Iris Fanger

May 17, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Iris Fanger

BOSTON DANCE THEATER Jessie Jeanne Stinnett’s company heads to Martha’s Vineyard to present “Surge,” a 45-minute, site-specific, participatory dance work, in collaboration with The Yard, about the climate crisis, sea-level rise, and coastal impacts to come. June 21-22, 7 p.m. $35, Long Point Refuge, West Tisbury.

May 17, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Iris Fanger

The British are coming, but this time it’s cause for cheers rather than alarm. London’s Royal Ballet, one of the supreme treasures of the international dance world, will appear at Jacob’s Pillow in Becket July 3-7, for a five-day takeover of the oldest summer dance festival in the United States. It’s the troupe’s first visit to the Pillow and will be the first time that one company will perform consecutively on both stages: the outdoor Henry J.

Sep 14, 2023 | wbur.org | Iris Fanger

This season, new programs and emerging talent highlight the local dance events, with both Boston-based companies and troupes from overseas scheduled to perform. Most innovative is the Momentum Greenway Dance Program, a series of free, site-responsive presentations, outdoors on the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

Aug 10, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Iris Fanger

BECKET — Complexions Contemporary Ballet made its Jacob’s Pillow debut on Wednesday night, but there was nary a tutu nor a swan maiden in sight. Rather, the troupe — co-founded and co-directed by choreographer Dwight Rhoden and master performer-teacher Desmond Richardson, both former members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater — is a gathering of highly trained ballet dancers who also deliver every kind of movement under the sun gorgeously.

Aug 3, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Iris Fanger

BECKET — As Rennie Harris puts it, “The three laws of hip-hop are individuality, creativity, and improvisation.” All three will be seen in events spread out across Jacob’s Pillow this week to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the music-dance form that has pervaded our culture.