7,178 stories by "The Kennedy Center"
As the concluding event of Kennedy Center's 50th Anniversary celebration, Leonard Bernstein's MASS returns 51 years after its world premiere at the Center's 1971 opening gala. Directed by Al…
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Celebrating local …
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Celebrate the seventeenth season of free opera broadcasts by joining Washington National Opera on the field for Carmen …
As a unique aspect of Reframing the Narrative, eleven black dancers from historically white ballet companies were commissioned to create this brand new work, "From Other Suns."
Guest curato…
Eleven black dancers from historically white ballet companies were commissioned by The Kennedy Center to create and perform a brand new ballet in just two weeks. This is their story...
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As the concluding event of Kennedy Center's 50th Anniversary celebration, Leonard Bern…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Kotic Couture, the self-proclaimed "Queen of the Underground" in Baltimore, delivers an upbeat and exhilarating performance in "Late To The Party," their…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Let's get lit! Activate your imagination with this sensory exploration of healing sound, movement and creative expression.
Performers: Sabrina Thompson,…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Join us at the Millennium Stage to celebrate DMV writers and performers who identify as disabled and/or d/Deaf, including performers Scott Sedar and Aarr…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage: Grab your best wig, darling, and come on down! Join us for the second annual celebration of the DMV's illustrious Drag community. Featuring the most iconi…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : The Red Crook-ed Sky American Indian Dance Troupe and the Stoney Creek Singers:Â Rose Powhatan- Millennium Stage (September 3, 2022)
For a grand final…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Soka Tribe is an Afro-Caribbean dance class that harnesses the power of soca music to bring the energy of Caribbean Carnival to you! Grounded in the vibr…
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Great Cuban pianist and composer Chucho Valdés presents La Creación, a bold new work f…
The National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will release the first album of the complete Beethoven symphonies, beginning with Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3. The album will b…
Choreographer Donald Byrd hosts a conversation with Artistic Directors from Dance Theatre of Harlem, Ballethnic Dance Company Inc., and Collage Dance Collective about their participation in …
Part of Reframing the Narrative, a week-long celebration of Black ballet artists, members of the curatorial team discuss the origins of the idea for this celebration and the reasons why this…
https://www.kennedy-center.org/whats-on/explore-by-genre/dance/2022-2023/cloud-gate-dance-theatre/
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, founded in 1973 by choreographer Lin Hwai-min as the f…
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Kiran Ahluwalia's open-hearted vocals have established her as one of global music's most compelling cross-pollinators. Winning two JUNO Awards (Canadian …
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Written and performed by people who have experienced incarceration, this performance uses lived experiences and real stories to explore what it means to …
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : Alt Fusion celebrates artists of the DMV who exist in their own experimental genre-bending category. Extracting elements from downtempo, alt-rock, soul, …
Live Tonight on Millennium Stage : The DMV's own Odd Mojo will be headlining the day along with some special guests. Accompanied with an opening set from Ron Jordan.
As part of the 2022 John Williams at 90 Festival, audiences were invited to join a special Q&A with John Williams and Kennedy Center President Deborah F. Rutter. Afterwards, Reineke and the …
Go behind the scenes at the Kennedy Center to witness the creation of "0874," a new musical by Alexandra Palting.
"0874" (Eight hundred seventy-four) is named for the number of letters tha…
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts today announced the selection of five Honorees who will receive the 45th Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. Recipien…
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"The life of the arts," wrote President John F. Kennedy, "far from being an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is very clo…
