The Music Center Offstage
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OT me wona s most presug1ous oauet ana comemporary oance arusts. The Music Center's Artivities: This series will include at-home workshops by Music Center Teaching Artists, including Grueschow, Okimura and more, where participants learn and engage with many different art forms. Additionally, the site will offer performances by The Music Center on Tour and other local artists who introduce audiences to the world's diverse cultural traditions while inspiring creative thinking. Special Events: While other programs on The Music Center Offstage offer on-demand entertainment this series will feature scheduled special events such as Grand Park's Our L.A. Voices and the virtual performance of The Music Center's 32nd annual Spotlight Grand Finale. Details to be announced.
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The Music Center's Digital Dance Experience Debuts Premiering Sunday, April 19, 2020 at 2:00 p.m., INSIDE LOOK: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch Offers Exclusive Interview with German Set Designer Peter Pabst About His Collaboration wi th the Legendary Pina Bausch, Plus Online Access to Watch Her Neoexpressionist Masterpiece, Palermo Palermo (Los Angeles) - The Music Center launches a new virtual platform, The Music Center Offstage, offering an insider look into the world of the arts featuring exclusive interviews and compelling performances with international leaders in the dance community, plus interacti ve programs hosted by LA -based artists and online workshops appropriate for all ages. W ith newly curated presentations for at-home entertainment, including some in Spanish, The Mus ic Center Offstage will add new content weekly, available on both demand as well as scheduled events, at: musiccenter.org
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Lynn Okimura Teaches Drawing Starring Her Cat Cosmo Dance fans will get to experience Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch's Palermo Palermo online with rare insight on Sunday, April 19, 2020, at 2:00 p.m. with The Music Center's Digital Dance Experience and a special event called INSIDE LOOK: Tantztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. This program features an exclusive interview with Peter Pabst, a frequent collaborator with Pina Bausch and set designer of Palermo Palermo, plus the opportunity to watch the full ballet known for its dichotomy of grim horror and surreal humor. The interview wi ll discuss the inner-workings and inspiration of Bausch, a trailblazing choreographer, and Pabst's close working relationship with her that led to some of the most creative, theatrical and dynamic presentations available in the dance canon. The Music Center's Digital Dance Exper ience will offer new opportuniti es to experience the best of dance from around the globe and right here at home.
INSIDE LOOK: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch "The Music Center is a cultural hub for our county and is blessed with iconic spaces, and today we look forward to producing new and exciting programming exclusively for our 'sixth' venue-T he Music Center Offstage/ said Rachel S. Moore, presi dent and CEO, The Music Center. "'Nhile we may be physically distant, the arts can help us become more connected, so we're offering virtual performances and activities to help renew our soul as a community. Now more than ever, we need to look for light and beauty, so we hope you'll join us online, both during this 'intermission' and into the future.ďż˝ With the mission to deepen the cultural lives of everyAngeleno through multidisciplinary arts experiences, The Mus ic Center's new platform continues to share the healing power of the arts through online formats. The Music Center Offstage will have three main themed-sections of programming:
The Mus ic Center's Digital Dance Experience: This series will provide new ways to enjoy some of the best of dance from interactive events to a look behind-the-scenes at The Music Center's presentations, past, present and future.
With INSIDE LOOK, which evolved from the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center series, dance lovers now have the opportunity to enjoy and engage with significant works from some of the world's most prestigious ballet and contemporary dance artists. The Mus ic Center'sArtivities: This series will include at-home workshops by Music Center TeachingArti sts, including Grueschow, Okimura and more, where participants learn and engage with many different art forms. Additionally, the site will offer performances by The Music Center on Tour and other local arti sts who introduce audiences to the world's diverse cultural traditions while inspiring creative thinking. Special Events: While other programs on The Music Center Offstage offer on-demand entertainment, this series will feature scheduled special events such as Grand Park's Our L. A. Voices and the virtual performance of The Music Center's 32nd annual Spotlight Grand Finale. Details to be announced. About The Music Center The Mus ic Center convenes artists, communities and ideas with the goal of deepening the cultural lives of every resident in LosAngeles County. The non-profit performing arts organization has two divisions: TMC Arts and TMC Ops. TMCArts, The Music Center's programming engine, provides year-round programming inside The Mus ic Center's four theatres, on The Music Center Plaza, outside at Grand Park-a 12-acre adjacent green space-and in schools and other locations all over LosAngeles County and online. TMCArts presents world-class dance with Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at The Music Center, free and lowÂ
cost public concerts and events, as well as K-12 arts education programs. TMC Ops manages the theatres, the
p laza and Grand Park on behalf of the County of LosAngeles. The Music Center is also home to four renowned resident companies-Center Theatre Group, LosAngeles Master Chorale, LA Opera and LA Phil. Press Release Via: The Music Center Related Coverage: The Music Center Exceeds S2.7 Mill ion In Funding For Plaza Capital Costs And TMC Arts Fund Martin Wechsler Brings Joyce Theater Experience To Dance Programming At The Music Center
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THE MUSIC CENTER CONTINUES TO ENRICH LOS ANGELES VIA ITS NEW VIRTUAL PLATFOR M "THE MUSIC CENTER OFFSTAGEH Posted by Jeff S layton I Apr 20. 2020
PS the weeks and months of California's Shelter-In-Place order brought on by the COVID-19 outbreak around the globe, ind1V1dual arti sts. educators. arts institutions and performance venues are inven ting unique methods of reaching. educating and yes. entertaining those of us wtio need and love what they provide. S(hools are continuing to educate students online, dancers are taking Ballet Tap, Contemporary. Flamenco, Hip Hop, Bollywood and Pilates classes Via ZOOM or Facebook and lnstagram Livestream. Dance and film makers are offering ways to stay creative and stay connected while still observing physical distancing. You can go to L.AOCs website to see a list of online classes and learn about dance on film proJects such as Shut In Dance Fest and Dare 2 DanceFilm FestivaI·s Six Foor Distance Dances. On Sunday, April 19. 2020, The Music Center, which has long been considered one of Los Angeles' cultural hubs, launched The Music center Offstage, a virtual arts experience that offers ·an insider look into the world of the arts featuring exclusive interviews and compelling performance with in ternational leader in the dance community. plus interactive programs hosted by LA-based ani st and online workshops appropriate for all ages. With newly curated presentations for at-home emertaInment. including some in Spamsh.· - The MuslC Center Press Release April 17, 2020.
'Nhile joining the growing online activites was a team effort at The Music Center, one of The MUSIC CenterOffstage's main themed programs. Inside Look. was initiated by Senior Advisor for Dance Presentati ons, Martin Wechsler. Tanztheoter WUppertal Pino Bausch (presented on Sunday. April 19th) offered an exclusive interview with German Set Designer Peter Pabst on his working relationship with the world ren◊'Nn choreographer Pina Bausch. Th is exciting debut also included an oppen.unity to view Bausch's Neoexpressionist Masterpiece. Palermo Palermo. Also offered on The Music Centers d igital platform are on-demand mteracti ve workshops led by master teaching arti sts and presentations by local Music Center on Tour artists. New contents Will be added weekly for both on-demand and scheduled presentations Available today are The Mus1C Center's Art1vicies. featuri ng two "how-to· workshops led by Music Center Teaching Artists, Andrew Grueschow. a percussionist and faculty mem ber at CalArts, hosts "Making Rh ythms.· an interactive discovery of creating rhythmic compositions by utilizi ng household items and hand clapping. Animation and visual arts specialist. Lynn Okimura demonstrates how one can develop and learn to draw their own characters 1n "Character Design Turnaround:
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