Jacob’s Pillow has announced Belgian and Moroccan choreographer, dancer, and director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as the recipient of the 2022 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Cherkaoui will accept this award and present a new work at the season-opening Gala on June 18.
Bang on a Can has announced the full schedule for LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival. Originally scheduled for May of 2020, LONG PLAY will be presented for the first time from Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1, 2022.
Miro Magloire will present his New Chamber Ballet, joined by Philadelphia-based Variant 6 Vocal Ensemble, in the New York premiere of 'Munu Munu,' a full length ballet to both medieval and contemporary vocal music.
651 ARTS, Brooklyn's premier institution for the African Diasporic performing arts, today unveiled additional details for its 2022 season - FOREWORD, FORWARD: A Bridge Season.
The concert features mezzo-soprano Lucia Bradford, soprano Kearstin Piper Brown, and baritone Jorell Williams, together with pianists Nathaniel LaNasa and Steven Blier, in works by Black composers that include H. Leslie Adams, Margaret Bonds, Harry Burleigh, Adolphus C. Hailstork, Robert Owens, Hale Smith, and William Grant Still..
The New York Pops is welcoming seven new musicians to its orchestra: violinists Monica K. Davis, Keats Dieffenbach, Joshua Henderson, and Ashley Horne, and violists Amadi Azikiwe, Dana Kelley, and Ardith Holmgrain.
Tafelmusik has unveiled further details about a special live tribute concert honouring Music Director Emerita Jeanne Lamon, C.M. O.Ont., who passed away in June 2021.
The Baryshnikov Arts Center will present her body as words by acclaimed Toronto-based dance artist Peggy Baker. The online performance is free and available to watch on demand from Monday, February 28, at 5pm ET, until Monday, March 14, at 5pm.
Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts has announced additional performances this season at Steinmetz Hall as part of its new Dance and Music Series. The lineup includes cellist Yo-Yo Ma with pianist Kathryn Stott, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Tango Argentina, Mark Morris Dance Group, Silkroad Ensemble, and more.
Kansas City Ballet Artistic Director Devon Carney today announced the company’s 2022-2023 season, which opens with the return of a beloved romantic classic, Giselle, continues with the world’s most adored fairy tale, Cinderella, and concludes with Bliss Point.
The Mark Morris Dance Group is expanding its digital access programs to include a new video on-demand channel featuring dance classes geared toward beginner and intermediate dancers. The Mark Morris Digital Dance Center is an online platform offering dance classes, taught by Mark Morris Dance Group dancers and Mark Morris Dance Center faculty.
Miro Magloire will present his New Chamber Ballet, joined by Philadelphia-based Variant 6 Vocal Ensemble, in the New York premiere of 'Munu Munu,' a full length ballet to both medieval and contemporary vocal music. Performed by an ensemble of five dancers and seven vocalists, 'Munu Munu' received its premiere in March 2020 at The Performance Garage in Philadelphia, Pa.
The Mark Morris Dance Group will continue its digital programming during its 2021-2022 Season with “Layla and Majnun Week” – a weeklong celebration of Morris's Layla and Majnun featuring online and in-person events and digital archival content, February 14-20, 2022.
Bang on a Can announces the launch of LONG PLAY, a new, three-day destination music festival. Originally scheduled for May of 2020, Long Play will be presented for the first time from Friday, April 29 through Sunday, May 1, 2022.
The Mark Morris Dance Group's Dance for PD program has launched a new award that aims to support choreographers who want to create a new dance in collaboration with and publicly performed by people living with Parkinson's.
Amanda Selwyn Dance Theatre announces the world premiere of Threads as the company's 22nd Annual Performance Season from April 7-9, 2022 at 7 p.m. at New York Live Arts, 219 W. 19th Street., NYC.
The Mark Morris Dance Group (MMDG) is expanding its digital access programs to include a new video on-demand channel featuring dance classes geared toward beginner and intermediate dancers.
Former American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Amanda McKerrow and former ABT Soloist John Gardner will join the Company as Guest Répétiteurs through the end of the 2022 Metropolitan Opera House season, it was announced today by ABT Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie.
C2EC, created by diversity strategist and former ballet dancer Theresa Ruth Howard, aims to create a learning community with the support, education, and advocacy that organizations and their leaders need to reimagine and reshape the culture and standards of the classical arts.