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images and videos from rehearsal for 'Chemistry'

HERE WE GO :

**UPDATE: Chemistry currently headlines the Boston Globe's "The Week Ahead"!

Sunlight and high ceilings on Wednesday morning inside the Deane Studio
Boston Center for the Arts, South End, Boston
2 days until the premiere of Chemistry

Dancers rehearsing 'Cayla's Dress' to accompany masterpieces by Johannes Sebastien Bach
Boston Center for the Arts, South End, Boston
2 days until the premiere of Chemistry

Criers Megumi Lewis and Erik Higgins trekked to Boston's South End to meet
with Urbanity Dance at their studio. Working towards a collaborative concert, the Criers
met the dancers and worked with choreographer Betsi Graves for the first time.
18 December, 2013 at Urbanity Dance, Boston

The historic Jordan Hall, the "heart and soul of New England Conservatory".
Read more about Jordan Hall and its history here: http://necmusic.edu/jordan-hall.

"In April 1994, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt bestowed National
Historic Landmark status jointly on New England Conservatory and on its premier
concert hall, Jordan Hall. NEC was the first music school in the nation to receive
the distinction of such a dual designation." Read more about Jordan
Hall and its history here: http://necmusic.edu/jordan-hall.





The huge poster (5+ feet tall) outside Jordan Hall...

...and how happy it made me all the way back to the Urbanity studio.


And there is this chair, which makes a pretty important appearance in the show...
It's gold now. How nice. Find out why at the show this Saturday!
Get your ticket: http://www.afarcry.org/chemistry/





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