Upcoming events.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Open Contemporary
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
Tongue Depressor & Austin Larkin, Adaa, Current Signal, Mem1
Tongue Depressor + Austin Larkin (New Haven, CT)
https://tonguedepressor.bandcamp.com/album/reeling-vine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9noX35b5b7Q
Transcendent meditations in compellingly musical, and highly accomplished acoustic drone from New Haven.
Adaa
https://adaa.bandcamp.com/music
Inward digital compositions.
Current Signal
https://primitivepropaganda.bandcamp.com/album/route-114
Faded electronic narratives and tape locutions.
Mem1
Minimalist electro-acoustic compositions
AS220 Youth Winter Showcase
Pull up to the AS220 Main-stage for our Winter Session Showcase on 3/21/24! Our apprentices have been working hard on our Futureworlds project, a Theater production centered on Social Justice and Afro-futurism.
Come listen to some new music,and check out our new Dances, Visuals, and Media!
Providence Poetry Slam Open Mic featuring Beau Williams!
Join us on Thursday March 21 for an open mic and feature by poet Beau Williams!
OPEN MIC: open to all artists of all genres, and all ages! Bring your songs, poems, and prose! You'll have 5 minutes MAX on the mic, please be considerate of time! Think 2 short poems (2 minutes each) or 1 long poem or song.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Stretch with Jay
90-minute class breaking down the practice of stretching with a meditative approach in order to calm the nervous system and allow deeper range to be accessed.
ALL ARE WELCOME
no dance experience needed
Heels Technique with Jay
90-minute class intended to broaden and enrich the understanding of what heels encompasses, laying down technical foundation to ensure bodily safety, and diving into sensuality and the range of ways it can be
The Punchline Academy Live Tour
https://fullblastbooking.net/tour-for-life/
In 3 years, TOUR FOR LIFE has raised over $43,000 for Mental Health charity, and featured Ghostface Killah, Onyx, Kool G Rap, Sheek Louch, Cormega, Nems, 38 Spesh, Cappadonna, Rah Digga, Rittz, Dizzy Wright, Canibus, CL Smooth, R.A. The Rugged Man, Brother Ali, and many more.
Just as importantly; we have raised more awareness than we ever thought possible after just 3 years. We have generated so many conversations, gotten many people within the Hip Hop community to “TALK ABOUT IT”, partake in self care, and open up what has been a closed door for decades now. Tour For Life is saving lives, and changing lives for the better, while spreading love, knowledge and support for both mental health management and indie music. Our events include on-site therapists offering free sessions, live artists/painting and community mending art projects, raffles, mental health professionals distributing promo materials/literarure and other self care resources, and of course amazing live music performances. These are shows like no other, and we are truly blessed to have the talented and compassionate staff at MHC help us take on the frontlines of such an important fight.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
PVD Movie Club
Alright, alright, alright. We're heading to the AS220 Black Box for another March event. This time, Movie Club will be screening Richard Linklater's iconic 1993 film, Dazed and Confused!
Dazed and Confused follows a variety of teenagers on the last day of school in Austin, Texas in 1976. The film has no single protagonist or central conflict, rather following interconnected plot threads among different social groups and characters, such as rising ninth graders undergoing hazing rituals, a football star's refusal to sign a clean living pledge for his coach, and various characters hanging out at a pool hall.
Join us on Tuesday, March 26th for a 7:00pm screening of Dazed and Confused at AS220 Black Box. Arrive inside at 6:45pm, and we'll start the movie around 7:00ish. For anyone interested, we can go someplace afterwards to keep hanging out. I'll wait to pick a place until I see that night's crowd.
This will also be a ticketed event at $10 a pop. Feel free to drop a comment or chat if you're looking for the group on the day of. The Black Box is located at 95 Empire Street in downtown Providence, next to the AS220 Bar.
Follow us on Instagram: @pvdmovieclub
Tor Johnson Records presents Dreamwell, Horsewhip, Riverbed, Razed
Tor Johnson Records Presents
8pm doors, $10
-Dreamwell - https://dreamwell.bandcamp.com
-Horsewhip - https://iodinerecordings.bandcamp.com/album/consume-and-burn
-Riverbed - https://riverbedhc.bandcamp.com/music
-Razed - https://razed401.bandcamp.com/
Open Contemporary
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Modern African Dance with Mekbul J Tahir
The technique Acogny is the only recognized contemporary dance technique created in Africa. It’s created by Germaine Acogny, the mother of African contemporary dance. It is based on traditional African dance (specially Senegal and Benin) and Western dance techniques (classical ballet, release- and Graham technique). Students can expect the joy of being yourself and experiencing a culture from a different part of the world.
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Stretch with Jay
90-minute class breaking down the practice of stretching with a meditative approach in order to calm the nervous system and allow deeper range to be accessed.
ALL ARE WELCOME
no dance experience needed
Heels Technique with Jay
90-minute class intended to broaden and enrich the understanding of what heels encompasses, laying down technical foundation to ensure bodily safety, and diving into sensuality and the range of ways it can be
Ben Miller's Stand Up Science
A show that's equal measures hilarious, educational, and deeply personal. Scientist turned stand-up comedian Ben Miller takes you on a journey that explores everything from chairs to the thermodynamics with wit and humor that makes these topics both approachable and delightful. And you probably like that sort of thing, nerd.
Come see this show after its completely sold-out run at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Ben Miller is an NYC-based comedian who has been working for the past seven years and in that time he's performed at all the top clubs in the city such as Broadway Comedy Club, Stand Up NY, Dangerfield's, Carolines, and The Stand. He was once ranked as the top roast battler in NYC. He also has a degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Columbia University. He's worked with electron microscopes, been a teacher on a science bus, 3D printed cookies and diffused a few bar fights while on stage. His jokes are sharp and self-deprecating, and he was once called “one of NYC’s best pound-for-pound joke writers” which isn’t saying much considering how little he weighs. In 2023, he was an Artist in Residence at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, the first ever stand-up comedian selected by the National Parks Arts Foundation.
The show is recommended for ages 14+.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
April Gallery Openings!
images left to right: Jinghong Chen | Jazzmen Lee Johnson | Michael Ezzell | Photographed by Jada Solèy Rodriguez, edited by Edwige Charlo
Oneida, There, Le Feeling
Sometimes even the longest journey ends close to where you started. Throughout the teens, Oneida pushed further and further into abstract, atmospheric sounds, recording long haunting compositions that couldn’t have been more different than the pulsing, hammering anthems of their past. But now they return with Success, their most guitar-centric, rock album in decades. It kicks off with “Beat Me to the Punch,” a song that is minimal like the best Ramones songs are minimal, pared back to beat and melody and a limited number of guitar chords. It’s an uncomplicated pleasure from the get-go, and if it’s ripped in half later by a corrosive guitar solo, well, what did you expect? This is Oneida.
Oneida has long straddled gray-area boundaries between the NYC punk/psych/rock world and the art/experimental world, playing at gritty rock clubs and elevated cultural institutions, including the Guggenheim, MoMA PS1, ICA London, MassMOCA and the Knoxville Museum of Art. The band has been known for extended live improvisational performances, collaborating onstage with Mike Watt, members of Flaming Lips, Portishead, Boredoms, Yo La Tengo, Dead C, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and many others. Oneida’s members juggle a wide variety of other music projects. Drummer Kid Millions has played with Spiritualized, Royal Trux and Boredoms and releases solo compositions under his own name and as Man Forever. Shahin Motia founded noise-punk’s Ex Models and currently plays in Knyfe Hyts. Kid and Fat Bobby perform and release music as People of the North, and Bobby has a band called New Pope (postpunk/minimalist duo/trio) releasing a second full-length this year (Shinkoyo).
“We've been in the woods for a long time, doing very challenging, fucked up and psychotic things and sharing them with the world and expecting people to keep up,” said Kid Millions. “We honestly did not try to make something more straight ahead but it came out that way.”
To understand how Oneida got here, you have to consider the pandemic, which beat them down first, then set them up for a joyous, triumphant return. The band had booked studio time to record the first of these songs in March 2020, but as the lockdown intensified, they canceled those dates and spent the next 15 months kicking themselves for missing their window. It would end up being the longest break in playing together since Fat Bobby and Kid Millions started messing around in bands in their junior year of high school. Oneida’s five members hunkered down in their various locations—Bobby in Boston, Kid Millions, Shahin Motia, Hanoi Jane and Barry London scattered across Greater New York City—and wrote material. “We had this large and growing collection of songs,” Bobby remembered. “Like everyone who works in some productive, creative way, you get used to the fact that sometimes the faucet is open. Sometimes the faucet is closed. This time faucet was wide open.”
As the pandemic eased, Oneida got back together again in May of 2021, renting a studio in Rockaway Queens so they could play and record together for the first time in over a year. There were no songs and no agenda. The idea was just to improvise together for two days to see what came out. No one in the band knew whether they’d still be able to play together in the same way, with the same intensity after so long apart. But the magic was still there. “That was a really powerful experience for us,” said Bobby. “There was something very productive about oscillating between that freeform experience and the new set of songs that are honed down and as minimal as we can get.”
With that session under their belts, Oneida reconvened at Spaceman Sound in Greenpoint Brooklyn in September 2021, working with engineer Tom Tierney to capture the new songs in the stripped-down rock and roll sound they seemed to demand. “We wanted to play very, very simply in our own idioms and own vocabularies,” said Bobby. “But it’s funny. It’s a record of rock songs. Some of which have two chords. Some only one.”
No band is an island, so of course there are influences—the fuzzy clangor of the Velvet Underground, the keyboard-stabbing exhilaration of the Clean, the paranoiac lyricism of Suicide, the giddy wallop of the Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner,” the time-bending open-ended-ness of Can. Still, the main factor in Oneida’s sound is Oneida, specifically the band’s willingness to go where the music takes them, without too much calculation or premeditation.
“One thing that’s important to me about our band is we really believe in following impulse and instinct,” said Bobby. “That doesn’t mean we can’t be conceptual. We’ll often have ideas and pursue ideas. We just have a lot of faith in the process of moving forward with some blindness and to try and like remain open to whatever chaos directs us. I think it’s funny and awesome that it seems to have resulted in an accessible bunch of music that sort of sounds like you’re at a rock show.”
Moving forward has always been important to the members of Oneida, but if you keep moving forward long enough, it might just bring you home. At Oneida’s first post-pandemic show in July 2021, the band played its landmark, single-note-hammering classic “Sheets of Easter,” then launched into all new material. The connection between the new songs and the old one was palpable, in the banging rhythms, the blasts of keyboards, the motorik motion that can go on forever or stop on a dime. Sometimes the journey takes the shape of a perfect O.
The David Liebe Hart Experience, with babybaby_explores
David Nkrumah Liebe Unger Hart, also credited as D. L. Hart, (born April 19, 1957) is an American musician, painter, puppeteer and actor. He is best known for his appearances on Adult Swim's Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, performing bizarre puppetry and singing in a variety of voice characterizations.[1] He is also known in the Los Angeles area for his role as a puppeteer on The Junior Christian Science Bible Lesson Program, a local public-access television cable TV program, and for performing with his puppet "Doug the Dog" just outside the Hollywood Bowl and Los Angeles Music Center after shows, where he is known to many concert goers simply as the "puppet man". He has also been known at times as David Hart, David Lieber Mintz,[2] David Unger Hart, David King Liebe Hart and DL Hart.[3]
Zounds!, Golden Crackers, Resonant Structures
Zounds! is a collaboration of Jack Wright, alto and soprano saxophones, of Easton Pa. and Philadelphia, and Patrick Crossland, trombone, of Baltimore, performing improvised solos followed by a duet. Patrick has had a long career as professional musician performing mainly new classical compositions and is now teaching at the University of Maryland. Jack has been playing free music the past 45 years, evolving in his playing through his choice of partners. He has written The Free Musics and bringing copies of that and his vinyl record, Free Life, Singing. Both have an extraordinary, wide vocabulary on their instruments and close attention to one another.
Info on the group at http://www.springgardenmusic.com/zounds--jack-patrick.crossland.htm
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
The Fifth Element: a fusion of drag performance and brain melting music from the future
a fusion of drag performance and brain melting music from the future
feat.
Adriana, Annie Sokae, Miss Thing
and music by: Emoclew, Two Boys Kissing, Space Camp
Heels Technique with Jay
90-minute class intended to broaden and enrich the understanding of what heels encompasses, laying down technical foundation to ensure bodily safety, and diving into sensuality and the range of ways it can be
Stretch with Jay
90-minute class breaking down the practice of stretching with a meditative approach in order to calm the nervous system and allow deeper range to be accessed.
ALL ARE WELCOME
no dance experience needed
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
Lunchtime Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
Finish your work week (or start your weekend!) with a gentle mid-day ballet class that will leave you stretched, strengthened, and refreshed! Beginners can follow along with the instructor the whole time, with safe alignment as a priority, more experienced dancers can increase the level of challenge and intensity with speed, turns, and jumps. ALL are invited to dance in this welcoming community ballet class! (from total beginners & low-impact dancers to experienced dancers & those who want a workout!).
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Open Studio Night with The Haus of Glitter
Learn the 5 Elements of Vogue in an Open Studio vibe run by AM. of The Haus of Glitter
All are welcome!
Maybe you’re taking Vogue Femme with Ballroom Icon Arturo Mugler at Dance for the Diaspora on Saturday, Dec 2 at 3:30pm and you want a warm-up, some time to experiment… and a little extra prep! Get into it!
Open Contemporary
Come as you are and roll on the floor in Open Contemporary! This is a medium-paced, medium-intensity class grounded in contemporary release technique, contemporary ballet, countertechnique, and modern. We'll focus on making movement feel good for the body while taking on technical challenges on the floor and on our feet. Judgement-free, inclusive, and safe space.
Greg Mendez, Number One Babe, Dogs On Shady Lane
For Greg Mendez, reflection doesn’t mean a static image in a mirror, or even a face he recognizes. It’s more a kaleidoscopic mirage, where paths taken shapeshift with the prospect of paths untread, and the subconscious merges with the intentional. On his self-titled new album, the Philadelphia-based songwriter and multi-instrumentalist investigates the shaky camera of memory, striving to carve out a collage that points to a truth. But there isn’t a regimented actuality here; instead, Mendez highlights the merit in many truths, and many lives, and how even the hardest truths can still contain some humor.
While this is technically Mendez’s third full-length album, his back catalog boasts an extensive range of EPs and live recordings. He’s a prolific and thoughtful songwriter, understanding the joy in impulse, and shying away from the clinical sheen of overproduction. 2017’s “¯_(ツ)_/¯” and 2020’s Cherry Hell garnered acclaim for their quiet, lo-fi urgency, exploring themes of addiction and heartbreak with an intentional, authentic haze, and it’s this approach that has solidified Mendez as a staple in the DIY community for years.
Greg Mendez was written in fragments, some stretching across more than a decade, with Mendez reworking old ideas and arrangements, and others blossoming much more recently. The weight of time––and perhaps the anxiety in running out of it––clouds the album, as Mendez prods at some painful experiences from his childhood and early adulthood. The common thread connecting the characters is their evident imperfections, and the various degrees of damage they cause, both knowingly and unknowingly. But where do we draw the line between a good person and a bad person? For Mendez, it’s never been that easy.
“There's a lot of pretty bleak memories in the songs but one thing that I hope comes through is that nothing is ever fully dark,” he explains. While recognizing the severity of certain situations, Mendez is also careful to showcase the absurdity of our reality, and how that can often highlight a softness around the edges. Opener “Rev. John / Friend” begins with a cartoonish organ, like a sermon waiting to start, correlating with the album’s artwork: a Virgin Mary staring at Mendez’s name. It’s a smirk at the serious, where earnesty can still be encouraged, and the light and the dark can effortlessly co-exist.
Throughout the album, Mendez extends an empathetic and relatable hand. The scrappy-pop of “Goodbye / Trouble” waits for “the sound of God,” searching for a sense of love or purpose, but the searcher falls apart in the process. The stripped back, finger-picked “Best Behavior” probes the spite and immaturity that can arise when we feel hurt or wronged, and how lonely that can leave us. “Maria” mimics those moments when we reach back to a story and find ourselves immersed in its scenery, using melodic swells to charge like a memory that floats in front of us, creating a gauze until we manage to tear ourselves out of it. “Everytime you say you wanna know me I get anxious, cause I would probably tell you about some dumb shit,” the song begins, glancing at those who also feel wary to show their full selves.
Mendez encourages us to look beyond the rigidity of a one, true self. Some of the “I’s” on Greg Mendez are not Mendez at all but someone unknown, a person formed to explore the shadows in his periphery. Writing from a different perspective doesn’t happen intentionally, and Mendez only tends to notice it after sitting with the song for some time. “It's kind of like dreams, where they end up being the stuff that your brain is processing, but you’re not aware that you’re doing it,” he says. It’s an exhale, where Mendez allows his instincts to flourish.
Greg Mendez is an intimate dialogue between the chapters we’ve experienced, and how they can inform the reality we perceive. It’s a reminder that we are constantly shifting, ever-changing selves and that if we ruminate too long, we may find ourselves stuck in the seriousness of it all. Here, Mendez allows us to take the time to notice what happens outside of the framework we may have built for ourselves, and the beauty that can occur when we finally do.
Intermediate/Advanced Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
This class is a traditional, rigorous ballet practice combined with a focus on inclusion & community, attention to anatomy & safe alignment, and use of breath & weight to explore ballet as a movement language. This class is open to Intermediate to Advanced ballet dancers (teens, adults, professionals) with prior experience and ability to learn combinations. Please come to class wearing what is comfortable to dance in. Soft ballet slippers are recommended. Pointe shoes are welcome for those with
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Ann Ditmars Huyck
A welcoming, non-competitive class for adult & teen dancers with basic knowledge of barre and center movements (about a year of ballet experience) who are looking to add more challenge & artistry, learn new vocabulary, and progress toward the intermediate level. This class follows the traditional format of dancing at the barre, in the center, and across the floor, while emphasizing safe alignment and the joy of moving in an inclusive community. Modifications are offered.
Actor Observer, Loundsounds, Semaphore, Professor Caffine & The Insecurities.
Actor Observer is a post-hardcore band from Boston whose music and live performance captivate audiences with true vulnerability and visceral sincerity.
Loudsounds is dreamy, lush, heavy music from New England.
https://linktr.ee/loudsoundsband
Semaphore from Brooklyn makes sad shoegaze for hot thinkers.
https://linktr.ee/semaphoremusic
Professor Caffeine & the Insecurities is a progressive, emo, math, and indie/post-rock amalgam from Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Often showcasing complex rhythmic changes and chaotic instrumentals, they always offer a wide variety of anthemic and memorable vocals with thoughtfully crafted hooks and a chorus you can shout along to.
Burlesque 101 with Belle Gunz
Unleash your inner diva and explore the art of seductive and empowering movement in this six-week intro to burlesque class. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious babe plucked from the audience, this course is designed to help you discover the world of burlesque, one of the most captivating and confidence-boosting dance styles in existence. Each week we will dig into a different element of this rich art form! All bodies and genders welcome. 18+. Scholarships available: sam@thirdhouseevents.com.
Advanced Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese
NOTE: The class is for an Advanced Beginner, meaning they have taken a few classes before! In this class we will focus on learning and understanding the rudiments of ballet - line and placement, while also learning musical phrasing of the ballet combinations that are given in class. I always strive to give a class that is relaxed and open, yet always with a focus to learn. The class is open to all ages and I am always supportive and encouraging with teaching this beautiful art form.
Heels Technique with Jay
90-minute class intended to broaden and enrich the understanding of what heels encompasses, laying down technical foundation to ensure bodily safety, and diving into sensuality and the range of ways it can be
Stretch with Jay
90-minute class breaking down the practice of stretching with a meditative approach in order to calm the nervous system and allow deeper range to be accessed.
ALL ARE WELCOME
no dance experience needed
Building the Sensational Body with Olase Freeman
Building the Sensational Body is based in Black postmodernism (reclaimed modern dance). Students can expect a merging of the technical body with the sensational body. The development of articulate spines expressing their fullest Range Of Motion on the way towards a fully-inhabited kinesphere.
ShePVDFestival
This International Women's Day, get ready to witness the extraordinary talent of Rhode Island's women-identifying artists at ShePVD, a groundbreaking free community event set to ignite AS220’s Main Stage at 7:00pm on March 8, 2024.
Contact and follow us at ShePVDFestival on Instagram and Facebook.
This is a free community event funded by grants through the Providence Department of Arts, Culture & Tourism, the Providence Tourism Council, with fiscal sponsorship provided by the Wilbury Theater Group, and support from Gather RI.