NEW YORK—Is there anywhere in the world that’s truly safe? This is the question at the heart of Joshua Harmon’s drama “Prayer for the French Republic,” a tale that focuses on cultural identity and the reality of how the more things change, the more they stay the same. The play is now at Manhattan Theatre…
Theatre Review: ‘Prayer for the French Republic:’ To Stay or To Go?
Theatre Review: ‘Skeleton Crew’: A Sobering Look at Survival
The nameless workers who toil on the factory floor year after year. Playwright Dominique Morisseau puts them front and center in “Skeleton Crew,” now at Broadway’s Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, presented by the Manhattan Theatre Club. It’s the winter of 2008 and workers at a metal stamping factory in Detroit, Michigan wonder if the plant…
Australian Government Commits $5.5 million to Regional and Remote Performing Arts Tours
The Federal Government is offering $5.5 million (approx. US$3.95 million) in support of leading arts tours, including music, dance, theatre, and circus, as part of the Australia Council’s Playing Australia touring program. In a media release on Tuesday, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, said the funding would…
Theater Review: ‘The Streets of New York:’ A Penetrating Look at the Human Spirit
NEW YORK—Offering what should hopefully become a holiday staple, the Irish Repertory Theatre presents a revival of its 2011 musical “The Streets of New York. ” The piece harkens back to the days of the melodrama with its absorbing take on social status and how far the human spirit can be tested. Adapted and directed…
Beyond the Notes, Episode #1: Dunhuang
Deep inside caves along the Silk Road, Buddha statues come to life. – Shen Yun Performing Arts is the world’s premier classical Chinese dance and music company. Shen Yun Creations are available at ShenYunCreations.com. Follow ShenYunCreations on social media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shenyuncreations/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shenyuncreations/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ShenYunCreation Gettr: https://gettr.com/user/sycreations Gab: https://t.me/ShenYunCreations
Classical Chinese Dance Technique Collection 2018
Shen Yun Performing Arts’ rising stars present a range of classical Chinese dance techniques. Physically rigorous and exquisitely expressive, classical Chinese dance involves systematic training in dance fundamentals as well as difficult flips, spins, leaps, postures, and tumbling techniques. It is an incredibly rich art form that has developed over 5,000 years of Chinese civilization,…
Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84 – 2013 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra
2013 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven Egmont, the hero in Goethe’s historical tragedy of 1778, was a Flemish general who bravely fought for the freedom of his people and was sentenced to death by their oppressor. In 1809, Vienna’s Burgtheater commissioned Beethoven to write music for the play. The output, an overture and…
From Scribe to Choir to Being Repurposed Over Generations, Medieval Christian Chant Book Fragments Reveal Stories
Medieval chant books and the parchment they were made of were designed to last a long time—so long, that pages of them can outlast the book itself. Across medieval Europe, monks and nuns and clergy in city cathedrals sang daily chants in communal forms of timed and sung prayer still practiced by some Christians today. Fragments of…
Dvořák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 46 No. 8 – 2016 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra
2016 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK Raucous, rousing melodies conjure the rolling highlands of Bohemia. It was there that Dvořák found inspiration for his Slavonic Dances, the first set of which propelled him to international fame. Originally written in 1878 for piano four hands, and later rearranged for orchestra, the eight dances of Op….
Glinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila, Op. 5 – 2014 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra
2014 Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra Mikhail Glinka Based on Alexander Pushkin’s mock-epic work of the same title, Ruslan and Ludmila’s initial flop caused Glinka to stay away from Russia for nearly three years. The opera did not suit the taste of its time. For one, the music did not sound “Russian,” with melodies adapted from…
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