CCCA Dance Pop-Up Comes to Canal District

We are very excited to invite you to the grand opening of the Cambridge Community Center for the Arts (CCCA), sponsored by BioMed Realty pop-up at 500 Kendall Street. The center will feature a diverse selection of classes and cultural events by acclaimed local artists, in dance, martial arts, fitness, music, and theatre, beginning with 2-days of free classes, on Feb. 10th and 11th!  We invite people of all ages and abilities -- There's something for everyone at the CCCA!  During our 2-day open house, you'll be able to experience our cultural programming, and get special discounts for our 2-month Winter session! In addition to the 2 days of free classes in Modern dance, choreography, and improvisation, dance prop techniques, Belly dance, Breakdance, Boxing, Soca Dance, and Salsa dance, the CCCA will offer class passes at special discount (view our promotion).

The pheonix rising is the theme of CCCA's partnership with BioMed Realty, where the focus has been to support artists and organizations that had recently lost their space with the closure of Green Street Studios, the elimination of public dance rehearsal space at MIT, and the closure of Ryles Jazz Club. It is in that vain that Executive Artistic Director, Dan Marshall, created this special 2-month Winter session, to feature mostly artists who lost their space, like Hedwige J. Lewis and Noche Latina Dance Company, Jessica Liggero, Alex (B-Boy El Nino) Diaz and the Floor Lords Crew, and Sumati Ram-Mohan. These wonderful local artists, are joined by Johara (Juliette Cusick), Kelley Donovan, Circe Rowan, the Boston Butoh Collective Artists, and other wonderful talents, for a wide offering of classes and workshops for all ages and abillities, as well as private rehearsals, and special cultural events! This is all the more meaningful, because this pop-up 2-month engagement at Canal District Kendall, marks the BCCA's (ubrella organization for CCCA) first full session of classes, since it had to close its arts facility in Coolidge Corner, Brookline, in May of 2005! Excitement and art is in the air, and you won't want to miss it!

Late in 2019, director Dan Marshall joined forces with Callie Chapman-Korn, Director of Studio@550, and Suad Kantarevic of AdoEma Reality, to provide a solution for the dwindling arts space, by sharing AdoEma's office space, free of charge, with displaced artists, as part of Suad's existing commercial lease. They garnered substantial support from the City of Cambridge and the community, and began providing charitable class, rehearsal, and private lesson space to those displaced by Green Street Studio's closure, but the cultural uses did not fit with the new build owner's plans, so they returned to the drawing board, and were then connected with Salvatore Zinno and Andrea Windhausen of BioMed Realty, by Vice-Mayor Allana Mallon, resulting in the fortunate chartible partnership at Canal District Cambridge. Both Suad and Callie, have remained instrumental and generous in their support of the CCCA, and other local businesses and individuals, like The Core Group's Corey Lawrenson, High Voltage Wellness & Medical Spa's co-owner Omar Wright, Galloway Home Improvement, and Kenrick Tsang, who volunteered of their time together with the CCCA's staff, to set up the arts facility in only 3 days, installing a floating dance floor, Plexiglass mirrors, a revival of BCCA's beautiful Brookline sign (designed and painted by artist Vincent Cortty), an audio system and computer equipment, and donated furniture from AdoEma Realty. The team is joined by talented web development artists at Nix Solutions in Kharkiv, Ukraine, who have been working together with Dan to build CCCA's new website, www.CCCAonline.org, which combines a modern and friendly design, with BCCA's powerful databse technology -- Online registration is already available for all the CCCA's offering, and the site will be continuously taking shape, in the next two weeks!

Join the CCCA and BioMed Realty in creating a home for the arts. Your presence and contribution will further empower the growing movement to revitalize Cambridge's cultural landscape!