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Aug 14, 2019 11:52 am
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Max Loignon of the Right Offs sat on a stool in Sara Scranton’s kitchen, strumming out a song that was already recognizable before Daniel Eugene started singing.
It was one of the musical numbers set to appear in the second production of the State House Cabaret — playing this weekend at the State House on State Street on Saturday, Aug. 17, and Sunday, Aug. 18. The music swelled and filled the room as the cast assembled there joined in, giving the classic “Crimson and Clover” their own sense of yearning and beauty.
At the end, Scranton ran over and gave Eugene a hug.
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Brian Slattery |
Aug 11, 2019 7:36 pm
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Junte Loiceño.
Thousands gathered on the New Haven Green Saturday afternoon and evening for the fourth annual Puerto Rican Festival of New Haven. Organized by Puerto Ricans United, the festival featured a string of blazing musical acts, food trucks, and vendors, plus an almost impossibly perfect summer day, that brought crowds early and kept them long into the day for a celebration of Puerto Rican pride and community.
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Brian Slattery |
Jun 24, 2019 7:32 am
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Kevin Sherwin
If you were walking along Trumbull Street in the early afternoon on Friday, you may have noticed the evocative tones of a Spanish guitar. They were coming from the lawn behind the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, courtesy of guitarist Kevin Sherwin, and they were a small yet integral part of Make Music New Haven.
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Brian Slattery |
May 19, 2019 9:21 pm
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Dozens of people thronged the lot across from the Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center on Columbus Avenue on Saturday for Hillfest, a neighborhood festival organized by the Hill community under the auspices of International Festival of Arts & Ideas. The event brought food, music, and a host of activities and kept the crowds out for a full sunny afternoon.
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Brian Slattery |
Jan 22, 2019 8:54 am
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Ngoma.
Poet, organizer, and master of ceremonies Ngoma was once again in front of the microphone on the third floor of the Peabody Museum on Whitney Avenue on Monday, overseeing the annual Zannette Lewis Environmental and Social Justice Community Open Mic and Professional Poetry Slam.
The professional part of the slam tended to draw poets from around the country to compete. But the community open mic was already getting heavy.
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Brian Slattery |
Dec 10, 2018 8:39 am
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AwardeesMelton, Slomba, Downing, DeLauro, Hameen, and Washington.
The Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s 38th annual awards ceremony, held Friday during a luncheon at the New Haven Lawn Club, began with a protest. As patrons were seating themselves in the Lawn Club’s expansive ballroom, a troop of young women marched in file toward the stage, chanting and holding aloft signs about stopping domestic and sexual violence, about women’s suffrage, about curing breast cancer.
The women were dancers from Premier Dance Company, headed by Hanan Hameen, one of the afternoon’s award recipients. They took the stage to a blast of music from the speakers, moving from funk to pop to hip hop, as patrons finished sitting down — a fitting nod to the theme of the arts awards this year, of phenomenal women.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Dec 4, 2018 1:11 pm
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Psychologist and founder of Therapy for Black Girls Joy Harden Bradford …
… and newly elected U.S. Rep. Jahana Hayes were highlights of the inaugural luncheon.
Healing comes in many forms. Some find it in dance. Others in prayer. The women of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. brought several forms of self-care together in an inaugural “The Art of Healing” luncheon.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Nov 22, 2018 10:55 am
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Stack-starters Sobocinski and McDonald.
Tech hub’s smokestack, which inspired new restaurant’s name.
Pair a Navy vet-restaurateur with Kansas City barbecue roots with a brewery owner who also runs restaurants with a sense of whimsy and a flair for fun — and you get a match made in brew-hog heaven.
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Cara McDonough |
Oct 2, 2018 12:09 pm
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Bernsen.
The walls of Rachel Bernsen’s studio in Erector Square on Peck Street are bright white, adorned with posters from various artistic events. There are colorful throw pillows stacked in the shelving in one corner. A model skeleton greets visitors upon entering, hinting at this room’s purpose: it’s all about movement.
“A lot of things happen in this space,” Bernsen said.
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Brian Slattery |
Sep 21, 2018 8:00 am
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Amid the three October weekends of programming Artspace has planned for this year’s City-Wide Open Studios is an art invasion of Yale West Campus on the weekend of Oct. 26 to 28. Dozens of artists from around the state will take over room after room of the facility, along with 12 commissioned works — focused on the theme of wellbeing — that range from an exhibit about dirt, roots, and insects to a communal steam room, to a dance piece, to a choir.
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Allison Park |
May 28, 2018 12:23 pm
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Zoe Votto is a shy girl. But when she sashayed to center stage, pink bow in hair, she stunned the audience with powerful pirouettes and confident coupes.
Her bravery, technical mastery, and undeniable talent won her a full scholarship to dance with the New Haven Ballet, a package sealed with dancewear, tuition, a transportation stipend, and a guaranteed role in next season’s major Nutcracker production.
When asked for her age, she whispered with a smile: “8t.”
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David Sepulveda |
May 14, 2018 2:50 pm
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Westville’s festival installation.
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Green Goat dairy goats begin their assault.
A second New Haven “Goatville neighborhood” was opened in Edgewood Park during Westville’s 21st annual Artwalk festival.
But this “neighborhood,” a wooded and overgrown corner of the park, has real, live goats that will be performing special community service for several years to come.
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Brian Slattery |
Apr 30, 2018 12:18 pm
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Elon Trotman.
Jazz heavyweights and artistic emissaries from Africa will mix with New Haven’s finest talent at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas this year. That’s just the way Chad Herzog, co-executive director of the festival and director of programming, wants it, as the festival continues to deal with a tighter state budget by sinking its roots deeper into the Elm City.
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David Sepulveda |
Apr 2, 2018 8:22 am
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Diaz has a message.
An animated Daniel Diaz, Arte Inc.’s co-founder and chairman, moved through the aisles of Fair Haven School’s auditorium with the fervor of a televangelist.
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Markeshia Ricks |
Oct 16, 2017 7:40 am
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The sights and sounds of Puerto Rico were on display Friday night for the Board of Alders Black and Hispanic Caucus’s first Hispanic Heritage Month celebration.
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Jon Greenberg |
Jul 25, 2017 1:34 pm
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Quinton with his mother, Krystal Bethea, and his colossal trophy after winning the Young Mr. Starpower award.
Quinton White Jr. of New Haven has not graduated elementary school yet. But he has won two national dancing championships, and he has no intention of stopping now.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jun 18, 2017 1:30 pm
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Svenja Wacker and Zac Elston with their daughters Stella and Luna.
Svenja Wacker is trying to teach her daughters Stella and Luna that it’s OK to move to their own rhythms. So when she found out that a big, public dance lesson was rolling into town, she didn’t miss a beat. Or in this case, a one-two step. She scooped up her daughters into the car, and drove right for downtown New Haven.
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Allan Appel |
May 19, 2017 2:16 pm
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Artist Stewart outside her studio.
Sarah Stewart turns out oil-on-linen paintings in the factory complex that once turned out erector sets for the nation — and now New Haven’s zoning rules are catching up with the economic transformation there.
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David Sepulveda |
Apr 7, 2017 7:29 am
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Arts meeting at Community Foundation.
A roundtable meeting of the Arts Industry Coalition — a group of area arts organizations, arts leaders, and stakeholders organized by The Arts Council of Greater New Haven and hosted by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven in its offices on Audubon Street — discussed what can be done to save the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), and what might be done if they are dissolved, as a current budget proposal from the Trump administration suggests they could be.
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Brian Slattery |
Mar 30, 2017 10:25 pm
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Chad Herzog, the International Festival of Arts & Ideas’s interim co-executive director and director of programming, stood on the stage in a large room on the first floor of Alexion, on College Street. Before him, artists and filmmakers mingled with bankers and civic leaders. A countdown clock projected on the wall that looked more like something for a sports event — maybe a nod to March Madness? — had just run out. Herzog was on stage to announce A&I’s lineup for 2017.
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Lucy Gellman |
Mar 30, 2017 12:02 pm
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ECDC members Luis Antonio, Nikki Carrara, Alicia White, Lindsey Bauer, and Tara Lee Burns.
Lindsey Bauer — or maybe it was some version of her former self, or maybe someone else — strode toward a cluster of dancers. She stepped forward. Stepped back. Stepped forward. Kellie Ann Lynch held up a hand and looked at the group, breaking a building tension.
“Do we need a little more up, down?” she asked, her arms swinging as she spoke. Bauer nodded as if to say, yeah, let’s try that. A moment later, she was pushing violently against members of the group — and then she was airborne.
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Daniela Brighenti |
Jul 22, 2016 8:15 am
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Ruel Dixon works as a behavior analyst for Middletown’s public schools. In the afternoons, he gets to change out of his work clothes, put on his large-soled boots and step for what he calls it “the love of the art.”
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Lucy Gellman |
Jun 24, 2016 7:02 am
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In “First Word,” a silent solo that follows Tyondai Braxton‘s “ArpRec1,” acclaimed dancer Wendy Whelan rediscovers her body: Her arms, that have carried so many classical performances, are now unbound. Her long, dextrous torso reaches forward and snaps back. Her legs — how they bend so violently when asked! — delight in new configurations. Even her huge eyes, deeply expressive when they catch the light, convey a profound sort of reeducation. When fellow dancer Brian Brooks joins her onstage for an exercise in impossible synchronicity, it’s all that the audience can do to try to not blink, lest they miss something.
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Lucy Gellman |
Jun 23, 2016 7:07 am
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Whelan and Brooks rehearsing.
Wendy Whelan and Brian Brooks have a message for New Haveners: Reinventing yourself should never stop, and should never feel completely comfortable. For Whelan, who gave her pointe shoes to Brooks sometime after retiring from the New York City Ballet (NYCB) two years ago, that sense of self-renewal is vital — and she wants to share it widely, through movement.
While that phase of her career began long before New Haven, there’s now a chapter of it in the Elm City, where she and Brooks arrived earlier this week to familiarize themselves with and rehearse on the Shubert Theater’s well-loved stage. Thursday and Friday night, they will appear there in the world premiere of Some Of A Thousand Words, a collaboration with the New York-based quartet Brooklyn Rider that takes off where Whelan and Brooks’ 2012 project Restless Creature ended. Where Restless Creature, a series of sketches, was danced to Brooklyn Rider’s take on several 20th-century composers, particularly Phillip Glass, Some Of A Thousand Words includes an original composition from the group’s violinist, who will perform onstage with the duo. The performance takes place as part of the International Festival of Arts & Ideas.
