DANCE NOW Boston: Under the Skin

About the Performance

Under the Skin: Dances by Marcus Schulkind and The Bang Group is the second in a series of legacy programs presented by The Bang Group highlighting the influence of artists like Schulkind, whom Parker considers among his artistic forebears, on contemporary dance. Both Schulkind and Parker have set work on each other's dancers showing the deep underlying connections they've cultivated through mutual inspiration.

The program features an historic overview of Schulkind's best-loved solo works along with a premiere by Parker for himself and Jeffrey Kazin and his notorious pointe solo, Hind Legs. The program also features guest artists from Boston's dance community including Lorraine Chapman, Emily Jerant-Hendrickson and Margaret Falcone, all of whom also work with The Bang Group, along with guest artist Clarence Brooks.

Join us after the show on Saturday for a toast to the career of Marcus Schulkind!

About the Choreographers:

The Bang Group is a New York City-based, rhythm-driven, contemporary dance company whose artistic directors, choreographer David Parker and dancer Jeffrey Kazin, have Boston roots. TBG tours and performs widely throughout the USA and Europe and is best known for Parker's comic-subversive, vaudevillian Nutcracker called Nut/Cracked, now in its 23rd season. Parker and Kazin launched DANCE NOW Boston 10 years ago to create dynamic dance programs combining Boston and New York artists to build and sustain the community.

Marcus Schulkind has been a dancer, choreographer, and teacher for more than 50 years. He has received grants from the NEA, NYSCA, MCC, Affiliated Artists, Celebrity Series, and First Night. Prior to moving to Boston, he had his own dance company in New York City and was featured at Clark Center, American Theater Laboratory/Dance Theatre Workshop, and Dance Umbrella. He is also one of the founders of Green Street Studios in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to this, for the past 25 years, he has been an acupuncturist, teaching at New England School of Acupuncture and maintaining a private practice in Brookline, Massachusetts.

He graduated from Goddard College, which included two years of study in New York City at the Juilliard School and the dance studios of Martha Graham, Norman Walker, May O'Donnell, and Gertrude Schurr. He performed in the companies of Pearl Lang, Kathy Posin, Elisa Monte, Lar Lubovitch, Norman Walker, and the Batsheva Dance Company of Israel. He has choreographed extensively in the United States and had his own dance company in New York and in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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