Schonberg Fellows/Boston

Coming together on Saturday, August 31 for a double billed-show, tap dance company Subject:Matter and dancer, choreographer, and educator Aysha Upchurch will perform at The Yard as the Schonberg Fellows/Boston. Since its founding in 2015, Subject:Matter has created and performed almost 20 different pieces in over 50 different venues across the East Coast, Midwest, and Canada. The company has been featured at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, The Inside/Out Stage at Jacob’s Pillow, Joe’s Pub in New York City with Dance Now, House of Blues Boston, Musikfest in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, The Montreal Fringe Festival, Stage 773 in Chicago, Illinois, and with a residency at MASS MoCA. Aysha Upchurch is a storyteller who leans on the African diasporic movement to bring embodied stories of joy, connection, and liberation to the stage. She seeks to stir up that which is stagnant in order to bring performers and audiences into closer dialogue with each other and themselves. Aysha has served as a US State Department Cultural Envoy in dance, received a commissioning from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and is currently on faculty at Harvard, teaching a course on the importance of dance and movement in education.