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From our friends at Halcyon Stage...
Introducing Halcyon Stage!
Halcyon Stage, a bold new performance series providing a platform that spotlights traditional arts with a twist, is set to launch this month. A New Creatives Conversation with Misty Copeland at Halcyon House on January 23 marks the official launch of Halcyon Stage, and presents the international ballet star in an intimate, no-holds barred conversation with Artistic Director Septime Webre.
“From innovative performances and unexpected conversations to immersive experiences, we are thrilled to launch Halcyon Stage, designed to establish deep connections with audiences,” according to Webre. “We have curated an array of programs that is both eclectic and electric, providing a pure celebration of creativity in our modern world."
Celebrating artistic experimentation and change, Halcyon Stage will offer a fusion of innovative performances, transformative conversations, and experiences that push past traditional boundaries and limitations. Operating from a home base of Halcyon House in Georgetown, but extending across the city to Dock 5 at Union Market, through a partnership with Edens, Halcyon Stage will challenge cultural connoisseurs with daring explorations of what defines creativity, embracing what’s new, unorthodox and extraordinary. Additional partnerships have been forged with Politics & Prose and Wolf Trap.
“Through Halcyon Stage we are building a solid foundation of partnerships throughout the community, bringing imaginative and innovative programming to audiences across the District, as we celebrate creativity across genres,” said Sachiko Kuno, CEO and President, S&R.
The programs under the Halcyon Stage umbrella include:
• New Creatives Conversations, an interactive series of dialogues with some of the most intriguing influencers of our time.
• Halcyon Stage Book Party in Partnership with Politics & Prose series invites celebrated authors to discuss their work in an intimate social setting.
• Halcyon Stage @ Dock 5 is a partnership with Edens and Union Market to create community and spread creativity across DC, offering performances in unorthodox settings and immersive experiences throughout our city.
• Halcyon Stage Cabaret is sometimes bawdy, sometimes naughty and always thoughtful, intimate and intriguing.
• Halcyon Stage Pop-Up @ Union Market is a series of free pop-up concerts and events designed to allow audiences to find beauty in unexpected places, activating the Union Market and its surrounds with an artistic spirit and filling it with a sense of community.
• Halcyon Stage House Party is part of Halcyon Stage’s Hip-Hop Initiative, which includes the commissioning and presentation of internationally-recognized artists performing around a curated theme, and also an eight-week series of free workshops for youth in Southeast Washington DC who gain skills in the creation of hip-hop music, create their own original music and rhymes, and record a new mixtape exploring their own personal “visions of the future.”
Webre left The Washington Ballet after 17 years, during which time TWB increased its profile and impact regionally, nationally and internationally. He led growth and expansion in both excellence and bold creativity, with projects including a “trippy” ALICE (In Wonderland); the “American Experience,” featuring original full-length ballets based on iconic works of American literature, and the pursuit of full-length original classic works including Swan Lake, a significant milestone that secured TWB’s position as a major international player in the dance world. Under his direction, The Washington School of Ballet’s enrollment has tripled and the organization’s commitment to community through its visionary DanceDC and TWB@THEARC programs has positively affected the lives of tens of thousands of children in the District of Columbia.
Tickets are now available for all Halcyon Stage programming, and the full Spring schedule is found below (full event descriptions are found at http://halcyonstage.org/).
Halcyon Stage Spring 2017 Program Schedule
What: New Creatives Conversations: An Evening with Misty Copeland
Date: Monday, January 23
Time: 6:30 PM Doors Open / 7:00 PM Conversation / 8:00 PM Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $30, general seating
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer and international ballet star Misty Copeland sits down with Artistic Director Septime Webre for an intimate no-holds-barred conversation about life, art, international product endorsements, race and the gritty and glamorous world of ballet.
What: New Creatives Conversations: An Evening with Culinary Luminary Claus Meyer
Date: Thursday, March 2
Time: 6:30 PM Doors Open / 7:00 PM Conversation Begins / 8:00 PM Meet-the-Chef Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $30, general seating
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Join one of the world’s most celebrated chefs for a lively conversational throw-down about food. Claus Meyer takes DC by storm to talk turkey about food in the modern world.
This program is presented in partnership with The Danish Embassy
What: Halcyon Stage Book Party in Partnership with Politics & Prose: Camille Paglia
Date: Tuesday, March 14
Time: 7:00 PM Conversation / 8:00 PM Meet-the-Author Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $35 one ticket and one book; $45 two tickets and one book
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Cultural thinker and general rabble-rouser Camille Paglia discusses her new book Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism, a brilliant collection of essays that celebrates and challenges modern feminism - from motherhood to Madonna, football to Friedan, stilettos to Steinem.
What: Halcyon Stage @ Dock 5: Stravinsky Rave / Rite of Spring Dance Party / Experiential Orchestra
Date: Saturday, March 18
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open / 8:30 PM Performance / 10:00 PM DJ Set
Location: Dock 5 @ Union Market
Tickets: $40, general admission
Parking: Complimentary self-parking available in the Union Market lot, accessible via 6th Street, NE
Suggested Attire: Revolutionary
Description: Feel the pulse of revolution in a full orchestra performance of Stravinsky’s iconic Rite of Spring. Halcyon partners with The Experiential Orchestra and conductor James Blachly to bring a classical music rave to Dock 5 @ Union Market. Audience members are invited to dance and experience the physicality of this famously riot-inducing ballet. Curated DJ sets blending electronica and classical styles complete a night of shock, awe and musical rebellion.
What: Halcyon Stage House Party: Visions of The Future
Date: Saturday, April 8
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open / 8:30PM Show / 9:30 PM Meet-the-Artist Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $40
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Halcyon partners with the DC-based Guerilla Arts for an evening of progressive hip-hop centered around the theme, “Visions of the Future,” led by Gabriel ‘Asheru’ Benn and Halcyon Fellow, Konshens the MC. Expect a charged house party atmosphere of fresh beats and poetry that provokes conversation about the complex challenges in our society. Also featuring DC hip-hop luminaries Kokayi and Maimouna Youssef.
What: Halcyon Stage Cabaret: E. Faye Butler/ Four Women
Date: Saturday, April 15
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open / 8:30 Performance
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $60, general seating
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Vocal powerhouse E. Faye Butler blows the roof off of Halcyon House as she tackles a sexy, edgy explosion of songs associated with some of history’s strong women such as Etta James, Aretha Franklin, and more.
What: Halcyon Stage Cabaret: Ari Shapiro / HOMEWARD
Date: Saturday, April 22
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open / 8:30 PM Performance / 9:30 PM Meet-the-Artist Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $60, general seating
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: As a reporter, NPR’s All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro has witnessed wars and revolutions. Inspired by his experiences around the globe, Shapiro sings the songs of upheaval, patriotism and hope, from places that are less far away than they seem.
What: Halcyon Incubator Beer Garden
Date: Wednesday, April 25
Time: 7:00 PM Conversation/ 8:00 Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $20
Parking: Complimentary Valet
Description: At the Halcyon Incubator Beer Garden we’ll spend the evening hearing from some of the most impressive startups and innovators, as they discuss how the world’s challenges are imminently solvable. From Facebook to Uber, and Shark Tank to Silicon Valley, there has never been a greater cultural zeitgeist around startups and innovation - we, as humans, are captivated by the innovators who create the world of tomorrow, today. Right here in Washington DC, an upstart group of social entrepreneurs at Halcyon Incubator are creating the next generation of game-changing startups focused on some of the most vexing problems in our community.
What: Halcyon Stage Book Party in Partnership with Politics & Prose: John Waters
Date: Friday, April 28
Time: 7:00 PM Conversation / 8:00 PM Meet-the-Author Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $30 for one admission + one book
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Iconic cult film director John Waters shares juicy advice with his new book, Making Trouble. With just enough time before college graduates must leave the college scene and embark on their journey into the real world, Waters offers some noteworthy advice to remember the, “value in embracing chaos and weirdness.” These are two things this director of Pink Flamingoes and Hairspray knows well. In his words Waters quips, “I hope this little book will become the best graduation gift for parents to their children who have been driving them crazy.”
What: Halcyon Stage Cabaret: Joey Arias Channels Billie Holiday
Date: Saturday, April 29
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open/8:30 PM Performance / 9:30 Meet-the-Artist Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $60
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: For this singular performance, New York vocalist and performance artist Joey Arias channels the trailblazing vocalist and jazz legend Billie Holiday in a spectacle of old–Hollywood glamour in a centennial celebration of the songstress’ birthday.
What: Halcyon Stage @ Dock 5: BalletX performing to music of Amy Winehouse & Indie-rock band Beirut
Date: Saturday, May 13
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open / 8:30 PM Performance / 10:00 PM DJ Set and Meet-the-Artist Dance Party
Location: Dock 5 @ Union Market
Tickets: $40, general seating
Parking: Complimentary self-parking available in the Union Market lot, accessible via 6th Street, NE
Suggested Attire: Indie-rock chic
Description: Philly-based BalletX, one of the nation’s most intriguing contemporary ballet companies, presents an astonishing evening of dances by rebrands Trey McIntyre and Matthew Neenan set to the music of Amy Winehouse and the indie-rock band Beirut.
What: Halcyon Stage Pop-Up @ Union Market: Explosive Ballet & Beirut
Date: Sunday, May 14
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Union Market and its surrounds
Tickets: FREE
Parking: Complimentary self-park available in Union Market lot, accessible via 6th Street, NE
Description: Join us at Union Market for an explosion of creativity in unexpected settings, as Philly-based BalletX, one of America’s most interesting dance companies, performs a series of short pop-up dance performances throughout the Union Market campus over a two-hour period. Meet in front of Union Market at noon to receive your map and marching orders, and begin a scavenger hunt-like musical experience. Enjoy a series of breathtaking contemporary dances set to the music of celebrated indie-rock band Beirut.
What: Yoko K. & Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities present Pre-22nd Century Nostalgia Mars Pop
Date: Saturday, June 3
Time: 8:00 PM Doors Open / 8:30 PM Performance / 9:30 PM Meet-the-Artist Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $40, general seating
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Halcyon Fellow and Artist Yoko K., and Aliens of Extraordinary Abilities present an immersive, interactive evening of live electronic music and video art that engages the audience to imagine what our shared future looks, sounds, and feels like.
The performance is made possible by the grant provided by Washington, DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.
What: Lembit Beecher and The Aizuri Quartet
Date: Friday, June 9
Time: 7:30 PM performance / 8:30 PM Meet-the-Artist Reception
Location: Halcyon House
Tickets: $60, general seating
Parking: Complimentary valet parking
Description: Fusing contemporary composition with precision engineering, winner of the Washington Award Grand Prize, composer Lembit Beecher, presents works from his interdisciplinary opera, To Hide in a Tree of Sound, for string quartet, soprano, and innovative - or “one-of-a-kind” - sound generating sculptures. Beecher performs accompanied by rising stars, The Aizuri Quartet.
What: Halcyon Stage Pop-Up @ Union Market: Classical Chamber Music and Wolf Trap Opera
Date: Saturday, June 10
Time: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Throughout Union Market
Tickets: FREE
Parking: Complimentary self-parking available in the Union Market lot, accessible via 6th Street, NE
Description: Join us at Union Market for a surprising and sublime two-hour series of twenty short opera and chamber music pop-ups by the Wolf Trap Opera and The Experiential Orchestra. Meet in front of Union Market at noon to receive your map and marching orders, and then begin your scavenger hunt-style wander, enjoying masterworks from the opera and chamber music repertoire while exploring one of the hippest areas of town.
What: Halcyon Stage @Dock 5: Wolf Trap Opera in Philip Glass’s Fall of the House of Usher based on the Edgar Allan Poe tale
Date: Saturday, June 17
Time: 8:00 Doors Open / 8:30 Performance / 10:00 Meet-the-Artist Reception
Location: Dock 5 @ Union Market
Tickets: $40
Parking: Complimentary self-parking available in the Union Market lot, accessible via 6th Street, NE
Suggested Attire: Poe/Punk
Description: This new, one-night-only production directed by Septime Webre features singers from Wolf Trap Opera and dancers from DC’s CityDance in a gothic tale based on the masterwork by Edgar Allan Poe and composed by modern master Philip Glass. Roderick Usher, the reclusive heir to the Usher fortune, resides with his ill twin sister in their decaying ancestral home. When Roderick’s old friend visits, relationships are tested and secrets are unearthed.
