There are many fabulous events coming up in the next several days, so I want to make sure everybody is in the know:
The Academy of Music is pretty much on fire this weekend. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company will be performing at the Kimmel Center tonight and tomorrow night at 8 pm, as well as tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. Among the pieces they'll be performing is a reinterpretation of Maurice Béjart's difficult and passionate ballet Firebird. Ailey contributed to the American dance world in boundless ways, so I am absolutely psyched to see they way the company uses his technique.
The Academy of Music is pretty much on fire this weekend. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater company will be performing at the Kimmel Center tonight and tomorrow night at 8 pm, as well as tomorrow afternoon at 2 pm. Among the pieces they'll be performing is a reinterpretation of Maurice Béjart's difficult and passionate ballet Firebird. Ailey contributed to the American dance world in boundless ways, so I am absolutely psyched to see they way the company uses his technique.
Also, unless you've been living under a rock for the past several weeks, you must know that Feist will be performing at the Academy on Sunday night at 8 pm. Yes, that would be that buzzing sound that you've heard recently but, as anyone who has listened to her album The Reminder will know, with Feist the hype is definitely well-founded. Her soprano is an intriguing com
bination of haunting, mellow, and angelic that only she could pull off with such flourish. I can't wait to see her live, and you can be certain that a review will follow. Tickets for both performances can be purchased at http://www.kimmelcenter.org/.Also, for the community-arts-oriented, this Sunday from 2-6 pm is the Fairmount Arts Crawl. Artists, poets, and musicians take to the streets in the Fairmount area to engage the public. A list of events can be found on the event website: http://www.fairmountartscrawl.org/.
