After 35 years of Christmas Choreography the company will be presenting its final performances in the Robsham Theater. 28 years of A Dancer's Christmas and 7 of Christmas Reflections add up to an amazing run! Thanks to all over the years who have made these performances so special! I hope you will be able to join us for on the 18th at 7:30, the 19th and 20th at 3PM.

Dear Friends of the BLDE,

I wanted to let you know that we are premiering the video of For The Greater Glory of God  on Thursday September 10th at 7PM in the Robsham Theater. As you know we filmed this work last summer and Jesuit Jeremy Zipple has been editing throughout the year. He promises me it will be done soon! When it is it will be available on this website.

I also wanted to let you know about auditions for Christmas Reflections. They will take place on September 17th. Children's cast from 10-11:30 and adults and teens at 11:30. Please contact us if you are planning to come to auditions.

I recently uploaded the Evening Prayer Service for Lent. Hope you enjoy seeing it.

I just returned from Jamaica where we presented a version of For the Greater Glory of God. I'm including some pics and a link to a Vimeo; It was a wonderful experience!

I hope you enjoy this, I will let you know when the full high resolution version is available, but this is fine to share for now.
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<p><a href="https://vimeo.com/118361768">St. Anne&#039;s Greater Glory Hi-Res</a> from <a href="https://vimeo.com/user10586317">Brian Maher</a> on <a href="https://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>
Here is the link, https://vimeo.com/118361768

Tonight is opening night for the 6th Season of Christmas Reflections. This year I was able to sit back and watch the amazing work of Jamie, Carol, Daisy and Kristina as they worked with the adult and children's company. The result is truly remarkable!! Such a beautiful production and the spirit of the work really captures the Joy of the Christmas season. For those of you "seasoned" followers of A Dancer's Christmas, there is an addition of the Men's Carol of the Bells with a surprise ending! 

The other night I took some time to read through the hundreds of names on the scroll in the Kresge Room that was created for me at the end of A Dancer's Christmas. It flooded me with so many memories of so many wonderful people who danced in the show, worked back stage or were just supporters of ADC over it's 28 year run. I have truly been blessed!

I hope you can come and see this year's performance.  Jamie would like to see you there as well!

Love

Fr Bob

This is quite a change for me! I'm sitting down at a rehearsal for Christmas Reflections instead of moving around! With the extraordinary direction of Jamie Huggins, Carol Faherty and Daisy Giunta, I can simply watch and enjoy! As always the energy and dedication of the dancers is outstanding and they really capture the spirit of this wonderful celebration of the season. Please make sure that you share this website with your friends so that they can find out about Boston's best kept Holiday secret!

Dear Friends, 
I realized that I haven't posted since our amazing summer performance of For the Greater Glory of God. The performance itself was amazing but the video is going to be even more amazing! Thanks to Jeremy Zipple, a Jesuit is a professional videographer we will have an absolutely awesome record. Jeremy used multiple cameras including a "Drone" so the perspective you see is not just from the front but from above and below. It's really breathtaking. I've seen the first edit of one of the pieces and it is simply so beautiful. I'm hoping the full edit will be available by the end of the year.

On another note, tomorrow we have auditions for this year's "Christmas Reflections". The dates of the performance are the 19th/20th/21st of December. Check out the CR section on the website for more details.

All the best

Fr. Bob

Dear Friends of the BLDE,

Almost 25 years ago, I created a dance/theater piece based on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius. Our company performed For the Greater Glory of God in many venues over these years, especially at Jesuit colleges and Universities. I am happy to tell you that we are restating this piece this summer. We're doing it so that we might have an good quality video that we can share with those interested in experiencing this powerful interpretation of the Spiritual Exercises. We are scheduled to perform it on Thursday July 17th at St. Ignatius. I hope you can join us!

Dear Dancing Friends,

This Weekend we begin our Holy Week Services at St Ignatius. As always its a time of great beauty and power as we integrate dance into our retelling/reliving of the Triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem, his Passion and his Resurrection. We begin on Sat/Sunday with the danced procession and the dramatic staging of the Passion. Monday evening we reprise last year's danced prayer service "Dancing on Holy Ground". On Good Friday, we use pray the Stations of the Cross using beautiful movement tableaus. At the Easter Vigil, we celebrate new life in Christ with dance throughout the service. I hope you can join us .