Boston Goes Dancing

Harvard FAS

Today, Boston and Cambridge are pulsing with dance: from drag shows at Jacques Cabaret to ballets at Citizens Opera House to salsa, samba, West African, and Bollywood classes at the Dance Complex. This course offers an introduction to researching and analyzing the wide range of dance styles that animate Greater Boston’s cultural life, as well as their histories and influence. How might we tell the story of dance in Boston and Cambridge? How has dance here operated as art and entertainment, a…