Capital Week kicked off yesterday with yesterday’s Architeaser featuring an Ionic buff column at Little Rock City Hall, which turns 104 this month.
Today’s Capital is of the Corinthian variety.
Category Archives: Dance
Deadline Approaching for Arkansas Arts Summit Registration
The Arkansas Arts Council is pleased to be a sponsor of the 2012 Arkansas Arts Summit April 17-18 at the William J. Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock. This intensive, two-day event will provide practical training for board members and arts administrators to help build and maintain art organizations and programs.
The conference will also offer performances, social events and networking opportunities. Registration is $95 and deadline to register is April 1. Click here to download a registration form, which includes a conference agenda and hotel information.
The Summit is presented by the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts and the DeVos Institute of Arts Management at the Kennedy Center.
Led by Kennedy Center President Michael M. Kaiser, the conference will equip participants to:
- Recruit and manage board members
- Achieve fundraising success
- Create institutional image with impact
- Improve strategic financial planning
- Develop and support effective marketing campaigns
Sponsors include the Arkansas Arts Council, the William J. Clinton Foundation, Donna and Mack McLarty, Kaki Hockersmith, Mid-America Arts Alliance, the Winthrop Rockefeller Institute, the Windgate Foundation, Stella Boyle Smith Trust, the City of Little Rock and the City of North Little Rock.
A Conversation with Rocco Landesman this afternoon
Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will be making his first visit to Arkansas today.
As a part of that visit, he will be participating in a Please join us for a very enlightening panel discussion at the Arkansas Repertory Theatre. It is being co-hosted by The Rep and the Oxford American. Arkansas First Lady Ginger Bebee will introduce the conversation.
Visiting Arkansas for the first time, Chairman Landesman will participate in a panel discussion with Rep Producing Artistic Director Bob Hupp and Oxford American Publisher Warick Sabin. Arkansas Arts Council Executive Director Joy Pennington will moderate the panel on “Creative Placemaking in Little Rock.”
The panel discussion will take place in the Rep’s Cindy Murphy Theatre at 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. Following the panel, there will be a reception at 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
The panel discussion and lobby reception are free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
Rocco Landesman was confirmed by the United States Senate on August 7, 2009 as the tenth chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). Prior to joining the NEA, he was president of Jujamcyn Theatres, which owns five Broadway theatres. A Broadway theater producer and multiple Tony winner, he has brought Big River (1985 Tony Award for Best Musical), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (1993 Tony Award for Best Play), Angels in America: Perestroika (1994 Tony Award for Best Play), Into the Woods, and The Producers (2001 Tony Award for Best Musical) to Broadway.
LEAP DAY – Preview of Ballet Arkansas’ “Beyond Category”
Since it LEAP DAY it seems appropriate to preview Ballet Arkansas‘ upcoming program Beyond Category.
On March 9, 10 and 11, Ballet Arkansas will explore various musical genres, which, when combined with various dance genres, make for an exciting and very eclectic concert program. The show transitions from classical ballet pieces performed to Tchaikovsky and Granados, to an act devoted to the great musical genres of jazz and blues, then finishes with a contemporary ballet to classic rock. With choreography by Michelle Jarvis, Bud Kerwin, Keisha Ilama-White and Arkansas native Leslie Schickel – this concert promises to be just what the title suggests – beyond category.
Performances are
- March 9, 2012 – 8:00pm – Opening night and reception
- March 10, 2012 – 8:00pm
- March 11, 2012 – 2:00pm
Performances will be at Wildwood Park for the Arts, 20919 Denny Road.
To order tickets, click here.
Wildwood’s LANTERNS continues tonight
LANTERNS!, Arkansas’ only deep-winter outdoor festival, illuminates Little Rock for a fourth year of family fun and glowing entertainment. Admission includes live entertainment, family activities and a cultural experience like no other in Central Arkansas! The event concludes tonight from 6pm to 10pm.
LANTERNS! celebrates the first full moon of the lunar year with a variety of indoor and outdoor entertainment. Visitors will take a mystical stroll along paved pathways lit by fire pits and luminaries into Wildwood’s winter woodlands to visit eight cultures around the globe.
From Asia to the Moon, LANTERNS!, is a magical evening designed to delight children and adults alike. This year’s vistas include:
- China: the Lunar New Year celebrations in this country are the inspiration for the entire festival!
- Paris: featuring FREE performances of dance (with Ballet Arkansas!), french art song and more on stage in the Lucy Lockett Cabe Festival Theatre, as well as dessert crepes and champagne for purchase in the lobbies
- Rio de Janeiro: featuring delicious edibles for purchase from Cafe Bossa Nova, live Bossa Nova music and dancing!
- India: featuring tasty delights for purchase from Star of India Restaurant and fabulous mango smoothies from Tropical Smoothie Cafe.
- Shakespeare’s England: featuring fabulous performances by the Arkansas Shakespeare Festival and food for purchase, including Lear’s (Turkey) Legs!
- Venice: featuring wishing lanterns and splendid desserts for purchase!
- American Baseball: featuring giveaways from the Arkansas Travelers, baseball games on the radio and hot dogs for purchase from Little Rock favorite Hot Dog Mike!
- and even The Moon!
General Admission:
$10.00 for adults
$5.00 for children ages 6 to 12
FREE for children ages 5 and under
Member Pricing:
$5.00 for adults
FREE for children 12 and under
Find out More about Membership!
March of the Nutcracker
Ballet Arkansas continues the tradition of presenting The Nutcracker this weekend at Robinson Center Music Hall.
The title role is being essayed by Ballet Arkansas company trainee Jake Catlett while Michael Bearden, Ballet Arkansas’ artistic adviser, is a guest artist and dances the role of the Cavalier. Alternating in the role of Clara are Lauren Frances Wood and Kathryn Latham. Other roles are being danced by Leslie Dodge (Sugar Plum Fairy), Lauren McCarty Horak (Snow Queen),Toby Lewellen (Snow King), Anna Maris (Frau Von Stahlbuam and Dew Drop Fairy), Sean Porter (Rat King), Stephen Stone (Drosselmeyer), Allison Wilson (Rat Queen) and Perry Young (Herr Von Stahlbaum, Mother Ginger).
The choreography for this production was created by a Jana Beard, Sydney Ippolito, Marius Petipa, Traci Presley, and Allison Wilson. Geoffrey Robson, associate conductor of the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, will conduct musicians from the ASO in performing Tchaikovsky’s ballet score. Tickets are available from the Arkansas Symphony box office at 666-1761 or http://www.arkansassymphony.org.
Tis the Season (for Spiced Peacans)
- The tree being hoisted into place in the Capital Hotel
Music, design and history converge this evening when Capital Hotel hosts A Capital Christmas today.
The festivities begin at 5:30pm when the UALR Flute Ensemble is in concert in the hotel lobby and the gingerbread village is officially unveiled. At 6:30 pm, the tree will officially be lit. Also during the evening, dancers from Ballet Arkansas’ production of The Nutcracker will be on hand.
Throughout the Christmas season, there will be performances of music groups at the Capital Hotel.
Music and Choir Performance Dates
•Cavalry Academy on Fri, Dec 2nd at Noon
•Mann Magnet MS on Mon, Dec 5th at 11 am
•AR Northeast Community College on Mon, Dec 5th at 1 pm
•Riverview High School on Tues, Dec 6th at 11 am
•Sylvan Hills on Wed, Dec 7th at 11 am
•Abundant Life on Thurs, Dec 8th at Noon
•Maumelle Middle School on Fri, Dec 9th at 11 am
•Holy Souls on Mon, Dec 12th at 11:30
•Episcopal Collegiate on Tues, Dec 13 at Noon
•Searcy High School on Wed, Dec 14th at 11 am
•Booker Arts on Wed, Dec 14th at Noon
•Robinson Middle School on Thurs, Dec 15th at 11 am
•Hornaments on Saturday, Dec 17th at 5 pm
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