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Dances rove from Somerville to Chile, from Ireland to Harvard Square
By Marc Levy
Published: January 16, 2012
Somerville’s Zoé Dance Company leads off a trio of new works at Harvard Square’s Oberon this weekend that explore international politics as well as merging rock ’n’ roll and yoga in a piece called “Rock Om.”
Flack’s ‘Bunheads’ brings her back to Cambridge
By Marc Levy
Published: January 5, 2012
You may have known her from her role in “The Three Little Pigs’ when she was 3. But glamorous Sophie Flack returns to Cambridge on Tuesday to read from “Bunheads,” her much-praised novel about her time as a ballerina in New York.
With chefs’ help, fourth Urban Barn Dance was ‘most successful’
By Marc Levy
Published: October 26, 2011
The Urban Barn Dance held Thursday was the most successful in the farmers-market fundraiser’s four-year history, organizers said.
Free Central Sw!ngs dance event postponed by weather warnings
By Marc Levy
Published: August 25, 2011
The outdoor Central Sw!ngs performance planned for this evening is postponed due to threats of thunderstorms, said Robin Lapidus, executive director of the Central Square Business Association.
It’s Bowie, plus sexy dancers and fun and minus Bowie
By Marc Levy
Published: July 4, 2011
What’s better than Bowie? How about danceable Bowie you can enjoy live and up close Thursday with a 10-piece band and seven top burlesque and go-go dancers?
Dark ‘Murder Ballads’ an event to die (or kill) for
By Marc Levy
Published: June 8, 2011
The local release of an EP by the art-rock band Jaggery inspired by Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” brings “an evening of murder-inspired performance, exploring the inner killer and the inner killed” at Oberon in Harvard Square.
Day of dance described as ‘perfect Mother’s Day gift’
By Marc Levy
Published: April 20, 2011
Free, 20-minute dance classes are to be offered May 8 at an event being billed by The Dance Complex as “a perfect Mother’s Day gift.”
Facts contra-dict alarm over dances
By Marc Levy
Published: November 11, 2010
For the concern displayed Monday over dances at the West Cambridge Youth and Social Center, one would think the events were to be filled with angry rap music riling gang members and preteen girls lasciviously grinding away their honor. That’s not the case.
Hard to explain, impossible to miss: Rave meets comedy at Crisco Theque
By Marc Levy
Published: July 26, 2010
Mehran Khagani is in the midst of a media frenzy in which he’s explaining being in a vortex of creativity. What he’s trying to explain is Crisco Theque, his Aug. 6 show at Oberon in Harvard Square, which will be part comedy show, part rave.
Dance Alliance honors leader, kicks off 25th season
By admin
Published: May 25, 2010
Amy Zell Ellsworth was honored at the Boston Dance Alliance 2010 Benefit— the kickoff of the alliance’s 25th Anniversary season — held Thursday at the Sanctuary Theatre in Cambridge.