National Gallery of Art

Admission free; first-come, first-seated, beginning at 6:00 pm

Bowen McCauley Dance collaborates with the Alexandria Symphony Orchestra and ASO Music Director, Kim Allen Kluge for a tribute to Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps.

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Stravinsky: Rite of Spring
Honoring the exhibition Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes, 1909–1929: When Art Danced with Music, and marking the 100th anniversary of the first performance of Rite of Spring

Move Me Festival

Join us for our 4th Annual Move Me Festival, a FREE community event celebrating arts and culture.

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Move Me Festival
A day of wellness, fitness, and fun for all ages!

FREE ADMISSION
Saturday, April 27
2:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Kenmore Middle School

Join honorary festival hosts Senator Barbara Favola and WUSA9 anchor Anita Brickman and more than a dozen festival partners for exciting activities and performances throughout the day including Main Stage performers:

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In keeping with her commitment to collaborations and live musical accompaniment, artistic director and choreographer, Lucy Bowen McCauley unites Alan Paul of Shakespeare Theatre, The Witkowski Piano Duo, Italian virtuoso saxophonist Gaetano Di Bacco, and a host of accomplished musicians. Read more.

BMD celebrates the centennial anniversary of Le Sacre du Printemps (Rite of Spring) with an interpretation The Washington Post called McCauley’s, “strongest work to date…muscular, theatrically arresting.”

The company also performs to newly commissioned scores by Larry Alan Smith - Before the Fall, a ballet based of the story of Humpty Dumpty, danced by The Maryland Youth Ballet – and New York composer Patrick Soluri - Fire and Air, a theatrical reimagining of Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra, featuring a rare performance by Lucy Bowen McCauley.

Join us for a night of dance, music & celebration.

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Terrace Theater

Friday, April 5, 2013
Concert 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, April 6, 2013
Concert 7:30 p.m. – Soiree 9:30 p.m.
The Kennedy Center Roof Terrace Restaurant
Dancing – Drinks & Dessert with the Artists – Silent Auction
Guest List at Door – Cocktail Attire

Tickets are available through The Kennedy Center Box Office. If you would like to make a reservation for our Soiree event on Saturday, April 6, please call the office at 703-910-5175 (ext. 102).

Arts Club of Washington

Friday, March 22, 2013
6:30 p.m.

This is an Arts Club members-only event. For more information on how to become a member, click here.

Atlas Intersections Festival
Atlas Performing Arts Center

Friday, March 1, 2013
10:00 p.m.

Tickets: $20, $15 students/seniors
Tickets on sale now!

Join BMD at the Atlas Intersections Festival for an evening of dance, entertainment, and fun! Presented as part of INTERSECTIONS at the Atlas Performing Arts Center, Feb 22 – Mar 10, 2013, this program features Lucy’s Local Playlist, a contemporary dance performance inspired by the music of ten Greater Washington, DC local bands/artists.

Experience the music of Jason Moore, Imperial China, Cobra Collective, Derek Evry, DC Traffic, Taylor Carson, Sweet Interference, Crowd Scene, TONE and Godfather of Go-go, Chuck Brown, as the playlist for a chorographically diverse, high-energy concert.  Look out for the final extended play — Half Brother will play live for the show’s finale. Have a great night out of music and dance.

Major support for INTERSECTIONS provided by the FIRE Fund of The Community Foundation of the National Capital Region, designed to promote interracial understanding and collaboration.

Experience the music of Jason Moore, Imperial China, Cobra Collective, Derek Evry, DC Traffic, Taylor Carson, Sweet Interference, Crowd Scene, TONE and Godfather of Go-go, Chuck Brown, as the playlist for a chorographically diverse, high-energy concert.  Look out for the final extended play — Half Brother will play live for the show’s finale. Have a great night out of music and dance.

The evening continues as the BMD dancers make their way to the neighborhood scene which includes 15% off your tab at TruOrleans with your ticket stub and enjoy their famous Truicane – Soco Hurricane.

We talked with Karen Vasquez, Director of Cultural Affairs, Director for Arlington County, about the state of arts in the county and the role BMD Artistic Director Lucy Bowen McCauley plays in successfully bridging the arts and business worlds in Arlington.

Q: Karen, tell us about the role the arts has played in Arlington.
Arlington has been at the forefront of support for the arts since it launched its art incubator program in 1990. It was a groundbreaking model that suggested that in addition to financial support, arts groups need space and supportive services to thrive. It allowed for arts organizations to take root in Arlington and grow. Now we have fertile ground with organizations such as BMD, Signature Theatre, Synetic Theatre, and Washington Shakespeare Theatre that have had not only longevity as institutions, but also were able to be supported in a single community.

Arlington’s Cultural Affairs Program recently moved to economic development from parks and recreation and you were named director of cultural affairs. What are your goals?

The first focus is artistic sustainability. In other words, what do we need to do to help local arts organizations to grow and stabilize? How do we help them create functional and effective boards of directors? How do we help them make ties to the business community and develop better fundraising and development capacity? If we can help them here, they can focus their energies on their artistic enterprises.

Then, I hope to help integrate the arts through our Arlington neighborhoods and communities. We want businesses and individuals to say, “I want to live here. I want my business to locate here.”

What’s the economic climate like in 2013?

These are tough times and it’s a tight budget year with significant budget gaps to fill. The arts tend to have a target on their back. But Arlington has consistently supported the arts. We hope our leadership and community continue to support the arts, and recognize that even if you don’t go to an arts performance regularly, you understand why it is important to our community and our economy — locally and regionally.

Q: Lucy has been active in Arlington business as well as the arts. How important is that?

I used to serve on the board for BMD and during my tenure there I saw Lucy “take off” in embracing Arlington as a community. BMD does not have a home theatre, and in some ways that has helped them tour and build audiences. While BMD has office space in Ballston (thanks to the relationship Lucy developed with John Shooshan of the Shooshan Companies who owns the building), they don’t have a physical space to call home.

Lucy lives in Arlington and loves the community. She took key steps to show BMD’s commitment to Arlington and developed a strategy to remind businesses what an asset BMD is to the community. She is a graduate of Leadership Arlington; she and Executive Director, Ricki Marion, recruited more board members from the business community; and Lucy developed relationships with the local real estate development community. Recently Lucy was appointed to both the Arlington Economic Development Commission and the Arlington Chamber of Commerce.

Lucy is willing to go out of the comfort zone of a lot of artistic directors. She is very practically minded and smart. I give her tremendous kudos — I watched her outreach to the business community strengthen her company and allow her to do even more interesting work artistically. Lucy is held up as a model — and a role model — for arts organizations in Arlington, and that’s absolutely well-deserved.