Smoke And Mirrors Featuring Tribe And Bside And Premiering Embrace Dance Company March 18, 2011

Boston-based Rainbow Tribe, Inc. will present its 9th annual dance concert entitled Smoke and Mirrors. The performance plays with illusions and challenges audience members to question reality. Through stunning moments of visual trickery, Smoke and Mirrors fuses a gritty storyline with the forward-thinking choreography audiences have come to expect from Tribe, Bside and Embrace.

WHO: Tribe, The Dance Company, Bside and Embrace, three Boston-based dance companies. Tribe, The Dance Company is comprised of male and female dancers from all walks of life including professionals, students, entrepreneurs and seasoned dance and fitness veterans. Bside is an all-male dance company that specializes in hip hop and break dancing. Embrace is an all-female jazz dance company that develops and delivers performances with strength, femininity and individualism.

WHAT: Tickets are on sale now for its 2011 Annual Concert: Smoke and Mirrors. Rainbow Tribe, Inc. presents premiere works by Artistic Director Mary Mazzulli and select company members.

WHERE: Boston University Dance Theater, 915 Commonwealth Avenue, (Buick Street Entrance), Boston, MA

WHEN: Friday, March 18, 2011 at 8 p.m., and Saturday, March 19, 2011 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.

Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for students, children 12 and under, seniors and BDA members. Tickets are available through the BU Box office (617-358-2500), at the door, or through Tribe, Bside and Embrace members. A limited quantity of discounted tickets is available at www.bostix.org through March 17, 2011.

About Rainbow Tribe, Inc.
Boston-based Rainbow Tribe, Inc. was founded by the late Carleton T. Jones in 1992. Now under the leadership of artistic director Mary Mazzulli, an original company member, Rainbow Tribe, Inc. celebrates diversity, fosters a universal appreciation for dance and engages audiences through the marriage of contemporary music and innovative choreography.

Over the last 19 years, Rainbow Tribe, Inc. has established itself as a prominent company in the Boston community through participation in non-profit events like Project Bread’s Walk for Hunger and the American Cancer Society’s Making Strides against Breast Cancer Walk. Since 2002, Rainbow Tribe, Inc. has partnered with D.A.R.E.® America to bring dance into metro Boston schools through the D.A.R.E.® Dance Program.

Rainbow Tribe, Inc. has also performed for Boston’s First Night, Celebrity Series’ “Dance Across the City Day” and the opening ceremonies of the 2004 Maccabi Games. Rainbow Tribe, Inc. has been hailed by the Boston Herald as a dance company with "youthful exuberance backed up with impressive stylistic solidity, technical facility and polish.” For more information, visit Rainbow Tribe, Inc.’s Web site at www.rainbowtribe.org.

Editorial Note: Please contact Jessica Goepfert for additional information or for dancer/dance company photos at rainbowtribe.org@gmail.com, (617) 769-9400.

Official Website: http://ww.rainbowtribe.org