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    This month at Hayiya

    Published September 15, 2011 by

    By G. Pilar Wilder, Hayiya Dance Theatre This month has been absolutely wonderful at Hayiya Dance Theatre! On Friday the 9th we performed at the first ever Otis Redding Day, here in the Magnificent Macon, GA and on Saturday the 10th, we performed by request for the Redding family at...
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    Exploring “Hollow Roots” at Penumbra Theatre Company

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    By Penumbra Theatre Company Playwright Christina Anderson returned to Penumbra Theatre Company’s New Play Development program, OKRA, with a new piece entitled “Hollow Roots.” The play was part of The Gym: a weeklong developmental workshop for ideas that are not yet in script form. [caption id="attachment_24454" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="Actor Sonja...
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    Pig Iron’s drunken Shakespearean romp in “Twelfth Night”

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    Knight Arts grantee Pig Iron Theatre Company has been providing Philadelphia with quality, original theatrical performances since 1995. As part of this season’s Live Arts Festival and Philly Fringe, another Knight Arts grantee, Pig Iron has tackled its first full-on interpretation of a “classic” script with its production of Shakespeare’s...
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    New ArtPlace initiative drives revitalization in cities and towns

    Published September 15, 2011 by

    In a unique private-public collaboration, 11 of America's top foundations - including Knight - have joined with the National Endowment for the Arts and seven federal agencies to establish ArtPlace, a nationwide intitiative to drive revitalization in cities and towns with a new investment model. The projects will integrate artists and arts organizations into key local efforts in transportation, housing, community development and job creation. First round grants will total $11.5 million and include 34 locally-initiated projects from Honolulu to Miami.
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    Artist Unknown/The Free World: A first look

    Published September 14, 2011 by

    The Art and Culture Center of Hollywood is delighted to announce it is the recipient of the $50,000 FAB! Knight New Work Award supported by Funding Arts Broward and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation for the exhibit Artist Unknown/The Free World, organized by artists John D. Monteith...
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    New young artists arrive at Florida Grand Opera

    Published September 13, 2011 by

    By Nabila Arbaje, Florida Grand Opera Unlike Broadway and theater, opera is an art form that requires highly-specialized training, typically formal education such as a Masters in Voice or higher degrees. Much like doctors, aspiring opera singers search for residency opportunities with established opera companies following graduation. Holding the development...
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    Bodies of painting

    Published September 13, 2011 by

    It seems official: Representational, or figurative, painting is making a big comeback. Not that other styles of painting are out or that installation and sculpture have faded. But a form that once looked on the verge of disappearing, that once seemed uncool and...
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    Good look at Red Hook

    Published September 13, 2011 by

    Down on South Fourth Street, there is a nook of a coffee shop called Red Hook that always has great art hanging from its walls and, sometimes, the chill beats of a DJ pumping out into the surrounding South Philly neighborhood. Not to mention its coffee, tea and freshly made...
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    The new office of the Hygienic Dress League

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    We live in a world that is over-saturated with marketing images and materials. In a lecture that I cannot forget, Tom Wujec, a fellow at Autodesk and a leader of businesses visualization, explained that although the brain's ability to process information doubles only every 160,000 years, the amount of information...
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    An inside look at Hanayui

    Published September 12, 2011 by

    By Iris Shiraishi, MU Performing Arts I saw Hanayui for the first time at the North American Taiko Conference in Los Angeles in 1999. I was a brand-new taiko player then and I was simply bowled over by their performance. Twelve years later I'm stilled bowled over whenever I have...