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Watch/ Listen Anytime: 

Music

Song Kick
Tune in to some great live stream concerts in the genre you love most. Just go onto the website, click your favorite genre of music and see who will be online to perform that day. Click here.

Bands In Town
This website (similar to Song Kicks) offers different genres and various artist’s performances. Live stream concerts at your disposal, enjoy all-day tunes. This platform also offers recent news and gives you a live schedule on when concerts will take place. Click here.

Richard Strauss: Metamorphosen for Two Violins, Two Violas, Two Cellos and Bass
Watch the beautiful performance of Strauss: Metamorphosen played by Bella Hristova and Arnaud Sussmann, Violin; Richard O’Neill and Mark Holloway, Viola; Dmitri Atapine and David Requiro, Cello and Xavier Foley, Bass now on the Chamber Music Society at Lincoln Center Youtube channel. 

Broadway Sings
Daily performances featuring new arrangements of iconic pop songs. On Instagram IGTV, click to visit. 

Orpheus Songs of Comfort Playlist
Head over to the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra website to enjoy some #songsofcomfort curated by Orpheus musicians and staff. Listen Now. 

 

Dance

Dancing Alone Together
This website “Create” gives audience members the chance to get up off their feet and dance with some great choreographers. Depending on the video you click, you will be able to learn different dance techniques, create your own dance routines, and if you want, you can share your performances with the world. Click here. 

Ces noms que nous portons (These Names That We Bear)
Dancer Taylor Stanley / Choreography by Klye Abraham
Backdropped by a rainbow of light, NYC Ballet principal dancer Taylor Stanley took to an empty Lincoln Center Plaza earlier this summer to perform a new solo choreographed by Kyle Abraham. The piece is set to Erik Satie’s contemplative “Gnossienne No. 3.” In their joint statement, the artists elaborated that the collaboration “aims to aims to celebrate our queerness and our color in a way that hopefully stresses its importance, its fragility and its strength.” Watch it here. 

The Vulture
This platform offers various streaming websites to view some great dance performances for free. Click, sit back and enjoy great techniques from various dance studios. Click here. 

Miami City Ballet A Dance for Heroes
A Dance for Heroes, a new work created to honor frontline workers. Choreographed by Durante Verzola, the work is inspired by and dedicated to the first responders and essential workers that have worked with uncompromising courage and grace throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Fully produced remotely. Learn more here and click through to MCB’s Facebook page to watch the work.

 

Theater 

Broadway Direct
This website tells audience members just how and where to find their favorite Broadway performances online. From Youtube to Netflix it offers a broad way of viewing the shows you have missed during Covid-19. Sit back, relax, and enjoy some of New York’s finest. Click here. 

Filmed On Stage
This platform offers free virtual streaming of various musicals worldwide. Enjoy all your favorites and more by clicking here. 

Encores! Archives Project
Get your musical theater fix at home with New York City Center’s Archives project. Watch here.

Shakespeares Globe
Enjoy all your favorite Shakespeare plays and productions on this website. Some you can rent, buy or just stream on Youtube. Click here for more. 

Radio Plays
Visit the Spit & Vigor website for weekly readings of the Mary Shelley novel Frankenstein.  https://www.spitnvigor.com/radio-plays

 

Follow on Social Media

Music

Yo-Yo Ma Songs of Comfort Project
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma began his Instagram project #SongsofComfort in order to continue sharing music that brings him comfort in times of stress. In these times of great anxiety, stay home & stay healthy with the comfort of music. https://www.instagram.com/yoyoma/

Dance 

Free Paul Taylor Classes Online
Head over to the Paul Taylor Instagram page to watch or join a free live-streamed dance class. https://www.instagram.com/paultaylordance/channel/ 

Ballet Hispánico
Ballet Hispánico is broadcasting dance performances and classes on their Instagram for dancers who miss the studio. Take a look: https://www.instagram.com/ballethispanico/

 

Theater

#24ViralMonologues
The 24 Hour Plays created the hashtag #24ViralMonologues in order to keep theater lovers involved and entertained during the quarantine. Check out the 24 Hour Plays Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/24hourplays/

NO I IN QUARANTEAM
The Gravity & Other Myths Circus team has put together yet another head-turning social media project for their fans and fellow acrobatic community. Every week, the GOM team puts together a minute-long video full of crazy stunts done in the safety of quarantine. https://www.instagram.com/gomcircus/   

 

Great Reads with Even More Suggestions

Music

Billboard: How the Election could shift Music Industry Policy
https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9467180/election-trump-biden-music-industry-issues-copyright-tech-consent-decrees/ 

NPR: Demi Lovato addresses Trump with New song “Commander in Chief’
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/15/923945417/demi-lovato-addresses-trump-with-commander-in-chief-during-billboard-music-award

NME: Music News
https://www.nme.com/en_asia/news/music

The New York Times: The Raw Roots of Tom Petty’s ‘Wildflowers’, Revealed at last
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/15/arts/music/tom-petty-wildflowers-and-all-the-rest.html 

M-N: Music News
https://www.music-news.com/

Bea Miller Wants you to ‘Feel something Different’ with Her New EP
http://www.mtv.com/news/3171007/bea-miller-elated-remote-access-interview/ 

Visual Arts

Ten Most Wanted Antiquities: Have you Seen these Missing Artefacts?
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/most-wanted-antiquities-have-you-seen-these-missing-artefacts 

Visual Arts News
http://visualartsnews.ca/

Dobell Biennial Showcases Drawing Today as we Consider it’s Future in the Real World
https://theconversation.com/dobell-biennial-showcases-drawing-today-as-we-consider-its-future-in-the-real-world-146837 

Smithsonian Magazine: Visual Arts
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/tag/visual-arts/

APnews: Visual Arts
https://apnews.com/hub/visual-arts

Dance 

Dance Spirit
https://www.dancespirit.com/dance-news/

The Pandemic Has Helped Dance for PD Reach More People Than Ever
https://www.dancemagazine.com/dance-for-pd-2647781883.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1

PlayBill: Dance news
https://www.playbill.com/category/dance-news 

Lil Buck Feels the Dancing Spirit All Over Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/arts/dance/lil-buck-nobody-knows.html 

The New York Times: Dancing
https://www.nytimes.com/topic/subject/dancing

Dance Magazine
https://www.dancemagazine.com/news/

Entrepreneur
https://www.entrepreneur.com/topic/dance

How We Use Our Bodies to Navigate a Pandemic
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/31/arts/dance/choreographing-the-street-coronavirus

The New York Times: Carol Paumgarten, ‘Den Mother’ to a Dance Scene, Dies at 76
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/09/arts/carol-paumgarten-dead.html 

12 Places To Watch Dance Online
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/arts/dance/stream-dance-online-virus.html?smid=em-share

Theater / Film

Performing Arts: NPR website for all your theatre related news
https://www.npr.org/sections/performing-arts/

ArtsJournal: Arts, culture, ideas
https://www.artsjournal.com/ 

American Theatre: A Publication of Theatre communications group
https://www.americantheatre.org/category/news/

Lenora Champagne Awarded Inaugural Katherine Owens Fund for New Work
https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/10/29/lenora-champagne-awarded-inaugural-katherine-owens-fund-for-new-work/

Theatre Mania: 10 Shows and Events to Check out this Weekend, Including Norm Lewis in Dracula
https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-city-theater/news/10-shows-to-watch-dracula-war-of-worlds_91586.html 

The New York Times: Arts Theatre
https://www.nytimes.com/section/theater

American Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company Announces 2020-2021 Season
https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/10/16/shakespeare-theatre-company-announces-2020-21-season/ 

No Theater? No Problem. Plays and Musicals Switch to Streaming
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/theater/theater-streaming.html?smid=em-share

The Best Theater to Watch Online Right Now
https://www.timeout.com/theatre/best-streaming-theatre-shows-how-to-watch-online