Events

The long-awaited fundraiser event of the year is back! Dancing with the Stars: Berklee Edition features eight teams composed of Boston Conservatory at Berklee and Berklee College of Music community members competing on the dance floor for the coveted mirror ball trophy while raising much-needed funds for dance student scholarships. Tickets are on sale now to see this year’s stars: Cecil Adderley, Kathy Anderson, Krystal Banfield, David Dziardziel, Ty-Juana Flores, Bridgette Hayes, Maureen McMullan, and Kevin Wilson.

Arthur (AJ) Knox is delighted to announce his debut film, Edible’s Arrangements, starring Hannah Katz, Alex Leondedis, Carrigan Boynton, and Jackson Randall. This movie is not a comedy, but it’s bloody hilarious. It is the story of a high school drug dealer and her father who runs a failing Edible Arrangements business.

Daughtertrucker follows three sisters—Esther, Cristina, and Mercedes—after two losses in their family. Over the course of a week, scenes of this sisterhood unfold and reveal a damaged but generous dynamic among young women experiencing grief.

Julia and Elease grew up as best friends—that was, until their teenage years. As friends do, they grew apart, had a falling out, and have hated each other ever since. Now Julia is drowning in depression and bad ideas; Elease had a picture perfect life until she got thrown out on her own. After running into each other at a party and still being able to see through the other’s facade, they decide to try and help each other get their lives back together.‌

To Make You Love Me is a multiscreen filmic experience cetered around suicidal ideation, toxic ambition, and public perception. The story explores a relationship to death and how when the water is rising, there is no way out, only through. ‌

In His Image is a piece of documentary theater that interrogates the violent past, present, and future of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (The Mormon Church). The play utilizes historical documentation, newspapers, and verbatim interviews to craft a narrative that calls into question the subjectivity of history and which violent acts were chosen to be forgotten. Created in collaboration with Jackson Randall.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Contemporary Theater Capstone Festival presents an original work by contemporary theater student Dyce Stephens.

Boston Conservatory at Berklee’s Contemporary Theater Capstone Festival presents an original work by contemporary theater student Meghan Deroche.

Up in the sky! It’s a dream! It’s a plane! It’s an existential crisis! Matt, the pilot, and Lenny, the fool, end up trapped in a plane flying nowhere. Now, they must recall old memories in order to keep making new ones. Turbulence, a two-handed new work, is trying to answer one question: in a game of hypothetical nerves, who will crack first?

Featuring classic and contemporary arrangements of some of the most well-known songs from the jazz era, Swing! celebrates the music, dance, and brilliant artistry that fundamentally shifted ethnic and cultural barriers in America—and the world.