Join Artistic Director of Contradiction Dance Kelly King to shed light on individual personal experiences through physical movement and expression. Prior dance experience is not required.
Learn how to use making art as a tool for healing through guided creative projects.
Stretch your creative capacity, feel good, and connect with fellow participants. Featuring a variety of dance styles, the class is a well-paced and refreshing experience for both experienced dancers and those new to dance.
Gentle adapted yoga to safely perform seated and supported poses that promote deep relaxation and mental clarity. All experience levels welcome.
Gentle yoga classes to help reduce stress and balance the mind, body, and spirit. All experience levels welcome.
Gentle yoga classes to help reduce stress and balance the mind, body, and spirit. All experience levels welcome.
The exhibit will feature 65 pieces of work by the 2016 Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Gold Award winners in all categories of 2-D and 3-D art from around the country in middle through high school. This year's exhibit will feature editorial cartoon winners for the first time. In a separate exhibit, to open the same day and time at the Department, works by students in New York City schools who were regional winners in 2016 will be featured as well. An annual event at the U.S.
DC Collaborative Annual Members Meeting
Please join us on Thursday, September 15th for our
Annual Members Meeting!
In celebration of National Arts in Education Week the
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative is holding our
Annual Members Meeting on Thursday, September 15th.
Date:
Thursday, September 15, 2016
Join Artistic Director of Contradiction Dance Kelly King to shed light on individual personal experiences through physical movement and expression. Prior dance experience is not required.
Learn how to use art making as a tool for healing through guided creative projects.
Stretch your creative capacity, feel good, and connect with fellow participants. Featuring a variety of dance styles, the class is a well-paced and refreshing experience for both experienced dancers and those new to dance.
A treasured romantic ballet. Love, betrayal and forgiveness are paired with coveted virtuoso roles. This haunting and tender classic tells the story of the promise and tragedy of young love.
Choreography: Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa
Restaged by Victor Barbee and Julie Kent
Music: Adolphe Adam
Performance Dates and Times:
Celebrate 40 years!
The Washington Ballet was founded 72 years ago by legendary dance pioneer and visionary Mary Day, with her devotion to dance and commitment to creating a stellar institution of teaching, performance and enlightenment through dance. In 1976 she established the dance company and we celebrate its 40th anniversary and our remarkable contribution to the Nation’s Capital in providing exceptional performances, internationally recognized dance training and community engagement and education programs that enrich and entertain.
DC’s perennial favorite! This celebrated production is set in historic Georgetown with George Washington and King George III among other historical figures. Join us again with family and friends or start a new holiday tradition with your loved ones.
Performance dates and times
DC’s perennial favorite! This celebrated production is set in historic Georgetown with George Washington and King George III among other historical figures. Join us again with family and friends or start a new holiday tradition with your loved ones.
Performance dates and times
Great art inspires, transcends borders, and creates connections.
Join us as we celebrate this belief.
For 15 days, six urban artists traveled with us to India visiting Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, and New Delhi as part of the Celebrate the Connections U.S.-India arts exchange program, a teaching, learning, and performance tour designed to foster dialogue and inspire creative collaboration between art communities in India and the United States.
Every year Americans for the Arts and our great partner the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) present public leadership in the arts awards at the USCM breakfast in January. In addition to honoring Mayor of Orlando Buddy Dyer, Mayor of Santa Barbara Helene Schneider, and Governor of California Jerry Brown, Americans for the Arts and USCM presented artist Ledisi with the 2016 National Artist Advocacy Award.
The Washington Ballet is pleased to announce the upcoming production of Stephen Mills’ Hamlet, this March at the Kennedy Center!
Sleek and elegant with contemporary staging and performed to the spellbinding music of Philip Glass, Stephen Mills' Hamlet redefines this tragic masterwork and the limits of dance in a modern production that presents Hamlet's internal struggle over avenging his father’s murder in an innovative and riveting reinvention of this literary classic.
Monday, March 21, 2016 at 7:00 PM
Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, Carnegie Hall
Featuring:
Kay Owens, Choral Director
Brad McCann, Director of Bands
Michael Stringer, Director of Orchestras
Martin High School Chorale, directed by Kay Owens
Martin Wind Symphony, directed by Brad McCann
Martin High School Symphony Orchestra, directed by Michael Stringer
Director’s Cut features daring works by William Forsythe, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Septime Webre that redefine the boundaries of classical ballet. This show runs Feb. 24-28 at the Kennedy Center Eisenhower Theater.
In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated
This celebrated production has become DC’s perennial favorite! Set in historic Georgetown with George Washington and King George III among other historical figures, this is TWB’s holiday valentine. Join us again with family and friends or start a new holiday tradition with your loved ones.
Hillyer Art Space presents two new exhibitions opening October First Friday. Perspective: A Fresh Look at Contemporary Painting and Drawing is a group exhibition juried by local artist Cory Oberndorfer.
Join us for a weekend of merriment, great food and artisanal shopping from up to 25 exclusive vendors to benefit The Washington Ballet's community engagement programs. Vendors include: Clair Florence, Four You, Ann Hand and Isabella K Jewelry among many others.
WHEN: Friday, November 20, 2-5PM
Saturday, November 21, 10:30AM-6:30PM
Sunday, November 22, 10:30AM-5:00PM.
SPECIAL EVENTS INCLUDE:
Silent Auction - Bid on site or online starting on November 20th.
TWB turns up the heat in this new installation celebrating Latin culture. Exhilarating world and company premieres by three of the biggest names in contemporary choreography: Mauro de Candia, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Edwaard Liang including one world and one company premiere; the classic Don Quixote wedding pas de deux and the sensuous 5 Tangos by Hans van Manen, one of Europe’s most eminent choreographers.
Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 7:30PM (Preview)
Thursday, October 15, 2015, 7:30PM (Opening Night)
Friday, October 16, 2015, 7:30PM
Three works, at one time radical and innovative, have since informed the next wave of contemporary ballet choreographers and audiences.
Petite Mort
Haunting, joyful and provocative. Set to two sublime Mozart piano concertos.
Choreography Jiří Kylián
Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Piano Concerto in C Major (KV 467), Andante;Piano Concerto in A Major (KV 488), Adagio
In Creases
Company Premiere
Frontier
World Premiere
A program that combines three masters of dance from the 20th century to the present. George Balanchine is regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world. His works have become iconic in the ballet lexicon. He believed, “Dance is a continuation. You cannot predict the signs of its evolution.” The two remaining choreographers represented in this program reflect that sentiment as their works provided a new vision for dance and they continue to propel dance into the future.
A pop star of the gaita (Spanish bagpipes) in her native Spain and dubbed by The Wall Street Journal as “one of the living masters of the gaita,” Pato’s musical influences of jazz and Latin sounds represent a portion of her commitment to cultural exchange. Also a prolific pianist and composer, she is a core member of the Silk Road Ensemble. Pato says, “It is so easy to see how we are all connected and speak the same language when it comes to the music.
CRAFT IN AMERICA
Please join us for a screening of Craft in America's newest episode
SERVICE: Documenting craft and the military and the power of the handmade to inspire, motivate and heal
Q&A to follow
SERVICE premieres nationwide on PBS November 2, 2014
WETA airs SERVICE on November 7, 2014 at 10:00pm
(please check local listings)
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