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*Sigh* Where do I even begin with this writer’s official letter of love to the Lensic? I suppose, in the beginning…
Right. I grew up (not in Santa Fe) in a bio home and blissed out community of artists, musicians, dancers and avid readers/writers/scribes/scholars. I have always known that the arts in general, and artists in particular, must have the space to create and perform. That it is just as vital to …more…
On March 14th, I had the rare privilege to see a professional dance company do a studio rehearsal. This was two days before the company debuted “Square None”, a new work choreographed by Norbert De La Cruz III. Aside from the wonderful opera-meets-electronic remixed music, and Austin Scarlett (of Project Runway fame) baroque inspired costumes, the rehearsal showed each of the dancers moving freely throughout the piece and dancing with major …more…
Tickets just went on sale for Feminism & Co., a month-long series of lectures on art, politics, gender, and sexuality at Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, and it promises to be a fascinating experience. The series launches on April 5th with an artist talk by Catharine Opie, an acclaimed photographer whose work is currently showing at the museum in the exhibit More American Photographs.
On Friday, April 13, the museum hosts …more…
The Spring season is well underway at SFJAZZ, but there is still plenty to look forward to in April, May, and June. Starting the month on a particularly strong note, the presenting company’s namesake combo, the SFJAZZ Collective, is playing Yoshi’s in Oakland on this weekend, March 31 – April 1. As great as they are, you may want to wait and catch them on Sunday so that you don’t …more…
Image from Attack Theatre's website
Two local companies are presenting new works this weekend in Pittsburgh.
Gia T. Presents, the company of improviser Gia Cacalano, will be performing in BLINK with dancers England/Amsterdam’s Vincent Cacalano, New York’s Wendell Cooper and Philadelphia musician Michael McDermott as well as a cast of local performers–Jil Stifel, Jeff Berman, David Bernabo, Hill Jordan and Dr. Nelson Harrison. BLINK is an interdisciplinary improvised score with live …more…
Image from Cultural Trust website
The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust has done a great job bringing in dance works for the Dance Council season as a part of its Distinctly Dutch Festival–at the end of February, Dance Works Rotterdam’s Anatomica and now the US premier of Last Touch First.
Last Touch First is the work of Jirí Kylián, the former artistic director of Nederlands Dans Theater and Michal Schumacher, an expat well-known for …more…
Chicago’s Thodos Dance Company is performing in Anchorage on Thursday, April 19, and if that’s news to you, you’re not alone. I just stumbled on the information myself, hidden away on the CenterTix website. The show has hardly been advertised and hasn’t appeared on most local arts calendars, and tickets aren’t yet for sale. But no, Beyoncé is not in the dance company. I’ll get to her in a minute. ...more...
(Credit: Catherine Mezensky)
Open Walls is a new outdoor mural project in Baltimore’s Station North Arts and Entertainment district. Street artists from all over the world are painting 20 murals this spring and they hope to be done in time for the Final Friday event on May 25, 2012. The project will include notable artists from around the country, including Overunder, Maya Hayuk and Candy Chang. Murals are being painted …more…
Rehearsing for The Austin Latino Playwrights Festival
I come from the land of the ice and snow: Canada – where winter is the season during which you stay inside as much as possible…kind of like summers in Austin, but with more wool clothing. Ah, but spring! No matter where you live, spring brings hope and resurgence and new beginnings and the desire to revel in the wonder of it all.
April …more…
Still from "The Raft"
Today in the Bloch Building at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), I saw The Raft by Bill Viola, a 10 and a half minute video. The Raft begins with a diverse group of people waiting, as if for a bus. The group is a mixture of ages and races, both men and women as well as a transgender person. Filmed at high speed and …more…
Fort Lauderdale’s Museum of Art kicks off Spring with an event-filled month. The Museum begins April with an outdoor film event on April 5th followed by a tribute to Pinot Noirs at April’s Wine Tasting on the 13th.
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amid the street noise: short films on the terrace
Peck Sculpture Terrace
All Together Now anuncia el segundo evento de cine jurado con artistas locales. Películas se proyectarán …more…
Now showing at the MFAH is Revelation: Major Paintings by Jules Olitski, which covers key works by the late artist. Olitski held the esteemed position of being the first American artist to be given a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art during his lifetime. Although his paintings from the 1950’s-1970s show the impact of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field art, he merges these two styles to create a distinct …more…
Spring hasn’t sprung the way we all thought it would in Detroit. So with Mother Nature being a bit of a tease, there’s no better time to stay inside and take in a show at the fabulous PuppetART Center.
This gem for all ages is located in Detroit’s Theater District, just a few blocks from the Michigan Opera Theater, Music Hall and the Gem and Century Theaters. And the location is …more…
Earlier this month, Boston Children’s Theatre presented Reflections of a Rock Lobster, the real story of a 1980’s high school student who sues his school for the right to take his boyfriend to prom. Tackling the issues of prejudice, bullying, homosexuality and civil liberties, the show was performed by and for high school students.
For many Massachusetts residents, the topic of homosexuality and gay rights brings up quite a bit of …more…
The Music of Abba performed by the group Arrival From Sweden is back by popular demand on April 5, 2012 at the Coral Springs Center for the Performing Arts. Come and enjoy songs such as songs such as “Waterloo,” “Fernando,” “Dancing Queen,” “Knowing Me, Knowing You,” “Money, Money, Money,” “The Name Of The Game,” “Chiquitita,” “Super Trouper,” and “Mamma Mia.”
The group Arrival From Sweden was founded by Vicky Zetterberg in …more…
Zoetic Stage presents the world premiere of the play Moscow by Michael McKeever at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County March 29 – April 15, 2012. Set in Miami in 1962, the members of a once prominent South Florida family find their world challenged by the life-changing events of the era. The Kennedy assassination, the Cold War and the sudden influx of Cubans to Miami …more…
Trash to Treasures: The Sculptures of Dave Thompson is the current exhibit showing at the Spring Preserve until May 20th 2012. Found-object artist Dave Thompson uses primarily discarded metal, recycling it and transforming it into mythical creatures and other other worldly creations.
Mr. Thompson’s works are seamlessly incorporated into the natural landscape of the Preserve and concentrated among the gardens and the paths leading towards the gardens. At the …more…
David Shifrin, Artistic Director of Yale in New York; photo culled from the Yale School of Music web site.
Too often in concert music, the bassoon, string bass, trombone and others on the lower end of the sonic spectrum are neglected as solo instruments. This premise is the driving force behind the “Yale in New York” series’ De Profundis: The Deep End led by Artistic Director David Shifrin on …more…
One of the world’s leading violin virtuosos, Joshua Bell, will perform with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO) on Friday and Saturday nights in New Orleans. An Avery Fisher Prize Winner and Instrumental Musician of the Year recipient from 2010, Bell was recently named the music director of The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Classical superstar Joshua Bell, who performs Friday and Saturday night with the LPO.
In most instances …more…
Li Chen. Earth Piercing Fire, 2008. Clay, rope, wood structure. 35 7/16 x 33 11/16 x 51 3/16 in. Courtesy of the artist.
This week, Seattle plays host to On the Edge, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA)’s 46th annual conference, celebrating the cutting edge of contemporary ceramic arts. From Mar. 28 to 31, thousands of ceramic artists, educators and lovers of pottery and sculpture from …more…
You know you’re experiencing good theatre when patrons are walking out because of moral objection rather than poor quality. The Goodman Theatre serves up a very intriguing interpretation of a lesser known Tennessee Williams gem. Camino Real (pronounced re-AL) is a complex drama with a short production history since its initial 1953 debut. This rare production is the brainchild of Goodman artistic director Bob Falls’ pairing of Calixto Bieito …more…
Many playwrights nationwide were disappointed recently, and a few elated, as Source Festival, Washington, DC’s annual summertime splurge of brand new work, announced its 2012 line up. In its fifth year, Source Festival is a coveted production opportunity. A fully financed and fully mounted production of a previously unproduced ten-minute play is a rare opportunity, and in this era of budget-strapped theaters unwilling to risk ticket sales on new work, …more…
On Thursday evening, March 29, New York City’s Carnegie Hall continues the final week of its American Mavericks series—which focuses on 17 singular composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, from Charles Ives to Morton Feldman to Steve Reich—with a decidedly West Coast focus.
"American Mavericks" Curator and Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas; photo by Terrence McCarthy, culled from Carnegie Hall web site.
Series curator and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas will lead …more…
(Credit: Loyola University Maryland)
Each year in March, Loyola University Maryland presents another speaker in the Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture series, “The Art of Dialogue: Jewish Christian Relations in a Post-Shoah World”. The responsibility for finding the speaker rotates between the school’s academic departments and this year it fell to the Fine Arts department. They selected Bjorn Krondorfer, an artist and professor of religious studies at St. Mary’s College …more…
With a pedigree that includes novelist Stephen King (playwright), rocker John Mellencamp (music), Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning producer T-Bone Burnett (musical director) and director Susan V. Booth, Ghost Brothers of Darkland County is one of the most anticipated local productions in recent memory. The musical, which features original music by Mellencamp and a bluesy, roots-tinged score, is also one of the longest-awaited productions in the history of the Tony …more…
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