City dance program fundraiser arrives Thursday with apt theme: Stayin’ Alive
To make sure it can pivot gracefully when the music changes – and in this case that means surviving the loss of its home to apartment and condo development – the Cambridge Youth Dance Program is holding a Thursday fundraiser pitting disco against development.
Better than your iPod: 150 performers to do Becks’ ‘Song Reader’ live in Davis
Beck’s latest album isn’t an album at all – it’s a collection of sheet music to be performed – so it’s lucky we have Brendan Burns and Karin Webb to organize musicians and dancers to let us hear what’s in Beck’s head.
Shared Choreographers’ Concerts dancing in, new and unique, for weekend shows
As a volunteer-based, artist-run nonprofit organization, The Dance Complex is nothing if not democratic, and it proves it three times a year with its Shared Choreographers’ Concerts. The latest is in Central Square this weekend.
Soul Clap returns for Central Square set on Wednesday
That Soul Clap is back at Phoenix Landing on Wednesday is amazing for a number of reasons, but also sure to be amazing? How crowded the bar’s dance floor will get.
Dance Complex entices with mini-classes at Sunday open house
Just in time for the new residents poking around at the possibilities of Cambridge, The Dance Complex is offering the fall version of its twice-yearly open houses Sunday.
Thursday’s ‘Literary Lovelies’ gets heroines on a Vaudeville stage, where some take it off
The death of books? Nonsense. Not even Vaudeville is dead, and for proof you can stop by Oberon in Harvard Square, where the two will be partying all Thursday night in “Literary Lovelies,” a presentation of Geek Girl Boston — the troupe behind two previous sexy science fiction shows at the theater.
Dance Complex gets first executive director
The volunteer-based Dance Complex has an executive director — its first in a two-decade history, its board of directors announced Tuesday.
Tonight in Harvard Square, ‘Bastille Day’ means ‘dance’
The French aren’t partying like its 1999 on our Independence Day, so it’s not clear why we use their Bastille Day — the storming of a prison that sparked the French Revolution in 1789 — to dance, dance, dance in in Harvard Square.
Friday’s not just any Walk/Ride Day — it’s the City Dance Party
Cambridge encourages its residents to walk or ride their bicycles on the last Friday of every month — Walk/Ride Day. This month it’s an all-day celebration culminating in the annual City Dance Party.
Dante welcomes the Lucchesi, and the Lucchesi welcome all to a Saturday party
The Dante Alighieri Society Hall hosts a night of dinner and dancing Saturday for Lucchesi, their friends and family. But does that include Dante?
