Upcoming Events

Check out these great events in the Boston area!

March 8-9th

Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston

Join the Israel Folkdance Festival for an afternoon of performance on Sunday at 3pm featuring 22 companies. You can also head over to a free dance party on Saturday night to view video footage last year's festival!

March 14th

Camille A. Brown & Dancers

Institute of Contemporary Art

Don't miss an opportunity to see this amazing woman in the beautiful theatre at the ICA.

March 14-15th

Boston Youth Moves

Boston University's Dance Theater

Check out some amazing young dancers in Boston as they perform jazz, contemporary and theatre dance pieces.

March 14th & 21st @ 8pm

David Parker's Head Over Heels

Oberon

David Parker is coming back to Boston three times in March!  These first two performances are of the Bang Group's new show Head Over Heels.

March 28th @ 8pm

David Parker's ShowDown

Oberon

For this third performance The Bang Group will be performing ShowDown in addition to work by Kelli Edwards, Nicole Pierce and Lorraine Chapman.

  

March 28-29th

Synchronicity & The Sacred Space

Multicultural Arts Center

Choreographed by Jody Weber with author/adventurer, Jon Turk, this show contains both dance and storytelling at the beautiful Multicultural Arts Center.

NEA Grantee of the Day - Somerville, MA

(Part of an ongoing series that demonstrates how some of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Direct Grantees have influenced Monkeyhouse's growth.)

by Karen Krolak

City of Somerville, Massachusetts/Somerville, MA/$25,000 -
What the Fluff, indeed! You have to love a city that celebrates "the genius of Archibald Query" otherwise known as Marshmallow Fluff. Two and half years ago, Jason and I relocated to Somerville and we were lured in large part by its unusual smorgasbord of festivals and its commitment to the arts.

Somerville is one of a handful of communities in the Commonwealth that provides fellowship grants for artists and this year I was honored to be given one. There will be more on that in a subsequent post but for now I am just going to focus on a few of the ways this city inspires me on a regular basis:

1. Fruit trees and artists, e.g. Daniel Maher, and Mudflat Studios, sprout up around every major square.
2. Our mayor, Joseph Curtatone played trumpet in high school and launched a new Jazz Festival.
3. This city is teeming with talented choreographers including:Alissa Cardone, Emily Beattie, Nicole Pierce, Jody Weber, Wendy Jehlen, and Aparna Sindoor
4. Somerville Arts Council hosts Art Beat each July and the Illuminations tour in December.
5. Brass bands rule the streets during the Honk! Festival.

Thank You Somerville Arts Council!

Monkeyhouse is thrilled to announce that Artistic Director, Karen Krolak was selected to receive a 2009 Artist Fellowship through the Somerville Arts Council. This grant will be used in conjunction with Monkeyhouse's Bernie Wightman Dance Building Fund.

Drawing from her experiences at Simone Forti's Logomotion workshop in Orvieto, Italy and the Jacob's Pillow Choreographers' Lab with Celeste Miller, Karen will take walks through Somerville to spark ideas for new pieces. Please contact us at monkeyhouseblog@gmail.com, if you would like to know more about the project or to join Karen on one of her walks.


Congratulations to Callie Chapman Korn, Nicole Pierce, and Jody Weber who were also awarded Artist Fellowships in Dance and Theater. The Somerville Arts Council is supported in part through the Massachusetts Cultural Council.