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Bringing Dance to the Silver Screen

• By Harrison Berry
The Idaho Screendance Festival, which will run Friday-Saturday, April 26-27, at the Boise State University Special Events Center, will screen 36 films with a common subject: dance.
• Tags: Screen News, Boise, Entertainment, Film, Idaho Screendance Festival, dance

Ballet Idaho Dancers to Hit the Runway for Spring Fashion Show Fundraiser

• By Lex Nelson
This year's Spring Fashion Show is set for Thursday, April 4, in the Ballet Idaho Theater at Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy.
• Tags: Culture, Arts, Boise, Culture, Entertainment, Fashion, dance, fashion, Ballet Idaho, spring fashion show, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy

It Takes Two at the Inaugural Tree City Tango Festival

• By Brian Millar
The first Tree City Tango dance festival will run Friday-Sunday, June 8-10, at Ochos and Trailhead.
• Tags: Culture, Boise, Community, Downtown, Entertainment, Nightlife, Tango, dance, Tango Boise, Tree City Tango, Ochos Boise, Trailhead

Garrett Anderson to Replace Peter Anastos as Ballet Idaho Artistic Director

• By Lex Nelson
Anderson will take up the post of Artistic Director in July.
• Tags: Arts News, Arts, Culture, Entertainment, dance, Ballet Idaho

NewDance Previews Ambitious Ballets

Five up-and-coming choreographers debuted their latest work at NewDance

• By Harrison Berry
Several of the dances performed at the Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy are destined for expansion, bigger stages or both.
• Tags: Culture, art, Boise, Downtown, stage, dance, Ballet Idaho, NewDance

Slideshow

Slideshow: OneBeat at the Linen Building Oct. 10

• By Gustavo Sagrero and BW Staff
OneBeat brought the world to Boise.
• Tags: Culture, art, Arts, Culture, music, OneBeat, dance, music, culture, The Linen Building, The Record Exchange, Rhodes Skatepark, The Olympic, Slideshow

Project Flux/WHYTEBERG Take Dance Into Businesses, Outside

• By Harrison Berry
The collaboration between Project Flux and Los Angeles-based WHYTEBERG was months in the making, and culminated over the weekend in the new LIV district near Sixth and Main streets.
• Tags: Stage, Dance, MING Studios, Project Flux, WHYTEBERG, Jordan-Wilcomb, Peace Valley, downtown Boise, dance

Project Flux Performs Latest Dance Piece in 'Burned Forest' at MING Studios

• By Harrison Berry
The performance, Project Flux Meets Contrappunto at MING, was conceived Nov. 7—the day before the election—and performed Nov. 12 and 13; but there are clear lines to be drawn between it and sociopolitical angst.
• Tags: Stage, Arts, Culture, Dance, music, Project Flux, MING Studios, dance, contemporary dance, art, Donald Trump

Ballet Idaho's Peter Anastos: 'You May See a Great Choreographer Born Tonight' at NewDance, Up Close

• By Harrison Berry
"You're not seeing anything predictable. I think that's what makes this risky and interesting," Anastos said. "You may see a great choreographer born tonight."
• Tags: Stage, Dance, Ballet Idaho, ballet, dance, NewDance

LED Performs Selection From Major Work at VAC

• By Harrison Berry
The Process Party continues June 10 at 7 p.m. at VAC. Tickets are $16 in advance and $20 at the door. This Way to Egress will be performed in its entirety at The Morrison Center Oct. 29.
• Tags: Stage, Dance, LED, dance, VAC

Project Flux Shoots for the Moon with 2016 Performance

• By Harrison Berry
"nasa" mixes unusual elements into something that looks (and sounds) natural: It's not an outlier for the young dance company; it's a metaphor for it.
• Tags: Stage, Arts, Dance, music, Project Flux, Ballet Idaho, dance

Shining a Light on LED

Lauren Edson and Andrew Stensaas, founders of arts collective LED, on Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, relationships and "ushering in new technologies"

• By Harrison Berry
"I love the idea that the audience is opening the door to this intimate relationship. I think there's something poignant and heartbreaking about it, too. As an audience member, you'll feel vulnerable and connected."
• Tags: Culture, dance, LED, Morrison Center for the Performing Arts

Review: Project Flux Features Fresh New Work, Added Polish

• By Harrison Berry
Project Flux took to the Esther Simplot Center stage to perform dances old and new.
• Tags: Stage, Arts, Culture, Dance, Project Flux, dance, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, Lauren Edson + Dancers, Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts

LED Teases "Barbarian Princess"

• By Harrison Berry
LED's "Barbarian Princess" is smart, evocative and funny.
• Tags: Stage, Arts, Culture, Dance, LED, Ming Studios, dance, Lauren Edson

Need Something To Do Friday?

• By Sam Hill
• Tags: Culture, Downtown, music, Mardi Gras, Jazz, Dance

Ballet Idaho's Studio Series Takes Center Stage

Saturday-Sunday, March 16-17

• By Lauren Bergeson
Formerly called Innovations, this annual dance event takes advantage of Anastos' talents and experience to deliver cutting-edge choreographies professionally performed by principal dancer Angela Napier Gibson, as well as other Ballet Idaho company dancers, including Nathan Powell, Lauren Menger, Daniel Ojeda and James Brougham.
• Tags: Stage, Ballet Idaho, Dance, Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, Ballet Idaho Annex, Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy Annex, Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy

Off Center Dance Gets In Your Face

Friday, March 8-Saturday, March 9

• By Sam Alderman
In Off Center Dance Project's latest series, In Your Face, unholy unions and orchestrated discord are the names of the game. According to the Off Center website, In Your Face will deliver choreographed dances ranging in style and theme from "abstract postmodernism to Alice in Wonderland meets steampunk."
• Tags: Stage, Dance, Boise Contemporary Theater

Pilobolus Receives Standing Ovation From Treasure Valley Audience

• By Jeremiah Robert Wierenga
• Tags: Dance, Pilobolus, Morrison Center, Dance

Pilobolus Delights in Experimental Dance for Boise Audiences

Saturday, March 2

• By Jeremiah Robert Wierenga
Treasure Valley audiences will be assimilated into this ongoing exploration as Pilobolus 7, the troupe's repertory arm, invades the Morrison Center for an evening-length concert. The show, which begins at 8 p.m., will feature six recent pieces, including Gnomen (1997)—a muscular representation of relational mitosis and coalescence—and the robotic Automaton (2012).
• Tags: Stage, Dance, Morrison Center for the Performing Arts

Trey McIntyre Project's Spring Show Goes Goth

Review of TMP's Spring Show

• By Tara Morgan
The Spring Show's opening number, "Queen of the Goths," was a fittingly passionate segue into an exploration of the character Queen Tamora from Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus.
• Tags: Culture, TMP, Trey McIntyre Project, Dance

Ballet Idaho's Carmen and Don Quixote Bring Spanish Flair to Morrison Center

Dance Review

• By Harrison Berry
Alex Ossadnik's moody choreography started slowly, intensifying through a dream sequence when Carmen meets the ghost of Fate.
• Tags: Stage, Ballet Idaho, Dance Reviews, Dance, Morrison Center for the Performing Arts

Sacred Land Debuts at Morrison Center

Dance Review

• By Harrison Berry
This was the opening event of Boise 150, the celebration of the city's sesquicentennial, and Cockey wrote Sacred Land to commemorate Boise as a point of intersection for European and Native American cultures.
• Tags: Week in Review, Dance, Boise 150, Sacred Land

Trey McIntyre Project Takes Over the Boise Airport, Gangnam Style

• By Josh Gross
• Tags: Dance, Trey McIntyre Project, Gangnam Style, Boise Airport, Dance, Korea National Contemporary Dance Company

Dancers Come Together at the Inaugural Performance of the Boise Dance Co-Op

Saturday, Aug. 4

• By Sheree Whiteley
While pop culture would have us believe that dance is a world of conniving, competitive, creative types looking to stab each other in the back, Boise dance companies are bringing about a different perspective.
• Tags: Stage, Phyllis Rothwell Affrunti, Jason Hartley, Dance, Boise Dance Co-Op

Need Something To Do Tuesday?

• By Sheree Whiteley
• Tags: Dance, Trey McIntyre Project, Treasure Valley YMCA, Strong Kids Campaign, Dance, Linen Building