Public field trips at Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
Thursday, March 3, 2016 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Classic and contemporary, SEOP Dance Company uses playfulness and theatricality in their piece A Man’s Requiem, an exquisite production that uses explores the theme of destiny and the afterlife. One of Korea’s finest dance companies, SEOP fuses Butoh, contemporary dance, and traditional Korean dance techniques to create a stunning display of sound, color and movement.
Study guides are posted online 3 to 4 weeks prior the performance at learn.ordway.org/studyguides/
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Due to unforeseen changes in their touring schedule, DanceBrazil will no longer be performing at the Ordway in January.
The award-winning contemporary dance company Ballet Hispanico will take their place. Ballet Hispanico creates work that is rooted in Latino culture and artistic traditions that is told through the lens of contemporary dance.
Ballet Hispanico engages students on a guided journey through Latin American dance forms and music, through the lens of contemporary dance. The high-...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
The award-winning contemporary dance company Ballet Hispanico creates work that is rooted in Latino culture and artistic traditions that is told through the lens of contemporary dance.
Ballet Hispanico engages students on a guided journey through Latin American dance forms and music, through the lens of contemporary dance. The high-energy performance features Latin music such as the conga, salsa, rumba, mambo, and cha-cha. Students will experience the elements of the cultures of Spain,...
Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
This L.A.-based contemporary dance ensemble is known for contemporary modern dance works that reflect African-American history and culture. Lula Washington Dance Theatre returns to the Ordway for a third time with a program that will showcase work of award-winning Lula Washington and other renowned African-American choreographers.
Study guides are posted online 3 to 4 weeks prior the performance at www.ordway.org/education/studyguides/
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Thursday, October 29, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
This L.A.-based contemporary dance ensemble is known for contemporary modern dance works that reflect African-American history and culture. Lula Washington Dance Theatre returns to the Ordway for a third time with a program that will showcase work of award-winning Lula Washington and other renowned African-American choreographers.
Lula Washington Dance Theatre fuses ballet, modern and African dance into provocative pieces that explore social issues in thought-provoking, pulse-quickening fashion...
Friday, April 17, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Leaping, flying and falling, Diavolo utilizes trust and imagination in a surreal architectural playground to create metaphors through dance about life, humanity, and community. Company members use a fusion of many different movement vocabularies including everyday movement, ballet, contemporary, acrobatics, gymnastics, martial arts, and hip-hop to demonstrate teamwork as they maneuver and fly from object to object and into each others’ arms.Study guides are posted online 3 to 4 weeks prior the...
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Dedicated to transforming the world through dance, the activist dance company CONTRA-TIEMPO takes Latin social dance to new heights by infusing elements of Salsa, Afro-Cuban, and urban dance styles. Full Still Hungry, the company’s newest work explores our relationship with food, along with its social, historical, and cultural impact through an invigorating blend of high-energy dance, live music, and spoken word. Choreographed by Ana Maria Alvarez, the performance will include an original score...
Tuesday, January 13, 2015 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Widely considered one of contemporary African music’s most exciting talents, Dobet Gnahoré has astounded audiences with her thrilling stage presence, appealing melodies and powerful singing. Gnahoré’s diverse music composition moves from delicate ballads to upbeat African grooves. From Mandingue melodies to Congolese rumba, from Ivory Coast ziglibiti to Cameroon bikoutsi, from Ghanian High-Life to Zulu choirs, her music is varied and colorful. The sanza, balafon, calebasse and bongos join the...
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Prepare to be blown away: hear the passionate melodies, wild harmonies and richly textured arrangements of these ten inspiring male and female vocalists. Because the choir members are descendants of Haitians, they sing much of their music in Creole, a language spoken by almost a million people in Cuba, as well as Spanish. Multiple award winners, this Grammy-nominated choir sings the vital music learned at home from grandparents and blends it with contemporary Cuban and Haitian sounds.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2014 - 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Ignacio “Nachito” Herrera stunned Cuban audiences at the age of twelve in performing “Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2” with the Havana Symphony Orchestra. Today Herrera continues to be at the forefront of an exciting renaissance in Cuban music and is known as one of the of the world’s great Cuban pianists. In collaboration with members of the National Symphony Orchestra of Cuba and the Havana Jazz Social club, Herrera et al. will take audience members on a musical voyage across space and time...
