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SOULDIER STORY: JOEL MASSICOT ON MIXING MARTIAL ARTS, DANCE, AND MILITARY INFLUENCES

Written by MICAELA KIMBALL Posted January 25, 2021 Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES

“What soothed my warrior spirit [in the military] was music and beauty.”

Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES Tagged With: culture, Dance, features

MASS DANCERS STREAM CLASSES ONLINE, OFFER MUCH MORE THAN JUST EXERCISE

Written by MICAELA KIMBALL Posted April 8, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, COVID, Performing Arts

virtual dance class coronavirus

While the Afro Flow crew usually attracts around 40-50 attendees at a regular class, after just one week of streaming, they have more than 7,000 views on Facebook alone. Salmon Jones says she's had attendees from as close by as Northeastern, to folks tuning in from Barbados. 

Filed Under: A+E, COVID, Performing Arts Tagged With: A+E, COVID, Dance, performing arts, slider

RESPONSES TO OUR “CULTURAL REHASH” EDITORIAL

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted January 9, 2020 Filed Under: A+E, COLUMNS, Editorial

Practice Space's closing message. Photo courtesy Practice Space and Boston Hassle.

A range of views from readers

Filed Under: A+E, COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: Art, arts, Boston, community, critique, culture, Dance, David Shaughnessy, DigBoston, Don DiVecchio, economy, editorial response, Emily Bass, engagement, feature, feedback, Film, global, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, readers, theater, Tim Devin, United States, visual art, world

EDITORIAL: WHY SO MUCH CULTURAL REHASH?

Written by JASON PRAMAS Posted December 12, 2019 Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial

Is the decades-long economic crisis for working people leading to less relevant art?

Filed Under: COLUMNS, Editorial Tagged With: Art, arts, Boston, critique, culture, Dance, DigBoston, economy, editorial, Film, global, Jason Pramas, Massachusetts, Politics, theater, United States, visual art, world

RISE AND SHINE: HE FOUND FAITH IN KRUMP, THEN STYLED A CAREER THAT SPANS FROM BREAKING TO BALLET

Written by GABBY RAYMOND Posted September 10, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

"Dance is not the simplest thing physically, and you’re also in a vulnerable space. You have to work to change your body, you have to tune in to every limb, and it’s such a deeply vulnerable experience and you have to really focus. I teach a lot of life lessons through my classes."

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Ashton Lites, Boston, Boston dance, breaking, Dance, krump, Stackz, Stiggity

DANCING QUEERLY

Written by GABBY RAYMOND Posted June 28, 2019 Filed Under: Performing Arts

Lilly Rose Valore. Photo courtesy of Maggie Cee.

 

An interview with festival organizers Maggie Cee and J Michael Winward

 

Dancers and members of the queer community alike are invited to put on their dancing shoes at the second annual Dancing Queerly ...  read more

Filed Under: Performing Arts Tagged With: arts, Cambridge, Dance, J Michael Winward, Maggie Cee

BOSTON’S FIRST BUTOH FESTIVAL: APRIL 19-21

Written by HEATHER KAPPLOW Posted April 18, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Yukio Kaseki. Photo by Ben Lenhart. Courtesy of Boston Butoh Festival.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: butoh, Dance, Emily Smith, Green Street Studios, Heather Kapplow, Michael Evans, Mobius, performing arts, Sara June, theater, Yukio Kaseki, Zack Fuller

STEP ASIDE, NUTCRACKER: 10th ANNIVERSARY OF “WHAT THE DICKENS” BY THE CAMBRIDGE YOUTH DANCE COMPANY

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted December 5, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

The Fezziwigs. Photo by Jaimie Dudley.

 

“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me,” Charles Dickens’ famous Ebenezer Scrooge declares at the end of A Christmas Carol ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: Cambridge, Cambridge Youth Dance Company, Dance, Deborah Mason, Dickens, holiday

THE MOVEMENT: PARADISE MOVES TELLS STORIES WITHOUT WORDS

Written by LYNNE DONCASTER Posted November 28, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, LIFESTYLE, Performing Arts

I went to several SLAMS while writing this article, each time trying to find the right words to describe an experience that is deliberately without words. I walked, ran, spun furiously, held poses, pretended to be a mouse as I scrambled on the floor.

Filed Under: A+E, LIFESTYLE, Performing Arts Tagged With: arts, boston arts, Dance, movement slam, SLAM, SOMERVILLE

PASSION FOR DANCE AT 2018 BOSTON BHANGRA COMPETITION

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted November 22, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

The scene outside the Orpheum theater last Saturday looked like any other night before a show. People lined up in the cold. Security guards waved metal detectors around puffy black coats, while women and men opened up their (usually black) backpacks and purses ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: bhangra, Boston, competition, Dance, review, show

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