CENTER blog Where ballet, theater, and literature meet When collaborating on Crime and Punishment for American Ballet Theatre, choreographer Helen Pickett and director James Bonas adapted a literary classic. Read More CENTER blog The people who help the show go on Go backstage to see a typica...
Since its inception in 1978, the Kennedy Center presents honors to prestigious figures in the performing arts, spanning across music, dance, theater, opera, motion pictures and television in recognition of their contributions to American culture. ...
In American English, a place where you can buy and drink alcoholic drinks is usually called a bar. After work they went to a bar downtown. In British English, the word bar is sometimes used, especially to refer to a place serving alcoholic drinks that is part of a larger building, or...
American Ballet Theater dancer Misty Copeland was sublime in the solo from Tchaikovsky’s pas de deux. Then, Tiler Peck returned to the stage with New York City ballet principal dancer Jared Angle for “Dances at a Gathering.” A rousing finale of “I Got Rhythm,” featuring all of the pr...
Shows at the Kennedy Center The Kennedy Center is the official home to the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington National Opera. But, the center is also always presenting some of the best in theater, opera, ballet, and music.
Kennedy Center Tag Archives:Kennedy Center January 10 ~ On This Day in Music Posted byMaryOonJanuary 10, 2025 . 1904 ~ Ray Bolger (Raymond Wallace Bulcao), Dancer, actor inThe Wizard of Oz . 1910 ~ Galina Ulanova, Russian-born ballerina with theBolshoi Balletfrom 1944 to 1962...
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts–a national cultural landmark stretched along the Potomac River just south of Georgetown–dazzles as much today as it did at its opening nearly four decades ago. The center hosts more than 2,000 performances of live theater, ballet, classical...
Britney Coleman as Bobbie (center) and the North American Tour of “Company.” Photo by Matthew Murphy for MurphyMade. The musical comedy “Company” was groundbreaking for its time and has an incredible pedigree. Premiering on Broadway in 1970, it was the first concept musical—it did not ...
Spread across 17 acres, Kennedy Center is named in honor of former US president John F Kennedy. Located centrally, the arts center welcomes world-class performers from theater, ballet, dance, contemporary music, opera and symphony. Not just performers and arts lovers, Kennedy Center is frequent...