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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

NEVER A DHOL MOMENT: 15TH ANNUAL BOSTON BHANGRA COMPETITION

Written by JILLIAN KRAVATZ Posted November 15, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

 

Amit Bhambi has been around Bhangra all his life. The colorful costumes, the upbeat music, the expressions and energetic movements—all of it is familiar to him. When he asks Americans unfamiliar with the Punjabi-style dance what they think of it?

 

“They ...  read more

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: bhangra, Boston, competition, Dance, orpheum theatre, preview

TOGETHER FEST: HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR DANCE TIME

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted September 21, 2018 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Boston’s low-key electronic music festival returns bigger and brighter, so we asked several acts to share advice on maximizing your experience there.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2018, Bamboozle, Boston, Cambridge, Dance, Dig, DigBoston, DJ, Electronic, Interview, John Debo, Lenore, local music, Middlesex Lounge, Music, Notes From the Scene, Sophie, Soul Clap, Together, Together 2018, Together Boston

THE BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2018 (SO FAR)

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted June 28, 2018 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews

From alternative hip-hop to chamber folk, here's a cheat sheet to Boston's best music of the year so far.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews Tagged With: 2018, Allston, alt-rock, BAERD, Best Local Albums, Born on the Stairs, Boston, Cambridge, Crete, Dance, Dig, DigBoston, Edge Petal Burn, Electronic, errorzone, Experimental, Fiddlehead, Finicky Things, Folk, Foreclosure, Francine, Free Yourself Up, Glass Cannon, hip hop, Indie Rock, Jamaica Plain, Kal Marks, Lake Street Dive, local albums, local music, metal, Michael Christmas, Music, Nature Shots, Nick Minieri, No Dogs Allowed, Notes From the Scene, Pink Navel, pop, Prior Panic, rap, review, Reviews, rock, Role Model, Sidney Gish, Smell Smoke, Speedy Ortiz, Springtime and Blind, Swatchbook, Twerp Verse, Universal Care, Vein, Vundabar, When We Were Loud

STEPPING OUT: PRO DANCER ANA MASACOTE OPENS UP ABOUT BEING BISEXUAL IN THE SALSA SCENE

Written by MICAELA KIMBALL Posted June 5, 2018 Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Non-fiction, Performing Arts

"I realized the power I had was in really being myself and living my truth. I wasn’t willing to hide to make others more comfortable."

Filed Under: A+E, FEATURES, Non-fiction, Performing Arts Tagged With: Ana Masacote, Boston, Boston Pride, Cambridge, Dance, dance company, LGBTQ, salsa, sexuality

THE BEST LOCAL ALBUMS OF 2017 (SO FAR)

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted June 26, 2017 Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews

From homegrown rock to hometown rap, here's a cheat sheet to Boston's best music of the year.

Filed Under: MUSIC, Notes from the Scene, Reviews Tagged With: 2017, Allston, alt-rock, avenue, baby, Bat House, Beeef, Boston, Cambridge, Che Ecru, country, Dance, Dig, DigBoston, Dorchester, Doug Tuttle, Elder, Electronic, Experimental, Folk, hip hop, Indie Rock, Jamaica Plain, Jazz, Juliana Hatfield, Lenderson, Lilith, local albums, local music, Milk, Music, Notes From the Scene, Palehound, Pile, pop, rap, Reviews, rock, Sidney Gish, The Solars

TOGETHER BOSTON: THE ELECTRONIC MUSIC FESTIVAL SHAPING OUR COMMUNITY

Written by NINA CORCORAN Posted May 12, 2017 Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene

Put your phone in your pocket and meet your friends at the club. It's time to dance. Boston's best electronic festival is back.

Filed Under: Interviews, MUSIC, Notes from the Scene Tagged With: 2017, Alessandro Cortini, Allston, Avalon Emerson, Boston, brighton music hall, Cambridge, Dance, Dee Diggs, Dig, DigBoston, EDM, Electronic, house, Interview, Kerri Chandler, KNTRL, Leon Vynehall, Magda, middle east downstairs, Middlesex Lounge, Music, Notes From the Scene, Octo Octa, Pantha Du Prince, Phoenix Landing, Solar, Soul Clap, Soulelujah!, The Sinclair, Together Boston, Umfang

‘LAKOU AYITI’: JEAN APPOLON BRINGS HAITI HOME

Written by MICAELA KIMBALL Posted March 14, 2017 Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts

Lakou Ayiti, which debuts at the BCA this Friday and runs through the weekend, draws from both Appolon’s own immigration experience, as well as those of some of his dancers and from others in the Hub’s Haitian community.

Filed Under: A+E, Performing Arts Tagged With: BCA, Dance, Haiti, Jean Appolon, Lakou Ayiti

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