Upcoming Concerts & Performances
11 upcoming concerts and performances from Global Arts Live, with dates, venues and ticket links taken from the organization’s own pages and refreshed weekly. All dance in Greater Boston →
Sat Nov 7 · 8:00pm
Compagnie Hervé Koubi opens The Platform, Global Arts Live's new venue, with the Boston premiere of Sol Invictus, named for the “invincible sun” deity of ancient Rome. Koubi's choreography mixes contemporary dance, capoeira and urban dance, set here to a score by Mikael Karlsson with excerpts by Steve Reich and Maxime Bodson. The New Yorker wrote that his dancers “could be mistaken for gods.”
Fri Nov 13 – Sat Nov 14 · 8:00pm
Fri Nov 13 / Sat Nov 14 · 8:00pm
Jean Appolon Expressions, the Boston company of Haitian-born choreographer Jean Appolon, gives the world premiere of Pouvwa (Power), an immersive evening built from Haitian folkloric dance, Afro-electronica, live drumming and visual installations. The piece takes up the misuse of power and how it might be used for the common good. It was made with support from the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project.
Sat Nov 21 – Sun Nov 22 · 8:00pm/3:00pm
Sat Nov 21 · 8:00pm / Sun Nov 22 · 3:00pm
BalletX, the Philadelphia contemporary ballet company of 16 dancers, gives the Boston premieres of three works: Jamar Roberts's Honey, Noelle Kayser's Scales on the Wings of a Butterfly and Marguerite Donlon's Big Wig. The New York Times has called its dancers “among America's best.” Roberts, a former Alvin Ailey dancer, was the Ailey company's first resident choreographer.
Fri Dec 11 – Sat Dec 12 · 8:00pm
Fri Dec 11 / Sat Dec 12 · 8:00pm
Subject:Matter, a Boston tap dance company that performs with its own jazz septet, pairs With Far Hand, its second record and a concert dance work of the same name, with the world premiere of Outside, its forthcoming third album, which takes tap into soft shoe and sand dancing. Since forming in 2015 the group has made tap concerts, recordings and community events.
Sun Jan 10 · 3pm
Evan Ziporyn’s Blackstar, which recasts David Bowie’s final album as a cello concerto for Maya Beiser, was first heard in 2017. This version, Aura: Blackstar Visualized, adds an immersive video projection by Alex Rigopulos, co-creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, and the studio Secret Portal, with Beiser playing alongside the 20-plus musicians of Ambient Orchestra. Ziporyn and Beiser were founding members of the Bang on a Can All-Stars.
Sat Feb 27 – Sun Feb 28 · 8:00pm/3:00pm
Sat Feb 27 · 8:00pm / Sun Feb 28 · 3:00pm
PHILADANCO!, The Philadelphia Dance Company, was founded in West Philadelphia in 1970 by Joan Myers Brown, and for more than five decades has trained dancers in the tradition of Black American concert dance. The company brings a new work that "honors the company's legacy while propelling it forward." The engagement is sponsored in part by LEAD3R.
Fri Mar 12 – Sat Mar 13 · 8:00pm
Fri Mar 12 / Sat Mar 13 · 8:00pm
Reckless Underdog, the newest creation from Victor Quijada's Montreal company RUBBERBAND, is a three-act piece for 12 dancers, each act set in a distinct universe: one drawn from classical ballet, one taking an abstract, minimal approach to movement, and one that takes apart the practice of the break cypher. Quijada founded the company in 2002 to fuse hip-hop with ballet and contemporary dance.
Sat Apr 3 – Sun Apr 4 · 8:00pm/3:00pm
Sat Apr 3 · 8:00pm / Sun Apr 4 · 3:00pm
ZAZ is a performative archive of Hurricane Katrina survivors' stories, built from their oral histories and recorded testimonies. SOLE Defined's dancers make a percussive score from tap, hard-soled shoes, gumboots (the boot dance of South African miners) and bare feet, woven together with speech, singing, rapping and projections that carry the survivors' accounts and set the piece in New Orleans.
Sat Apr 17 · 8:00pm
Boston Dance Theater is a Boston contemporary company under the artistic direction of Jessie Jeanne Stinnett, making ensemble works that pair physically daring movement with visual design and storytelling, and that explore "the complexities of the human experience." Its work grows out of collaboration, and the company returned to the ICA's stage in March 2025.
Sat Apr 24 – Sun Apr 25 · 8pm/3pm
Sat Apr 24 · 8pm / Sun Apr 25 · 3pm
MOMIX, the Connecticut company founded in 1980 by Pilobolus co-founder Moses Pendleton, performs Botanica, an evening-length piece of visual theater that follows the rhythms of the seasons and the passing of a day through images of the natural world. The dancers work with gravity-defying props, cinematic projections and puppetry, in what the company calls a restorative “herbal remedy” for the senses.
Thu May 13 – Sat May 15
Thu May 13 · 8:00pm / Fri May 14 · 8:00pm / Sat May 15 · 2:00pm & 8:00pm
Step Afrika!, founded in Washington, D.C., in 1994 by C. Brian Williams, marks more than 30 years of stepping, the percussive tradition rooted in African American fraternities and sororities, with Evolution. The programme pairs new dance works with a piece shaped through the company's long collaboration with South Africa, where it began as a cultural exchange with the Soweto Dance Theatre.
