Dance activities at “Creating Together,” the 20th annual Boston College Arts Festival, include a series of student dance company showcases, Irish dance under the direction of Shiela Falls Keohane, and a BC bOp! dance performance and party with jazz music by Sebastian Boniauto to close the festival. Check the website for times, places, and all … Continued
In the spirit of Elma Lewis, ArtsEmerson, Roxbury Community College, OrigiNation Cultural Arts Center and the National Center for Afro-American Artists invite you to Welcome to Boston – A Cast Party for Step Afrika! The evening will feature performances by Boston Tap Company, OrigiNation, Adobuere Ebiama, Jean Appolon Expressions, Steppin in the Bean, Shaumba-Yandje Dibinga, … Continued
Dancers Celebrate Dorothy Elizabeth is a performance and reception to celebrate together a treasured member of the Boston Dance community who danced into her 95’th year and inspired us all. The performance will feature the companies of which Dorothy Elizabeth was a member: Back Pocket Dancers, directed by Andy Taylor-Blenis Prometheus Elders Ensemble, directed … Continued
Four local tap dance choreographers & their ensembles will share the stage for a presentation of exciting new works and works in progress that showcase a variety of rhythmic styles. Each troupe will share about the processes and inspirations behind their work, and the show will culminate in a creation of a brand-new collaborative piece … Continued
Performed on, and around, an inflatable plastic living room set, Inflatable Trio questions the ways we attempt to orient ourselves within ever-changing domestic, social and environmental landscapes. As the elements of a family room are repeatedly deflated, dismantled and re-organized, three dancers poignantly persist, react and cope. Each in turn upends—and is upended by—the objects, people and … Continued
BEE Dance: a free pre-show talk with Choreographer Lionel Popkin preceding the 7pm performance of Lionel Popkin’s Inflatable Trio Lionel talks about hot air, blow up furniture and dance; facilitated by Executive Artistic Director of The Dance Complex, Peter DiMuro *You do not need to see the show to come to the BEE, though we do … Continued
Known as the “mother of modern dance,” Isadora Duncan created a series of mourning dances following the accidental deaths of her two children in 1913. Dances by Isadora will perform these evocative dances of wind, sea, darkness, and light in Hazel Dell.
The Femme Show celebrates queer femininity and the rich history of femme identity by proclaiming that “More is More.” We’re showcasing the over-the-top, the absurd, the flamboyant, and declare that, at least on our stage, there is no such thing as “too much.” The 2018 edition includes politics, step dancing, etiquette advice, fan dancing, drag, … Continued
the little match girl passion (David Lang) David Lang’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning the little match girl passion tells an everyday story in a hauntingly simple way. The human story of a starving girl freezing to death is framed within, and brilliantly juxtaposed with the divine St. Matthew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. A new series of one-hour … Continued
Dance Prism recreates the Boston of the early 1940s in its production of Variations on Make Way for Ducklings, a recollection of Robert McCloskey’s beloved tale of a Mallard family’s traffic fraught journey from the Charles River to the Public Garden. The ballet surrounds their voyage with the sounds and sights of the city in … Continued