(7.11) The FirstWorks Summer Beats concert series features Dobet Gnahoré this Thursday at the Roger Williams Park bandstand. The event is free and open to the public. Hailing from Côte d’Ivoire, Dobet is a virtuosic singer, dancer, percussionist, and songwriter who has taken the modern Afropop sounds of her country in exciting new directions. . […]
(5.5) The Brown Swing Club invites the public to join them at the Zoot Suit Ball this Sunday in Sayles Hall on the Brown campus. This event is free and open to the public. What a nice thing for them to do. As you can see, Sayles Hall is pretty spacious. Dance like no one
(12.24) Tickets still available for ‘The Nutcracker’ presented by Ballet RI (formerly Festival Ballet) this week at the Vets, now through Christmas Eve day. All ages permitted. ‘The Nutcracker’ is a two-act classical ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child’s imagination. The plot
(3.11) The Motion State Dance Festival kicks off this Thursday with a screening of short dance films and an opening night party. All festival events take place at Wilbury Theatre Group in the WaterFire Arts Center. Go to the site for ticket prices. Live performances take place on Friday and Saturday nights, interspersed with dance
(9.25) Unpack your umlauts, it’s time for singing and dancing and beer outside in a biergarten or indoors in a bierhalle. Tickets are still available for this weekend’s Oktoberfest at the German American Cultural Society of RI just over the line in Pawtucket. Go here for the lineup of beers that will be on tap,
(4.30) I know little about Walpurgis Night, the holiday celebrated on the last day of April in northern Europe and Scandinavia. Episcopalian households always ward off evil spirits with the 90-proof kind. In the olden days, villagers made loud noises and played pranks to frighten away the demons, but everyone knows now that the only
(12.26) The Festival Ballet Providence will present a revamped version of its annual holiday classic, The Nutcracker, featuring new sets, new costumes, and new choreography by artistic curator Yury Yanowsky. And for the first time, the ballet will be performed at The Vets, offering twice as many performances as in years past. New additions include
(6.27) Grab a lawn chair or blanket and head over to the lawn of the Dalrymple Boathouse this Sunday for a free cultural tour of the islands courtesy of Polynesian dance troupe Napua O’ Polynesia. This will be the first in a series of performances scheduled throughout the summer at the Dalrymple Boathouse and the
For the first time in over a year, Festival Ballet will return to in-person performing with Emergence, “a powerful mixed rep program promises to delight audiences with a wide range of works, from the bold and contemporary to the virtuosic classical.” The Projo got a sneak preview of the outdoor setting: Adding to the sense
(10.20) Featuring the Gumboots and Pantsula Dance Companies. South Africa is home to a rich mix of cultural traditions that reflect the diversity, complex history, and inventive creativity of its nearly 56 million citizens. Two of its national dance forms come together Friday night at Rhode Island College. Direct from South Africa, this ensemble of
(12.4) Head over to the Avon Cinema on Thayer Street Sunday, December 4, at 12:55pm for a one-off showing of The Nutcracker. Danced by the Bolshoi’s principals, E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairytale staged by Russian ballet master Yuri Grigorovich will transport children and adults alike to a world of magic and wonder for the holiday season. And/or
(7.2) Shabba-Doo! Just fun to say. This week’s installment of Movies on the Block is the 1984 dance epic “Breakin’.” From Inside Pulse, Breakin’ sticks with the story of a classically trained performer needed to learn from the streets to truly be expressive. Karen (Lucinda Dickey) works at a greasy spoon to support her jazz
During Brown University’s upcoming Family Weekend, the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies will present an eclectic mix of new and established choreography in the annual Family Weekend Dance Concert. This year’s concert features choreography by Stephanie Turner; Brown dancers in a new work by Gwi Young Bae; and Dance Extension, Brown’s resident student
The Island Moving Company will be holding its ‘Open for Dancing’ festival over two days at the Steel Yard. The Steel Yard is excited to host Island Moving Co.’s Open for Dancing, presented for the first time at the Steel Yard in Providence, RI. This will be a site specific interpretive dance created for the
(5.5) I want this frock coat. Heads up Alice fans, the Cable Car will be screening Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland as performed by the Royal Ballet of London Those familiar with Lewis Carroll’s literary menagerie of colorful characters will enjoy the clarity with which Christopher Wheeldon portrays them in dance. The whole Company is drawn