Guitarist/composer Nobuki Takamen was born in Hiroshima, Japan. Jazz historian Scott Yanow describes him as ”an excellent improviser in his own bop-inspired style.” John Heidt of Vintage Guitar Magazine has also called him ”a mature player with keen sense of…
The 28th annual festival celebrating the dance and music of the African Diaspora will be held at Dance Place May 26 – May 31. Featuring some of the best African dance companies in the DC metropolitan area, this festival is…
Marking the inauguration of the Alan M. Kriegsman Creative Residency, Dance Place welcomes Koma for an intensive residency to create the new, multi-disciplinary work, The Ghost Festival. Acclaimed as a member of the path-breaking duo Eiko & Koma, Koma will…
Inspired by the music of the legendary classic rock music era from the 70’s and 80’s, Rennie Harris RHAW presents LOV AMERICAN-STYLE at Dance Place on Saturday, April 25 at 8pm and Sunday, April 26 at 7pm. This full-length hip-hop…
As a part of the National Gallery of Art Film Programs with Wojciech Bąkowski in person. A mixed program of animation and video collage includes recent segments from Bąkowski’s Spoken Movies series, “featuring his explorations of liaisons between animation and…
The Prince of Wales visited the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s museums of Asian art, Wednesday, March 18. The Prince of Wales was there in his capacity as founder of Turquoise Mountain, a non-profit…
In a one-night-only event, Colorado-based Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre presents her provocative dance theater work BOOM! at Dance Place on Saturday, April 4 at 8pm. The evening-length work will build upon Artistic Director Cynthia Oliver’s investigation of slippages in everyday…
Friday, March 20, 20159:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.Warner Bros. Theater, first floor Free and open to the public; also available via live webcast.Please RSVP here. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History will convene a one-day symposium on “Religion in…
