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Arts Briefs: Power of Truths Fest in Florence, dance at Smith, jazz at UMass, and more
04-02-2025 6:26 PM

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.

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Arts Briefs: Ska in Easthampton, stories about food in Northampton, and more
02-05-2025 2:03 PM

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.


Arts Briefs: Crafts and cinema in Northampton, new exhibition at the Carle museum, and more
01-15-2025 1:52 PM

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.)


“Let the Games Begin:” Florence's Ascendance Inner World Arts learns breaking, shows support for Olympic gold medalist Gabby Thomas
08-08-2024 4:24 PM

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...


Something for everyone: UMass Fine Arts Center announces robust 2024-2025 season lineup
08-02-2024 2:13 PM

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...


Steps to thrive by: Meet the Dancing Queens of Southampton
07-15-2024 10:51 AM

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,...


‘It’s not as hard as it looks’: Stompin’ Boots weekly line dances and classes rapidly growing in popularity
07-05-2024 9:50 AM

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...


Live from Argentina: Acclaimed tango guitarists to play in Northampton for dancers and music lovers alike
05-24-2024 1:27 PM

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...


Arts Briefs: Dance festival and a one-woman play in Northampton, summer music fests in Easthampton, and more
05-09-2024 12:58 PM

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...


Upon Nancy’s Floor: 33 Hawley event celebrates iconic dancers, history, and a new dance floor
04-25-2024 2:18 PM

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...


All the right moves: Southampton dance academy CLI Conservatory growing by leaps and bounds
03-12-2024 3:03 PM

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...


A world of dance: Teen dancers of Hatchery showcase their work, including with the Young@Heart Chorus
01-18-2024 11:11 AM

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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