La danse éclectique

If you don’t already know Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal, the company’s name is sufficient clue to its unique approach to dance: eclectic and athletic, infusing a multitude of styles and cultures and drawing from an international cadre of...
Circus in Vermont: Big Top Skills

Circus in Vermont: Big Top Skills

The New England Center for Circus Arts teaches hard-to-come-by skills, things like flying via trapeze. This weekend, the Center offers a major display of those skills as students, instructors and guests present trapeze, aerial silk, partner balancing, juggling, and...
StageStruck: Theater Ecology

StageStruck: Theater Ecology

So I’m at A.P.E. Gallery on Northampton’s Main Street a week or so ago, and I run into Sabrina Hamilton. She’s artistic director of Ko Theater Works, a 22-year-old Valley-based company that champions alternative theater. We’re both here to see...
StageStruck: Lies Like Truth

StageStruck: Lies Like Truth

It’s entirely apt that Shakespeare & Company has mounted The Liar as its late-winter entertainment. For one thing, David Ives’ up-to-the-minute adaptation of Pierre Corneille’s 17th-century farce was commissioned a couple of years ago by another...
One Sweet Festival

One Sweet Festival

Each spring, the reawakening of the region’s maple trees serves as inspiration for an intergenerational “celebration of sap” in Shelburne Falls. The fourth annual Syrup performing arts festival fills this weekend with music, theater, dance and...