Summer 2012 may break records for “most outstanding arts support” across the nation, due in part to the National Governors Association’s May 2012 best practices report, “New Engines of Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture, and Design” and the involvement of 55 US governors to innovate solutions for public policy challenges.

The NGA, founded in 1908,…

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Massachusetts Dance Festival (http:www.massdancefestival) is again creating dances across the state in 2012, on June 23rd and 24th @ Boston University Dance Theatre, 915 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA, 02215, and again…

Massachusetts Dance Festival kicks off its second year of full day weekend education workshops and performances on August 13^th and 14^th at Boston University’s Dance Studio Theater and August 27^th and 28^th at UMass Amherst’s Bowker Auditorium and Totman Gymnasium Theater, capturing audiences east to west. (…

Eclectic weekend dance performances at the Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA, portrayed the diversity of talent and culture that is embedded in lifestyle, here, during the 21^st Century.  The Dance Complex itself, formed in 1991, in order to secure the…

Saturday evening, January 8, 2011, marked the final performance of “Mama” Fatou N’Diaye and the company she founded in 1981, “Silimbo D’Adeane,” at least with her as its full-time artistic director in the City of Cambridge.  As master dancer, choreographer, and cultural arts educator for over 30 years in African and the U.S., she returns to her roots in Senegal this week to…

Rebecca Parris was born…

Massachusetts Dance Festival’s first annual statewide events,…

“Made of Paper,” a contemporary modern, uninterrupted 45-minute dance production,…