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 →
7 Fingers’ ‘Passengers’ Is Part Dance, Part Silent Movie, Part Avant-Garde Circus
In “Passengers” by the Montreal troupe The 7 Fingers, the eight acrobats tumble across the stage of ArtsEmerson’s Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre, balance on a tight rope, climb up long…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread And Puppet’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’ in Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge Arts’ free, annual Summer In The City series. (I work…Continue Reading →
Double Edge Theatre Reimagines ‘Baron Munchausen’ As A Visionary Adventure
“Idiots!” and “Balderdash!” Baron Munchausen hollers, interrupting the vaudevillians’ truncated staging of Homer’s “Odyssey” (Ulysses drowns). Clad in a red coat with gold epaulets, Munchausen climbs down from a rooftop…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…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 →
Responding To The Stoneman Douglas Massacre, Bread And Puppet’s Show Imagines Saying Goodbye To Guns
When “The Basic Bye-bye Show,” which Bread and Puppet Theater performs at Boston’s Spontaneous Celebrations from April 19 to 22, was developed in performances at the troupe’s Glover, Vermont, farm…Continue Reading →
Photos: High-Wire Walkers, Trapeze Artists, Acrobats—Big Apple Circus In Somerville
With high-wire walkers, trapeze artists and acrobats, the Big Apple Circus performs under a “Big Top” tent at Somerville’s Assembly Row through Sunday, May 6. Update: The show has been…Continue Reading →