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Artistic Viewpoints | Cirque Eloize Hotel

Artistic Viewpoints

Date: 
6:30 pm Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Location: 

Eisenhower Auditorium

Artistic Viewpoints—an informal moderated discussion featuring Jeannot Painchaud, Cirque Éloize president and chief creative officer—is offered one hour before the performance and is free for ticket holders. Artistic Viewpoints regularly fills to capacity, so seating is available on a first-arrival basis.

Soweto Gospel Choir

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A woman wearing a headband and adorned with jewelry closes her eyes and sings into a microphone.

Soweto Gospel Choir
Songs of the Free
Celebrating the Centenary of Nelson Mandela

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, November 27, 2018
Event Description: 

The two-time Grammy Award-winning Soweto Gospel Choir has been spreading sheer joy to audiences across the globe for nearly two decades! Comprised of twenty of the best artists in South Africa, the choir invites you to enjoy the incomparable and inspirational power of African Gospel music.

Fleck, Hussain, and Meyer

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A banjo player and a double bassist stand and hold their instruments while a man sits between them and smiles.

Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer
with special guest Rakesh Chaurasia

Date: 
7:30 pm Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Event Description: 

Three masterful genre benders and the leading virtuosos on their respective instruments, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, and Edgar Meyer move with ease among the spheres of classical, bluegrass, jazz, and world music.

Night Train 57

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
Canceled

Night Train 57
A Sensory-Friendly Comic Folk Opera
Featuring Dan and Claudia Zanes with Yuriana Sobrino

Date: 
4:00 pm Sunday, April 5, 2020
Event Description: 

The Night Train 57 performance has been canceled.

Veronica Swift

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A woman with her hair pulled in an updo looks languidly at the camera.

Veronica Swift
with The Emmet Cohen Trio

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, September 20, 2018
Event Description: 

The Center for the Performing Arts season begins with a concert featuring two millennial artists, singer Veronica Swift and pianist Emmet Cohen, who are making waves in jazz.

Me … Jane

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
An actress dressed like Jane Goodall holds a chimpanzee plush doll.

The Kennedy Center Theater for Young Audiences on Tour Presents
Me ... Jane: The Dreams and Adventures of Young Jane Goodall
Based on the book Me ... Jane by Patrick McDonnell
Adapted and Written by Patrick McDonnell, Andy Mitton, and Aaron Posner
Co-Arranged and Music Direction by William Yanesh
Choreographed by Christopher d'Amboise
Directed by Aaron Posner

Date: 
4:00 pm Sunday, February 10, 2019
Event Description: 

Before she became a renowned humanitarian, conservationist, and animal activist, Dr. Jane Goodall was a little girl with a special toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. Accompanied by Jubilee, Goodall went on outdoor adventures and observed the miracles of nature.

Monterey Jazz Festival

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts

Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour
featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant, Bria Skonberg, Melissa Aldana, Christian Sands, Yasushi Nakamura, and Jamison Ross

Instrumentation:
Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals
Bria Skonberg, trumpet and vocals
Melissa Aldana, tenor saxophone
Christian Sands, piano and music director
Yasushi Nakamura, bass
Jamison Ross, drums and vocals

Date: 
7:30 pm Friday, March 22, 2019
Event Description: 

California’s Monterey Jazz Festival is the longest consecutively running festival of its kind. In celebration of its six decades, the festival’s touring arm features a diverse roster of millennial talent representing the future leaders of jazz.

Cirque Eloize Hotel

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A female acrobat hangs parallel to the ground with her legs held straight back and her arms spread above and below her.

Cirque Éloize HOTEL

Date: 
7:30 pm Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Event Description: 

Cirque Éloize welcomes you into a timeless art-deco hotel, a meeting place for strangers from all walks of life. HOTEL brims with stories. It’s a place where we mingle with strangers for a moment.

Beautiful

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical.

BEAUTIFUL
THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

Date: 
7:30 pm Tuesday, February 19, 2019
7:30 pm Wednesday, February 20, 2019
7:30 pm Thursday, February 21, 2019
7:30 pm Friday, February 22, 2019
2:00 pm Saturday, February 23, 2019
7:30 pm Saturday, February 23, 2019
2:00 pm Sunday, February 24, 2019
Event Description: 

Long before she was Carole King, chart-topping music legend, she was Carol Klein, Brooklyn girl with passion and chutzpah.

Urban Bush Women

Presenter: 
Center for the Performing Arts
A woman with long braided hair gathers her hands to her neck while she looks at the camera.

Urban Bush Women
Hair & Other Stories

Date: 
7:30 pm Thursday, March 14, 2019
Event Description: 

Since 1984, choreographer and artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s Urban Bush Women has given expression to the vitality and boldness of African-American women.

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