dance

The award-winning Crescendo, a choral and Baroque music group based in Sharon, CT, draws singers and musicians from across the tri-state area. Founded by conductor Christine Gevert in 2006, Crescendo will present Body & Soul: Cavalieri’s Rappresentatione di Anima et di Corpo on May 10 and 11 in Lakeville, CT, and Great Barrington, MA, respectively.

Pilobolus is currently on tour with re:CREATION which brings their celebrated collection of repertory to audiences across the country. On Saturday May 3rd Pilobolus will be at the Mahaiwe Theater in Great Barrington, MA with two performances.

This Thursday and Friday, April 17 and 18, EMPAC at RPI in Troy, New York presents the Ephemeral Organ Festival. The presentations this week feature a series of residencies, performances, and talks by artists whose works explore dance and movement as a means of experiencing memory, history, and Black lived experience. Tara Aisha Willis is Curator of Theater & Dance at EMPAC and she joins us to tell us more.

Ballet Hispánico, the premier Latine dance company, founded by tour-de-force Tina Ramirez in 1970, and now led by the incomparable Eduardo Vilaro, presented their Palante Junior Ensemble, ages 17-24, at the Orpheum Performing Arts Center in Tannersville, NY, on Saturday, March 22.

Translucent Borders is a project exploring ways that dancers and musicians can engage across geographic, cultural, and economic borders. The Ashokan Center in Olivebridge, New York will host Translucent Borders Weekend on April 4–6.

Empire Training Center for the Arts is a new vocational venture operating out of The Chance Theatre on Main Street in Poughkeepsie, New York.Their first major fundraising event in Poughkeepsie is coming up on March 15. The Dirty Dutchess: An Evening of Vaudeville, Burlesque and Broadway is directed by Peter Flynn. Flynn is a New York based director, writer and educator and he joins us now - along with Empire Training Center for the Arts Co-Founder and Executive Director Trish Santini.

The Circa Ensemble from Australia presented What Will Have Been, in the Black Box Theater at PS21 on a bright Saturday afternoon this month. Acrobats Kimberley Rossi, Malte Gerhardt and Zachary Stephens with violinist Miranda Cuckson, a PS21 board member, were featured.

Japanese choreographer Ruri Mito made her North American debut at PS21: Center for Contemporary Performance in Chatham, NY, in early January. As part of Japan Society’s annual Japan + East Asia programming for the APAP (Association of Performing Arts Professionals) industry conference in NYC that recently concluded, PS21 is an astute partner.

A long-running Berkshire County dance education center has purchased a historic mill building in Housatonic, Massachusetts to serve as its permanent home.

The performance, Celebrated Emblems, marks the first-ever commission by Musicians of Ma’alwyck of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company. This multifaceted performance explores the concept of American emblems, or the symbols of American identity. Members of the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will add a visual element for two shows, on January 24 at the Capital Rep Theatre in Albany, New York and January 25, 2025, at SUNY-Schenectady.