An evening of dances that are equal parts joyful, sophisticated, and silly. Dance Shorts: Little Nods* & Buoy Bits brings together collaborators from New England and beyond to (re)connect, play, and celebrate community and proximity in movement.

Buoy Band: The Love Tour!

Choreography: Chloe Carlson and Natalie Johnson

Performance: Chloe Carlson, Marissa Chura, Natalie Johnson, Emma Malbon and Alicia Wilder

Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Georges Bizet, Dave Brubeck, Annie Lennox, Bruce Springsteen

A performance of several connection-celebrating, love-centering modern dance works that bridge artistry with accessibility. Join us for a suite of dances that are alternately expansive, playful, elegant, quirky and which culminate in an embracing of community with audience involvement and impromptu creation.

Little Nods

Choreography and Performance: Dayita Nereyeth and Ellen Oliver

Music: Abhaydev Praful

Little Nods follows two friends reconnecting after years of long-distance collaboration and asks: how does proximity change a creative process? What shifts when a process built through screens transitions into shared space? What needs to be rooted for something else to move or fly? Drawing on material and processes from time apart, Little Nods brings individual and shared movement to a choreographic process and performance. The piece blends imagery from two earlier collaborative works—one framed by balloons, the other accompanied by a bonsai plant—to explore how friendship and imagination can transform the mundane.
*Little Nods by Dayita Nereyeth and Ellen Oliver was funded in part by New England Foundation for the Arts’ New England Dance Fund, with generous support from the Aliad Fund at the Boston Foundation.