Miguel Zenón Receives 2024 Doris Duke Artist Award
The Doris Duke Foundation announced that saxophonist, composer and conceptualist Miguel Zenón has received a 2024 Doris Duke Artist Award, the largest prize in the United States specifically dedicated to individual performing artists.
OZ Arts Nashville Launches New Season Of Vital Contemporary Performances By Fearless Artists
Contemporary arts center OZ Arts Nashville has announced its dynamic 11th season of groundbreaking performances, featuring thrilling theatrical journeys, urgent confrontations of timely issues and daredevil breakthroughs in creative possibility. Theater, dance, music and multimedia events are highlighted in the compelling 2023-24 lineup of daring local, national and international artists who are shaping contemporary art and culture.
Photos: Go Inside The 2023 Bessie Awards
Step behind the curtain and witness the magic of The 2023 Bessie Awards through photos. Get an inside look at the renowned dance awards ceremony and discover captivating moments from the event.
The Bessies Announce Nominees For 2023 Bessie Awards
The New York Dance and Performance Awards, The Bessies, New York City's premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field, has announced the nominees for the 2023 Bessie Awards. This year's Bessie Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, August 4, at 7:30pm, at Lincoln Center's Damrosch Park as part of Lincoln Center's Summer for the City. The event is free and open to the public.
Leicester Hosts LET'S DANCE INTERNATIONAL FRONTIERS Next Month
Let's Dance International Frontiers is the dynamic annual dance festival in Leicester which presents live performances by fast-rising and established dance artists from the UK and abroad. Most of this year's live shows will take place at Curve Leicester while street performances of dance, music, and poetry will take place at outdoor locations throughout the city.
Live Arts Presents Shamel Pitts I TRIBE's TOUCH OF RED
New York Live Arts (Live Arts) presents the New York premiere of Touch of RED, a new work by the award-winning movement artist Shamel Pitts, co-created and performed by his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE. Drawing inspiration from two distinct arts requiring rapid-fire footwork – boxing and the African-American jazz dance style Lindy Hop – this ten-round duet is performed by Pitts and Tushrik Fredericks who debuted with the Afrofuturistic collective in the critically-acclaimed 2022 show BLACK HOLE: Trilogy and Triathlon.
CAP UCLA's 2023 Spring Programs Kick Off With Shamel Pitts
UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) welcomes dancer-choreographer Shamel Pitts and the multidisciplinary artist collective TRIBE presenting their latest work Touch of RED on Friday, March 3 and Saturday, March 4 at 8 pm in the Freud Playhouse.
UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance Presents Armenian Jazz Ensemble MVF Band
UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Armenia's leading folk jazz and ethno-fusion ensemble MVF Band performing songs from their latest album, Nightology, along with other repertory on Thursday, February 23 at 8 pm in Royce Hall. Tickets are $38 and are available now at cap.ucla.edu, 310-825-2101 and the UCLA Central Ticket Office.
Photos: Go Inside THE 2022 BESSIE AWARDS
2022 NY Dance and Performance Awards, the Bessies, is New York City’s premier dance awards honoring outstanding creative work in the field. Porshia A. Derival, Executive Director of H+ | TOTEM Productions, hosted this year’s event, which was held at Chelsea Factory on December 16, 2022. Check out photos from the event here!
Baryshnikov Arts Center Announces Spring 2023 Performances and Artist Residencies
Baryshnikov Arts Center has announced the Spring 2023 season of dance, music, and multimedia performances. The season will feature the New York Premiere of AMOC (American Modern Opera Company)’s How to Fall Apart composed by Carolyn Chen, the World Premiere of Eunbi Kim’s music and new media work it feels like a dream and more.
TRIBE Brings Princess Grace Award Winning New Work To JACK
TRIBE: Solace of RED - Vol. II is the culmination of a performance residency initiated by TRIBE's Artistic Director Shamel Pitts that explores the intimate multidisciplinary work of five artists from TRIBE's arts collective using the languages of dance, poetry, spoken word, visual art, music, and movement intertwined into one live experience.
2022 Princess Grace Award Winners Announced
The Princess Grace Foundation has announced the 2022 Princess Grace Award winners, along with the recipients of the Princess Grace Foundation’s Advancement grants and the Grace Kelly Scholarship recipients.