The National Black Arts Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, and it’s doing so by the skin of its teeth. In the last couple of years, the festival has struggled with limited funding, revolving leadership and sharp criticism that it has become stale and not relevant to today’s diverse arts scene. Because of those challenges, planning…
What is freedom? That’s a question Americans reflect upon every Fourth of July. Movement artist Lauri Stallings is no exception. From July 6 through 20, Stallings’ performance troupe, gloATL, will offer its unique take on freedom in “Liquid Culture,” a series of six free public performances in four locations: the Sound Table parking lot in…
Chuck Davis, or Baba Chuck as he’s known, greets visitors with a glorious, expansive hug, made all the more expansive by his size — 6 feet, 6 inches — and his voluminous African robe, or bubu, which sways as he moves. Then there are the long, graceful arms and the resonant baritone voice. He is both…
The 19th annual Modern Atlanta Dance Festival squeezed five troupes into a 90-minute program at Fabrefaction Theatre on Friday. Artistic and Executive Director Douglas Scott, who also heads up the host company, Full Radius Dance, has run the festival since its inception in the mid-1990s and deserves a bow for his commitment to the ever-evolving Atlanta…
Atlanta Ballet brings to a close its exciting 2012-13 season this weekend with “Love Stories,” a mixed bill playing through this (Sunday) afternoon at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre. The four ballets, two of them company premieres, investigate love in all its iterations, from heart-pounding passion to fleeting connections to playful couplings and the slippery…
Tanz Farm, the performance anthology curated by gloATL and the Goat Farm Arts Center, has blown open Atlanta’s dance world this season with a series of cutting-edge artistic collaborations. The fourth in the series, “The Liberated Accident — an evening in two chapters,” will take place May 9-11 at the Goat Farm’s Goodson Yard. “The Liberated…
If the words “multiple choice” bring up unpleasant memories of tests in school, you might want to head down to the Spelman College Museum of Fine Art this Saturday afternoon for a very different experience. Dance, drama, music and snippets of StoryCorps interviews that were taped at the museum earlier this month will become part of…
In a large, light-filled studio at Atlanta Ballet’s complex on the Westside, dancers are rehearsing over and over again one section of choreographer David Bintley’s “Carmina Burana.” Bintley wants them to be tougher, slouchier. He demonstrates; they watch intently. Just react, he urges. Drop the classical poses. This, after all, is not “Swan Lake.” It’s…
Leslie Gordon became the director of Georgia State University’s Rialto Center for the Arts in 2003, seven years into the venue’s present life as a state-of-the-art downtown performing arts center. Formerly a movie theater, it closed during downtown’s economically depressed years, then was bought and completely renovated by Georgia State in the early 1990s. Gordon has…
Atlanta Ballet has a line item in its budget called the “innovation fund.” Judging by its announcement today of its 2013-14 season and “very ambitious” five-year strategic plan, that line item will see plenty of activity this year and beyond. At a luncheon for trustees, donors and media at the Four Seasons Hotel in Midtown,…
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