In To and Out Of: Choreography by Ann Sofie Clemmensen
10/19/2019 at 6:00 PM

This performance takes place at the REACH.  Please meet in the Welcome Pavilion at 6:00pm.

Featuring 20 dancers in all, this three-part experience transports audiences through different spaces of the REACH, using the unique characteristics of each location to explore concepts in pattern and timing, light and dark, and limitation and transformation.


Presented as a part of the Local Dance Commissioning Project.

In To and Out Of: Choreography by Ann Sofie Clemmensen
10/18/2019 at 6:00 PM

This performance takes place at the REACH.  Please meet in the Welcome Pavilion at 6:00pm.  

Featuring 20 dancers in all, this three-part experience transports audiences through different spaces of the REACH, using the unique characteristics of each location to explore concepts in pattern and timing, light and dark, and limitation and transformation.


Presented as a part of the Local Dance Commissioning Project.

Rolanda Carter: Letter to the Lovers
10/17/2019 at 6:00 PM

A “Letter To The Lovers” is a collection of original songs that
express the joys, hurts, challenges and victories that come with
loving in a world that so desperately needs it.

Hector Coco Barez
10/16/2019 at 6:00 PM

Come experience Puerto Rican Bomba through the vision of Hector "Coco" Barez. A journey across an intriguing musical maze that will make you travel between pass and present times quickening your pulse and leaves you asking for more.

Latvian Voices: The Power of Latvian Song
10/15/2019 at 6:00 PM

An award-winning all-female a cappella group from Latvia, present a repertoire of vocal harmonies ranging from traditional Latvian folk songs to their own original compositions, to compositions by contemporary Latvian composers. With their voices as the only musical instrument, Latvian Voices have developed a unique individual vocal style, in which intonations from ethnic music of many nations intertwine.


Presented in collaboration with the Embassy of Latvia.

Sihasin 
10/14/2019 at 6:00 PM

Join the Kennedy Center in recognition of Indigenous People’s Day with a performance by Sihasin – A Navajo word that means Hope and Asssurance, the group’s sound blends bass, drums, and vocal harmonies that leaves you with a feeling of Get Up, Stand Up, use your voice and DO!
 

Combo Lulo
10/13/2019 at 6:00 PM

The Brooklyn based tropical supergroup, brings their singular blend of Latin and Afro Caribbean styles to the Kennedy Center for a special performance. Expect a mix of ritmo, riddim and a whole lot of dancing from the very first downbeat.


Presented in collaboration with the Multiflora Festival.

NSO Prelude
10/12/2019 at 6:00 PM

Members of the National Symphony Orchestra play chamber works.

Nick Blaemire
10/11/2019 at 6:00 PM

Washington DC native Nick Blaemire (FALSETTOS at the Kennedy Center, GLORY DAYS at Signature Theater) leads a group of 15 students from Duke Ellington School of the Arts in a performance of their original musical theater work.


Presented as a part of  ASCAP Musical Theater Week.

Cheeyang & Eric, Live at Kennedy Center
10/10/2019 at 6:00 PM

Cheeyang Ng and Eric Sorrels share excerpts from the musicals they are developing, including songs from The Golden Threshold (Hypokrit Theatre, Live & In Color) and Only Us (Drama League Residency).


Presented as a part of  ASCAP Musical Theater Week.

Ben Bonnema & Christopher Staskel
10/9/2019 at 6:00 PM

Musical theatre writers Ben Bonnema and Christopher Staskel share songs from ONE WAY, their new show—inspired by true events—about a woman who must choose between going on the first one-way mission to Mars or staying on Earth with the woman she loves. There will be a brief hiatus in which Ben and Chris sing about cats, pirates, and barbershop quartets.


Presented as a part of  ASCAP Musical Theater Week.

Liz Suggs
10/8/2019 at 6:00 PM

ASCAP presents Liz Suggs, winner of the Mary Rodgers/Lorenz Hart Award, television writer on Netflix’s Disenchantment,
and lyricist and book writer of the musical comedies One Good Day, Real Hard Math, and many other works featuring dear composers and friends in this evening’s musical celebration of time, expectation, adversity, and hope.


Presented as a part of  ASCAP Musical Theater Week.

Songs from THE HELLO GIRLS
10/7/2019 at 6:00 PM

Featuring a critically-acclaimed score by ASCAP member Peter Mills, THE HELLO GIRLS tells the story of the groundbreaking women who served as the first soldiers in the U.S. Army, during World War I. Members of Prospect Theater Company's original Off-Broadway cast re-unite for this concert of selected songs from the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award-nominated musical.


Presented as a part of  ASCAP Musical Theater Week. 

Words Beats and Life Fest: Freshest of all time
10/6/2019 at 6:00 PM

It’s the BIGGEST day of the WBL Festival! The Fine Lines Paint Jam and Freshest of All Time: Breaking and House Jam from 12pm-7pm. DJ Fleg is providing the evening’s soundtrack while a cash prize awaits the winners of the 2v2 breaking jam and 2v2 house jam.

Presented as a part of the Words Beats & Life Festival

Words, Beats, and Life Fest: We got Now
10/5/2019 at 6:00 PM

Join We Got Now, featuring the WBL Aged Out Ensemble. Hear what some of the District’s most important and impactful young adult poets really have to say about life and living.

Featuring: 

Morgan Butler, Carolyn 'Cici' Felton, Lauren May, Carlynn Newhouse, Lauryn Nesbitt and Shayla Brenee Johnson

Presented as a part of the Words Beats & Life Festival.

 

Latina Queens
10/4/2019 at 6:00 PM

Catch Pinqy Ring (https://pinqyring.com), a Chicago-born Puerto Rican MC, and Audry Funk (http://www.audryfunk.com), a Mexican-born MC, in concert at Latina Queens. Both women rap about their lives and the realities of being a Latina in the United States at this difficult moment in our nation’s history.


Presented as a part of the Words Beats & Life Festival.

2020 DC Youth Poet Laureate
10/3/2019 at 6:00 PM

Witness the announcement of the 2020 DC Youth Poet Laureate at the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage featuring youth spoken word performances from the tournament’s remaining 10 finalists. The winner will represent the city as DC’s newest Youth Poet Laureate, publish a book, tour every Busboys and Poets location during to celebrate National Poetry Month, and so much more!


Presented as a part of the Words Beats & Life Festival.

Grazyna Auguscik, Maria Pomianowska, and Jaroslaw Bester
10/2/2019 at 6:00 PM

Jazz and folk about Moniuszko by Maria Pomianowska with Grazyna Auguscik and Jaroslaw Bester on the Millennium Stage - Kennedy Center, October 2, 2019

Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Culture Promotion Fund.  Presented in collaboration with the Foundation Culture and Art Beyond Borders and with the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Washington DC. 

Fidel Nadal & Mr. Pauer
10/1/2019 at 6:00 PM

Argentinean reggae star Fidel Nadal meets Miami-based producer Mr. Pauer for a new live collaboration, revisiting Nadal’s 30-year career and new tracks created by the two artists. 

SINTESIS
9/30/2019 at 6:00 PM

SINTESIS is one of the classics of Cuban fusion music, to which its authors endowed an originality based on the fusion for the first time of Afro-Cuban ritual music with contemporary music