Officially designated as the fastest tap dancer in the world, JAMES DEVINE brings a crack group of Irish musicians to accompany “CELTIC TAP,” which is presented by World Music/CRASHarts at the Institute of Contemporary Art (October 17-19; 617.876.4275 orwww.worldmusic.org). DAVID PARKER AND THE BANG GROUP return in the naughty and nice Nut/Cracked at the Calderwood Pavilion as part of the Theater Offensive’s Out on the Edge Festival (October 22-26; 617.621.6090 orwww.thetheateroffensive.org). Caitlin Corbett and Danny McCusker mentor a group of young choreographers presenting their work in Cambridge at the GREEN STREET EMERGING ARTISTS CONCERT (October 17-18; 617.864.3191).
The weekend of October 24 is especially busy. Just in time for the presidential election, the BILL T. JONES/ARNIE ZANE DANCE COMPANY muses on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln in Another Evening: Serenade/The Proposition at the ICA (October 24-26; 617.478.3103 orwww.icaboston.org). BU artist-in-residence TIFFANY MILLS and members of her company and Boston University’s Dance Theatre Group give a free performance at Boston University Dance Theater (October 24; 617.353.1597). U THEATRE TAIWAN, which draws on drumming, the spiritual practices associated with traditional martial arts, and Grotowski theater, presents Sound of the Ocean at John Hancock Hall (October 25; 781.259.8195). Local dancemaker KAREN MURPHY-FITCH’s Falling Flight Project is at Green Street Studios (October 25-26; 617.864.3191).
BEBE NEUWIRTH, the Fosse star perhaps best known for her long-running stint as Dr. Lilith Sternin on Cheers, coaches Harvard students in a scene from Pippin in a lecture demonstration at New College Theatre (October 29; 617.495.8676). She teaches a master class the following afternoon that the public is invited to observe.
In November, ANNA MYER AND DANCERS bring together modern dancers, a professional violinist, and 15 young local poet rappers in the collaboratively created Street Talk Suite Talk at the Strand Theater in Dorchester (November 1-2; 617.547.9699). NOCHE FLAMENCA, with the great — and increasingly celebrated — Soledad Barrio, comes to Fitchburg State College (November 8; 978.665.3347). On the local front, the newly formed ACCUMULATION DANCE COMPANY presents work at Green Street Studios in Cambridge (November 7-8; 617.864.3191), and BOSOMA performs at Boston University Dance Theatre featuring guest choreography by Adrienne Hawkins and the Challenge, an intricate patterning of choreographic duels (November 7-8; 978.500.3057).
At the ICA, PHILADANCO makes a much-overdue Boston debut with works by African-American choreographers Rennie Harris, Christopher L. Huggins, Milton Myers, and Gene Hill Sagan (November 14-16; 617.876.4275 orwww.worldmusic.org). The same weekend, FOUR CHOREOGRAPHERS AND FOUR COMPOSERS collaborate on new works at the Dance Complex in Cambridge (November 14-15; 617.547.9363 orwww.dancecomplex.org). Boston University’s Dance Theatre Group presents works by students, alumni, and faculty including MICHAEL JAHODA, MARGOT PARSONS, and MICKI TAYLOR-PINNEY at the BU Dance Theater (November 21-22; 617.358.2500).
The 40th-anniversary tour of the LAR LUBOVITCH DANCE COMPANY is expected to bring the restoration of the choreographer’s influential North Star, an early minimalist work set to a score by Philip Glass, alongside the personally revealing Men’s Stories at the Tsai Performance Center (December 12-13; 617.482.6661 orwww.celebrityseries.org). Finally, run, don’t walk to catch Charlie Chaplin’s granddaughter AURÉLIA THIERRÉE in Aurélia’s Oratorio at the Loeb Drama Center, with magical design effects by her mother, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin. A couple of tickets to this one would make a swell holiday present (November 28–December 28; 617.547.8300 orwww.amrep.org).
