Passion Fruit Dance Company Comes To Bridge Street Theatre
The final slot in Bridge Street Theatre's 2021 Winter Dance Residency Initiative will be filled by the women of Passion Fruit Dance Company. The troupe will be housed at the theatre in Catskill from March 29 through April 11 doing developmental work on a new piece by Tatiana Desardouin called “Trapped”.
Viewing Availability Of Video Clips From BST's 2021 Winter Dance Residencies Extended
Due to popular demand, Catskill's Bridge Street Theatre has extended the viewing availability of its free online video excerpt from #QueertheBallet, and has received permission from the other participants in its Winter Dance Residency initiative to keep clips of the work they're creating as part of this project available online indefinitely.
LayeRthythm Commences Bridge Street Theatre's Dance Residency
Next up in Bridge Street Theatre's ongoing 2021 Winter Dance Residency initiative is French-Vietnamese dance artist Mai Lê Hô's LayeRhythm. The troupe will be using their two-week residency at the Hudson Valley-based performing arts complex (February 1 - 12) to develop a new piece called SWITCH, culminating in an online performance excerpt from Section One (out of five) of this evening-length work-in-progress.
Bridge Street Theatre Launches 2021 Winter Dance Residency Program
Shuttered by the pandemic in March of 2020 and unable to present live performances, Hudson Valley’s Bridge Street Theatre has announced a four-month dance residency program utilizing the theater’s resources to nourish performing artists and develop new works during the current health crisis.
EMV Hosts 50th Anniversary Gala & Celebration Of Beethoven's 250th Birthday
Early Music Vancouver (EMV) proudly hosts its 50th Anniversary Gala, featuring the music of Beethoven, Mozart, & Haydn, on April 5, 2020 at 3pm at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. The concert marks the 250th anniversary of Beethoven's birth, the 50th anniversary of EMV, and the 30th anniversary of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra (PBO). Acclaimed Music Director Alexander Weimann will lead the PBO in dazzling performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor. The PBO will then be joined by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, the Vancouver Cantata Singers, and the Vancouver Bach Choir for a magnificent finale featuring the Gloria from Haydn's Creation Mass.
Photo Flash: Take a Look Inside Dance Lab New York's Collaboration with The Joyce Theater
Dance Lab New York (DLNY) has completed its Lab Cycle in collaboration with The Joyce Theater Foundation supporting female choreographers of color in ballet. Take a look at photos below!
In the final two weeks of the Joyce Lab Cycle, choreographers Courtney Cochran and Margarita Armas explored the classical and neoclassical ballet idioms prior to their presentation at Works & Process at The Guggenheim.
Ironbound Hard Cider's Property In Hunterdon County Preserved Through NJ Highlands Easement
Ironbound Hard Cider, the social enterprise that is committed to the revitalization of the Greater Newark-area economy by focusing on job-creation for the community's chronically underemployed while also restoring Newark's lost legacy of producing the best hard cider in America, has completed a preservation project with the New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Council (Highlands Council) to permanently protect a 93-acre portion of Ironbound Farm.
World Premiere of Michael Whistler's CASSE NOISETTE Opens This Week at Bridge Street Theatre
When Michael Whistler's "Casse Noisette (A Fairy Ballet)" opens at Catskill's intimate Bridge Street Theatre this Thursday, November 8th, it will celebrate a LOT of firsts: It will mark the first full production the play has ever received. Four members of its five-person cast will be making their Bridge Street Theatre debuts. Four of the five actors will be the first-ever residents of the theatre's brand-new upstairs artist housing. And this will be the first time the theatre has ever used a front curtain, opening and closing to reveal new wonders at each turn in the plot.
DIETRICH RIDES AGAIN Returns for One Night Only
On Today, January 12th, Oliver Conant (Author/Director) and Justyna Kostek (Author/Star) will host a One Night Only performance of their one-woman tour-de-force musical, DIETRICH RIDES AGAIN, about the life and times of Marlene Dietrich.
DIETRICH RIDES AGAIN Returns for One Night Only
On Friday, January 12th, Oliver Conant (Author/Director) and Justyna Kostek (Author/Star) will host a One Night Only performance of their one-woman tour-de-force musical, DIETRICH RIDES AGAIN, about the life and times of Marlene Dietrich.
Ensemble Connect Embarks on Second Year of Two-Year Fellowship Program
Ensemble Connect, comprised of some of the finest young professional classical musicians in the United States, continues its two-year fellowship program this season with concerts at Carnegie Hall and The Juilliard School, as well as residencies and performances at The Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund; Skidmore College; and in schools and community venues throughout New York City. Highlights of the Ensemble's 2017-2018 season include the premiere performances of bright and fair, a new work by Gabriel Kahane, commissioned by Carnegie Hall for its 125 Commissions Project, featuring Mr. Kahane as guest vocalist in Weill Recital Hall on February 19. This fall, Ensemble Connect travels to The Pocantico Center in Tarrytown, New York to collaborate with composer Andy Akiho on a new work, also commissioned by Carnegie Hall, to premiere in 2018.
Ensemble Connect presents an Audience Engagement Institute on 6/8-15
Ensemble Connect - a program that prepares musicians for careers that combine musical excellence with teaching, community engagement, advocacy, entrepreneurship, and leadership - presents its first Audience Engagement Institute for established chamber ensembles in Carnegie Hall's Resnick Education Wing from June 8-15, 2017.
Works & Process Announces Rotunda Projects Gala
Works & Process, the performing-arts series at the Guggenheim, announces a new initiative, Works & Process Rotunda Projects. Buildingon its long tradition of commissioning performances for the unique architecture of the Guggenheim's Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Peter B. Lewis Theater, Works & Process will expand into the museum's rotunda.
Print all In new window Carnegie Hall Concert by Ensemble Connect to be Webcast Live on medici.tv
Carnegie Hall today announced that the performance by Ensemble Connect conducted by Sir Simon Rattle on Sunday, October 16 at 3:00 p.m. EST in Zankel Hall, will be webcast free of charge to a worldwide audience, thanks to a continued partnership with medici.tv. The concert program consists of Schubert's Winterreise - A Composed Interpretation for Tenor and Small Orchestra by Hans Zender with tenor Mark Padmore. Following the live webcast, free replay of this concert will be available to online audiences on medici.tv for another 90 days, playable worldwide on all internet-enabled devices, including smart phones, tablets, Chromecast, computers, and smart TVs.
Russian Pianist, Elisabeth Leonskaja Performs Mozart with the ACO
Russian pianist, Elisabeth Leonskaja, is the unrivalled doyenne of the Russian old school, a formidably distinguished personality and one of the most celebrated pianists of our time. She has earned the moniker 'lioness of the keyboard', her every move signifying vast experience, and has remained true to herself and to her music. In doing so, she is following in the footsteps of the great Russians of the Soviet era, such as Oistrakh, Richter, Rostropovich and Gilels, who never wavered in their focus on the essence of music despite working under a grim political regime.
Ensemble ACJW to Perform at SubCulture, 6/12
Ensemble ACJW, an inspirational collective of young professional musicians, performs a program of classical and contemporary works at the Greenwich Village club SubCulture on Friday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m. The program entitled "Balancing Act" includes music by Jennifer Higdon, Dvo?ak, Barber, Piazzolla, Webern, Poulenc, and David Lang - works that typify writing for winds, strings, and a delicate balance of those forces combined, and exemplify the collaborative elements inherent in Ensemble ACJW. The concert is their last performance of the season.