The Chicago Dancing Festival, the nation's largest dance festival, presents its 9th annual series with George Balanchine's Allegro Brilliante (performed by Miami City Ballet in its Chicago Dancing Festival debut), Mark Morris' Sandpaper Ballet (Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, 2015 Festival debut), Justin Peck's In Creases (Chicago's The Joffrey Ballet), Gustavo Ramírez Sansano's El Beso (Ballet Hispanico, 2015 Festival debut) and Twyla Tharp's Sweet Fields (Miami City Ballet) among program highlights. This year's event will take place at Chicago's top downtown venues - the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park - this week, August 25-29, 2015.
The Chicago Dancemakers Forum (CDF) is thrilled to announce today its receipt of a $150,000 challenge grant from The Chicago Community Trust, bringing funds raised for CDF's Breakout Campaign to $650,000 to date, toward an ultimate goal of $1 million. CDF launched the Breakout Campaign in 2014 in order to sustain its Lab Artist program for years to come. CDF Lab Artist Awards are given annually to four choreographers and provide each awardee with artistic and professional development and mentorship, in addition to $15,000 in funding.
NYC Parks is pleased to announce Eirini Linardaki's public art installation Whattoseesottahw in Tompkins Square Park. The project is inspired by children's drawings created during artist-led workshops in the park and is on view along the fence in the Slocum Memorial Fountain Plaza through April 30, 2016.
ODC Theater, one of the West Coast's major centers for contemporary dance and performance, announced today its newest class of resident artists: Gerald Casel, Maurya Kerr, Nicole Klaymoon, and the duo of Sheldon B. Smith and Lisa Wymore. The announcement of these five distinguished artists falls on the ten-year anniversary of ODC Dance Commons, whose upstairs Studio B will serve as venue for a one-night-only event offering a rare and candid look into the creative process of the new resident artists. Titled Resident Artists Unplugged, the event takes place Sunday, August 30 at 6pm.
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum FIU, the Smithsonian Affiliate in Miami, presents its annual calendar of exhibitions, lectures and events for the new 2015-2016 season and announces the launch of several new initiatives.
Artadia is pleased to announce the ten finalists for the 2015 Chicago Artadia Awards. The finalists were selected by first round jurorsNaomi Beckwith, Marilyn and Larry Fields Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Lumi Tan, Curator at The Kitchen, and artist Sara Greenberger Rafferty, following a panel review of 450 applicants in early August.
The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), celebrating 25 years of creating community through American tap and contemporary percussive arts in world-class, innovative performance, education and outreach programs, welcomed 10-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune at its 25th Anniversary Jubalee Gala. This special evening, hosted by WGN's Dean Richards, took place July 30 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago. Attended by 270 people, the event raised $212,000 from a combination of ticket sales, silent and live auction proceeds, table sponsorships and individual and corporate contributions.
Dominique Le?vy is pleased to announce Gerhard Richter: Colour Charts, an exhibition of paintings selected from the artist's original nineteen Colour Charts produced in 1966. Presented with the support of the Gerhard Richter Archive, the exhibition is the first exhibition to feature a small but vital group of works from this series since their inaugural appearance at Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich in 1966. The exhibition also includes a group of Colour Charts painted in 1971, when Richter reexamined and expanded the series after a five-year hiatus. At once paradoxical and coalescent, the Colour Charts highlight an important moment in the artist's career and are situated across multiple leading art movements of the twentieth century.
Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts has released its new 45-page 2015–16 season guide, showcasing a star-studded lineup of music, dance, theater, comedy, film and more.
New York…Beginning September 10, 2015, Hauser & Wirth is proud to present 'Mike Kelley', the gallery's first U.S. exhibition devoted to one of the most ambitious and influential artists of our time. Organized in collaboration with the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts, the exhibition is the first in New York to focus exclusively on one of the most significant of Kelley's later series, Kandors. These visually opulent, technically ambitious sculptures combine with videos and a sprawling installation never before exhibited in the United States, as the late Los Angeles artist reworks the imagery and mythology of the popular American comics book hero Superman into an extraordinary opus of nurture and loss, destruction, mourning and – possibly - redemption.
Japan Society announces its 2015-2016 Performing Arts Season featuring works by visionary artists in dance, music and theater, along with one-of-a-kind related workshops and special events.
LOS ANGELES…Beginning September 19, 2015, Maccarone will present “Basic Perversions,” an exhibition of new paintings by Alex Hubbard. Comprising over a dozen works in pigmented urethane, resin, and fiberglass, this exhibition inaugurates the gallery's new 50,000-square-foot West Coast complex at 330 South Mission Road in the Downtown L.A. Arts District.
Hubbard's third solo exhibition with Maccarone, “Basic Perversions” will remain on view through December 20, 2015.
The Chicago Human Rhythm Project (CHRP), celebrating a quarter century of creating community through American tap and contemporary percussive arts through innovative performance, education and outreach programs, welcomes 10-time Tony Award winner Tommy Tune at its 25th Anniversary Jubalee Gala. This special evening, hosted by WGN's Dean Richards, takes place tonight, July 30 at 5:30 p.m. at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago.
Fresh from a successful New York debut earlier this year, 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair resumes its annual platform at Somerset House this October, 15-18, to unveil its most substantial showcase yet. Held across three elegant exhibition wings, 36 exhibitors have been selected to present the most rigorous and exciting works of over 150 contemporary artists from Africa and the African diaspora.
The Hypocrites are thrilled to launch their 2015-16 season with the Chicago premiere of the smash Broadway musical AMERICAN IDIOT, featuring music by Grammy Award-winning punk rock band Green Day, book by Green Day frontman/guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong and Michael Mayer and lyrics by Armstrong, direction by Steven Wilson, musical direction by Andra Velis Simon and choreography by Katie Spelman. AMERICAN IDIOT will play August 28 - October 25, 2015 at The Den Theatre's Heath Main Stage, 1329 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood.
If you've attended, or have followed DPTV's coverage of Nick Cave's exhibit at Cranbrook, you will want to check outNick Cave's Dance Lab performances, the second of which is this Sunday, July 26th, at the Dequindre Cut (under the East Lafayette overpass) at 4pm EDT.
Andreas Mitisek, General Director of Chicago Opera Theater (COT), today announced that the company has received a generous $1,500,000 gift from Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson. Their gift is the single largest contribution in the company's 42-year history. Neeson, who served as a COT board member for nine years and Vice President for three, and her husband, Stefan Edlis, have been COT subscribers and supporters for decades. In honor of and appreciation for this milestone contribution, COT's general director position will be renamed the 'Stefan Edlis and Gael Neeson General Director.'
The Mori Art Museum is pleased to present “Takashi Murakami: The 500 Arhats” from Saturday, October 31, 2015, through Sunday, March 6, 2016, marking the first large-scale Murakami exhibition in Japan in 14 years. Takashi Murakami is known as one of the most internationally acclaimed contemporary artists working today. In addition to the retrospective, which began at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and later travelled to prominent museums around the world, he has held solo exhibitions and large-scale installations in a number of venues such as The Palace of Versailles and the Rockefeller Center, astounding the global audience with the massive scale and polished quality of the works.
David Richard Gallery is pleased to present '(Un)Real', a group exhibition featuring new figurative paintings by Michele Bubacco, Angela Fraleigh, David Humphrey, Martin Mull and Claire Sherman. This presentation, curated by Mary Dinaburg and Howard Rutkowski, will be presented July 31 - September 26, 2015. There will be an opening reception with the curators on Friday, July 31, from 5:00 to 7:00 PM and a gallery discussion on Saturday, August 1 from 2:00 to 3:00 PM. The gallery is located at 544 South Guadalupe Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, phone 505-983-9555 in the Santa Fe Railyard Arts District.
The latest in unauthorized gossip and buzz from the heart of Chicago's showtune video bars, and musical theater news from Chicago to Broadway. 'Into The Woods,' 'Company,' 'Oklahoma!' and 'South Pacific' receive local stagings, as do 'Loving Repeating' and 'Goblin Market.' New shows include 'Stanley In The Name Of Love' and the musical episode of 'Buffy.' Plus the latest on new screen versions of 'Lucky Stiff,' 'The Wiz' and 'Grease!'
