Showing posts with label Bill T. Jones. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill T. Jones. Show all posts
2/5/14
Happy February Birthdays!
7/9/12
Add Some Dance to Your Summer!
Here are a couple places you might run into us or some of the other great performers we know in the near future! This is just a small selection of performances available this summer. Visit Jacob's Pillow & Summer Stages for even more Massachusetts performances!
07/09-08/04 -- FELA on Broadway
If you asked us to list our favorite choreographers almost all of us would likely have Bill T. Jones in the top five. Don't miss his amazing show, FELA, as it returns to Broadway for 32 performances only!
07/12-07/14 -- TapTheYard
Join David Parker & Michelle Dorrance as they bring together some of their favorite rhythm makers (including Blogger in Residence Ryan Casey!) during the first tap and rhythm festival at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard.
07/16-07/19 -- Boomtown Festival
Monkeyhouse loves everyone over the the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge and we're thrilled that this year Princess Pamplemousse will be dancing it up with the one and only Marty Allen (of Uncle Monsterface AND Sock Puppet Portait fame)
07/25-07/29 -- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Speaking of Bill T., don't miss his company at Jacob's Pillow!
Join
Monkeyhouse supporter, collaborator and long time friend David Wechsler
as he performs at Freddy's Bar and Backroom in Brooklyn! You might
even hear a few songs you recognize!
While you're in Brooklyn, check out Dave's band and fellow Monkeyhouse supporters at Barbes! You don't want to miss this!
Join Karen at the Cultivate Festival in Bethlehem, NH for this exciting movement workshop!
Jason
Ries, Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch and a few Monkeyhouse guests will be locked
in the Dance Complex overnight to create a new piece as part of Luminarium Dance's new project, 24 Hour Choreo-Fest. Check out what
they come up with!
If you like David Parker you're LOVE Doug Elkins. You don't want to miss this fabulous show at Jacob's Pillow!
07/09-08/04 -- FELA on Broadway
If you asked us to list our favorite choreographers almost all of us would likely have Bill T. Jones in the top five. Don't miss his amazing show, FELA, as it returns to Broadway for 32 performances only!
07/12-07/14 -- TapTheYard
Join David Parker & Michelle Dorrance as they bring together some of their favorite rhythm makers (including Blogger in Residence Ryan Casey!) during the first tap and rhythm festival at The Yard on Martha's Vineyard.
07/16-07/19 -- Boomtown Festival Monkeyhouse loves everyone over the the Multicultural Arts Center in Cambridge and we're thrilled that this year Princess Pamplemousse will be dancing it up with the one and only Marty Allen (of Uncle Monsterface AND Sock Puppet Portait fame)
07/25-07/29 -- Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Speaking of Bill T., don't miss his company at Jacob's Pillow!
Saturday 07/28 @ 12pm -- David Parker & the Bang Group!
FREE!!
Check out David and all your favorite Bang Group dancers for FREE! Bring the family!
While
you're at the ICA checking out David Parker stick around and see works
by Sean Curran, Mariah Steele, Teresa Fellion, and Annie Kloppenberg!
FREE!!
Check out David and all your favorite Bang Group dancers for FREE! Bring the family!
Join Karen at the Cultivate Festival in Bethlehem, NH for this exciting movement workshop!
Saturday 08/11 @ 7:30 -- Cultivate
Head on up to Bethlehem, NH to see the premier of Caitlin's new solo, Disarmed, performed by Nicole as part of the Cultivate Festival!
Head on up to Bethlehem, NH to see the premier of Caitlin's new solo, Disarmed, performed by Nicole as part of the Cultivate Festival!
If you like David Parker you're LOVE Doug Elkins. You don't want to miss this fabulous show at Jacob's Pillow!
1/3/11
FELA! is coming to the Coolige Corner Theatre
by Nicole Harris
Thanks to a gift from a wonderful friend I was able to see FELA! on Broadway before it closed yesterday. I have been a huge fan of Bill T. Jones for about as long as I can remember (Did you know that he just received the Kennedy Center Honors!? Read what he has to say about it here!) and was excited to see so many modern dancers on a Broadway stage (including Oneika Phillips whose time at Shenandoah University overlapped with my very short adventure there. I always love that moment when you find out that someone who you knew as being immensely talented a long time ago has indeed gone on to do amazing things!).
Bill T.'s vision of the story of Fela Kuti is beautiful, intoxicating, expansive and inspiring. His use of projections and video give the theatre a never-ending, otherworldly feel. The line between actor, dancer and musician is constantly blurred, often beyond recognition. As for the dancing... Someone told me that there was "no real dancing" in the show. Maybe not in the traditional musical theatre sense of "musical numbers", but the performers never stop moving and it is breathtaking. There's even a point where the audience gets up to dance!
Why are you telling us this about a show that just closed, you ask? Why because Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre will be showing the National Theatre (London) production LIVE on January 13th with an encore on January 17th!
Not in Boston but want to see FELA and other National Theatre Live productions? Find a venue near you here!
Thanks to a gift from a wonderful friend I was able to see FELA! on Broadway before it closed yesterday. I have been a huge fan of Bill T. Jones for about as long as I can remember (Did you know that he just received the Kennedy Center Honors!? Read what he has to say about it here!) and was excited to see so many modern dancers on a Broadway stage (including Oneika Phillips whose time at Shenandoah University overlapped with my very short adventure there. I always love that moment when you find out that someone who you knew as being immensely talented a long time ago has indeed gone on to do amazing things!).
Bill T.'s vision of the story of Fela Kuti is beautiful, intoxicating, expansive and inspiring. His use of projections and video give the theatre a never-ending, otherworldly feel. The line between actor, dancer and musician is constantly blurred, often beyond recognition. As for the dancing... Someone told me that there was "no real dancing" in the show. Maybe not in the traditional musical theatre sense of "musical numbers", but the performers never stop moving and it is breathtaking. There's even a point where the audience gets up to dance!
Why are you telling us this about a show that just closed, you ask? Why because Brookline's Coolidge Corner Theatre will be showing the National Theatre (London) production LIVE on January 13th with an encore on January 17th!
Not in Boston but want to see FELA and other National Theatre Live productions? Find a venue near you here!
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