Highlights Celebrating Summer Stages' 15 Years of Dancing

Among many highlights from Summer Stages Dance at Concord Academy’s fifteen years are the following:

• Provided more than 600 dance students at all levels of proficiency with rigorous, professional training;

• Built an accomplished diverse faculty drawn from America’s leading dance companies

• Recruited legendary figures from the world of modern dance as guest artists & teachers;

• Honored six times by The Boston Globe as one of the year’s “Top 10 Dance Events;

• Brought performances to over 20,000 audience members by today’s freshest, most inventive contemporary companies and solo artists;

• Presented regional premieres of nearly 40 original works by the field’s foremost innovators;

• Partnered with such leading institutions as the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Boston Ballet, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

• Offered more than 30 emerging choreographers the opportunity to create and perform new works;

• Sponsored at no charge over 60 open rehearsals, dialogues and special events designed;

• More than tripled financial aid since the program’s inception.