Dancer Silas Riener is currently on tour with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company’s Legacy Tour, a Knight Arts granteee. Today he checks in with his first (of several) reports from the field. I begin here a series of missives from the last six months of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company Legacy Tour. I will do [...]
There are some common threads that bind us. A universal principle is there will always be a “new crop” coming up: new artists, musicians, actors, teachers, business leaders, etc. This is an exciting concept to embrace, knowing there is another cool artist to discover around the corner. Remy St. Claire is an up-and-coming bluesy rock [...]
By Tiffany Du, Arts & Science Council Thanks to a Cultural Innovation grant from Knight Foundation and the Arts & Science Council, the Carolina Actor’s Studio Theatre (CAST) can now call a spacious facility equipped with efficient lighting, expanded seating and innovative tools its new home. From 2003 until recently, CAST’s home was a building on Clement [...]
“Mujeres de Shakespeare” (Shakespeare’s Women), written and directed by Neher Jacqueline Briceño, opens July 8 during Teatro Avante’sXXVI International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which runs from July 7 through 24. According to Briceño, Mujeres de Shakespeare is inspired by and a tribute to Shakespeare’smost beloved female characters. In this interview, Briceño talks about Mujeres and what work [...]
The coming long weekend brings the Fourth of July, and, with it, an annual chance for Americans to focus on American music. And I don’t mean the kind of American music that conquered the world’s popular culture. That’s one of this country’s great contributions to the globe, and it can take care of itself. What [...]
By Wing Young, Wing Young Huie Photography Gallery The University Avenue Project (UAP), a six-mile exhibition of photographs taken by me and produced by Public Art Saint Paul, officially ended Halloween night 2010, but the ripple effects continue. In December, I traveled to Beijing, China for the opening of an 80-piece traveling retrospective reflecting my [...]
Locust Projects‘ The LAB (Locust Arts Builders) is officially under way! Under the direction of renowned contemporary artist Monica Lopez de Victoria of the TM Sisters. Thirteen South Florida high schools students will experience the invigorating and arduous process of conceiving and executing original artworks. Stop by Locust Projects Monday – Friday 9am-1pm to meet this year’s [...]
By Candice Hardie, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts Introducing new audiences to classical music, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts will bring music fans of all generations together this season with “Cross-Over Classical.” Thanks to support from the Knight Arts Challenge, these performances will feature classic rock repertoire with full orchestra, larger-than-life [...]
By Shaun Nethercott, Matrix Theatre Company In a few short hours, I am going to be leading a sort of eco-justice tour of Detroit with my friend Rich Feldman. We will be leading teachers and others to some of Detroit’s amazing places on both the horrific and the wonderful side. We will see abandoned factories [...]
“Mujeres de Shakespeare” (Shakespeare’s Women), written and directed by Neher Jacqueline Briceño, opens July 8 during Teatro Avante’s XXVI International Hispanic Theatre Festival, which runs from July 7 through 24. According to Briceño, Mujeres de Shakespeare is inspired by and a tribute to Shakespeare’s
