Series Prices (includes 25% discount) $414, $342, $208 for 12 events
 Martha Graham
Dance Company
Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 pm
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“One of the great companies of the world” (The New York Times) celebrates 80 years of groundbreaking contemporary dance. Its founder, the legendary dancer and choreographer Martha Graham, had a transformational impact on dance, revolutionizing theories of movement and using unorthodox techniques to communicate emotional and spiritual themes, redefining the role of design in modern dance. Today, the company’s extraordinary dancers perform Graham’s stunning repertory, keeping her singular genius alive and vibrant. This performance features many of her signature pieces, including Errand into the Maze, Lamentation, and Appalachian Spring. Each piece features the original music, lighting, set design, and costuming that helped make these the classics they are. Discover “one of the seven wonders of the artistic universe.” (Washington Post)
$40, $32, $20
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 Tango Buenos Aires
Saturday, October 27 at 8 pm
Sunday, October 28 at 7 pm
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“Swirling, fast-paced tapestries of movement, laced with proud postures and sensual couplings,” reported The Washington Post after their last performance here. Tango Buenos Aires is Argentina’s greatest cultural export with a dozen talented dancers, a vocalist and six gifted instrumentalists. Together they trace the history of the Argentine Tango, an integral part of their culture that was born in the dance halls and brothels in the late 19th century and swept Europe as high society embraced this new dance sensation. Tango Buenos Aires never fails to mesmerize and astound audiences as they perform the various styles of tango with its dazzling intricacy, dramatic flourish, and deep emotion.
$44, $36, $22
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 Georgian State Dance Company
Saturday, November 17 at 8 pm
Sunday, November 18 at 4 pm
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The Georgian State Dance Company storms the stage with equal parts enthusiasm and virtuosity in a non-stop kaleidoscope of whirling, leaping, spinning, and gliding bodies, leaving audiences and critics awestruck. “Quite astonishing,” reported The Dallas Morning News. “Remarkable,” declared The New York Times. This renowned company performs regional, court, and social dances reflecting various aspects of Georgian life. Fierce gymnastic male warriors demonstrate their impressive acrobatic skills in dramatic war dances while exquisitely costumed women glide on imperceptible footsteps across the stage. And then, performing at break-neck speeds, the men spin high in mid-air, compete in elaborate swordplay, dance completely unsupported on toes alone, and defy gravity by balancing on one another’s shoulders.
$46, $38, $23 
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 Pipes, Drums and Dancers of the Royal Scots
Dragoon Guards
Sunday, Jan. 20
2 & 7 pm
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The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards and Band of the Coldstream Guards take the stage for a splendid program of pomp and grandeur. Audiences thrill to the Rousing marches, inspiring anthems, ceremonial fanfares, and classic medleys as these illustrious regiments proudly share their heritage in a colorful, awe-nspiring, and moving performance. The tank crew members of The Pipes and Drums of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards gained international renown for their chart-topping “Amazing Grace” recording in the 70s. With a military lineage that dates back to the 17th century, these regiments stir the soul with their medleys devoted to sea songs, evocative bagpipe renditions, and of course, marches, including an exciting tribute to John Phillip Sousa!
$48, $40, $24
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 Perú Negro
Saturday, Feb. 2 at 8 pm
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For 35 years, this energetic ensemble has been preserving Peru’s rich African heritage. Today, they are the standard bearers of Black music in Peru. In their high-energy shows, festive and celebratory dances are interwoven with vibrant live music to recreate the folkloric history of their ancestors. “A nonstop carnival of rhythm,” writes The Los Angeles Times. Their distinctive sound is in part the result of their unusual percussion instruments – a wooden crate, a tithing box and a donkey jaw. Historically, these were substitutes for the drums that had been banned by Spanish colonizers. The music is rounded out by melodic guitar and passionate voices, providing the perfect accompaniment for the rhythmic and passionate dancing. “So much unadulterated fun,” declared the Boston Globe.
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 Full-Length Evening Work
Mark Morris Dance Group
Dido and Aeneas
music by Henry Purcell
Fri., Feb. 15 at 8 pm
Sat., Feb. 16 at 8 pm
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For the first time, Mark Morris presents a full-length piece at the Center for the Arts. Purcell’s opera, Dido and Aeneas relates the tragic love story of Virgil’s Aeneid. In this extraordinary event Morris conducts a chamber orchestra, chorus, and vocal soloists in keeping with his renowned commitment to the integration of dance and live music. Morris first staged this piece in 1989 at Brussels’ Theatre de la Monnaie and this monumental work highlights the Group’s incredible talent for drama, and Morris’s magnificent ability to create beautiful movement. It was praised for “the richness of the choreography, the beauty of the music, the expressive technique of the dancers, and the flawless synergy of the three.” (Criticaldance.com)
$50, $42, $25
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 Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Chapel/Chapter
Saturday, Mar. 22 at 8 pm
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This award-winning, Harlem-based company is recognized as one of the most innovative and powerful forces in the modern dance world. Choreographer and dancer Bill T. Jones has an unmistakable style, often combining video, text, and autobiographical material with dance. Forming the company in 1982 Jones, with his late partner Arnie Zane, gained recognition as “new wave” choreographers whose large-scale, abstract collaborations were visually and spatially energized by contemporary sets, costumes, and body paintings. In a recent review of this multicultural company, The Washington Post raved: “They all share a velvety propulsion, razor-sharp technique and a stage presence that’s close to majesty.”
$44, $36, $22
Funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Ford Foundation, and JP Morgan Chase.
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 St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre
Carmen and
Swan Lake
Fri., April 11 at 8 pm
Sat., April 12 at 8 pm
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Founded in 1966 as the first Theatre of Ballet in Russia, St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre is led by international ballet laureate Yuri Petukhov, who continues to build its extensive repertoire of classical and modern ballet. The company presents two different ballets on consecutive evenings: Carmen and Swan Lake. Created by Petukhov and set to the unforgettable Georges Bizet score, Carmen is the passionate, sensual story of the seductive gypsy who tempts the handsome soldier Don José, much to the dismay of his betrothed. With choreography, costumes and scenery evoking the romance of Old Seville, this is sure to please ballet lovers of all ages. Swan Lake is one of the great fantasies, and was inspired by the ancient German legend of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer’s curse. With its melodramatic plot twists, Petipa’s classic choreography and, of course, the unforgettable Tchaikovsky score, Swan Lake continues to earn the adoration of those who love great ballet in the grand Russian tradition.
$54, $46, $27
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 Diavolo
Fri., May 2 at 8 pm
Sat., May 3 at 8 pm
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This innovative dance company was acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times for its “unstinting energy and the ability to dance on any surface, whether horizontal, vertical, tilted or tubular.” Diavolo is composed of dancers, gymnasts and actors who collaborate with artistic director and founder Jacques Helm to create pieces that offer an almost cinematic experience. Utilizing oversized structures or surrealistic sets of commonplace items, performers leap, fly, and twirl to convey powerful narratives that are clever metaphors for the absurdities of life. In Trajectoire, the ensemble takes a visceral and emotional journey on a great abstract galleon; and in Tete au Carre, a huge cube structure is used to explore the concept of teamwork. “Playfulness with props and physicality that elicits cheers from the audience,” writes The New York Times.
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Ballet Folklórico de México
Leahy