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Sustainopia Honors 2012 presents Omen and Climax by Natasha Tsakos for one night only on Monday April 23rd at 7:45pm at The Fillmore in Miami Beach. It is described as an epic adventure riding across 50,000 million years of history in 20:12 minutes as seen through the eyes of one character who looses his head.
Natasha Tsakos has over 200 acting credits, written 12 original works, directed 30 plays, and produced …more…
Last night in UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, Seun Kuti had the crowd on its feet and dancing in the aisles to his version of Afrobeat, the music pioneered by his legendary father, Fela Kuti. While Fela! The Musical has brought new attention and perhaps a new audience to Fela’s music and story of protest, the late Black President’s legacy also survives in the music of his son, Seun (pronounce Shay-oon). …more…
Heidi Latsky: GIMP
Heidi Latsky has had a long, illustrious career, from her early days in Montreal to becoming principal dancer with Bill T. Jones and Arnie Zane to creating her own New York-based contemporary company, Heidi Latsky Dance.
With her dynamic physicality and her intelligent approach to moving the body through space, Latsky’s choreography can be simultaneously poetic, sensual, violent, and athletic, running the gamut of emotions through her impeccable …more…
As I’ve mentioned before, the Chicago Cultural Center is a great place to take in free art exhibitions the Loop. During my latest visit, I decided to investigate the exhibition “Write Now: Artists & Letterforms” before it closes at the end of the month. As a writer, I have a fondness for the written word, and I am always fascinated when artists incorporate the visual and the verbal.
“Write Now” features …more…
Independently produced opera can be an unwieldy beast. Sometimes you come hoping for the cutting edge, and get something unstaged that sounds like a failed attempt at Sondheim on an out of tune piano. Sometimes representation of the action leaves far, far too much to the imagination to make showing up worthwhile. But sometimes — most often because the composer, director, and musicians have the talent and dedication to pull …more…
The Alaska Chamber Singers are performing this Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22, and it promises to be among the best classical music offerings in Anchorage this spring. Okay, okay, I admit that I may be *slightly* biased… I am, after all, one of the altos in the Chamber Singers. But, I stand by my superlative. ...more...
As the Boston Marathon wrapped up earlier this week, I was reminded of how truly close we are to summer here in New England. And with that comes a real sense of community, especially when it comes to concert music. And just because the BSO’s season is winding down, doesn’t mean the whole scene is coming to a close. Of course, I’m talking about Tanglewood—one of the Northeast’s premier performing …more…
Pilobolus Dance Company
Contemporary Dance Theater, now in their 39th season is presenting the iconic dance company, Pilobolus on May 2nd and 3rd, 2012. Inventive, collaborative, acrobatic, and unique, Pilobolus dancers use their bodies to create a new way of seeing and experiencing shapes, igniting imaginations wherever they perform.
In addition to performing on stages all over the world, Pilobolus has been featured in many automotive commercials, at the 2007 Academy …more…
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club
Once again in May, La MaMa Moves Dance Festival presents new work by both emerging and recognized choreographers in all three of La MaMa, E.T.C.’s venues.
May 9 – 12: Love Story, Palestine by Yoshiko Chuma and School of Hard Knocks
May 11- 13: – Chamber Works : An evening of work by various choreographers: Vicky Shick, Elena Demyanenko and Joe Poulson, Maura Donohue and Peggy Cheng, …more…
Being the summer home of the Houston Symphony, the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion has become a go-to for those who prefer to enjoy their classical music in the fresh air and under the starry Texas skies.
Although it is not summer quite yet (forget the fact that it already feels like it), The Woodlands Pavilion is taking advantage of the unparalleled talents of our very own Houston Symphony, along with a …more…
A time-travel action film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis and Emily Blunt, Looper depicts a future where crime syndicates can send their enemies back in time to be “wacked” by killers known as ‘loopers.’ The film raises a moral time-travel paradox when hitman Joe (Levitt) working for the mob of the future recognizes one of his assigned “hits” (Bruce Willis) as his future self. Does he take him out? Will …more…
Mark Rucker, a celebrated baritone and longtime operatic star with the New Orleans Opera Association, is slated to be honored later today. Rucker, who started his New Orleans career in 1993 with the role of Tonio in Ruggero Leoncavallo’s “Pagliacci,” will be honored at a late morning reception at the African American Resource Center in the main branch of the New Orleans Public Library. The reception, which is free to …more…
On April 14 and 15 this year the Third Annual Simsbury Open Studios weekend was held. Artists opened up their homes and personal studios to the public, a rare and wonderful opportunity that I was very happy to be able to attend. There were a huge number of artists and so I will be devoting a couple of blog posts to their work, this week to Julie Parker-Post and Jacie …more…
Anita Gillette and Tom Bloom in THE BIG MEAL (Photo: Joan Marcus)
For reasons too obvious to list here and now, the most thoroughly satisfying new American plays — those that feature strong characters, compelling subject matter, and vivid dialogue but nothing in the way of cheap thrills — rarely come to light on Broadway anymore, though many still get there eventually.
Instead, look to Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and the country’s finest …more…
April is Portland Photo Month, an event which is not a product of any one organization, but rather a collaboration of art galleries, nonprofits and individual artists. Portland, Oregon is a city of artists and art enthusiasts and accordingly is home to a multitude of artists who express themselves through the medium of photography.
Numerous Portland art galleries specialize in photography. Among these are Black Box Gallery, Blue Sky Gallery, Camerawork …more…
Photo credit: Tullis Johnson/Burchfield Penney Art Center
Upon first glance, Nancy Jurs’s installation World Peace at the Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College is a life-size game of chess. But is it really? There are the familiar components: the checkered board, the 32 game pieces. Beyond that, World Peace—in which the artist re-contextualizes ceramic works from earlier in her career—suggests new rules of engagement that break down the …more…
Lindsey Carr. "Gifts From The Red Barbarians." Acrylic ink and gold leaf on watercolor paper. Courtesy of Roq La Rue and the artist.
You won’t find Lindsey Carr’s Pavo Simulacrum in Audubon’s The Birds of America. And you won’t find a pulp novel or a vintage burlesque poster quite like Handiedan’s mischievous pin-up girl collages. These two contemporary artists subvert familiar images and styles—naturalist painting for Carr and the pin-up …more…
The Louisiana Philharmonic Orcherstra (LPO) returns with a true classical program this Thursday in New Orleans and Friday on the Northshore, April 19-20, with an ambitious night featuring the Wolfgang Mozart Requiem in D Minor, K 626, and the Ludwig von Beethoven Symphony No. 2. in D Major, Opus 36.
Soloists for the Mozart Requiem include two principals named Lattimore, who are not related. Grammy nominated soprano Jonita Lattimore will be …more…
Image Credit: David Goodrich
When I walked into the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center(Kansas City, Missouri) recently, I felt a sense of surreal recognition, though I knew I’d never seen the paintings on exhibit before. Something about the style seemed so familiar to me, but I could not understand why. Setting aside my confusion, I set to enjoying the incredible work before me in “Lucifer Rising.”
“Lucifer Rising” is a collection of about …more…
Michele Angelini, Susannah Biller, Marie-Eve Munger
Il sogno di Scipione is seldom performed – for the simple reason that the author, a 16-year-old Mozart, was feeling his adolescent oats and loaded it with intricate, high-flying arias that would challenge the most skilled of singers, then or now. In fact, the piece was never even produced in this country until 2002, when the then brand-new (and apparently fearless) Gotham Chamber Opera …more…
Roger Coleman’s latest exhibition, “that was so 19 seconds ago”, can be viewed at FLYNNDOG, an art gallery found at 208 Flynn Avenue in Burlington Vermont. The exhibit will be on view until April 28th. This exhibit is one of many that is a part of the First Friday Art Walk, a weekly showcase of local artwork held the first Friday of each month throughout the city of Burlington. Around forty art …more…
Chicago is home to an array of wonderful museums, full of amazing artwork. But if you want to tap into a vibrant, rewarding, and possibly unpredictable art experience, a trip to one of the city’s many gallery districts is the way to go. I braved the potential bad luck of Friday the 13th to explore some of the latest spring openings.
My first stop was Kasia Kay Art Projects, located in …more…
One of the cruel realities of performing artists is while they often do not earn much, they have extremely complicated tax returns. This can involve a stack of 1099s, W2s, and filing in multiple states, royalties statements, and even international returns. Performing artists also have greater out-of-pocket expenses than the average worker, and one of the complicating factors in their tax return is how to divide deductions between schedule C …more…
Lil Buck and Yo-Yo Ma
With some of the smoothest and ephemeral moves known to the street dance genre, Lil Buck is something of a prodigy with his free-style interpretations known as Jookin.
Lil Buck started dancing at 13, imitating Jookers on the street as well as following the moves of Michael Jackson and other icons of urban dance. With some classical training from the New Ballet Ensemble and School in …more…
The Outré Theatre Company presents a concert performance of Man of La Mancha, as the third and final production of their pre-season series, for one performance only on May 14th at 7pm..
Based on Miguel Cervantes’ masterpiece The Adventures of Don Quixote, this iconic musical follows one man’s struggle to better himself and his world, through his daring to embrace the beautiful and exciting world he has created in his imagination, …more…
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