Dance
Created by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance
Dorrance Dance
Global Arts Live
Emerson Cutler Majestic Theatre
April 25-26, 2025
A brilliantly conceived and executed performance with exhilarating percussion and exhilarating choreography combining tap and modern dance.
Dance
The Center Will Not Hold:
Diary of a Tap Dancer
Play, Performance, Dance
Written and Choreographed by Ayodele Casel
American Repertory Theater
Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University
Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
December 12, 2024 – January 4, 2025
An outstandingly conceived autobiographical show about a Black-Hispanic female tap dancer, exquisitely performed by the author and a troupe of women tap dancers.
Shadows Cast
Performance
Direction and Choreography by Raphaëlle Boitel
Arts Emerson
Emerson Paramount Theater
Washington Street, Boston
March 30 – April 2, 2023
A compelling tragicomic exploration of familial psychology through the medium of acrobatic dance, enhanced by magical lighting design.
Crystal
Circus, Performance
Cirque du Soleil
Agannis Arena
Boston University
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
June 1-12, 2022
A wonderful show on ice, with Cirque du Soleil’s typically wonderful and inventive combination of acrobatics, juggling, etc, embellished with superbly conceived art and choreography held together with a gentle narrative, with – in this case – the added speed and grace of skating.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
Dance
Robert Battle, artistic director
Alvin Ailey, founder
Celebrity Series of Boston
Boch Center Wang Theatre
April 28 – May 1, 2022
A fabulously energetic exploration of moods, gestures and outlooks interestingly coordinated, and in conception and execution answering the challenges of the pandemic.