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Emily Coates (dancer, choreographer, writer) will be in residence at the Quick Center developing a new project that uses George Balanchine’s short-lived yet pivotal history in New England as a point of departure to think about how the body and spirit of dance artists scatter, living on in unexpected places.

Playwright Aaron Jafferis and composers Dahlak Brathwaite and Daniel Bernard Roumain collaborate with five actor/rapper/singers to create a musical (about white people) to end all musicals (about white people). A simple question - who should inherit the family house when Aaron's parents die - ignites a wild argument between Aaron's blue-collar white cousins, his dynamite-wielding Slovak ancestor, his Black chosen family, and his ever-lovin parents. To figure out what his newborn baby should inherit, Aaron and friends follow the money to its source, and excavate the buried stories of all three halves of his family.

Spend an evening exploring the ways these two internationally touring dance artists and long-time colleagues weave together science and choreography in a work-in-progress event, The Creative Process.

PLASTIC is the Acrobuffos’ most ambitious artistic project yet: creating laughter for a voiceless planet, compelling the audience to care.

Mélanie Demers is a Canadian choreographer, word lover, moviegoer and art addict. She founded her dance company MAYDAY in 2007 to explore the darker zones of the human condition.

Led by pioneer Reggie (Regg Roc) Gray, FLEXN is an international troupe of touring dance activists who celebrate the dance form known as “flexing.” Though its roots stretch back to Jamaica in the early 1990s, flexing grew up in the heart of Brooklyn, New York. It became a distinct dance style of its own in the mid-'00s, defined by elements like bone breaking, an unimaginable contortions of the arms. The style also includes gliding, a trick of the feet, like an advanced moonwalk; pausing, where a dancer will move in animated motions, stopping at sharp intervals as if they are hitting invisible walls; and connecting, where every movement must come in contact with a different body part—the hand instigating the elbow, setting off the shoulder, and so on.