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2023/24 Dance Series

The 2023/24 Dance Series

Companies from around the world, small American companies with global points of view, and the group that presents iconic American works on stages near and far: this season, dance offers a global outlook and thrilling cross-cultural dialogue.

International dance at the Shubert

It's exciting (not to mention a sign of post-pandemic recovery) to have two international dance companies on stage at the Boch Center Shubert Theatre. These companies bring timely, fascinating, and powerful works to Boston.

Brazil's Grupo Corpo takes the stage in October, with two quintessentially Brazilian works to perform. Gil Refazendo is set to iconic songs by Gilberto Gil, and Gira is inspired by the whirling of celebrants in the Afro-Brazilian spiritual practice Umbanda.

Israel's Vertigo Dance Company returns with MAKOM, an evening-length work that speaks to humanity's desire for unity, wholeness, and perpetual search for ourselves.

Intimate globally-inspired works in NEC's Black Box theatre

Music from the Sole makes a local debut with I Didn't Come to Stay, an irresistible dance and live music celebration of tap dance (and its descendants) across the African Diaspora. Music and dance from the United States, Brazil, and beyond come together in an energetic, joyous exploration of tap's lineage and its connections to house, samba, Brazilian funk, and jazz.

Ashwini Ramaswamy's Let the Crows Come brings together three dancers from different traditions (Bharatanatyam, Afro-Caribbean modern, and Gaga) to explore the transmission of memory and idea from person to person, generation to generation, and culture to culture.

Revelations and more

And, as always, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater returns in May 2024 as the new season draws to a close. Expect classics by Mr. Ailey, works by the company's current Artistic Director Robert Battle and other modern and contemporary dancemakers, and new commissions created on the company by brilliant contemporary choreographers.

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Upcoming performances

Grupo Corpo
October 28-29, Boch Center Shubert Theatre

Brazil’s world-renowned Grupo Corpo returns to Boston for the first time since 2018 with a program that shows off uniquely Brazilian cultural elements and aesthetics. 

Music From the Sole, I Didn't Come to Stay
January 12-13, Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

Don't miss this irresistible tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap’s connections across the African Diaspora. 

Ashwini Ramaswamy, Let the Crows Come
January 19-20, Plimpton Shattuck Black Box Theatre

Ashwini Ramaswamy explores memory, dislocation, ancestry, and more in Let the Crows Come.

Vertigo Dance Company, MAKOM
April 5-6, Boch Center Shubert Theatre

Vertigo returns to Boston with Artistic Director Noa Wertheim’s newest work MAKOM. With a title that derives from the Hebrew word for “place,” the work dramatizes humanity’s striving for unity and wholeness.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
May 2-5, Boch Center Wang Theatre

From the moment the house lights dim until the jubilant curtain calls at the end of Revelations, an Ailey performance is always a special experience.