DANCE NOW Boston arrives at The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA for its 9th season with two weekends of performances, May 13-14 and May 20-21. Produced in partnership with The Bang Group and choreographer David Parker, DANCE NOW Boston has established a creative bridge between NYC and Boston by commissioning Boston choreographers to bring or create work for shared programs in both cities. DANCE NOW Boston works in close collaboration with DANCE NOW NYC.
In two separate programs, DANCE NOW Boston will present Boston artists Lorraine Chapman, Janelle Gilchrist, KAIROS Dance Theater, Meghan McLyman and Jenny Oliver along with New York-based artists The Bang Group and Megan Williams.
“With each successive year of Dance NOW Boston, David Parker, and The Bang Group forge a deeper relationship between the NYC dance scene and our own hub of the region’s most unique dance,” said Peter DiMuro, Executive Artistic Director of The Dance Complex. ” Our audiences have come to realize how these quality works from our colleagues around the country can share a stage for the benefit of all: new perspectives, new eyes on our work and new relationships forged through the dynamism of dance performance. We are blessed.”
“I grew up in Lynnfield and began studying dance in Boston in the seventies,” said Parker. “I made my debut performing tap dances on a plywood board at Downtown Crossing sponsored by the City Parks and Recreation in 1978. After this auspicious beginning, I moved to New York and founded The Bang Group with Jeffrey Kazin (of Waltham) and returned many times to Boston to perform through partnerships with Summer Stages Dance, The ICA Boston, The Theater Offensive, Boston Center for the Arts, and Dance Complex.
“I love the audiences and the community of spirited, spunky artists I met here and began to produce concerts of work mixing New York and Boston artists to stimulate creativity and achieve mutual inspiration,” Parker continued. “We are now in our ninth season of DANCE NOW Boston thanks to the generous support of Peter DiMuro and The Dance Complex. Peter is a friend and colleague of long-standing whose own company, Public Displays of Motion, has performed on many of our programs. We are elated to be back. There’s no place like home.”
Written by Stephi Wild for Broadway World.