Twenty New Dance Projects Awarded Grants From NEFA's National Dance Project
by A.A. Cristi - Aug 20, 2024
The New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) awarded $2,000,000 through the National Dance Project (NDP) to support the creation of 20 new dance projects that will be shared across the United States. In addition, NDP has awarded $200,000 in Finalist Awards to 20 new dance projects.
DJ Spooky Comes to The Zimmerli Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Mar 28, 2024
Explore the unique fusion of music and art with DJ Spooky at the Zimmerli exhibition. This immersive experience blurs the lines between auditory and visual art forms.
Apollo Chamber Players Reveals 16th Season Lineup
by Stephi Wild - Jul 17, 2023
The Houston-based Apollo Chamber Players, led by founder Matthew J. Detrick, have announced the ensemble's 16th bold and thought-provoking season, Silenced Voices, a response to our modern era's continued efforts to ban, censor, and marginalize. Learn more about the full lineup here!
Climate Change Theatre Action To Offer Play Readings By Teen Actors As Part Of Festival Albertine 2019
by A.A. Cristi - Oct 30, 2019
The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Albertine Books are pleased to announce that Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA), an initiative of the Arctic Cycle, which uses theatre to foster dialogue about the global climate crisis, will offer play four play readings, featuring teen actors, as part of Festival Albertine 2019. Curated by celebrated author and environmentalist Bill McKibben, the weekend-long festival focuses on climate chaos and the race to prevent civilization-scale collapse, and features lead prominent thinkers, politicians, activists, artists, and authors from across the U.S., France, and the francophone world, November 8-10. The CCTA readings take place prior to the discussions on November 9 and 10.
Bill Mckibben Curates FESTIVAL ALBERTINE 2019
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 18, 2019
a?oeHaving followed the issue closely since I wrote my first book about climate change, thirty years ago, I can say that we're in a remarkable moment, when, after years of languishing, climate concern is suddenly and explosively rising to the top of the political agenda. Maybe, though not certainly, it is rising fast enough that we'll get real actiona??After thirty years of standing still, baby steps won't do us a bit of good, and a misstep may cost us our last chance.a??a?"Bill McKibben, in The New Yorker
Aspen Film Announces Special Events and Guests as Part of 40th Anniversary Filmfest
by Sarah Jae Leiber - Sep 5, 2019
As a follow-up to the announcement of the film program for its 40th Anniversary Filmfest, Aspen Film has released the line-up of special events and in-town guests as part of the festival taking place September 23-29, 2019. Advance film and event tickets will be available for purchase to Aspen Film members beginning today, Wednesday, September 4, and to the public on Monday, September 9. Individual tickets can be purchased at the Wheeler Opera House Box Office and at aspenshowtix.com. Festival passes and memberships can be purchased online at aspenfilm.org/aspen-film-membership/.
New York Guitar Festival Announces Additional Artists to Lineup
by Kaitlin Milligan - May 8, 2019
The New York Guitar Festival and Arts Brookfield will present “Memphis Minnie: In Search of the Hoodoo Lady,” a free, outdoor concert celebrating the life and music of influential blues guitarist Memphis Minnie. The Saturday, June 1st, 7pm event will be held at Brookfield Place's Waterfront Plaza in lower Manhattan.
YBCA Announces The Return Of 'Transform' Performing Arts Festival
by A.A. Cristi - Feb 21, 2018
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) announces the return of Transform, its signature two-week festival occurring each fall and spring. Running May 9-20, 2018, in the YBCA Forum and Theater, the festival convenes leading contemporary artists for a provocative showcase of dance, music, and theater that can only happen at YBCA. Following its highly acclaimed debut in fall 2017, which explored the timely question, "Why citizenship?" the spring 2018 edition is built around the question: "Where is our public imagination?"
BWW Review: REBIRTH OF A NATION at Kennedy Center
by Elliot Lanes - May 26, 2017
Sometimes things sound really good on paper, but never fully pan out in their final incarnations. Paul D. Miller's ( aka DJ Spooky) Rebirth of a Nation is a prime example of this scenario becoming reality.
The Hypocrites' Immersive PIRATES OF PENZANCE and More Set for NYU Skirball's 2017-18 Season
by BWW News Desk - May 19, 2017
NYU Skirball's 2017-18 season will feature over 45 unique presentations by some of the world's leading provocateurs, artists and activists, performing unconventional and often controversial works in varied spaces throughout the Skirball Center - turning the lobby, dressing rooms, hallways and backstage areas into centers of creativity.
Kennedy Center Announces JFK Centennial Week
by Rebecca Russo - Feb 24, 2017
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced a weeklong celebration to honor the 100th anniversary of the birth of its namesake, the late President John F. Kennedy-whose 100th birthday would have been May 29, 2017. The Center kicked off its Centennial celebration last May, and by the end of 2017, will have presented a suite of more than 50 distinct programs inspired by five ideals often ascribed to President Kennedy: Courage, Freedom, Justice, Service, and Gratitude. Special performances fromMay 23-29, 2017 span theater programs, dance, music, and the return of the Center's popular Open House, which all memorialize the life and legacy of America's 35th President. Highlights include performances by DJ Spooky, Yo-Yo Ma with the National Symphony Orchestra, the world premieres of Kennedy Center commissions by composer Mason Bates and Company E, and special Open House performances by Bandaloop, Flexn, and others. Additional programs through 2017 will be announced at a future date.