Rennie Harris Puremovement
February 5, 2010 at 10:30 AM
History of Hip-Hop is a lecture-demonstration of movement, rhythm, sound, and image, featuring a cast of dancers, live percussion, riveting vocals, and video-collage projections. The performance illustrates how hip-hop has its roots in African culture as well as Afro-Brazilian, Afro-Cuban, and Puerto Rican cultures from the early 1960s until today.
Rennie Harris Puremovement
Saturday, February 6, 2010 at 8 PM
Rennie Harris Puremovement, celebrating its 15th Anniversary Season, has emerged as international hip-hop dance ambassadors. RHPM brings "social" dances to the "concert" stage and celebrates the universality of hip-hop, seeking inspiration from other forms and performance art. Described by The Inquirer as “Philadelphia’s greatest cultural export,” Harris has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Philadelphia Dance Company (Philadanco) and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. RHPM’s “Repertory Program" showcases a vibrant collective of classic work from the past fifteen years including; Continuum, P-Funk, Students of the Asphalt Jungle, Endangered Species and Harris’ most recent choreographic addition which highlights the intricate house-dance style footwork entitled "Breath."
Made possible with support from the National Dance Project and Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
Theaterworks USA presents: Jack Sprat Low-Fat Tour
February 11, 2010 at 10:30 AM
News headlines about the alarming increase in childhood obesity appear nearly every day. Two Beans Productions joins the battle against this epidemic with The Jack Sprat Low-Fat World Tour, a fun-filled musical production commissioned and endorsed by the American Cancer Society, driving home the importance of healthy eating in the fight against heart disease and obesity.
Paquito D’Rivera Quintet
February 12, 2010 at 8 PM
Born in Cuba, Paquito D’Rivera, composer and saxophonist, is the recipient of the National Medal of the Arts and the first artist in history to win Latin Grammy Awards in both the Classical and Latin Jazz categories. Most recently he received his 9th Grammy Award for Best Latin Jazz Album for his most recent recording Funk Tango. In addition to his extraordinary performing career as an instrumentalist, Paquito D'Rivera has rapidly gained a reputation as a dynamic composer winning a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Music Composition in 2007. His works often reveal his widespread and eclectic musical interests, from Afro-Cuban rhythms and melodies, back to his classical origins.
Made possible with support from the Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation and the Philadelphia Music Project a program of the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
Marian Anderson String Quartet
February 20, 2010 at 10:30 AM
The Marian Anderson String Quartet continues to uphold its mission: To create new and diverse audiences for the field of chamber music. Driven by their belief in the power of education, the Marian Anderson String Quartet has performed in hundreds of churches, libraries, museums, soup kitchens and prisons. They have brought their craft to countless children across the America, under the auspices of Young Audiences.
Marian Anderson String Quartet
Saturday, February 20, 2010 at 8 PM
For twenty years the Marian Anderson String Quartet has pursued its mission: to create new and diverse audiences for the field of chamber music by performing for every segment of American society. In 1991, they became the first African-American ensemble in history to win a classical music competition at the International Cleveland Quartet Competition. To highlight this singular achievement the Quartet asked the great contralto, Marian Anderson, to use her name as their own, Miss Anderson responded with heartfelt approval. In April 2008 the Quartet was awarded the Guarneri String Quartet Residency by Chamber Music America. Their repertoire will feature compositions by some distinguished African-American and other classical composers including: George Walker, Coleridge Taylor-Perkinson, William Grant-Still, Alvin Singleton, Ulysses Kay, Dorothy Rudd Moore, and Anton Dvorak.
Made possible by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts American Masterpieces Program
Choral Society of Montgomery County
Saturday, February 27, 2010 at 8 PM
In association with Trinity Lutheran Church
