At the center of Everett’s activities is the Company, a diverse ensemble of professional artists who since 1986 have created and toured multimedia productions while carrying out a variety of arts education programs. Over the years, the company has gained substantial national recognition for its unique creative vision, social consciousness, and effective youth programs.
Everett’s productions are developed through a research-driven multi-year process that is improvisational, collaborative, and curious: the process is a tool to examine questions of urgent interest to the ensemble and to the underrepresented community Everett serves. The Company’s original works use dance, theater, and video to explore themes ranging from science to labor to mass incarceration. Over the past 35 years, Everett’s concert works have toured throughout the country to critical acclaim at venues including Dance Theater Workshop (NYC), Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival (Becket, MA), the Spoleto Festival (Charlestown, NC), the Skirball Center (LA) , and the Walker Center for the Arts (Minneapolis, MN).
Everett Company also develops educational programs that address community needs, successfully implementing programs in public schools and community settings since 1988. These include: The Marriage of Art and Science, which utilizes performance to teach science concepts; Speak It Out, an anti-bullying curriculum; Team building programs for public school staff; Youth Freedom Project, encouraging young people to create performances around issues affecting their lives; The Police/Youth Collaboration, bringing justice-involved youth and police together to break down stereotypes and find common ground; and arts adaptations of the clinical program Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), which was implemented in 4 Providence public middle schools to address symptoms of PTSD in students. Everett has partnered with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services’ Arts Initiative for 10 years, providing education and training in theater, dance and multi-media art to justice-involved youth.
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Everett Company Across The Years
