Tag: Kennedy Center
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Dongpo : Life in Poems at the Kennedy Center by David Dowling
Dongpo : Life in Poems by Shen Wei Sunday, March 10, 2024 1:30p.m. The Kennedy Center Opera House by David Dowling In 16th century Spain there lived a nun, known today as St. Teresa of Ávila. Among the things we remember her for include her accomplishment as the first of only four women to have been…
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In This Case, Seeing Is Believing.. Grupo Corpo at the Kennedy Center by Ashayla Byrd
Sometimes it’s just better to go in blind. For me, there’s a certain beauty that comes with walking into a dance experience with little to no preconceived notions or expectations for what I’m about to witness. I know–from the fundamental practice of reading my program before the show–that Grupo Corpo is a formidable Brazilian dance…
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When the Spirit Moves.. – Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at the Kennedy Center by Ashayla Byrd
Although the entire audience knew what was coming, we erupt with thunderous applause at the sight of the dancers’ flesh-toned costumes, eyes beaming upwards at the warm spotlight hovering above them as “I’ve been ‘buked, I’ve been scorned…” billows through the theater. The dancers’ arms swell out and curve downward; the closer to the front…
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Kyle Abraham’s “A.I.M” at The Kennedy Center
A.I.M. by Kyle Abraham An Untitled Love Friday April 29, 2022 The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater By Sylvana Christopher Groovy music plays in the majestic Eisenhower theater with a striking Joseph Buckingham Basquiat-like art projection art with line drawings and phrases on a blue background. A single couch and lamp sit onstage. We are invited…
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BOWEN McCAULEY DANCE COMPANY’s “An Evening to Remember” at the Kennedy Center by LUELLA CHRISTOPHER
25th Anniversary: “An Evening to Remember”BOWEN McCAULEY DANCE COMPANYKennedy Center for the Performing ArtsEisenhower Theater, Washington, D.C.September 14, 2021 By LUELLA CHRISTOPHER, Ph.D. A dazzling array of dance genres and musical styles filled the Eisenhower Theater on Tuesday, September 14th as Bowen McCauley Dance Company gave its “final performance” before the shift of its founder,…
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BOWEN McCAULEY DANCE COMPANY at the Kennedy Center by LUELLA CHRISTOPHER
25th Anniversary: “An Evening to Remember”BOWEN McCAULEY DANCE COMPANYKennedy Center for the Performing ArtsEisenhower Theater, Washington, D.C.September 14, 2021 By LUELLA CHRISTOPHER, Ph.D. A dazzling array of dance genres and musical styles filled the Eisenhower Theater on Tuesday, September 14th as Bowen McCauley Dance Company gave its “final performance” before the shift of its founder,…