Shadow puppetry meets dance-theater meets original songwriting riffing on American folk traditions. Fresh from a recent month of creative research hosted by the Casteliers puppetry festival in Montreal, Veronica Barron will showcase a collage of brand new works in development. Scenes you might see include: Two women dance, with gestures that alternate between delicate and … Continued
Global Water Dances uses the international languages of dance and film to promote awareness and a behavioral shift toward solutions for water preservation and conservation through community engagement. Choreographer: Audrey Albert King Dancers: Audrey Albert King Karen Klein Alice Heller Nancy Jo Cardillo Carolyn Melbye Kathleen Anderson Alina Fein Featuring poet Elizabeth McKim
Construction Zone is an interactive installation built out of chained yarn which grapples with questions of nonbinary performance. Everyone can rebuild our construction of gender to create endless possibilities! Come any time between 1:30pm-5:30pm for as long as you like. Entrance is free! Accessibility: Make Shift Boston is fairly accessible with step free access. **The … Continued
GARAGE BAND is a pop-up dance party, a celebration of community, a gathering in an unusual venue, the Arlington Global Service Station, a classic auto service station that has become, thanks to input from neighborhood artist Johnny Lapham, a public art landmark in the heart of Arlington’s Cultural District. Now the vibrant service station will … Continued
After embracing a different identity for his company, A.I.M makes its Ted Shawn Theatre debut performing a mixed repertory program that demonstrates the company’s diverse range of styles and Abraham’s own artistry as a performer with INDY, his first major solo in nearly a decade. A.I.M’s dynamic dancers perform Andrea Miller’s all-female state set to … Continued
For more than a decade, Brooklyn-based Gallim has embodied human connection through bold, raw, transformative works. A former dancer with Batsheva Dance Company and, most recently, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first choreographic Artist-in-Residence, Artistic Director Andrea Miller has established herself as a perpetually groundbreaking artist who brings unbridled vulnerability and sensitivity to her work. … Continued
Boston Ballet returns to Jacob’s Pillow for the first time in over a decade, performing work by choreographic and visual artist William Forsythe, currently in a five-year artistic partnership with the Company, classics by Russian choreographer Leonid Yakobson, and resident choreographer Jorma Elo’s Bach Cello Suites.
Dance, music, text, and video come together in David Roussève/REALITY’s new work Halfway to Dawn, a “heartfelt and heart-breaking homage” (Times Quotidian) to Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington’s prolific but long-obscured collaborator, known for singles like “Take the ‘A’ Train”, “Satin Doll”, and “Lush Life”. Interpreting Strayhorn’s signature music sensibility through a dynamic movement vocabulary which … Continued
Angie Neylan Wimmer, Tanya Gorriaran Goodwin, Raylyn Dipaolo are Blue Moon Caravan. The dancers join together to share the joy and passion of tribal bellydance, moving together in group improvisation and incorporating flavors of traditional bellydance, Indian, Flamenco, and North African dance. Troupe director Neylan has devoted over 18 years to the growth of tribal … Continued
Circus Dynamics is Providence’s local circus and fire entertainment company. Circus dancers will parade the city with glowing LED wings, hoops, poi, staff, and juggling props and fire dancers will perform mesmerizing skills and daring stunts in choreographed routines. For the fifth year, Mayor Jorge O. Elorza, the City of Providence’s Department of Art, Culture+ … Continued