AT&T Performing Arts Center
The AT&T Performing Arts Center season includes the following:
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Saxophonist Tim McAllister plays music by Grammy Award and Putlizer Prize winniner composers. On the program: composer Donald Grantham"s "Southern Harmony", composer Sammy Nestico's "Spirit of Liberty", composer William Bolcomb's "Concert Suite for Alto Saxophone", composer John Williams' "Suite from Catch Me if You Can" and "Adventures on Earth" from the movie ET.
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What would you do to take a dance course with Dallas Black Dance Theatre? The up close and personal feel of the Fort Worth Scott Theatre will give audiences a chance to experience the electricity and vibrancy of boundless dance when Dallas Black Dance Theatre performs Jazz Course 101 by Christopher Huggins and Malagueña by Chung-Lin Tseng.
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April 16 - May 16, 2010 Potter Rose Performance Hall Dee and Charles Wyly TheatreArthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman is a masterpiece: one of the greatest achievements of 20th Century drama. Its central character, Willy Loman, a little man with modest dreams, towers over American dramatic literature. The finest actors on either side of the Atlantic consider the role a monumental achievement – an American Lear. The new production will bring a master actor to Dallas to collaborate with DTC's own Resident Acting Company to create an unforgettable production worthy of this seminal classic.
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Performing in Dallas for the first time, the Soweto Gospel Choir brings earthy rhythms, rich harmonies, acapella numbers as well as accompaniment by an exciting four-piece band and percussion section. Added to the mix are energetic dancing and vibrant, colourful costumes. This young dynamic choir performs both traditional and contemporary music, adding its own unique feel and interpretation to both. The choir performs in 6 of South Africa’s 11 official languages. This magnificent 52 strong, choir, styled with a contemporary feel, leaves all who hear it stunned with emotion. It is small wonder that they are charting a meteoric rise to international fame. Those that saw the 46664 Concert in Cape Town 2003, under the auspices of former President Nelson Mandela, witnessed Soweto Gospel Choir in action alongside other musical greats like Bono, Queen, Anastacia, Peter Gabriel, Jimmy Cliff and the Eurythmics.
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Spring Awakening swept the 2007 Tony Awards® winning eight out of its eleven nominations, including Best Musical, Best Director, Best Book, Best Choreography, Best Orchestrations and Best Lighting Design.Also hailed as the “Best Musical of the Year” by the NY Drama Critics Circle, the Drama Desk, the Outer Critics Circle.Based on the infamous 1891 Frank Wedekind play, Spring Awakening is set against the backdrop of a repressive and provincial late 19th century Germany, Spring Awakening tells the timeless story of teenage self-discovery and budding sexuality as seen through the eyes of three teenagers. Haunting and provocative, Spring Awakening celebrates an unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with a power, a poignancy and a passion you will never forget.“A miracle that must be seen to be believed … The best new musical in a generation.”John Heilpern, The New York ObserverSpring Awakening contains mature themes, sexual situations and strong language.
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TITAS’ Command Performance of International Ballet has consistently delivered the world’s greatest ballet stars to Dallas audiences, with members of American Ballet Theatre, The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, and many other prestigious companies having graced the stage for this one-of-a-kind performance. It is, without doubt, one of the grand jewels of the national dance scene, and one of the most recognized ballet galas in the world for its high level of talent and first-class repertoire and presentation. The Command Performance is an event without peer in the North Texas area, and it is a ballet experience that dance fans of any level can truly appreciate and revel in the virtuosity of the performers.
Dancers TBD
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2010 Vogel Alcove Arts Performance Event--The nineteenth annual benefit for the Vogel Alcove Childcare Center for the Homeless will star Terry Fator, who was named “one of the best entertainers in the world” by Simon Cowell. A Dallas area native, Mr. Fator has become a national sensation with appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman, The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon, and Oprah. Mr. Fator will take time out from his ten-year $100-million contract with The Mirage in Las Vegas to perform in the Meyerson Symphony Center. A remarkable ventriloquist with a great singing voice, he (and his hilarious cast of characters) will deliver spot-on impressions of famous country, soul, and classic rock singers. Tuesday, April 20, 2010, 7:45 p.m.
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Formed in the 1980s, the Mark Morris Dance Group has traveled worldwide as one of the world’s leading dance companies. The company is dedicated to performing to live music and has collaborated with cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Indian Composer Zakir Hussain, and jazz pianist Ethan Iverson among other film and television projects. The Mark Morris Dance Center in Brooklyn, NY, houses rehearsal space for the dance community and an outreach program for local children.
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In 1970, Jose Carreras started his professional career in opera with the Gran Teatre del Liceu of Barcelona and from there, his musical career launched nearly over 60 operas, collaborations with the most renowned orchestra conductors and has played in the most world famous halls. One of the world’s most famous tenors, the Spanish Catalan singer is known for his performances of operas by Verdi and Puccini. The 3 Tenors concerts, together with his colleagues Plácido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, are now legendary and have been watched by over 2 billion people worldwide.
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June 18 - July 25, 2010 Potter Rose Performance Hall Dee and Charles Wyly TheatreAmerica's greatest superhero was also the star of one of Broadway's lost musical treasures. Now, this mid-'60s musical, with great songs by the legendary Charles Strouse (Annie) and Lee Adams (Bye Bye Birdie) is part of the Wyly's historic first season. In this major "revisal," the comic book-based musical has a hip new script by the ingenious young playwright and comic book writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. There will be nothing mild-mannered about this high-voltage revival, when Superman flies in to help Clark Kent and Lois Lane face off against a team of super villains. With singing, dancing, colorful sets and costumes, and a tuneful Broadway score, Superman will be an uplifting end to DTC's 51st season.
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DBDT ii will bring their vibrancy, animation, and professional artistry to the stage of the Latino Cultural Center. Performing new works from new York based choreographer and Broadway based Lion King performer, ray Mercer and DBDT ii Director, Allyne Gartrell, DBDT ii will bring audiences to their feet.
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In 2010, Mexico is slated to commemorate the centennial of its Revolution, and the bicentennial of its Independence movement. In a series of electrifying dance performances, ANMBF will portray the beliefs, legends, and customs of the Mexican people during this pinnacle time in Mexico’s history.
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Guest artists Dance Theatre of Harlem ensemble will bring their dancers’ graceful beauty and delicate steps to the stage of the Wyly Theatre in their performance of The Greatest (pas de deux). Dallas Black Dance Theatre wraps up the 2009-2010 season with a finale performance featuring the works of Gene Hill Sagan, Nejla Y. Yatkin and a premiere work from new York Dance phenom Camille Brown.
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Dance has no limits!Choreography of Allyne D. Gartrell, Troy Powell, and Nycole Ray will surely take audience members to the edge of experiencing dance as Dallas Black Dance Theatre performs Brother to Brother, Lambarena and Love Tri-Tango. New York choreographer Christopher Huggins returns to Dallas Black Dance Theatre with spiritually influenced ballet that will be sure to move the heart and souls of all.
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Feb. 23 - May 23, 2010 Studio Theatre Dee and Charles Wyly TheatreNo one holds a mirror up to human nature like Neil LaBute, the brutally honest, brilliantly hilarious playwright behind such films as The Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors and Nurse Betty. While his scripts and screenplays have been redefining the dialogue of contemporary America, our sharpest observer of sexual relations has paid special attention to our obsession with physical beauty in a trilogy that includes The Shape of Things, Fat Pig and a third play to be announced in September. It promises to be a rousing, razor-sharp look at ourselves.
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Known for fusing his classical music roots with a myriad of soundscapes, Haitian-American artist Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR) has carved a reputation for himself as a passionately innovative composer, performer, violinist and band leader. The work he is bringing to Dallas was commissioned by the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Darwin’s Meditation for The People of Lincoln is a musical setting of a pocket play by Daniel Beaty that explores an imagined conversation between Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln, and the political relationship between England, North America and Haiti.
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Dallas Wind Symphony and the United States Military Academy Band share the stage for an evening of vibrant music featuring Conductor Jerry Junkin and Guest Conductor Lt. Colonel Tim Holtan. Selections include composer Giosue Bonelli's "Symphonic Concert March", composer Ottorino Respighi's "The Pines of Rome", composer Morton Gould's "Symphony No. 4 - West Point" and composer Igor Stravinsky's masterpiece "The Firebird".
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In its first season in the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Margot
and Bill Winspear Opera House, the 2009-2010 Brinker International
Forum demonstrates the impact the arts and culture can have on our
world. National Geographic Live! joins the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts in creating two of the programs for the 2009-2010 Brinker International Forum. Single tickets for the Brinker International Forum are on sale now. Call the Box Office at 214.880.0202 for more information.
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It’s Lysistrata meets High School Musical as Give it Up! gives Aristophanes’ 2000-year-old groundbreaker a hilarious contemporary spin. Playwright Douglas Carter Beane (The Little Dog Laughed, As Bees in Honey Drown), composer/lyricist Lewis Flinn, and director/choreographer Dan Knechtges (Xanadu, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) send the classic Greek comedy to college. Watch the cheerleaders and the team fight, dance, dribble and ultimately fall in love when they ‘Just Say No!’ It’s the major new musical event of this American theater season. Give it up for Give it Up! Some sexual situations, suggestive dialogue, and sexy cheerleaders!
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Eddie Palmieri, Michel Camilo, and introducing Alfredo RodriguezThe piano plays a special role in helping to define the sound of Latin Jazz. The powerful block chording, ascending and descending keyboard runs and percussive style of play used by the piano masters of Latin Jazz have made the instrument a rhythmic backbone of the genre, just as much if not more so, than a melodic and harmonic tool. Three of the greatest living Latin Jazz pianists performing today are featured in PIANO LATINO.
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As a principal dancer with the Houston Ballet for over a decade, Dominic Walsh received national and international praise for his interpretations of the classical and contemporary repertoires. Today, the company’s roster includes seven dancers of the highest caliber and has produced works in conjunction with more than 25 Houston-based arts organizations. The company will perform their critically acclaimed contemporary ballet set to the work of Mozart’s Amadeus.
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A Gala concert of music and dance celebrating the inaugural season of the spectacular new Winspear Opera House and featuring George Balanchine's Serenade performed to Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C Major, Pascal Rioult's Wien choreographed to Ravel's La Valse, and George Gershwins's classic, An American in Paris.
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Celebrate Big Band composer and arranger Sammy Nestico. Nestico is known for his arrangements for the Count Basie Band. Selections include: ""Round Midnight", "Stardust"."Brassman's Holiday" and composer Benjamin Godard's "Suite for Flute". Francois Minaux is featured on flute.
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The Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA) does Dallas like never before! Be there as Queen Latifah takes center stage at the fabulous Winspear Opera House to host a true celebration of design excellence. See top designers, including Abi Ferrin and Johnny Bechard, as they preview their 2010 Fall Collections. Marvel as famed choreographer Bruce Wood takes the stage in dance. Recognize internationally acclaimed architects and local heros as we honor them for their tireless efforts. It's a night of style and substance-music and merriment-fashion and philanthropy. This is a DIFFA experience like none before.
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2010 Dallas Arts Scholarship Gala & Live Auction. Please plan on joining us for our first annual Arts Scholarship Gala, to be held at the Wyly on March 6, 2010. There is a VIP reception from 6:30-7:45pm on the 10th floor of the Wyly, with a ticket price of $150 per person. There are only 100 tickets available for this VIP reception. You will be able to mingle with our honorees while listening to a live performance of Annie Dingwall, coming in from USC to entertain us!
The Arts Scholarship Gala will recognize, Dr. Paul Baker, our school founder and 1st Artistic Director; Mr. Jack Matthews, an innovative commercial developer of projects such as the South Side on Lamar, the Dallas Convention Center Hotel (under construction), Palladium, Gilley's and a great supporter of the artist community; and Mr. Chris Arnold, of EyeCon Studios (eye-c.com/proj.htm), a nationally renowned muralist and an alumnus from our visual arts cluster.
The theme of the event is "Imagine the possibilities..." and will feature artistic performances from students at Booker T. Washington, including an ensemble from the highly successful fall production, "Always Imagine," and a live auction for exciting items that are unique and "priceless!" The program, directed by Bruce Coleman, will begin at 8 p.m.
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A Special Evening with the Pointer Sisters hosted by Alliance Data and benefiting Special Care & Career Services
The excitement is in the air as the legendary Pointer Sisters will JUMP their way into Dallas for a benefit concert on Monday, March 8, 2010. In 1983 the Pointer Sisters changed music history with the release of the album Break Out. Featuring now unforgettable Pointer Sisters classics including Grammy winning Automatic and Jump, along with Neutron Dance and Baby Come and Get It – this album went triple platinum. Also hidden in the album was I’m So Excited – a song that has been played more than 2.5 million times on the radio and sums up how Special Care & Career Services feels about our Special Evening with the Pointer Sisters!
Get ready to JUMP out of your seats and sing and dance with this group that will set the Winspear on FIRE!
For more information about Special Care & Career Services and sponsorship of this event visit us at www.SpecialCareCareer.org or call us at 972.991.6777 ext . 111.
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Dallas Black Dance Theatre is embarking on an exciting and fulfilling chapter in the history of the
organization. Our move into the magnificence of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Dee and Charles
Wyly Theatre is just the beginning of a season marked with excellence, superiority and phenomenal artistry.
All of us at Dallas Black Dance Theatre invite you to allow your mind, body and spirit go beyond the
limits of understanding the art of dance and movement.
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Founded in 1961, Texas Ballet Theater is the premier professional ballet company in North Texas. Under
Artistic Director Ben Stevenson, O.B.E., the Ballet brings unprecedented talent, beauty and artistic
expression to the stages of the Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth and the new
Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. Our exciting 2009 - 2010
Season includes The Russian Masters, The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty.
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The Dallas Opera "Will Have You Seeing Red" this opera season. With works from some of the greatest
composers, there is love, intrigue, passion and even a white whale. The season opens in October with Verdi's
OTELLO with renowned tenor Clifton Forbis and German Sopraono, Annette Dasch who is making her American debut.
In February, get in a romantic mood with Mozart's COSI FAN TUTTE and Donizetti's DON PASQUALE staring baritone
Nathan Gunn. On April 30th, World-Premiere of MOBY-DICK, a new American opera by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer
featuring opera superstar Ben Heppner as Captain Ahab, comes to Winspear Opera House. And the season closes
with one of the most beloved operas of all time, Puccini's MADAME BUTTERFLY. Subscription tickets start at
just $75.