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Dance Happens Here: 2022

September 18, 2022

Central Square (Cambridge, MA), at the Intersection of Massachusetts Avenue & Norfolk Street, and Starlight Square.

The Dance Complex, the center-point for Greater Boston’s dance and movement community, celebrates its 30th Anniversary with Dance Happens Here: 2022 on Sunday September 18, 2022 with a free day-long street party outside its home in Cambridge’s vibrant Central Square. Music, movement, visual art, culture, and local business all come together in celebration.  

This free afternoon will include dance lessons by Dance Complex Teaching Artists in styles such as capoeira and belly-dancing, pop-up performances by area dance troupes & performing artists, music from DJ Infra, an art installation by local painter and landscape architect, Ponnapa Prakkamakul, and projections by MASARY Studios. The Dance Complex will also premiere 30 Dialogues, a year-long video project created in collaboration with local artist, Lindsay LaPointe. Fifteen conversations between two dance-affiliated artists will be projected in the front windows of the Dance Complex, with their words transcribed to visual text in edited short films. 

In collaboration with Central Square Theatre, YourTown: A Community Ritual and Story Gathering Event is a two-year project focused on the expression of the cultural rituals of our greater Cambridge community through music, dance, and theatrical storytelling. Central Square Theater, with Jean Appolon Expressions, will present performances based on stories collected from attendees of Dance Happens Here: 2022. We welcome our neighbors to share their stories through “listening booths” inspired by StoryCorps, large-scale boards for written and visual storytelling as well as other opportunities for engagement. Your Town: A Community Ritual and Story Gathering Event is funded, in part, by the Cambridge Community Foundation Cultural Capital Fund with support from The Wagner Foundation.

The Dance Complex will also premiere 30 Dialogues, a video project created in collaboration with artist Lindsay Lapointe. 

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