington St. walk about 2 blocks turn left Corey Rd. walk about 1 block turn right on Westbourne Terr.

Tickets: $20 and $10 for kids

Competitions/Dance Battles:
*ALL BATTLES ARE 1 on 1*
Popping - $1000.00 cash prize
B-boy/B-girl - $1000.00
Locking - $500.00
Freestyle dance battle - $250.00

*Special Exhibition Battle*
Jomo (Losst Unnown)
VS.
Ricky Tang (Dangerous Styles Crew)

You can also purchase Losst Unnown clothing at the event and pre-order custom clothing of your liking.
COME AND HAVE FUN, BRING THE FAM!!
Good People, good music...Good Times.

*For More info contact Fadayz of Losst Unnown 617-909-0936 or visit our site Losst Unnown

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07/22 - 08/02 @ various times, American Repertory Theatre presents Aurelia's Oratorio @ Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge

Aurelia's Oratorio

Aurelia's Oratorio returns by popular demand for a two-week run at the A.R.T. Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter has charmed audiences around the world with this dazzling display of stage illusion, ballet, puppetry, and whimsy, inspired by the magic of music hall and circus and co-created with her mother, Victoria Thierree Chaplin.

Phone: 617-547-8300

Website: www.amrep.org/aurelia

E-mail: kati_mitchell@harvard.edu

Contact: Kati Mitchell

Tickets: $2-75

 

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07/23 @ 8:00 PM, David Parker & The Bang Group present A 10th Anniversary Celebration at Summer Stages Dance @ Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord MA

David Parker & The Bang GroupParker and his company will offer a rollicking cabaret-tinged show with singing, dancing, highlights from the last ten years of shows and some on-the-spot choreography bringing the audience into the creative process itself.

Reservations: Reserved seating

Phone: 978.402.2339

Website: www.summerstagesdance.org

E-mail: summerstagesdance@concordacademy.org

Contact: April Stone

Tickets: $25, $15 students and seniors
$100: 5-performance subscription

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07/25 from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM, Summer Stages, Gabri Christa and Germaul Barnes present Mama etcetera, a site-specific work @ The Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston

Gabri Christa & Germaul BarnesSummer Stages Dance/Baryshnikov Arts Center Residency Project 2009. Site-specific new dance and film work specially created for The Institute of Contemporary Art's Harborway and The Barbara Lee Family Foundation Theater.

Phone: 978.402.2339

Website: www.summerstagesdance.org

E-mail: summerstagesdance@concordacademy.org

Contact: April Stone

Tickets: FREE for families visiting the museum

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07/25 @ 8:00 PM, Summer Stages Dance presents Choreographers' Project Showcase Featuring new work by Germaul Barnes and Resident Fellowship Artists @ Performing Arts Center at Concord Academy, 166 Main Street, Concord MA

Choreographers' Project ShowcaseA showcase of new work developed by Choreographers' Project Fellows and featuring an original piece by dancer and choreographer, and former principal of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Germaul Barnes, performed by Summer Stages Workshop participants.

Reservations: Reserved seating

Phone: 978.402.2339

Website: www.summerstagesdance.org

E-mail: summerstagesdance@concordacademy.org

Contact: April Stone

Tickets: $25, $15 students and seniors
$100: 5-performance subscription

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07/26 @ 8:00 PM, Anna Myer and Dancers present Street Talk / Suite Talk @ Hibernian Hall 184 Dudley Street, Roxbury Ma

Anna Myer and Dancers

A performance of Act I of Street Talk Suite Talk Rap/spoken word Opera with a discussion following the performance.

Students, seniors and children are free

Reservations: Call 617 513 9314 or buy your tickets at the door

Contact: Anna Myer
Website: www.annamyeranddancers.org
E-mail: annamyerdancers@gmail.com

Tickets: $10

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Running until 08/02 @ various times, American Repertory Theatre presents Aurelia's Oratorio @ Loeb Drama Center, 64 Brattle Street, Cambridge

Aurelia's Oratorio

Aurelia's Oratorio returns by popular demand for a two-week run at the A.R.T. Charlie Chaplin's granddaughter has charmed audiences around the world with this dazzling display of stage illusion, ballet, puppetry, and whimsy, inspired by the magic of music hall and circus and co-created with her mother, Victoria Thierree Chaplin.

Phone: 617-547-8300

Website: www.amrep.org/aurelia

E-mail: kati_mitchell@harvard.edu

Contact: Kati Mitchell

Tickets: $2-75

 

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Running until 08/18, Tuesdays @ 11:00 AM, Seekers of Knowledge presents Elma Lewis Playhouse in the Park @ The Playstead, 1 Franklin Park Drive, Roxbury, MA 02119

Celebrate the legacy of Elma Lewis with free performances in Franklin Park. Every Tuesday at 11am. With Seekers of Knowledge, Contemporary Dance, and Origination.

Phone: 617-442-4141
Website: www.franklinparkcoalition.org

Tickets: Free!

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