We are participating in Jamaica Plain Open Studios!
Did you know Northeast Arts supports professional dancers with resources, rehearsal space and also curates a huge collection of handmade costumes? We choose to work with designers who prioritize recycled, reused and reimagined materials to create dance costuming. We'll be showing select designs during @jpopenstudios on Sep. 27 and 28.
Come see the studios and costumes, learn about our programming, watch live demonstrations, enter raffles and pick up some giveaways!
Saturday Sep 27 - 11am to 6pm
🌟 Open rehearsal with JGDT Community Ensemble 12:30 - 1:30pm
🌟 Ballet demonstration with Janelle Gilchrist 2:30pm
🌟 Pointework demonstration and performance with Northeast Arts freelance dancers. 3pm
🌟 Costume display, raffles and giveaways
Sunday Sep 28 - 11am to 6pm
🌟 Historical Dance interactive demonstration with Ken Pierce 1-2pm
🌟 Costume display, raffles and giveaways
Free and open to the public.
4 Hyde Park Ave. JP 02130
2024 PERFORMances
In 2024, we self-produced three performances and hosted a week-long open arts exhibit. We also hosted Brookline Ballet’s Nutcracker and United Dance’s Arts Unbound productions in Northeast Arts Studio Theater.
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Ken Pierce Historical Dance Project presents an evening of dance and music! A family friendly event, this production includes a participatory workshop on Renaissance Dance at 6pm, followed by an informal music and dance performance at 7pm.
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A climate inspired performance featuring new choreography by Gianni di Marco accompanied by Aléxandros Kyriakopoulos, an innovative dance, art and photography collaboration with Alyssa Fortin and Jill Palese, and Northeast Arts’ continuance of our series Portraits of Women.
Special guest Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe opens the show. Join us for light refreshments to round out the evening as we celebrate the arts at Northeast Arts Studio Theater!
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A fundraiser performance to support our expansion into Forest Hills, this concert focused on classical ballet and a reprise of a few Northeast Arts favorites.
2023 PERFORMances
In 2023, we self-produced one performance and hosted our first Alliance company at Northeast Arts Studio Theater.
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May 6th at Integrarte
A joint performance between Jo-Mé Dance Arts and Northeast Arts to celebrate new beginnings and new roots as we begin a partnership together.
Choreography by Joe González, Gianni di Marco and Janelle Gilchrist in collaboration with dancers, and Arthur Saint-Leon with Fanny Cerrito.
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Performed by Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe on October 28, 2023
Danzas y Canciones – Dancing to songs of Spanish composer Xavier Montsalvatge. Live performance of Montsalvatge’s “Five Black Songs” (1945) describes in music and verse the experience of colonialism in South America through haunting melodies and Afro-Cuban rhythms, interpreted by lyrical and inventive dance by Janelle Gilchrist Dance Troupe and music by Boston Arts Consort.
Journeys 2018 - a contemporary ballet choreographed by Janelle Gilchrist is set to the recordings of three African American women composers: Florence Price, Undine Smith Moore, and Jessie Montgomery. Journeys embodies heartfelt emotions and narratives of African American experiences from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Jazz by The Chris Brown Trio set the mood!
2022 PERFORMances
In our inaugural year, we were proud to self-produce our first show and to support United Dance in their productions.
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November 5th at Integrarte
Our Inaugural Performance.
online PERFORMances
The founders and current Directors of Northeast Arts worked together informally during the pandemic to hone the skills necessary to take Northeast Arts on its next steps.
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Discombobulated was commissioned by Regis College for live, online performance in early December 2020. Returning to in-studio rehearsals and collaborating with film-maker and professor Rui-Rui Zhang presented rich opportunities for artists to explore human interactions with one another and ourselves over the first six months of the pandemic. Discombobulated is a living work, able to evolve as our understandings of our world shift between virtual, physical, emotional and artistic realms.
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These film productions in conjunction with Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, Metronome Films and youth dancers from City Youth Ballet of Boston, these short versions of the classics brought joy to audiences during quarantines of 2020.