Photos: Lunar New Year Celebration In Malden
Chinese Culture Connection hosted its annual Lunar New Year Celebration, to mark the start of the Year of the Mouse (or Rat) at Malden High School on Dec. 18, 2020.…Continue Reading →
Monkeyhouse Dance At ‘Malden Reads’ Kickoff
Karen Krolak, artistic director of Monkeyhouse dance company, performs at the kickoff celebration for the 2020 “Malden Reads,” one-city, one-book reading program, at the Malden Senior Community Center on Saturday,…Continue Reading →
Monkeyhouse Performs ‘8 Feet’
The Malden dance troupe Monkeyhouse closed off part of Seaview Street in that city today to present “8 Feet,” a piece inspired, Artistic Director Karen Krolak said, by getting stuck…Continue Reading →
‘Visibility Dance’ Planned After Green Street Studios Announces Closing
Members of Cambridge’s dance community are planning “Circling the Dance Block – a Visibility Dance in Cambridge” for noon on Sunday, Oct. 27, in response to Green Street Studios announcement…Continue Reading →
Green Street Dance Studios To Shut Down Due To ‘Significant Rent Increase’
Dancers getting ready for a class at Green Street Studios this evening were surprised by today’s announcement that the Cambridge dance rehearsal and performance space plans to shut down on…Continue Reading →
Immigration, Violence, Labor: ‘Political Metaphors’ Underlying Choreographer William Forsythe’s Interactive Sculptures
In “William Forsythe: Choreographic Objects”—an exhibition highlighting interactive sculptures by the celebrated Vermont choreographer—you’re invited to try to cross a room filled with swinging pendulums without getting bumped. Or to…Continue Reading →
Racines Black Dance Festival Shows ‘How We Got To Today As People, But Through Music And Dance’
“I wanted to start this festival because Boston has this lack of education about people of color even though we constitute a huge majority of the population,” the Boston dancer…Continue Reading →
Rare East Coast Demonstration Of Chinese Lions Dancing Across Tall Poles
“They’re basically rising their lives for our tradition,” Mai Du, championships director and federation co-founder, told the crowd that come to see the jong performance at the first United States…Continue Reading →
Photos: ‘Perpetual Loneliness’ From Ruckus Dance’s Evening-Length Debut
“What I’m thinking about when I set the dance is how you can’t really personify loneliness. It’s a feeling. So how can you get loneliness in a space?” Michael Figueroa…Continue Reading →
Barbara Morgan’s Pictures Of Modern Dance Pioneers: The ‘Greatest Dance Photographs Ever Made In America’
Barbara Morgan’s photographs of American modern dancers in the 1930s and ‘40s are among the most striking and influential ever made. But she didn’t set out to be a photographer.…Continue Reading →