The Dance Complex in Central Square (617.547.9363) celebrates its 15th anniversary with events that include DANIEL MCCUSKER ’s Variations in 4 Spaces for Many People using the entire historic Odd Fellows Hall as its performance space (October 14-15), a CAPOEIRA ENCOUNTER WEEKEND (November 3-5), and a special faculty concert (November 18-19). Other local performers planning programs this fall include ZOE DANCE COMPANY in Abandon, a piece about the nature of fear (September 29-30), and SNAPPY DANCE presenting a collaboration-in-progress with violinist Lucia Lin and media artist Jonathan Bachrach (November 17-18), both at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center (617.577.1400).
Central Square’s Green Street Studios (617.864.3191) has NICOLE PIERCE ’s troupe (October 13-14) and WEBER DANCE (October 26-28). BENNETT DANCE COMPANY performs Inner House with a set by Michael Dowling as part of its benefit performance at Emmanuel Church (November 3; 617.495.9456). L’Anima, a new dance-theater work by the always innovative MARJORIE MORGAN at Brookline Tai Chi (December 8-9; 978.779.5341), reinterprets the legend of Romulus and Remus as part of her evocation of the Italian countryside. The hardworking b-boys and b-girls of ORIGINATION have a benefit performance at Roxbury Community College’s Media Arts Center (October 7; 617.541.1875), and the pre-professional students at the BOSTON CONSERVATORY tackle Martha Graham’s Night Journey (November 9–12; 617.912.9137). Many local events develop quickly, and there’s not always a big advertising budget, so check the Phoenix performance listings and the Web site of the Boston Dance Alliance (www.bostondancealliance.org) for news, tickets, and information about workshops associated with visiting companies and performers, which are usually held at Cambridge studios.
Jazz musician STAN STRICKLAND encompasses dance styles ranging from hula to jive in his “autojazzography,” Coming Up for Air, which is written and directed by Jon Lipsky (Boston Center for the Arts, September 27–October 14; 617.933.8600). Up in Salem, classical Indian virtuoso LAKSHMI VISHWANATHAN will be giving a bharatanatyam performance drawn from love poetry (Peabody Essex Museum, September 30; 978.745.9500).
Dancer and genial tap-dance networker JOSH HILBERMAN is helping to bring tap back to local stages. NATE COOPER of Rhythm in Shoes, ace jitterbugger BOB THOMAS, and the German team Kurt Albert and Klaus Bleis, who call themselves “TAP AND TRAY” and specialize in an almost forgotten vaudeville art, will be sharing a comic bill with THELMA GOLDBERG’S LEGACY DANCERS at the Regent Theatre in Arlington (October 27-28; 781.863.5360).
Last but not at all least: if your inner Scrooge tends to emerge just about the time you’re drying the Thanksgiving dishes, you may be able to inoculate yourself against Nutcrackeritis (but ask whether it’s suitable for your kids) with a hit of DAVID PARKER & THE BANG GROUP ’s Nut/Cracked (BCA Calderwood Pavilion, November 3-11; 617.621.6090), which is part of the Theater Offensive’s OUT on the Edge Festival of Queer Theater.
