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The Power of Truths Arts & Education Festival will return for its fourth year on Friday, April 4, and Saturday, April 5, at Bombyx Center for Arts & Equity in Florence.
It’s not often that we get to tell readers to skank to their hearts’ content, but that’s entirely the point of an upcoming event at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 8: namely, “The 1st Annual NU England Ska Summit,” an all-ages festival celebrating ska and nu metal (which the event description jokingly calls “the two most respected genre’s [sic] of music”) at CitySpace in Easthampton.
The Academy of Music will host its first “Stitch ‘n’ Flix” movie screening — that is, a screening in which guests can bring their own craft project, like knitting or crochet, to work on while watching a movie in a theater with dimmed lighting — on Sunday, Jan. 26, at 2 p.m. (The only caveat is that the project must be “self-contained” and unable to produce mess.)
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — When the music came on at Ascendance Inner World Arts during their “Let the Games Begin” Olympic-themed week on Thursday morning, the group of kids participating found their spot on the dance floor and assumed a laser-focused glare.Each...
By PAIGE HANSON
Earlier this week, the University of Massachusetts Amherst Fine Arts Center announced its lineup of performances for its 2024-2025 season, which includes quite a few notable offerings, including “a one-time Grateful Dead keyboardist, two of the...
By ALEXA LEWIS
SOUTHAMPTON — Myrna West has been bringing music and movement into the lives of her line dancing students for decades. Now in her 35th year of teaching, she has a loyal group of “Dancing Queens” who attend her classes at the Southampton Senior Center,...
By ALEXA LEWIS
When Shellie Stone went to Nashville two years ago, she was intoxicated with the city’s quintessential culture of music and dancing, and immediately took to the dance floor. Stone, who had been line dancing for fun since attending her first class...
By STEVE PFARRER
If you go to a milonga, or social dance, to do tango dancing in Buenos Aires, you’ll likely be doing it to live music.In western Massachusetts? No so much.Now, though, Western Mass Tango, which has hosted tango lessons and dances in the region for...
Dance festival, encoreNORTHAMPTON — A week after 33 Hawley hosted an extensive dance festival, the city’s community arts center is set to stage another one.On May 10-11, Friday and Saturday, the School for Contemporary Dance & Thought (SCDT) is...
By STEVE PFARRER
Among the many features that are part of 33 Hawley, the Northampton Community Arts Trust building that was finally completed in early January following 10 years of construction, there’s probably nothing more important to dancers than the floor of the...
By JAMES PENTLAND
SOUTHAMPTON — There’s a lot of movement going on these days behind an unremarkable building facade at the Southampton Shopping Center.Inside spacious studios, 160 young dancers are learning jazz, contemporary, theater, ballet and other styles and...
By STEVE PFARRER
This past November, members of Hatchery, the teen dance troupe that’s part of Northampton’s School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, joined the Young@Heart Chorus at the elderly singers’ concert as part of a new dynamic: dancing to a number of songs...
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