In the Kalamazoo arts community, March signifies a time to celebrate, explore, expand, and enjoy the radical endeavor of making and sharing dance. This year’s Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival, aka RADFest, hosted by Wellspring, gathered dance makers, students, and dance enthusiasts for four solid days of masterclasses, performances, films, celebrations and more. 

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Audience members’ heartbeats synchronize while experiencing live performance, studies have shown, and during Farmers Alley Theatre’s production of “Misery”, the embodied suspense is palpable—shoulder to shoulder in the intimate space of their black box theatre, you can feel everyone’s heartbeat speed up, along with your own, at high valence moments.

Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. 

Western Michigan University’s Department of Dance is world class, and their Winter Gala Dance Concert showcases the extraordinary and collaborative talents and terrific professionalism of its students, faculty, and guest choreographers.

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With six brand new short plays, three directors, and 11 actors, “Freedom Isn’t Finished”, presents a powerful start to Face Off Theatre Company’s 11th season in this stunning 90-minute theatre festival.

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It’s estimated that only one out of every 100,000 elevator rides results in someone getting stuck. And when elevators do get stuck, it’s usually not for very long. You call for help, and help arrives.

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Sometimes the greatest dramas are the quiet ones that show us life is more than the sum of our external accomplishments: the real revolution comes with the painstaking triumphs of our internal struggles. 

Since its publication in 1904, it’s been an open question as to whether The Cherry Orchard—onstage at Kalamazoo Civic this month—is a comedy or a tragedy.

Arts exhibitions and performances have returned in full swing to West Michigan. 

No matter how many times we have encountered “It’s a Wonderful Life”, the story somehow deeply touches us. When we’re young, it feels like a fairy tale; when we’re adults, it can feel like a mirror. 

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