Public field trips at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
CANCELLED
Registered participants should check their email for information on refunds and exchanges.
DATE CHANGED TO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017
from Tuesday, November 21, 2017
As one of the stars of the hit Broadway show The Illusionists, Adam Trent is described as “Justin Timberlake meets David Copperfield” due to his high-energy, interactive performances which are part magic, part concert, and part stand-up comedy. Trent’s original pop music, innovative stage illusions, charming wit fuel...
Wednesday, November 22, 2017 - 11:00am - 12:30pm
CANCELLED
Registered participants should check their email for information on refunds and exchanges.
DATE CHANGED TO WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2017
from Tuesday, November 21, 2017
As one of the stars of the hit Broadway show The Illusionists, Adam Trent is described as “Justin Timberlake meets David Copperfield” due to his high-energy, interactive performances which are part magic, part concert, and part stand-up comedy. Trent’s original pop music, innovative stage illusions, charming wit fuel...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Before Hamilton, there was In the Heights. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s four-time Tony Award-winning musical tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood—a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions...
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:00am - 1:30pm
Before Hamilton, there was In the Heights. Lin-Manuel Miranda’s four-time Tony Award-winning musical tells the universal story of a vibrant community in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood—a place where the coffee from the corner bodega is light and sweet, the windows are always open, and the breeze carries the rhythm of three generations of music. It’s a community on the brink of change, full of hopes, dreams, and pressures, where the biggest struggles can be deciding which traditions...
Tuesday, May 30, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
2017 Flint Hills International Children’s Festival
Drummers, storytellers, and athletes-the members of GuGu Drum Group direct from Shanghai, China will engage audiences with their high-energy theatrical drum drama. The show features drum vignettes accompanied by projections based on timeless Chinese proverbs, fables, and fairy tales. Director Yang Xiaodong utilizes authentic ancient drum movements as well as the ancient drums to depict historical and culturally significant drum compositions...
Thursday, May 18, 2017 - 10:30am - 12:00pm
Take a live concert journey through musical selections from some of the most famous stage and film musicals of all time. Hollywood has consistently looked to hit Broadway shows as a source of inspiration for films, such as The Sound of Music, Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, and West Side Story. In return, Broadway has been making musical shows out of such non-musical films, like The Color Purple, Legally Blonde, and Kinky Boots and adapting musical films such as An American in Paris and Mary...
Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Don’t miss Saint Paul’s own TU Dance, a leading voice for contemporary dance founded by Toni Pierce-Sands and Uri Sands. Acclaimed for its diverse and versatile artists, TU Dance’s work draws together modern dance, classical ballet, African-based and urban vernacular movements.
“Dance creates a shared experience — an undeniable space where a diverse community of audience and artists connect to a common power. We founded TU Dance to create access and opportunity — a platform for performers,...
Thursday, April 20, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Indigenous is a blues-inspired rock group that rose out of Yankton Sioux Reservation in South Dakota, led by front man, Mato Nanji. The group’s music is motivated not only by blues and rock greats, such as Jimi Hendrix, Carlos Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and B.B. King, but also by the social issues and cultural bonds of the Mato’s Nakota roots. Indigenous dedicated their latest album, Time is Coming, to indigenous youth and all young people on the indigenous reservations.
Study guides are...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Las Cafeteras combines the vibrant energy of Son Jarocho music with an edgy LA sound. Their pounding Afro-Mexican rhythms, stomping zapateado dancing and uplifting verses tell stories of everyday people fighting for justice and respect. A re-mix of the traditional, Las Cafeteras adds Afro-Carribean marimbol, spoken word, lyrics in English & Spanglish to Jarocho instruments like jarana & requinto guitars, donkey jaw-bone, & the tarima (stomp box).
Study guides are posted online 3 to...
Thursday, March 2, 2017 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Bringing together dance, music and indigenous languages, DANCING EARTH will explore native plants, foods and seeds as metaphors for the powerful potential of every community we touch through their performance of …SEEDS: REdGENERATION… With extraordinary Native American talent in dance, music and costuming, DANCING EARTH will express the importance of native plants and healthy food to the empowerment and wellness of our Native American communities and all people.
Study guides are posted online 3...
