Watch Music Director Gianandrea Noseda lead NSO musicians in a program featuring the First Symphony by Joseph Bologne, the first known classical composer of African ancestry. Born the son of an enslaved woman and white plantation owner, Bologne was a violin virtuoso and famed fencer who rose to stardom in Paris during the French Revolution. The concert also includes Sibelius’s heart-wrenching Valse triste and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40.
Our free, online performance series returns with a focus on Cultural Leadership and public healing. Saturday's episode explores the world of Trans Women of Color in the arts. With Trans WoC artists reaching more audiences than ever before—and fatal violence still disproportionately affecting Black and Latinx Trans Women—we now arrive at a moment of reckoning: how do we heal from here?
Art and Trans Liberation with Yasha Lelonek
Our free, online performance series returns with a focus on Cultural Leadership and public healing. Saturday's episode explores the world of Trans Women of Color in the arts. With Trans WoC artists reaching more audiences than ever before—and fatal violence still disproportionately affecting Black and Latinx Trans Women—we now arrive at a moment of reckoning: how do we heal from here?
New Events Now Through June
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New York City Center
ABT Live from City Center | A Ratmansky Celebration
On Demand: March 23 - April 18
In partnership with New York City Center on its digital platform, Kennedy Center patrons can enjoy an on-demand film screening of American Ballet Theatre performing celebrated works by choreographer Alexei Ratmansky, including a World Premiere.
Family Dance Workshop: Tap with Quynn Johnson
Sat. Apr. 17, 2021 10a.m.
This digital event is FREE and will take place via Zoom, but advance registration is required. Registration is open until April 16 at 3 p.m. All registrants will receive instructions on how to access the digital workshop via email on April 16.
MAY 4 - OCT. 12, 2021
Kennedy Center Artistic Director for Jazz Jason Moran hosts a virtual book club examining themes of music, history, culture, and the performing arts through literature. Join engaging panel conversations featuring Grammy Award®-winning NEA Jazz Master vocalist Dianne Reeves, jazz saxophonist Mark Turner, poet and cultural advocate Elizabeth Alexander, and many more.
In a unique ceremony befitting our times, we will celebrate these legends of music, dance, theater, and film.
Watch a special playlist curated by arts philanthropist Adrienne Arsht on the theme of a Celebration of Women, including performances by Cynthia Erivo, Sara Bareilles, and Misty Copeland.
The Montgomery County Senior Honors Jazz Band, comprised of music students from public high schools in Montgomery County, MD, and the Battlefield Philharmonia Orchestra, from Battlefield High School in Haymarket, VA, performed as part of Music in Our Schools Month (MIOSM).
Experience Beethoven’s Fidelio reimagined in a musical graphic novel format, just in time for his 250th anniversary.
It's been one year since people from around the world first joined Mo Willems for Lunch Doodles. To mark this significant moment, Mo and the Kennedy Center are releasing Episode 00 as a way back into the series.
Watch Mozart's comic opera The Marriage of Figaro.
Join us for episode 2 of our new podcast series, this time featuring CNN commentator and New York Times best-selling author Van Jones in conversation with arts leaders on the topics of incarceration, law, and politics, and the role of arts and culture in freedom design.
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At the Kennedy Center, we strive to engage and uplift all learners through quality arts education—in ways that spark curiosity, build empathy, and embolden citizen artistry.
During this unprecedented year of learning, the Kennedy Center is focusing on developing digital education resources to ensure that students continue to have access to high quality arts education.
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