To All our Dance Community:

I hope your time over the last few weeks has been filled with all the things you need – and that you and your loved ones have been as safe as possible. We are still in times that test our sense of patience, and to both our individual and collective ideas of hope. My own continued hope is you continue to bring movement into your life to help balance the journey in this world. We reopen the studios on the 15th of January after a lot of activity during the “break” – if you asked the staff, volunteers and the great Wooden Kiwi team (see below!), not so much of a break!

A couple of updates:

While renovations will not be totally complete, your feet (and arms and bodies and all parts of you!) will fall onto new sprung floors in Studio 1/Julie Ince Thompson Theatre, Studio 5 and Studio 6. With shipping delays, we are not able to put the new floorings in 5 (wood) and 6 (new marley) until later this month, but there will be danceable surfaces on them in the meantime. And Studios 5 and 6 have gotten a little facelift of new color on the walls and some other fixes. We can’t wait for you to see them. 

You will see some new faces behind the desk and in the offices at The Dance Complex. More coming on them soon, but please welcome Chantal, Jordan and Nikki who join the team as Community Engagement Associates. We still have a few job openings -listed in the opportunities section of the website – so please share with any arts administrator friends seeking to help make the world full of more dance. BIPOC, Queer and Disabilities Communities encouraged to apply. 

And the reality of COVID: we continue to follow the City of Cambridge guidelines, but ask you to continue to be vigilant in the practices that have kept us relatively safe over the last year and a half  since we reopened: keep distance, wear your masks (some are doubling up, or getting upgraded quality versions), arrive/depart for class or rehearsal succinctly; and check in with your Teaching Artist on their own protocols, registration, etc. We continue our air filtration and flow even in colder months as a precaution. And please, bear with us, as we bend and flow and pivot to keep our spaces safe for you.

See you soon – dancing, moving, living.

Peter and Staff