Category: Performing Arts

  • On the Day of the Dead, Philly’s oldest Aztec dance troupe turns 20

    On the Day of the Dead, Philly’s oldest Aztec dance troupe turns 20

    From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! On Wednesday, Ollin Yoliztli Calmecac will perform its 20th Day of the Dead celebration. Philadelphia’s oldest traditional Aztec dance troupe was co-founded by an immigrant from Mexico City in 2003. Brujo de la…

  • HCC Happenings: Harford Youth Orchestra and Harford String Orchestra concert, new Board of Trustees member, HCC awarded performing arts grant

    HCC Happenings: Harford Youth Orchestra and Harford String Orchestra concert, new Board of Trustees member, HCC awarded performing arts grant

    The Harford Youth Orchestra and Harford String Orchestra will present their 24th season-opening concert on Nov. 11 at 1 p.m. at Havre de Grace High School, 445 Lewis Lane. The concert is free to the public. The orchestras provide an extension experience for high school and middle school string, wind and percussion students. The orchestras…

  • Perspective | What’s next, AI writing an off-Broadway musical? It already has.

    Perspective | What’s next, AI writing an off-Broadway musical? It already has.

    NEW YORK — How do you analyze the artistic circuitry of a new musical when the musical’s lyricist is just circuits? I faced this challenge the other night at an off-Broadway theater, where “Fur and Revelations” had its first (and, by design, only) performance. Living, breathing actors performed the musical, but no human brain put…

  • Report ranks Pittsburgh in top 40 U.S. cities for ‘arts vibrancy’

    Report ranks Pittsburgh in top 40 U.S. cities for ‘arts vibrancy’

    A new national report has returned Pittsburgh to the list of the 40 best U.S. cities for arts and cultural life. The eighth annual Arts Vibrancy Index, released last week, ranked Pittsburgh in the top 5% of all U.S. cities for arts, and 15th on the list of U.S. cities of more than 1 million.…

  • Emory University Performing Arts Studio

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  • Live music, comedy shows, plays and more: Here’s November arts picks for Vermont

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  • New Azara Ballet makes Sarasota debut with focus on mental health of dancers

    Kate Flowers remembers vividly the moment a childhood ballet teacher pinched the skin on her 10-year-old belly between her thumb and forefinger – making clear, without saying a word, that her stomach needed to be flatter – then whispered a warning: “Now, don’t go home and tell your parents I called you fat!” “I wasn’t even…

  • Fall Season at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

    Fall Season at Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center

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  • A Celebration of Indian Performing Arts Comes to the Ballard Institute This Month

     In conjunction with its current exhibition Tradition and Revolution in Indian Shadow Puppetry, the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut will present A Celebration of Indian Performing Arts, to showcase the talents of local and UConn Indian artists, including dancer Layavinyasa, drummer Gopi Krishnan, and UConn Sanskriti. The performances will take place…

  • The New School’s College of Performing Arts and New Victory Theater Partner to Cultivate New Work for Young Audiences

    The College of Performing Arts at The New School is partnering with New Victory Theater, New York City’s premier theater for young audiences. This innovative collaboration aims to provide new opportunities for students, foster the growth of talent in the performing arts, and pave the way for inspiring new work development and directing opportunities. The…