Jazz legends Chick Corea and Gary Burton will headline a diverse 2012-13 season at Georgia Tech’s Ferst Center for the Arts. The season will also include an appearance by Ira Glass, the creator and host of public radio’s “This American Life,” and a performance by three correspondents — Rob Riggle, Al Madrigal and Rory Albanese…
The gloATL dance company will perform a site-specific work in collaboration with Atlanta filmmaker Micah Stansell at the Old Fourth Ward Skatepark next month. The work, titled “the search for the exceptional,” is the first partnership between gloATL dancemaker Lauri Stallings and Stansell. The hour-long piece continues gloATL’s efforts to integrate and re-invent public spaces through nomadic experiments in contemporary performance. The…
The Aurora Theatre has extended its hit new play “Clyde ‘n Bonnie: A Folktale” until April 15, the theater announced today. Most performances have sold out a week in advance, which is very rare for a regional theater producing a brand-new work. Here’s ArtsATL’s take on the show, from Phil Kloer: “Clyde ‘n Bonnie” is a wacky,…
Atlanta Ballet recently premiered Twyla Tharp’s “The Princess and the Goblin.” (Photo by Charlie McCullers) Atlanta Ballet revealed its 2012-13 season Friday and also announced that it has raised $20.7 million in of its”Choreographing Our Future” capital campaign, which was used to purchase and renovate the Michael C. Carlos Dance Centre. Started in 2008, it was the…
It’s impossible to sum up the life of Col. Bruce Hampton (Ret.) in a few sentences. It’s a life filled with many things that seem too outlandish, too absurd, to be true, and yet they are. He’s Zelig, turned up to 11. Here’s a small sampling. He learned about blues music from a woman who was…
Kennesaw State University has received approval from the Georgia Board of Regents to build a $3 million, 9,200-square-foot addition to its art museum. Construction, which could begin this summer, is expected to be complete next March. The university has nearly 1,000 pieces in its permanent art collection, including works by Norman Rockwell, Howard Finster, Pierre-August…
Georgia Shakespeare will open its 2012 season with “The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s final and perhaps most romantic play. It will be a special “Shakespeare in the Park” production at the Legacy Fountain in Piedmont Park, while the remainder of the season will take place at the company’s regular venue, the Conant Performing Arts Center at Oglethorpe University….
Jazz great Branford Marsalis will headline the 2012-13 season announced Monday by Emory University’s Schwartz Center for Performing Arts. Marsalis, the Louisiana-born saxophonist who once led the “Tonight Show” band, will be joined during the Flora Glenn Candler Concert Series by a roster that ranges from violinst Gil Shaham to the Warsaw Philharmonic to pianist…
It’s a sound that’s jarring and severely out of place, the loud and almost military stomp of boots in a rehearsal studio at the Atlanta Ballet on the Westside. The eight people on the dance floor are dressed in black: jeans for the men and skirts for the two women. All eight wear cowboy boots, which…
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