2024 marks 65 years since the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater’s U.S. tour, which celebrated the work of the titular dance choreographer and Black culture overall through music and movement. Since 1958, the company has been captivating audiences with its annual performances, which bring the gift of American dance to the world. Atlanta was the first […]
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Atlanta arts organizations receive $580,000 in grants
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta – through its Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund – announced a total of $580,000 in grants to 11 metro arts organizations impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Artists, organizations lobby for funding in Atlanta budget
Atlanta’s quick to name the block-busting Hollywood films and TV shows made in the city — Black Panther, The Walking Dead and so on. But local artists say a little more love for the city’s home-grown film, sculpture, dance and other arts would pay off in more ways than one.
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Atlanta: A Growing Dance City…but How to Sustain?
By Angela Harris, Executive Artistic Director, Dance Canvas, Inc.This is an exciting time for dance in metro Atlanta! 2017 allowed Atlanta to witness new dance companies kicking off inaugural seasons, major dance organizations making leadership and location changes, long-standing dance companies celebrating milestone anniversaries, colleges creating new dance departments and growing new dance partnerships, and dance public […]
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Photo Pick: Art on the Atlanta BeltLine Live Performances by John Becker
Art on the Atlanta BeltLine Live Performances: Saira Raza with 10th Letter, Sanam Studio Dancers & Becky Katz performed live at the BeltLine Reynoldstown stage on Saturday September 19. Their performance of Dandelion’s Voyage was an experimental cinematic and musical experience, inspired by Bollywood, folk music, and science fiction. For more information on Saira, visit http://sistersai.com/. For more […]
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The Dancer
The power of a little girl’s dream to transform a city is celebrated in this weeks Stories of Atlanta.
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Mardi Gras vibe inspires survival for Cajun and zydeco dancers in Atlanta
Carolyn Barbay of Atlanta climbed out of the grief she had over losing her husband by re-discovering the music of her home state of Louisiana and learning the Cajun two-step and waltz.
Instead of driving eight hours, she only had to travel a few miles to the Knights of Columbus Hall at Buford Highway near Lenox Road, home of the Atlanta Cajun Zydeco Association’s monthly fais do do (parties) featuring a live band playing authentic swamp music.
She found a tribe bound not by blood, geography, language, culture, ethnicity or religion, but by a deep love of the forward-driving, accordion-centric sounds of Acadian music from Louisiana.
