February 19 - Mar 7 2010 Atlas Peforming Arts Center - 1333 H Street NE - Washington, DC
Creating Connection through Innovative Art.
Call for Proposals for INTERSECTIONS 2014. Innovative, collaborative artists who probe points of connection across culture, age, perspective, experience and community, APPLY NOW.
For children ages 18 months to 3 years and their caregiver, this multi-sensory class, using stories and songs, will help your child to discover the extraordinary in ordinary objects.
Atlas with CUA School of Music & Tribute Productions
Sing Down the Moon: Appalachian Wonder Tales
An award-winning musical for the whole family that spins well-known tales into a crazy quilt of Appalachian lore, humor and wisdom.
Saturday, Feb 23 at 11:00am & 1:00pm Saturday, Mar 2 at 11:00am & 1:00pm Sunday, Mar 3 at 2:30pm Friday, Mar 8 at 10:30am Saturday, Mar 9 at 11:00am & 1:00pm Sprenger Theatre 60 min $15/$10 For ages 5+
A fun and affirming movement workshop that turns family stories into dances that keep us connected when disagreement strikes. For parents, caregivers and children age 3 -8.
Saturday, Mar 2 at 2:30pm Lab 1 45 minutes $5 for children/ free for parent-caregiver For ages 3 – 8 and adult
Multi-WAMMIE-Award winning musician/visual artist brings her high-energy, uplifting style to celebrate home, community and harmony through song and her “art guitars.”
Friday, Mar 8 at 9:30pm Lab 2 60 mins $15/$10 For ages 8+
A trail-blazing modern dance company intersects with classical, folk/rock and a cappella musicians to present a prism of perspectives on how we connect.
Saturday, Feb 23 at 1:30pm Lang Theatre 60 mins $20/$15 st/sen/military For ages 8+
Experience Hip Hop fusion as never before in a night of entertainment and artistry with choreography by members of the explosive DCypher Dance, with special guest performances.
Friday, Feb 22 at 10:30pm Sprenger Theatre 90 mins $15 advance/ $20 door For ages 16+
Afro-modern meets classical ballet in a choreographic celebration of the sophisticated richness of DC’s Black dance community presented by a sold-out favorite from last year’s festival.
Saturday, Mar 2 at 9:30pm Sunday, Mar 3 at 5:00pm Sprenger Theatre 85 mins 3/2: $30/$15
Tackle the unexpected and seemingly uncontrollable from all angles when eight diverse DC playwrights premiere 360-second plays. Discussion with wine will follow.
Saturday, Mar 2 at 8:30pm Lab 1 90 mins $15/$10 (includes a glass of wine) For ages 16+
Collectively-created across boundaries of race, gender and geography, students from six DC universities offer a theatre piece about the next generation stepping up to the plate.
Thursday, Feb 28 at 7:00pm Lab 2 60 mins $5 For ages 16+
A grooving DC-based band that mixes African vintage pop, reggae vibes, Togolese rhythms and funky blues to create a continent-straddling sound that will get you on your feet.
Saturday, Feb 23 at 10:00pm Sprenger Theatre 60 mins $15 For ages 8+
A hilarious view of the Comedy of Everyday life is born when a Helen Hayes Award-winning theatre turns its distinctive classic comic style on contemporary Washington. Part of the worldwide Commedia dell' Arte Day 2013.
Saturday, Feb 23 at 7:00pm Monday, Feb 25 at 7:30pm Lab 2 60 mins $20/$15 For ages 12+
DC’s popular and passionate presenters of Flamenco collaborate with jazz artist Antonio Truyols to explore the common soul of two born-from-pain-into-joy musical forms.
Sunday, Mar 3 at 2:00pm Lang Theatre 60 mins $30/$20 For ages 8+
DC Jazz legend Nasar Abadey joins forces with the future when his band SUPERNOVA and his son’s band KUSH each present sets of classic jazz and original compositions and a dynamite combined finale.
Saturday, Mar 2 at 8:00pm Lang Theatre 2 hours $25/$20 For ages 8+
A vibrant performing ensemble presents Mark Sylvester’s Banjo Chamber Concerto and the DC premiere of Ted Hearne’s profound pop-jazz-hip-hop infused cantata, Katrina Ballads, with film by Bill Morrison.
Thursday, Feb 28 at 8:00pm Lang Theatre 90 mins $25/$15 For ages 12+
Award-winning choreographer Helanius J. Wilkins probes naked truth and personal identity in a riveting solo dance performance that melds video, original music and text, with intimate humor.
Thursday, Mar 7 at 9:30pm Friday, Mar 8 at 7:00pm Sprenger Theatre 60 mins $20/$15 For ages 16+ (includes nudity and strong language)
An uplifting bounty of traditional African American legacy songs -- from Spirituals to Contemporary arrangements -- intermingled with prophetic poetry by African American and Latina poets of the Harlem Renaissance.
Sunday, Mar 3 at 4:30pm Lang Theatre 70 mins $28/$25 Senior/$15 Student For ages 8+
Thrill to Buster Keaton’s monumental Civil War adventure film accompanied by live music played on period instruments by Tina Chancey’s renowned musical ensemble.
Sunday, Feb 24 at 4:30pm Sprenger Theatre 75 mins $10/$8 For ages 8+
Children ages 1 – 5 and their grownup caregivers can come play with the arts in a multi-sensory interactive experience that brings a favorite story to life.
Created by celebrated composer/pianist Vijay Iyer and poet/performer Mike Ladd with poet /US Marine veteran Maurice Decaul, this documentary concert sheds musical and poetic light on the returning home of American soldiers of color from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Friday, March 8 at 8:00pm Saturday, March 9 at 2:00pm & 8:00pm Lang Theatre 90 min $38/$25/$15 For ages 12+
Will Lucky the horse learn to tap dance? Find out in this delightful show featuring actors and youth tap dancers by tapper extraordinaire Quynn Johnson, based on her popular children’s book.
Saturday, Mar 9 at 4:00pm Sprenger Theatre 60 mins $15/$10 For ages 4+
Creators Ryan K. Johnson (Stomp) and Quynn Johnson (Just Tap) fuse multiple modes of percussive dance with music from around the globe. An update of the 2012 festival hit!
Friday, Mar 1 at 7:30pm
Saturday, Mar 2 at 4:00pm Sprenger Theatre 60 mins $15/$10 For ages 5+
A Kennedy Center teaching artist offers playful theatre activities that ask you to stand in someone else’s shoes . Participants include H Street NE elders, the Delta Players.
Saturday, Mar 9 at 2:00pm Lab 1 60 mins FREE For ages 12+
GRAMMY nominated vocalist/ composer Theo Bleckmann pairs with equally adventurous guitarist Ben Monder, to perform rare, intimate sets of Porter, Monk and more.
Thursday, Feb 28 at 10:00pm Sprenger Theatre 60 min FREE ($2 reservation fee) For ages 12+
“A treasure” of the 2012 Fringe Festival, this high-octane street-theatre style performance looks at DC from the inside out through the eyes of a native son and lone white trash man.
Friday, Mar 1 at 7:00pm Saturday, Mar 2 at 1:00pm Thursday, Mar 7 at 9:30pm Friday, Mar 8 at 7:00pm. Lab 2 60 min $20/$15 For ages 16+
Legacy: A Conversation Through Contemporary Ballet
Choreographers Natalie Smith, Florian Rouiller, Katya Vasilaky and Diana Movius converse across generations, experience and style to ask, “what legacy do we leave?”
Sunday, Feb 24 at 2:00pm Sprenger Theatre 75 mins $20/$15 For ages 8+
An inimitable blend of Flamenco, Pop, and Brazilian Jazz awaits you when internationally-known/DC-based Trio Caliente heats up the café stage. Mingle with festival artist and ignite the dance floor.Dessert treats and cash bar.
DC-focused documentaries, narratives and experimental films are showcased in a full day of screenings and festivities that celebrate our city’s myriad cultures, residents, communities and spirit. DC is more than politics, traffic and monuments and Our City Film Festival is out to prove it.
A concert discovery of common musical groud with North Indian classial violinist Nistha Raj jazz saxophonist Aakash Mittal, tabliya Debu Nayak, and beatboxer Christylez Bacon. Co-hosted by the Embassy of India.
Friday, Mar 1 at 9:30pm Saturday, Mar 9 at 7:00pm Lab 2 60 min $20/$15 For ages 8+
Passionate and raw vocalist/composer Heidi Martin presents a sonic and visual mosaic that vividly navigates the parallel lives of black and white Americans.
Thursday, Feb 28 at 9:30pm Lab 2 60 mins $20/$15 For ages 16+
International world music stars, French cellist Vincent Segal and Malian kora master Ballaké Sissoko draw from deep traditions to create a whole new sonic space.
Friday, Mar 1 at 8:00pm Lang Theatre 75 min $28/$15 For ages 12+
The Spilling Ink Project and Kirov Academy of Ballet
Deflect our Light: Articulate a Dance
Through two timeless classical dance traditions-- Russia's ballet and India's Bharatanatyam- explore the nostalgic past, colorful present and creative future. Co-hosted by the Embassy of India.
Saturday, Feb 23 at 7:00pm Sprenger Theatre 80 mins $30/$25
Winner of the 2012 and 2011 Washington Area Music Award for Best Folk Contemporary Duo/Group pair their soaring harmonies and multi-instrumental arrangements with Kandice Smith’s belly dance fusion and Christylez Bacon’s progressive hip-hop.
Saturday, Mar 9 at 9:30pm Lab 2 60 min $20 For ages 12+
Drum circle, story and concert combine in an interactive experience for all ages with Nigerian –born Tosin Aribisala that celebrates the tree as the life source of many musical instruments.
Saturday, Feb 23 at 4:00pm Lab 2 45 mins $10/$8 For ages 5+
Meet “AfroBlue,” the distinctive musical style of Nigerian born drummer/composer Tosin Aribisala and his world band that fuses Afrobeat with the American Blues.
Saturday, Mar 9 at 10:30pm Sprenger Theatre 60 mins $20/$15 For ages 12+
Set in the midst of a conservative Mormon funeral, this one-woman show takes a funny, compelling look at finding the balance between piety and sexuality.
Friday, Mar 1 at 8:30pm Friday, Mar 8 at 8:30pm Lab 1 60 mins $15/$10 For ages 12+
Savvy in cultural critique and laced with humor, this original solo piece, premiered at Georgetown University, presents an empowering, poignant, and irreverent kaleidoscope of characters living with fat.
Saturday, Mar 2 at 9:30pm Sunday, Mar 3 at 2:00pm Thursday, Mar 7 at 7:00pm Lab 2 45 mins $10/$5 For ages 12+
A gifted graduate of the Beijing Dance Academy reveals the crosscurrents of modernism and tradition that pulse through contemporary Chinese culture and dance.
Sunday, Feb 24 at 2:30pm Lang Theatre 60 mins $20/$15 For ages 8+
A collective of dancing aerialists takes flight in a soaring salute to courage, risk and joy in a benefit performance for the youth empowerment programs of Zip Zap Circus USA.
Friday, Feb 22 at 8:00pm, Saturday, Feb 23 at 5:30pm & Saturday, Feb 23 at 8:00pm Lang Theatre 60 mins $25/$15 For ages 5+
Experience how the fun of clowning, juggling and simple acrobatic partnering can open you to try new things and to trust and support yourself and others in this collaborative interactive experience.