Marquee choreographers leap into summer classes

This summer a number of internationally recognized choreographers will invade Greater Boston, where they will teach at an assortment of intensive dance programs.

Dancers will come from near and far to study with them, and there are significant benefits for area dance fans as well.

Chief among the offerings is the Meet the Artist Performance Series associated with Summer Stages Dance, the annual festival based at Concord Academy. Public events include open rehearsals, faculty performances in the academy’s comfortable Performing Arts Center, Q-&-A sessions after the show and informal receptions.

Summer festivals

Mandy Jenkins
Cincinnati Enquirer

It's almost summer - a time for sunburns, humidity - and a slew of festivals in the Tristate. <a href=http://cincinnati.com/freetime/061303_festivals.html target=_blank>more</a>

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David Parker & Bang conclude Concord Academy’s ‘Summer Stages’
BY MARCIA B. SIEGEL

Attendance has steadily grown for Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy, and the 400-seat theater was full last Thursday night for David Parker & the Bang Group as the 2003 series concluded. Summer Stages directors Amy Spencer and Richard Colton deserve our thanks for this eight-year-old project. In addition to three weeks of classes with stellar faculty, they’ve brought live, offbeat but high-quality dance performance to the Boston area. All three featured attractions on this summer’s series — Chris Elam’s Misnomer, soloist Peter Boal, and the Bang Group — have sought to rearrange fixed notions about dancing and choreography, and they’ve given us new ways to look at whatever comes next.