Aroundtown is a kinetic poem that examines the varied, unique and sometimes divided notions of love – its meaning, purpose, and platform. With original music, text, and visuals, the work explores commitment, community, and intimacy in times of violence and strife. David Dorfman Dance’s trademark empathy, sly humor, and bombastic physicality are harnessed in this look … Continued
Come spend your Sunday afternoon with a classical Indian dance performance by Vibhaa Sivaraman. The performance will be in bharatanatyam style, with a series of independent pieces. All pieces will be preceded by narrations and prose descriptions to aid understanding of the art. Graduate students Srinivasan Raghuraman and Anirudhh Raghu will be providing musical support.
Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion (PDM) brings intimate dance performance to the stage in “Significant Others: Dances for Family, Friends and Lovers”. The programs, taking place at The Calderwood Pavilion at BCA South End Campus/Martin Hall, share dance and performance works that look back on dances made from lives lived, and forward toward the dances … Continued
Audrey Harrer’s Lavender is a cross-modal musical performance that celebrates how experience shapes and guides us—the feeling of soft linen, the slam of a door, a party, an ending, the smell of a perfume. In this multi-sensory work, customized refreshments, soundscapes, cinematic projections, and a “Sensory Program” provide a backdrop to mirrored pairs of performers—Harrer … Continued
“For the Children” is Dance Currents’ collaboration with Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, as part of Pro Arte’s Salon Series, and the Newton Festival of the Arts, repeated at Integrarte, Brown Jr. High and The Dance Complex. “For the Children” is based on the separation of families, as immigrants try to cross the border … Continued
Performing art is an endless journey with constant surprises along the way. It is also a story being told with no written words. Through countless sessions of practice and rehearsal, cleansed by their own sweat and tears, these young artists learned, absorbed, and gradually integrated their experience into their performance for the final show. It … Continued
You are invited to the fifth performance of “Moment’s Notice, an Improvisation Salon” The salon highlights improvisations from the realms of movement/dance, theater, sound/music, poetry and visual art. Four or five short works get presented in an informal setting, where we celebrate the experimental territory and ephemeral nature of this art form. Tai Jimenez (dance), Sarah Hickler … Continued
Natalie Johnson Dance presents our original evening-length quartet, AGEN, in an intimate studio production. An evocative, playful, and vulnerable performance of four dancers supporting and witnessing each other’s struggles and triumphs. “Agen” from Middle English, is the root word for own, against, and anew. Within one word is the capacity to express owning, battling against, … Continued
The Salem Dance Ensemble of Salem State University presents faculty, student, and guest artist work by Hollis Bartlett. Join Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon for an informal performance of “Transmuting” at 5:00 on May 4th before the concert.
Prakriti: Dances of Life! invokes the art form’s technical mastery and storytelling to bring to life the richness of human experience. Once every two years, Chhandika showcases the hard work of its students, ages 5-65 through the ancient Indian dance form from North India, Kathak. Under the direction of Gretchen Hayden and senior teachers, 100 … Continued