Urbanity Dance Presents The Sun Queen

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Hours:	7-8:30
Ages:	Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Performances

Urbanity Dance announces its fall revue, The Sun Queen. Featuring our company, our junior company and our youngest students, this dazzling, interactive performance will travel through six locations in the South End.

This is Urbanity’s third exploration of this particular performance medium, with groups of twenty audience members moving through the different dance spaces over the course of the night.

Artistic Director Betsi Graves refers to it as a “dance crawl”, with the audience members following dancers through the streets of SoWa to each new location, where they witness another chapter in the story of the Sun Queen.

Featuring the distinctively unpredictable and visually arresting choreography that Urbanity has become known for, The Sun Queen looks forward, exploring the next horizon of dance.

The title references King Louis XIV, known among his courtiers as the “Sun King” and praised by contemporary dancers as the founder of classical dance.

The Sun Queen chronicles the arrival of the next great voice in dance and raises an important question about the nature of changing vocabularies.

Specifically, the piece asks when this next voice will come, and whether she will conform to the standards of the time, or revolutionize the form, as Louis did.

The show has four start times, 7:00, 7:20, 7:40 and 8:00.

At each start time a group of twenty audience members will begin their journey through the life of the Sun Queen.

COST

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$24

WEBSITE

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urbanitydance.org/Urbanity_Dance/Urbanity_Dance_The_Sun_Queen.html

LOCATION

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280 Shawmut Avenue #1, Boston, MA, 02118 map
Phone: (617) 572-3727

MBTA Orange Line to Back Bay Station
Take the Clarendon Street exit and walk with traffic (Clarendon Street is one-way). Take a left onto Tremont Street where you will pass the BCA on your left. Take a right onto Hanson Street where the Urbanity Dance studio will be right in front of you on Shawmut.
MBTA Green Line to Copley
Continue along Boylston Street with traffic (Boylston Street is one-way). Take a right onto Clarendon Street and walk approximately 750 yards to Tremont Street. Take a left onto Tremont Street and then a right onto Hanson Street. The Urbanity Dance studio will be right in front of you on Shawmut.
MBTA Silver Line SL4 & SL5
Exit at either East Berkeley Street or Union Park. Walk towards Shawmut Street by following the direction of traffic on either Berkeley or Union Park. From Berkeley, turn left onto Shawmut; from Union Park turn right onto Shawmut.
MBTA Buses #43 and #10
Bus route 43 travels along Tremont Street between Ruggles, on the Orange line, and Park Street, on the Green and Red lines. Bus route 10 runs along W Dedham Street between Copley, on the Green line, and JFK/UMass on the Red line.
Using I-93 South
1. Get on I-93 S
2. Take exit 20B for Interstate 90 W
3. Continue toward Albany St
4. Keep left at the fork and merge onto Albany St
5. Turn right onto E Berkeley St
6. Take the 3rd left onto Washington St
7. Turn right onto Union Park St
8. Take the 1st right onto Shawmut Ave
Studio will be on the right

Using I-93 North
1. Get on I-93 N
2. Take exit 18 for Frontage Rd toward Mass Ave/Roxbury
3. Merge onto I-93 Frontage Rd
4. Turn left onto W 4th St
5. Continue onto E Berkeley St
6. Turn left onto Washington St
7. Turn right onto Union Park St
8. Take the 1st right onto Shawmut Ave
Studio will be on the right