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

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

Text indicating the event details lay atop a photograph of Mark Morris Dance Group members clad in colorful clothing dancing against a blue background.
January 23, 2025
7:30 pm
January 24, 2025
8:00 pm
January 25, 2025
3:00 pm

The Mark Morris Dance Group returns to Boston with Morris’ newest evening-length work, The Look of Love. The piece is a wistful and heartfelt homage to the chart-topping hits of Burt Bacharach, a towering figure of popular music, newly arranged by jazz pianist, composer, and MMDG musical collaborator Ethan Iverson. Bacharach’s melodies and unique orchestrations … 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

Members of Trinity Irish Dance Company jumping as a orange-hued projection lays on the floor beneath them.

Trinity Irish Dance Company

Berklee Performance Center
February 8, 2025
8:00 pm

JIG, a Trinity Irish Dance Company (TIDC) production, is a fresh take on TIDC’s internationally-renowned, alternative approach to a traditional form. Centered by a live band in a unique space, JIG immerses audiences in an authentic experience that celebrates the power of vibrations, rhythm, and movement—redefining what is possible for Irish music and dance.

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

Two dancers from Boston Dance Theater, a woman on the right and a man on the left, stand and partially embrace in front of a beige backdrop.

Boston Dance Theater: Red is a feeling

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
March 14, 2025
8:00 pm
March 15, 2025
8:00 pm

Boston Dance Theater performs Red is a feeling—an evening of short dance works which present multi-faced expressions of love, longing, and the fight to live, woven together by the color Red. The program takes its title from a new commission by Iranian-Hispanic choreographer Roya Carreras Fereshtehnejad who was diagnosed with two forms of cancer in … Continued

A dancer clad in black approaches a cymbal-player during a performance.
April 25, 2025
8:00 pm
April 26, 2025
8:00 pm

The Center Will Not Hold is an expanded and reimagined work born from a little room, a short duet created and performed by Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie in December 2022. The piece now features a collective of singular performers (including Michelle Dorrance and Ephrat Asherie) deeply rooted in one or many street, club, and … Continued

A dancer kneels atop a black floor, with another dancer sitting in the distance against a dark background.

David Dorfman Dance

Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
May 16, 2025
8:00 pm
May 17, 2025
8:00 pm

David Dorfman Dance’s truce songs explores how our world might look, and how we might feel, if traditional truces were extended by a day, then a month, then years—ending one small war on humanity at a time. DDD’s trademark risky, frisky, and vulnerable movement, accompanied by an original score by Lizzy de Lise and Sam … Continued