Ephrat Asherie collaborates with Grammy Award-winning jazz musician and composer Arturo O’Farrill in the company’s newest creation, Shadow Cities. Bringing together Ephrat Asherie Dance’s exhilarating choreography that remixes and reconnects various street and club dance styles and an original composition featuring O’Farrill’s trademark Latin jazz sound, Shadow Cities explores what it means to be and […]

This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Pilobolus is a rebellious dance company. Since 1971, it has tested the limits of human physicality to explore the beauty and the power of connected bodies. Pilobolus has created and toured over 120 pieces of repertory to more than 65 countries while being recognized […]

This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Since its first Marathon concert in 1987, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found. With adventurous programs, it commissions new composers, performs, presents and records new work, develops new audiences and educates the […]

This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Founded by pianist and composer Renee Rosnes, Artemis is a powerful ensemble of instrumental virtuosos. Along with Rosnes, the quintet includes trumpeter Ingrid Jensen, saxophonist Nicole Glover, bassist Noriko Ueda and drummer Allison Miller. Fresh off its second consecutive win for Jazz Group of […]

One of his generation’s extraordinary talents, Dan Tepfer has earned an international reputation as a pianist-composer of wide-ranging innovation, individuality and drive — one “who refuses to set himself limits,” according to France’s Télérama. The New York City-based Tepfer, born in 1982 in Paris to American parents, has recorded and performed around the world with […]

Since 2004 Circa has been at the frontier of a new vision of the circus arts — creating powerful works that challenge, thrill and delight. Featuring an ensemble of multi-skilled artists under the direction of Yaron Lifschitz, Circa’s award-winning works have been seen in 39 countries across six continents. At the Weis Center, they will […]

This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Hailed by the international press as “a shamanic orchestra for a technological age”, the Orchestra of Indigenous Instruments and New Technologies (OIANT) brings to life long forgotten indigenous instruments. Its show Hidden Sounds of the Americas is a musical journey across the continent that […]

This performance is part of the Weis Center’s year-long Trees Series. Twin Flames has garnered recognition and acclaim throughout Canada and abroad. Their exceptional talent and artistry have earned them 44 awards and nominations as well as being four-time Canadian Folk Music Award winners. Offering modern indigenous music in both English and their ancestral languages, […]