Arts & Entertainment

Dance Event

2014 Winner: Boston Ballet’s “Night of Stars”

A kickoff to the acclaimed company’s 50th season, Boston Ballet’s first free outdoor installment of its annual “Night of Stars” event drew an estimated 55,000 people to the largest stage ever built on Boston Common. Dancers culled from around the world performed in a diverse program that included Balanchine’s Serenade and Symphony in Three Movements and Christopher Bruce’s Rolling Stones-set Rooster. If its reception was any evidence, this unique night will soon be reprised.


Other Winners

  • Dance Event

    2015 Winner: Limitless at the Boston Conservatory

    Talents two degrees removed from Queen Bey include some of the student performers in Limitless, a spring program of work from four high-wattage choreographers, among them Alvin Ailey’s Robert Battle and, yes, Mrs. Carter Show World Tour choreographer Darrell Moultrie, who also made the moves for the A.R.T.’s acclaimed Witness Uganda…...