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Artistry Dance Project's 6th Annual Spring Gala

King Henry V has died. As the English battle the armies of the brilliant and fanatical Joan of Arc, the underage King Henry VI’s courtiers are busy fighting each other instead of the French, thus beginning the Wars of the Roses.  Fast moving and packed with action, this early history play (a source for Game of Thrones) gives us a world burning unawares.  Oh, and swords. Lots and lots of swords.

You'll find yourself transported to 1920’s Paris and the era of Le Jazz Hot during this screening of the fantastical Oscar-nominated animated film The Triplets Of Belleville. Join us for a wild spectacle featuring dancing, singing, sound effects, and the original hot swing score performed live by its composer Benoît Charest and his eight-piece Orchestre Terrible de Belleville band.

This performance is for school groups only. Recommended for Grades: 5 – 12 The internationally recognized dance company BODYTRAFFIC is committed to building bridges with K-12 student audiences through innovative programs that present exciting new ways to engage with today’s most distinctive choreographic voices.  

BODYTRAFFIC is helping establish Los Angeles as a major center for contemporary dance. Founded in 2007 by Lillian Rose Barbeito and Tina Finkelman Berkett, BODYTRAFFIC has surged to the forefront of the concert dance world, recruiting great talent from around the globe to create world-class contemporary dance by distinctive choreographic voices. See them here in their only NY-area appearance!

Logrea Dance Academy Spring Ballet Performance will include dancers from the Westchester Ballet Company performing excerpts from Act III Swan Lake.

The Purchase Dance Company’s Spring 2019 Concert fills the Pepsico Theater with a compelling mix of world premieres, modern and contemporary masterpieces, and live music.

The Purchase Symphony Orchestra is made up of the phenomenally talented students of the Conservatory of Music. Every player is coached individually and jointly towards making each Purchase Symphony Orchestra concert a memorable occasion. The Purchase Symphony Orchestra is proud to represent the great tradition of Western Classical Music to the Purchase community and beyond.

All music comes from the heart, but some clearly emerges from a composer’s most personal space. Composers from four eras and four cultures combine for this rare program which finds each of them at emotional heights.

Our recital theme this year "This Is Me" is derived for our philosophy at Breaking Ground Dance Center. We believe that every child possesses a gift that is ready to be opened. Our staff looks forward to helping our students open and develop their own unique gifts at their own pace. With our focus on personal growth and self-esteem, there is no limit to what a child can achieve! Enjoy watching our dancers as they take the stage and proclaim "THIS IS ME"!

Composer/pianist Daniel Kelly transforms the stories of everyday people into dramatic and compelling music that has delighted audiences around the country. During this unique performance, audiences will hear the dreams, hopes, and struggles of local first-generation students in recorded interviews that are seamlessly blended with original compositions performed by Kelly’s ensemble of NYC’s finest jazz musicians.

This performance is for school groups. Recommended for Grades: 6 – 12 An innovative combination of journalism and music brings the stories of our middle and high school students to the stage. (Originally titled: Daniel Kelly's Rakonto: Student Voices)

This performance is for school groups only. Recommended for Grades: Pre-k – 2 Based on the delightful children’s books by Doreen Cronin, this production is a rock-n-roll romp in a bug’s world, promoting eco-consciousness, earth science, and tolerance of others.   

This performance is for school groups only. Recommended for Grades: 2 – 5 In Enchantment Theatre Company’s delightful adaptation of the beloved classic by Norton Juster, Milo and his companions persevere to bring Rhyme and Reason home. Along the way, he discovers the delights of friendship, curiosity, and knowledge. *Rescheduled from January 18*  

Greenwich Dance Studio hosts its 15th anniversary performance showcasing over 430 dancers in ballet, jazz, modern and hip hop.

City Center Dance presents the 17th Annual Student Showcase!

This performance is for school groups only. Recommended for Grades: 3 – 6 A new theatrical production based on the “Magic Tree House” adventure, Stage Fright on a Summer Night by Mary Pope Osborne. 

Dance Cavise presents a student dance recital showcasing various styles of dance.

Teatro Nuovo presents a semi-staged performance of Bellini’s second opera to reach America, La Straniera (The Stranger). The late Philip Gossett called La Straniera Bellini’s “most radical opera.” It is one of the most gorgeously melodic scores in all of opera, and at the same time one of the most uncompromisingly focused on psychological drama.

Teatro Nuovo presents a semi-staged performance of Rossini’s opera, La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). With its familiar overture, this “slice of life” opera paved the way for everything from La Traviata to Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci.

In a single decade, with works such as The Firebird and The Rite of Spring, Igor Stravinsky showed possibilities for musical extremism never before imagined. With bracing harmonies, infectious rhythms, and brilliant orchestration, everything that Stravinsky created in this fertile period stole the musical show of the era, and this trio arrangement of The Soldier’s Tale (Stravinsky’s own) introduced his wildly controversial music to the chamber music stage. Innovations abound in this program: Beethoven’s Clarinet Trio (the first of its kind), Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words (his own invention), and Smetana’s Piano Trio, the first major chamber work from the Bohemian region.

Experience the grace, wit, and charm of French music. The program begins and ends with early works by Saint-Saëns and Fauré that recreate the elegant atmosphere of 19-century Parisian salons. In between, the Ravel sonata, written soon after World War I, uses just two string instruments to produce a composition of unique, austere beauty. These three inimitable works capture the essence of pure melody in its most delightfully fundamental form.

A feast for the eyes and ears, Bartók’s ingenious creation stands alone in the chamber music literature, an astonishing synthesis of percussion and keyboard. Also featured on the program are two more milestones: Dohnányi’s delectable Serenade, the 20th century’s first string trio, and Tchaikovsky’s String Sextet ne plus ultra, “Souvenir de Florence.”

Shostakovich’s Piano Quintet holds a rightful place in the line of great piano quintets going back to Schumann’s of 1842. Combining the rigor of Bach with the powerful energy and extreme irony of Soviet era music, the work is a milestone not only of chamber music but also of Shostakovich’s career: it won him the coveted Stalin Prize. This essential quintet is accompanied by a youthful Beethoven sonata and Mendelssohn’s appropriately tempestuous First Piano Trio.