Welcome to the Boston Dance Scene! We are an active, vibrant community of dancers, choreographers, teachers, administrators, and audience members from throughout Greater Boston. We represent myriad dance forms and aesthetics. We are large enough to offer a quality experience in all dance forms, but not so large that we overwhelm newcomers. Living in an attractive and lively metropolitan region, we produce thousands of concerts, classes and workshops throughout each year. While our region has its own challenges, namely a lack of venues designed specifically for dance and the ever-present need for more funding, we are actively organizing and working to improve our community.

Venues

Small and Intimate 
The Dance Complex, Green Street Studios, Mobius, the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Springstep, Casania and Hibernian Hall offer black-box-style theatres, seating 50-200 and offering a range of production services.

Mid-sized 
Tower Auditorium of the Mass College of Art and the C.Walsh Theatre of Suffolk University seat 400-500 and offer full production values. Other mid-sized theatres are Boston University’s Tsai Performance Center, Boston Colleges’ Robsham Theatre Arts Center and the Boston Conservatory Theatre. 

Large 
Boston’s Theatre District has three dance-appropriate theatres: the Wang Center for Performing Arts (seating 3,600); Shubert Theatre (www.wangcenter.org) (seating 1,600) and Emerson College’s Majestic Theatre  (seating 1,000). Given the Wang’s size, it is used primarily for Boston Ballet and national touring productions such as Alvin Ailey. Both the Wang and the Shubert host touring Broadway shows, and the Shubert also hosts mid-sized dance companies visiting through the FleetBoston Celebrity Series. The Emerson is Boston’s most frequent home for dance. Less frequently used (but nevertheless appropriate) theatres include The Strand, Copley Theatre, Hancock Hall, Northeastern University’s Blackman Auditorium and Somerville Theatre.

Classes

See the Boston Dance Alliance Classes section for current courses.

A wide variety of classes are offered throughout Greater Boston during both the day and evenings and weekends. What follows is a sampling of what’s offered:

Ballet – from Vaganova to Balanchine

Modern/Post-modern – from Denishawn-influences to post-modern to contact improv

Ethnic – flamenco, West African, Irish, Balkan, Israeli, East Asian, Brazilian, Argentine tango, salsa, Bulgarian, Hawaiian, Kathak, Classic Indian, and Afro-Cuban 

Jazz – Horton influences, Broadway-style, Cole influences, hip-hop

Body/Mind – Yoga, Alexander, Authentic Movement, Pilates

Tap – An intimate and strong community.

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