Shura Baryshnikov News

For a second year, 2016-17 CATALYSTS! artists-in-residence will perform at The Dance Complex for three weekends in January. This year's artists, Ryan P. Casey, Lorraine Chapman, Junichi Fukuda, Yosi Karahashi, and Doppelganger Dance Collective (DDC): Danielle Davidson and Shura Baryshnikov, represent classic and hybrid forms including tap, modern, and flamenco.

For a second year, 2016-17 CATALYSTS! artists-in-residence will perform at The Dance Complex for three weekends in January.

SITI Company will present three new works-in-progress through SITI Lab, a residency for alumni of SITI's renowned training programs.

The Seattle International Dance Festival (SIDF) opens today, June 10 with Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson's Doppelganger Dance Collective. See history in the making as the next generation from the great Baryshnikov family travels from Providence RI to open the festival with an original contemporary duet. Joining them on stage is the dynamic duo, former Spectrum Dancers, Shadou Mintrone and Derek Crescenti. They return to Seattle from New York to present their latest collaboration, a new untitled work.

The Seattle International Dance Festival (SIDF) opens June 10 with Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson's Doppelganger Dance Collective. See history in the making as the next generation from the great Baryshnikov family travels from Providence RI to open the festival with an original contemporary duet. Joining them on stage is the dynamic duo, former Spectrum Dancers, Shadou Mintrone and Derek Crescenti. They return to Seattle from New York to present their latest collaboration, a new untitled work.

The Seattle International Dance Festival (SIDF) opens June 10 with Shura Baryshnikov and Danielle Davidson's Doppelganger Dance Collective.

Trinity Rep closes out its 52nd season Rebels, Renegades and Pioneers with Rodgers & Hammerstein's OKLAHOMA!, directed and choreographed by 2015 Emmy Award winnerRichard Jenkins and Sharon Jenkins. OKLAHOMA! runs now through June 5, 2016. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the cast in action below!

?Trinity Rep closes out its 52nd season Rebels, Renegades and Pioneers with Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma!, directed and choreographed by 2015 Emmy Award winner Richard Jenkins and Sharon Jenkins. Oklahoma! runs May 5-June 5, 2016.

June bursts with contemporary dance as the Seattle International Dance Festival (SIDF) brings its bold mix of global and local artists to the South Lake Union neighborhood for a 16-day dance profusion. For this eleventh anniversary year, the festival expands its footprint by adding Capitol Hill's Broadway Performance Hall as the venue for some of the Inter|National and Spotlight Series programs. The popular, and free, Art on the Fly moves to May 21 to sync with the SLU Market. This coordinated effort between SIDF, Amazon.com and the SLU Chamber is expected to enliven the evolving, vibrant neighborhood all day long. As in previous years, evening indoor festival performances kickoff at SLU's Raisbeck Hall; third week evening performances are inside Capitol Hill's larger Broadway Performance Hall.

FirstWorks' Artistic Icons Series hosts British dance phenomenon BalletBoyz on the kick-off weekend for their return tour to U.S. on January 31, 2016 at The Vets. BalletBoyz, one of the most original and innovative companies in contemporary dance, thrill audiences and critics with their distinctive style: no tutus, just pure athleticism. The brainchild of two former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, BalletBoyz are characterized by muscularity, ferocity, grace and elegance. BalletBoyz conclude the tour with a seven performance run in New York City.

FirstWorks' Artistic Icons Series hosts British dance phenomenon BalletBoyz in their return to the U.S. on January 31, 2016 at The Vets. BalletBoyz, one of the most original and innovative companies in contemporary dance, thrill audiences and critics with their distinctive style: no tutus, just pure athleticism. The brainchild of two former Royal Ballet dancers Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, BalletBoyz are characterized by muscularity, ferocity, grace and elegance. 

Bridge Repertory Theater kicks off its third season with Oscar Wilde's fast-paced one-act, inspired by the iconic Bible story, and featuring dancer Shura Baryshnikov in the titular role.

In its two years on the Boston theatre scene, Bridge Repertory Theater has tackled a wide range of material, from its debut with Harold Pinter's The Lover, to its flirtation with musical theatre in LaChiusa's Hello Again, to its embracing of locally grown and new work with Obehi Janice's FUFU & OREOS. At the end of its second season, the innovative young company faces the final frontier: the classics.

In its two years on the Boston theatre scene, Bridge Repertory Theater has tackled a wide range of material, from its debut with Harold Pinter's The Lover, to its flirtation with musical theatre in LaChiusa's Hello Again, to its embracing of locally grown and new work with Obehi Janice's FUFU & OREOS. At the end of its second season, the innovative young company faces the final frontier: the classics.

As part of their mission to build community through world-class performing arts and education programs, FirstWorks presents Zoologic, a World Premiere work from Providence's own Lostwax Multimedia Dance. Voted 'Rhode Island's best dance company' in a Providence Phoenix 2011 Readers' Poll, Lostwax has toured across the U.S., in Europe and Asia, and has regularly sold-out its Providence performances for FirstWorks. Zoologic launches in a three-day premiere run at RISD Auditorium on April 10, 11 at 8 p.m. and April 12 at 4 p.m., 2015. Tickets to the performance are on sale now for $15 in advance / $20 at the door and are available at first-works.org or 401-421-4278.

The Wilbury Theatre Group has announced a production of Tom Stoppard's tragi-comedic masterpiece Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. The celebrated playwright's work takes dark and hilarious look at art, life, and the world from the point of view of Hamlet's ill-fated school chums, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Directed by Wilbury Group Artistic Director Josh Short with music by Marc Kaplan, this reimagined production features Joshua Andrews and Patrick Saunders in the titular roles, with David Tessier as the Player.

The Bridge Repertory Theatre of Boston kicks off its second Season with the world premiere of The Forgetting Curve.

The Bridge Repertory Theatre of Boston kicks off its second Season with the world premiere of The Forgetting Curve.

The Wilbury Theatre Group closes its 2013-14 season with the acclaimed legendary musical Cabaret, the multiple award-winning masterpiece by Joe Masteroff, with Music and Lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, Directed by Tom Gleadow today, May 15-June 7 at the Wilbury Theatre Group, 393 Broad Street, Providence RI.