The Dance Complex

The Dance Complex puts on more than 100 concerts a year in two theater spaces, and it runs dance classes in the same five-story building. Local dancers share those concerts with guest artists from out of town. One room is the Julie Ince Thompson Theater, a loft named for the Boston dance maker.

The building is the Odd Fellows Hall on Massachusetts Avenue in Central Square, put up around 1884 by the architects Hartwell and Richardson, and it is on the National Register of Historic Places. After Joy of Movement closed in 1991, Rozann Kraus and other dancers kept the hall for performance. In October 2006 the Multicultural Arts Center gave up its lease for $1, and the Dance Complex became the owner.