Performance: The Prayers of Black Folks: Steph Davis and Jenny Oliver
“Black History in Action (BHAC) at St. Augustine’s is proudly hosting The Prayers of Black Folks: Steph Davis and Jenny Oliver, a music and dance performance.
Category: Art Exhibitions/Performances Announcement
Italian Classical Women Composers
This program presents music by Italian 18th-century women composers working at the courts of Frederick the Great in Prussia and the House of Habsburg in Austria. These powerful monarchies sponsored both salon and stage, where passions ran high and the best musicians were hired.
Performance: Fandango and Other Dances
This program features Ibero-American dances and song-dances, including “folias”, “jácaras”, and “fandangos”, from the Renaissance to the present. The music spans from the early Spanish “Cancioneros” (songbooks) in old Iberia to contemporary folk and popular music from Venezuela and Mexico. Included are dances such as “joropo” from Venezuela and Colombia and “fandanguito” from Mexico. Performers […]
“ORIGINS 2024,” A FALL DANCE CONCERT
Boston University’s Dance Theatre Group is pleased to present ORIGINS 2024, a Fall Dance Concert, on November 22nd at 8 PM and 23rd at 3:30 PM and 8 PM.
14th Annual Dance for World Community
Join Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre for Greater Boston’s largest and most popular outdoor/indoor dance event! The 14th annual Dance for World Community Festival takes place on June 8th in Harvard Square. The festival is a free, public, all-day event featuring performances and classes from over 60 local dance companies, as well as over 20 […]
Love and Libations: Julie Pinel and Airs of France
La Donna Musicale explores the distinctive contributions of Parisian women composers to the French Baroque and Rococo secular genres of ”airs sérieux”: serious songs with subjects such as love, politics, and pastoral scenes, and ”airs à boire”: drinking songs to make merry with libations such as wine.
Ceramics Program Spring Show and Sale
The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard presents its annual Spring Show and Sale, May 9-12, 2024, at its studio facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts. This four-day sale will feature original ceramic works by over 90 artists affiliated with the program, including instructors, staff, and students.
More and More Morenas
La Donna Musicale and Rumbarroco continue a musical exploration that extends from the Iberian Renaissance to Indigenous and African-influenced folk traditions in contemporary South America.
Performance: For Venezuela!
RUMBARROCO and the Venezuelan Association of Massachusetts invite you to celebrate Venezuelan Independence Day and Simon Bolivar’s birthday with music, Venezuelan treats, and the continuation of our humanitarian & educational campaign for Venezuela.
La Donna Musicale: Oh! Maria, Mother and Warrior
This concert focuses on Baroque Italian women composers, featuring their settings of prayers to the Virgin, a powerful Stabat Mater, and a dialogue between Mary and Eve–the mother of God and the mother of humankind. It also includes a motet for two voices that illustrates the martyrdom and invincibility of St. Christina. Vocal music […]