CityDance POP! is offering online Adult Dance Classes via Zoom! This intermediate level jazz class taught by Maurice Johnson will include styles from Street Jazz and Contemporary to Broadway Jazz.

Join us for this 6 week session of LIVE Virtual Jazz Class for adults. 

Virtual Jazz 6 Week Session (9/24-10/29) | 6:30-7:30pm

“Drop In” for only $15/class.  (Registration window closes 15 minutes upon the start of class.)

9/24 Drop in 6:30-7:30pm Jazz
10/1 Drop in 6:30-7:30pm Jazz
10/8 Drop in 6:30-7:30pm Jazz
10/15 Drop in 6:30-7:30pm Jazz
10/22 Drop in 6:30-7:30pm Jazz
10/29 Drop in 6:30-7:30pm Jazz

See the full Virtual Adult Dance class schedule here. Learn the foundations of ballet, contemporary, jazz and hip hop from CityDance’s esteemed teaching faculty! 

Join Objects Conservator Leah Bright for a lively conversation on the unique conservation challenges behind preserving the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s collection of folk and self-taught art. Often composed of unconventional materials like plastic, tin foil, glitter, and bottle caps, the collection requires a nuanced conservation approach. Discover compelling stories behind the works, including James Hampton’s The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations’ Millennium General Assembly, SAAM’s remarkable quilt collection, and Simon Sparrow’s glittery Assemblage with Found Objects.

In partnership with Center Theatre Group on its Digital Stage platform, The Kennedy Center presents an on-demand film screening of celebrated British choreographer Matthew Bourne’s acclaimed The Car Man.

The Car Man is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows and a signature production for Matthew Bourne’s company New Adventures. First seen in 2000, when it won the Evening Standard Award for “Musical Event of the Year”, it has proved to be a smash-hit in the UK and around the world. This recording for Sky Arts was made at Sadler’s Wells during the production’s most recent revival.

The Car Man is loosely based on Bizet’s popular opera Carmen and has one of the most instantly recognizable scores in New Adventures’ repertory, brilliantly arranged by Terry Davies. The familiar 19th-century Spanish cigarette factory of the opera becomes a greasy garage-diner in the American mid-west of the 1960s. The arrival of a handsome stranger disturbs the dreams and passions of those who live and work there. Fuelled by heat and desire, the townsfolk are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge. Lez Brotherston’s epic design and Chris Davey’s evocative lighting perfectly complement Matthew Bourne’s vivid choreographic storytelling, which draws on a wealth of cinematic references. Together with the glorious dancing of a wonderful cast, they create a delightful, dangerous and ultimately uncompromising vision of small-town America.

Children Take a Journey Through the Musical Brain—Riding on the Rhythms of Go-Go

Finding Rhythm: A Journey Through The Musical Brain is a children’s musical that fuses brain science with an original score inspired by Washington DC’s Go-Go music. A Growing Brains Production featuring D.C. artists, Finding Rhythm gets children to listen, move their bodies, and sing in call and response. At the same time, the whole family learns how rhythm grows the brain!

The Story

In the beginning, there was a rhythm. Mother Dance shows us how this rhythm grew in Africa, and why the original rhythm helps us move together, and know where we come from. Father Dance teaches us how the rhythm traveled through Latin America to D.C. and became go-go music. He teaches children where to look to find their own rhythm and to find true connection. Along with their friend, the Scientist/Narrator, they teach us that rhythm grows the brain! And when we allow children to find rhythm and grow their own brains, they discover the source of their power.

Musical Preview

Join us for the preview of our upcoming children’s album, Finding Rhythm! This event will be an interactive, Livestream listening party and the release of our new single, plus a live conversation with the full cast! Children will participate in the world premiere of Finding Rhythm and ask their questions about music, rhythm, and the brain directly to the stars and creators of the show!

Musical Cast

Jessica Phillips Silver, Writer/Composer

Dante’ Pope, Music Director/Arranger

Sylvia Soumah as Mother Dance, Vocals

Dante Pope as Father Rhythm, Percussion, Vocals

Jessica Phillips-Silver as Narrator/Scientist, Vocals

Rochelle Rice, Vocals

Amadou Kouyate, Kora

Uasuf Gueye, Balafon

Kinard Cherry, Bass

About Growing Brains

Growing BrainsTM: A brain-based approach to raising children and communities, was founded in 2014 by Dr. Jessica Phillips-Silver, to provide a unique, integrative framework of child development based on evidence from brain science and wisdom from musical arts and healing. Growing Brains has worked with centers for art, education, and health in D.C., including the Kennedy Center, Strathmore, Washington Performing Arts, National Symphony Orchestra, Children’s National Medical Center, University of Maryland’s School of Public Health, Communities for Just Schools Fund, Sen Sound, Sitar Arts Center, Arts on the Horizon, Arts For The Aging, Martha’s Table, Bloombars, Baba Ras D, and Dance Place. Through these partnerships, Growing Brains helps support children’s Optimal Brain Growth and healing in communities across the District of Columbia. 

Partners

DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities

Blue House Productions, Engineering & Production

Dance Place, Community Partner

It’s almost the funniest comedy show ever! [For Tickets: AlmostLadiesNight.com]

Join the best national stand-up comedians, interactive comedy segments, and be surrounded by the most beautiful audience around – this and every Third Thursday!

Almost Ladies Night is a totally new comedy experience!

Arive EARLY and let us treat you to Complimentary Massages provided by Hands-In-Motion Mobile Massage & enjoy our customary Welcome Shots. WE also have $5 Drink Specials ALL NIGHT!

Don’t be fooled by the title Almost Ladies Night is for the MEN too!! While we do cater to the ladies, it’s definitely a great vibe for the guys!  It’s the perfect night out with your friends (or) date night (or) to meet someone new.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• The show features hilarious national comedians (as seen on HBO, NBC, Comedy Central)
• $5 signature drinks specials – all-night (and they are strong)
• Tinder Live™
• …and other special surprises!

Accompanied by the grown and sexy sounds from DJ K-La! This will be an early evening of laughter and fun like no other show in the area!

Hosted by the hilarious TOMMY TAYLOR JR (from HBO’s VEEP & Conan O’Brien).

WHEN IS IT:

Doors Open: 6:30PM

SHOWTIME: 7:45PM