News and Notables
WAMPA Presents Mr. Smith Goes to Washington at Old Cowtown Museum
Mon, May 12 2008, 11:24 PM
by Shan Jabara - Tallgrass Film Festival
The Wichita Association for the Motion Picture Arts (WAMPA) and Tallgrass Film Festival will present Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as the kick-off screening for the 2008 Cinema Alfresco film season. The free screening will take place at 8:30 p.m., May 22 under the stars at Old Cowtown Museum, sponsor for this event. The theme for this year's Cinema Alfresco series is "By the People, For the People: Election Selections."
Attendees are encouraged to bring chairs, blankets, picnics, and coolers and to enter at the back service entrance. A drawing will be held at each Thursday night screening for a pair of All-Access passes (a $250 value) to the 2008 Tallgrass Film Festival, October 23-26. The winner must be present at drawing time to win.
The remainder of the Cinema Alfresco season will take place every Thursday starting May 29 at The Brickyard, 129 N. Rock Island in Old Town. All Cinema Alfresco screenings are free. In addition to beverages, food will be available for purchase at each Thursday evening event at The Brickyard.
For more information on the festival, go to www.tallgrassfilmfest.com or contact Lela Meadow, viaE-Mail or (323) 810-6909.
ArtsKC Fund Curtain Call Celebration on May 22nd
Sun, May 11 2008, 7:32 PM
by Denene Brox
WHO: The ArtsKC Fund, an initiative of the Arts Council of Metropolitan
Kansas City
WHAT: Curtain Call Celebration to announce the results of the 2008 workplace
giving campaign
WHEN: Thursday, May 22, 2008 - 6 p.m. Networking; 6:30 p.m. Program &
Announcement
WHERE: The Copaken Stage located in the H&R Block Headquarters, 13th & Main
St., Kansas City, Mo.
About the ArtsKC Fund
Managed by the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City, the ArtsKC Fund raises money to support a wide range of arts organizations, programs and artists throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area. Begun in 2007 with a test campaign in 32 companies, the 2008 inaugural campaign was held in 70 companies.
Correction to May's issue
Sun, May 11 2008, 5:48 PM
by Richard Buswell
Tyler Mulen's editorial mispelled Beth Ocheskey's last name, including the e-mail address. If you wish to contact Beth about the Cappies program, please use this E-Mail link.
Save the Date: watch the Tony Awards with KC Stage
Wed, May 07 2008, 9:27 PM
by Angie Fiedler Sutton
The Tony Awards: one of the premiere award ceremonies for those working in the theatre industry. This year, make it something more than 'just another show'. Save the date for Sunday, June 15, to join KC Stage Magazine in celebrating the Tonys at the YWCA in Kansas City, Kan.
Stay tuned for more information.
KC Ballet to Perform in St. Louis May 22-24
Wed, May 07 2008, 5:25 PM
by Press Release
Midwestern Companies Bring Their Best to St. Louis
This Memorial Day weekend audiences will be treated to the best of dance from throughout the Midwest in the first-ever Spring to Dance Festival.
Inspired by the success of Fall For Dance, New York City Center's renowned dance festival, the three-day event has been created by Dance St. Louis to focus on internationally recognized and emerging companies located exclusively in the Midwest.
The Kansas City Ballet is proud and excited to have been invited to participate in the first event of its kind in St. Louis brought together by Dance St. Louis. The Kansas City Ballet will be sending two veteran members from its company to perform two classic pieces of dance from the KCB's repertory. St. Louis native Kimberly Cowen, whose early training came by way of Natalie LeVine, of St. Louis, will perform The Dying Swan solo, choreography by Michel Fokine with music by Camille Saint-Saens. Joining Kimberly will be Paris Wilcox and together they will dance the pas de deux from the Antony Tudor ballet Dark Elegies, featuring Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder. The Kansas City Ballet performed Dark Elegies as part of this season repertory and is please to bring the work to St. Louis in tribute to Mr. Tudor's centennial year. Dark Elegies is underwritten in part by The Lighton Fund.
All performances will take place at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center on the campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis, which is co-presenting the festival.
Spring to Dance is the first dance festival of its kind held in the Midwest. Never before in any Midwestern city has there been such a gathering of major companies, combined with the best young dancers from all over the region, all for just $10 per ticket.
Performances Range from Tap and Tango to Ballet and Contemporary Jazz
Each of Spring to Dance's three evenings features a different smorgasbord of dance - solos, duets and ensembles from flamenco and tap to ballet and jazz, from cutting-edge contemporary to cross-cultural fusions.
Dance companies performing also include: Ballet Memphis; Cedar Lake Dance, which was founded in Columbia, Missouri; Cincinnati Ballet; American Ballet Theater alumni Christine Knoblauch-O'Neal of St. Louis; Dance Kaleidoscope from Indianapolis; Nashville Ballet and Detroit's Eisenhower Dance Ensemble.
Chicago has strong representation from Deeply Rooted Dance Theatre, Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theatre, Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago, Hedwig Dances, Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Joel Hall Dancers, Luna Negra Dance Theatre, Mordine and Company, River North Chicago Dance Company, The Seldoms, Vadco, the Joffrey Ballet and Lucky Plush, a company based in Riverside, Illinois.
Participating Missouri dance companies, in addition to Kansas City Ballet, include the St. Louis Ballet, St. Louis' MADCO (Modern American Dance Company), the Missouri Contemporary Ballet and Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance of Kansas City. Three fine troupes from Minneapolis will perform: the James Sewell Ballet, Minnesota Dance theatre and Ragamala, a company that blends classical Southern Indian dance with Japanese Taiko.
In addition to Cincinnati Ballet, these Ohio-based troupes are taking part in Spring to Dance: Neos Dance Theatre of Ashland; Cleveland's Verb Ballets; Dayton Ballet; Dancing Wheels of Cleveland and BalletMet of Columbus.
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