Fall performances highlight regional dance artistry in The Dance Complex’s 35th anniversary year

The Dance Complex kicks off its 2026/27 dance season and celebrates its 35th anniversary this September with the free Fall Into Dance season preview event, followed by performances and events throughout the fall that highlight its role as the region’s largest dance hub and its commitment to dance artists and the broader dance community.

With Fall Into Dance, The Dance Complex teams up with Boston Dance Alliance (BDA) and ArtsBoston for a free public celebration of the 2026/27 dance season on September 18 at 6:30 p.m. The event includes a live dance performance, meet-and-greets with dance artists and leaders, and details about the local and visiting artists performing throughout the season. Anjali Nath will offer a sneak peek of her upcoming work, which will be performed the following week. BDA Executive Director Aaron Myers, ArtsBoston Executive Director Catherine Peterson and The Dance Complex’s Executive Artistic Director Peter DiMuro invite audiences to “fill their dance cards” for the coming season. The free event takes place at Studio 7 at The Dance Complex, 536 Massachusetts Ave. in Cambridge’s Central Square. Details and reservations here.

Boston-based health educator and Kathak dance leader Anjali Nath joins forces with San Francisco-based Kathak soloist and teacher Labonee Mohanta for their new collaboration, HALF. The rhythmically intricate and visually striking work explores themes of internal and external divisiveness. September 25 at 8 p.m.; tickets are $20-$50 plus fees and are available here.

Time & Times Again returns to The Dance Complex November 7 and 8, this time in “art-installation” form as a multimedia hybrid performance of dialogue, dance, projections and sound. Instead of sitting and watching from their seats, audiences enter as participants in an art exhibition. Company members of Peter DiMuro/Public Displays of Motion act as guides, inviting people to engage with and enact their own creative experiences through the immersive environment.

Sound is by Tony Award-winning designer Darron L. West (Best Sound Design for Peter and the Starcatcher), and visuals are by light and projection artist Pamela Hersch, whose large-scale work has been seen on facades throughout Boston and as environments for visual and music concerts in the city. The walkthrough installation is arranged in 30-minute entrance intervals, with visitors able to choose entry times between 8 and 10 p.m. when booking. Pre- and post-event community gathering spaces, with a bar and other refreshments, encourage viewers to arrive early and stay after to talk.

The Dance Complex’s fall mainstage season culminates with its annual Community Concert on November 14 and 15, highlighting performers and choreographers drawn from the thousands of dance artists who have called the building home over the past 35 years. The program offers premieres and favorites in a mix of styles, celebrating the infectious joy of movement.

“Thirty-five years is both a long time and a blink of an eye in the life of a community,” says Peter DiMuro, Executive Artistic Director of The Dance Complex. “For this special season, we’re looking back to remember the people, the artists, the teachers, the students and the quiet s/heroes whose presence and persistence moved The Dance Complex to this moment. Our Fall offerings offer just a taste of what will follow: ventures that celebrate movement as a partner to all the arts, and give prime placement to dance as the leading driver of so much of what we do.”

DiMuro continues, “Our Central Square building has welcomed people to gather and dance for more than a century, but today our reach is even wider, deeper. For so many, we are that place beyond home and work where people find one another, discover themselves, take risks, create something together, witness the poetry of performance and, simply, move. Our history is not something behind us…it is dynamically alive and still moving us–literally–along.”

Through its own produced mainstage performances, the Friday Night Lights series of hybrid class and community dance events, public classes, and presented performances in a wide range of dance forms, The Dance Complex offers dance lovers something to experience nearly every night. A full calendar of details is available at dancecomplex.org.

L to R Anjali Nath and Labonee Mohanta. Photo by Oil Lantern Studios.