The Annenberg Center For The Performing Arts Announces March Events
By: Stephi Wild Mar. 01, 2018
The Peking Acrobats (March 9-10) kicks off the month and Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live (March 24) offers more family fun. Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Téada (March 17). Big Sonia screens as part of the On Screen/In Person Film Series, March 20. Annenberg Center's three-week Cuba Festival begins with DanzAbierta (March 22-23) and The Pedrito Martinez Group (March 24). The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia explores music's numerous crossroads in intersect: Anatomy of Fusion (March 28)
This calendar is current as of 2.28.18. Programs subject to change.
The Peking Acrobats
Friday, March 9 @ 7 PM
Saturday, March 10 @ 2 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
They truly defy gravity. This elite, world record-setting troupe wows with spellbinding trick-cycling, precision tumbling, juggling, somersaulting and gymnastics. With live music and festive costumes, they transform centuries-old traditions into a modern kaleidoscope of dazzling movement, pushing the limits of human ability. Perfect for the whole family!
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Téada
St. Patrick's Day Celebration
Saturday, March 17 @ 8 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Oisín Mac Diarmada, Fiddle
- Séamus Begley, Vocals, Accordion
- Paul Finn, Accordion
- Damien Stenson, Flute
- Seán Mc Elwain, Guitar
- Tristan Rosenstock, Bodhrán
- Samantha Harvey, Dance, Piano
Ireland's leading musical export, Téada, returns to Philadelphia after a nine-year hiatus to make their Annenberg Center debut with the timeless, expressive force of traditional tunes passed down through generations of musicians. A lively evening of Irish music and St. Patrick's Day revels!
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On Screen/In Person Film Series
Big Sonia
Tuesday, March 20 @ 7 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Producer and Co-Director Leah Warshawski
Co-Director, DP, Post Supervisor, Editor and Motion Graphics Todd Soliday
Executive Producer Thomas Lee Wright
"National Treasure", local celebrity, Holocaust survivor - Sonia Warshawski is 90 and either spends her days at her iconic tailor shop or speaking at schools and prisons, where her stories of surviving the Holocaust as a teenager have inspired generations. When Sonia is served an eviction notice for her shop, the lone holdout in a dying suburban mall, she's confronted with an agonizing decision: open up a new shop, or retire. For a woman who admits she stays busy "to keep the dark parts away", facing retirement dredges up fears she'd long forgot she had, and her horrific past resurfaces. Big Sonia explores what it means to be a survivor and how this affects families and generations. Will you let your trauma define you, or will your past make you stronger?
The On Screen/In Person Film Series offers a handpicked selection of six independent American films throughout the 17/18 season. The filmmaker(s) will do a Q&A following each screening, providing an in-depth look at the films and their respective topics and issues.
On Screen/In Person is made possible by Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts' Regional Touring Program.
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Cuba Festival
DanzAbierta
Malson
Thursday, March 22 @ 7:30 PM
Friday, March 23 @ 8 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
A pioneer of contemporary dance in Cuba, the award-winning DanzAbierta makes its Philadelphia debut performing the local premiere of full-length work, Malson (2009), a sharp and melancholic love letter to Havana based in a virtual world of relationships and conflict. Cuba's bustling streets, colorful cityscapes, and blue sea come alive in film vignettes that partner with high-energy movement and original music by renowned Afro-fusion composer X Alfonso.
This performance is part of the Annenberg Center's Cuba Festival, March 22-April 13, a three-week focus on the artistic talent of Cuba, showcasing the country's finest emerging stars and well-known icons as they evoke the pulsating energy of Cuba through dance, jazz and more.
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Erth's Dinosaur Zoo Live
Saturday, March 24 @ 2 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Charlie Jhaye, Host
Joe Aholt, Puppeteer
Miron Gusso, Puppeteer
Eryn Malafronte, Puppeteer
Journey to pre-historic Australia to meet and interact with an eye-popping collection of dinosaurs and other life-like creatures in a unique and entertaining theatrical experience that delivers "solid science as well as an extraordinary spectacle" (The New York Times). The ultimate playdate-65 million years in the making!
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Cuba Festival
The Pedrito Martinez Group
THIS PERFORMANCE IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. However, please call the Annenberg Center Box Office at 215.898.3900 for up-to-date information, as additional tickets could become available.
Saturday, March 24 @ 8 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Pedrito Martinez, Percussion, Lead Vocals
- Jhair Sala, Percussion Background Vocals
- Sebastian Natal Bass, Background Vocals
- Edgar Pantoja-Aleman, Piano, Background Vocals
One of the world's best Afro-Latin hand percussionists, Pedrito Martinez seamlessly combines pop and folk influences, beautiful tenor vocals, an infectious energy and killer dance moves. Martinez is a modern proponent of Afro-Cuban rumba traditions and batá rhythms, and has performed and recorded with many of the greats including Wynton Marsalis, Paul Simon, Eddie Palmieri and Paquito D'Rivera. The Grammy Award nominated Pedrito Martinez Group is making their Annenberg Center debut.
This performance is part of the Annenberg Center's Cuba Festival, March 22-April 13, a three-week focus on the artistic talent of Cuba, showcasing the country's finest emerging stars and well-known icons as they evoke the pulsating energy of Cuba to Philadelphia through dance, jazz and more.
Visit AnnenbergCenter.org for ticket information.
intersect: Anatomy of Fusion
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Wednesday, March 28 @ 7:30 PM
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Andrew Lipke, Singer-Songwriter
Doris Hall-Gulati, Clarinet
Edward Schultz, Flute
The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia's intersect series is a bold venture celebrating the common DNA shared by music in all its forms. Led and hosted by Philadelphia singer/songwriter, composer and producer Andrew Lipke, in collaboration with Music Director Dirk Brossé, every intersect concert is an innovative, multi-genre exploration of music's numerous crossroads. Audiences at intersect are encouraged to challenge their ideas of where one genre of music ends and another begins, while enjoying an unprecedented collaborative performance in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.
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