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

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

Photo of many people dancing in concentric circles
January 24, 2025
8:00 pm - 10:30 pm

Move to the music of the world and meet new people at Friday Night International Folk Dancing! Beginners and experienced dancers, singles, couples, and groups are all welcome! Marcie Van Cleave and guest teachers provide a fun program for new and experienced dancers alike at the Folk Arts Center (FAC) Friday folk dance. In a … Continued

Photo of three circus artists in a lift.
January 19, 2025
1:00 pm
January 19, 2025
3:30 pm

Join local musicians alongside aerialists, dancers, acrobats, and more for an afternoon of circus, bold ideas, and brand-new sounds you won’t find anywhere else! The Circus Mixtape series brings together musicians and movement artists to create new pieces that could not exist without their collaboration. The result is a collection of heartfelt, bold, and innovative … Continued

Photo of people sitting in a circle talking
January 31, 2025
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
February 1, 2025
1:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Walking the Talk is a new day-and-a-half format event for dialogue discussion created in response to feedback from our communities. This event will bring dancers, choreographers, presenters, audience members, and funders together to engage in open dialogue and reflection. This event features a keynote address from Christal Brown, open space discussion times, learning circles, and … Continued

Dark photo of Myles Kercher on stage crouched down in a twisted position

Dance Performance: Myles Kercher

MAGMA (Movement Arts Gloucester MA)
January 25, 2025
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Dance Performance, fundraiser, and dance party Join this very special event showcasing the work of dancer-choreographer Myles Kercher. See two original choreographies – the powerful work “face” and a brand new duet – in a performance and fundraiser event, as he raises money to help fund his training opportunities overseas. After the performance will be … Continued

Season 27 promotional graphic
January 18, 2025
2:00 pm
January 18, 2025
7:00 pm

OnStage Dance Company, is returning to the stage with its Season 27 Performance. The Season 27 Performance features work in jazz, tap, contemporary, commercial, fusion, modern, and filmed pieces by OnStage company members ​Lexine Brooks, Emily Chang, Mykayla Cohen, Danielle Doody, Melissa deFriesse, Jennifer Kuhnberg, Sara Lodgen, Catherine Shortliffe, Austen Starr, Lizzy Thaman, Erica Thorp, … 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

illlustration of four people dancing hand in hand
February 8, 2025
7:00 pm - 10:00 pm

Come get your Bridgerton on and dance like Jane Austen. Get dressed in your Regency finest and dance the night away in the Great Hall of the Gore Mansion. Live musicians will play English country dances from the Regency Period. Social Dance Historian (and BDA member) Ruth Benson Levin will guide you through dances, involving … Continued