Timothée Chalamet notwithstanding, ballet is alive and well. West Michigan offers aficionados any number of chances to experience the power, beauty, and range of dance, including Grand Rapids Ballet’s Broken Wings, Deos Ballet’s Giselle, and Wellspring's Tendrils.
Kailey Sullivan works and lives as a “designy illustrator,” blending her artistic passions into one practice.
Bright colors, childhood nostalgia and early-2000s dance-floor hits are coming to the Saugatuck Center for the Arts this October, with a new exhibition and a free community celebration inspired by the playful possibilities of plastic lace craft.
The Campbell family are recognizable in these parts: for them, Michigan football is a religion. And when the Woverines play Ohio State? Forget about it. It’s war.
As if more than 1,000 pieces of art spread throughout Grand Rapids wasn’t enough, ArtPrize also offers all kinds of interactive community events.
If there’s one thing Hell’s Kitchen does incredibly well it’s remind us what an extraordinarily gifted songwriter Alicia Keys is. The national tour of this semi-biographical Tony Award winning jukebox musical kicked off Broadway Grand Rapids’ new season at DeVos last night.
Djanet Sears’ award-winning 1997 play Harlem Duet imagines Shakespeare’s Othello’s first marriage, before Desdemona, embodying and centering his Black first wife’s experience. Sometimes referred to as a prequel to The Bard’s 16th Century tragedy, this brilliant work plays with the silences in Othello while riffing on many of its themes.
At least as far back as written history extends, veils have been worn. Sometimes they were used to mark status; in ancient Mesopotamia, they indicated high social class.
Holland offers such a beautiful landscape,” said Jaer Medina. “I don’t know that you could ask for a better place for an artist to grow up, outside the Swiss Alps.”
From symphonies and chamber music to Broadway tours, ballet, theater, opera and an impressive slate of visual art exhibitions, the season ahead offers no shortage of ways to fill your calendar.
