DanceTheYard (DTY) is The Yard’s resident dance collective. Co-directors and choreographers Alison Manning, The Yard’s Executive Director, and Jesse Keller, The Yard’s Director of Island Programs & Education (with Artistic Advisor David R. White), have been building a body of work and presenting an annual weekend of performances each summer, as part of the Yard … Continued
Dance community friends- please take note! The esteemed and extremely cheese-caked Yo-el Cassell will be joining us at this event with his 360 Ensemble dancers! The event is free and open to all and runs both nights. It is a kind of open gallery event to showcase our latest project – Sound Sculpture. SS is … Continued
Boston Ballet’s 2016–2017 season concludes with Robbins/The Concert, a triple-bill program featuring works by George Balanchine, Jorma Elo, and Jerome Robbins set to music by several composers: Igor Stravinsky, Frédéric Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, J.S. Bach, and Robert Schumann. The Company premiere of Balanchine’s Stravinsky Violin Concerto adds another work by the seminal choreographer to … Continued
Driven equally by pumping bass, glitter, dance heroism and feats of endurance, this 90-minute, energy-busting experience is part dance, part video installation, part DJ set and part concert. The Dance Cartel is after a new brand of dance experience. Taking note of a dance community that often serves a niche audience, TDC creates dances that … Continued
Urbanity Dance is transforming its studio space into a curated gallery exploring movement. The space will explore how movement is translated into 2D and 3D works of art, how movement and performance can be incorporated into visual arts, and how visual arts can be translated back into movement making itself. The space will feature Boston … Continued
An eclectic fusion of cultural dances from around the globe, martial arts, history, storytelling and mythology. The presentation will include colorful props, traditional costumes, theatrical replicas of bladed weaponry and mask work from Behind the Mask Studio. This is a one-of-a-kind production, performed by local New England talent highly involved in the community at all … Continued
“A Hunger Artist” is an experimental dance theater performance that follows the journey of a fasting artist who lives for, but simultaneously resents his audience. A combination of avant garde, Vaudeville slapstick, jazz and contemporary dance the piece relates the hyper self-critical journey of the young, striving artist. Inspired by Franz Kafkas A Hunger Artist, … Continued
Conceived and directed by Tina Croll and James Cunningham, From the Horse’s Mouth celebrates “the heart and history of dance” with outstanding dancers and choreographers of all ages and traditions, performing together and telling their extraordinary personal stories. A uniquely staged improvisation that brings all ages, genres and all intents around dance to the stage. … Continued
Saturday’s performance features the only in town evening of Prometheus Dance Company this season, with Friday and Sunday’s program featuring work by Lorraine Chapman with her Lorraine Chapman The Company performing original dances set to the music of Tom Waits. Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion and Jessie Jeanne & Dancers complete Friday and Sunday’s program. … Continued
Pentacle, the artist services agency based in New York City, returns for the third year with a program of performances by its Gallery artists including Dorcas Roman Dance Theatre from Los Angeles, The Moving Architects – formerly from Chicago now in the metropolitan New York area, Danse4Nia Repertory Ensemble from Philadelphia, and Janis Brenner & … Continued