Everett Company, Stage & School

Specialties

Everett is a cross-​disciplinary, cross-​generational, and cross-​cultural ensemble of dance and theater artists creating, performing, teaching and engaging a diverse community through the arts. Guiding Everett’s mission is a deep belief in collaboration, experimentation and the artist’s role in creating a just, equitable and joyous future. Our Company, Stage and School work in concert to build and support this vision.

The Stage serves as both a community gathering space and a laboratory for The Company and The School, a site where ideas are explored, concepts are tested, and discoveries are made. In a former carriage house in the Mount Hope neighborhood, Everett’s Stage provides an intimate and inviting space for the greater Providence community to come together to tell and hear stories, learn from experimentation, and celebrate our lives together.

For more info check out our website: www​.EverettRI​.org

History

Established in 1986.

Everett’s Company quickly gained national recognition for its theme-​based concert works. These original works use dance, theater, and video to explore themes ranging from science to labor to family. Works include Home Movies (2004), Somewhere in the Dream (1999), Body of Work (1996), and The Science Project (1992). In 1990, Everett founded their Stage and School. The company transformed an old carriage house, located in the heart of an ethnically diverse neighborhood of Providence, RI, into a studio/​theater space. The School offers ongoing classes in the performing arts to inner-​city youth. These classes are taught by company members and other professional artists and include: ballet, breakdancing, creative movement, improvisational theater, choreography, hip-​hop, filmmaking and Polynesian dance. The Stage provides an intimate setting for the presentation of local, national, and developing artists. The Stage has weekly and monthly events: Friday Night Live (Improv Comedy) & Open Stage.