Flamenco Music and Dance Performance & Fiesta (Party!)
Friday October 30th at 7:00 pm
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
– Simmons Hall in ShadySide
FREE for Hope Academy students; Parents/Adults $5
Thanks to Michael Chapman and the Guitar Society of Fine Art.
CANDIDE
Quantum Theatre at Don Allen Auto City, Baum Blvd.
Quantum Theatre at Don Allen Auto City, Baum Blvd.
Wednesday November 4 @ 8:00 pm (dress rehearsal)
STORE
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Friday November 6, 2009 @ 9:00 PM (60 mins )
Squonk Opera’s Mostly Mayhem
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Friday, November 20 at 8:00 PM
More information about all of these performances after the jump. Click on “Read More.”
Flamenco Music and Dance Performance & Fiesta (Party!)
Friday October 30th at 7:00 pm
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
– Simmons Hall in ShadySide
FREE for Hope Academy students; Parents/Adults $5.
Flamenco Performances with Special Guests
Marija Temo, Ulrika Frank and Manolo Leiva from Malaga, “El Trini” Carolina Loyola, Barbara York, Jim Bond, Carolina Araya and more
CANDIDE – Quantum Theatre at Don Allen Auto City, Baum Blvd.
Wednesday November 4 @ 8:00 pm (dress rehearsal)
Quantum has a thing for great music. Voltaire’s raucous satire of the earnest principles of the Enlightenment plus Leonard Bernstein’s genius make for a completely compelling experience in 2009. Candide defies categorization – not musical theatre as we know it; not quite an opera; not really operetta or opera bouffe – it’s just itself, a sublimely sung tale of the discovery of evil and the endurance of hope.
STORE – Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Friday November 6, 2009 @ 9:00 PM (60 mins )
Chronicling the inner life of the American consumer and performed partially in a storefront and in our theater, STORE is inspired by how and why we buy. What will our bodies do in a world where the product no longer exists, but the rules—detest, discover, purchase, apply, empty, repeat—still apply?
Part performance art, part dance party, part replication of the shopping experience, STORE is the third work in the American Spaces Trilogy (HOUSE, 2006; CAR, 2008). Audiences surround the set of an absurdist infomercial that’s being shot for a shopping network. On screens throughout the store a shopping-lady avatar gives guidance on products and protocol.
A set built of thousands of clothes morphs throughout the show, from vast garbage-like piles to neatly stacked walls to outfits for the audience to wear. A society continues the rituals of a world that no longer exists.
Kate Watson-Wallace, a Philadelphia-based choreographer and performer, is the director of anonymous bodies, an interdisciplinary performance company that creates site-based performances that re-imagine everyday spaces.
Squonk Opera’s Mostly Mayhem – Kelly Strayhorn Theater
Friday, November 20 at 8PM
Mostly Mahem is the first time that this renowned company has invited the public to participate in the creation of a new piece. Join us for this behind the scenes look at the making of the work. Debuting ten songs from their planned cycle, The Squonkers are eager for feedback leadung up to their World Premiere in March 2010. Following each show will be a talkback with the audience and the company. Come be a part of the creative process!
Squonk Opera will be in residence at Hope Academy working on an animation and music project with us on Wednesdays.