Marblehead School of Ballet and BALAM Dance Theatre to Perform at Dance for World Community Festival

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The free outdoor performance at Harvard Square will include tango, cumbia, and Balinese fusion works.

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The Marblehead School of Ballet and BALAM Dance Theatre's collaborative program has been selected to perform in José Mateo Ballet Theatre's 16th Annual Dance for World Community Festival. Marblehead School of Ballet (MSB), a dance studio based in Marblehead, Massachusetts, and BALAM Dance Theatre (BALAM), a not-for-profit New York based dance company with a satellite office in Salem, Massachusetts, are partnering to perform in the festival.

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MSB and BALAM will perform at the festival on Saturday, June 6 at 2:05 p.m. on Stage 2 at Harvard Square located at Massachusetts Avenue between Putnam Avenue and Bow Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The performance is free and open to the public.

The MSB and BALAM's program features a range of dance styles – Balinese, Tango, Cumbia, and modern. Under the direction of Paula K. Shiff, Marblehead School of Ballet's dancer Masha Bondarenko will perform the modern pieces, ‘I Insist' and ‘Winterreise' (Winter Journey), with choreography by Ivan Korn, the resident choreographer of the North Shore Civic Ballet. The school's Dance Adventure students, Dr. Adora Maharaj, Rosemary Grant, and Kara-Jane Walker, will perform ‘Cumbia Graciosa' and ‘Soñemos Tango Fusion Trio', with choreography by BALAM's artistic director and president Carlos Fittante. Set to Soñemos , a famous classic tango adapted for a Mexican Mariachi band and sung by Latin pop star Rocío Dúrcal, the choreography uses basic tango movement skills, as inspiration for its unpartnered dance ensemble movement.

Fittante will also perform the mesmerizing Balinese piece, Dragonfly Welcome Dance, adapted from the company's duet ‘Tigerlily and the Dragonfly'. Set to the Balinese welcome dance ‘Pendet' music, the dragonfly character features hand-built Balinese bamboo wings and a fusion costume.

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_Originally reported by [BroadwayWorld](https://www.broadwayworld.com/boston/article/DANCE-FOR-WORLD-COMMUNITY-FESTIVAL-to-Feature-Marblehead-School-of-Ballet-and-BALAM-Dance-Theatre-20260522)._