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Crafting A Classic: How holiday gems thrive on nostalgia

When they were first released, some holiday classics could hardly be considered successes, said James Sanford, a film critic and former creative manager of Kalamazoo’s Alamo Drafthouse.

Revue Arts 01 December 2017
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Christmas Present: GR Ballet’s 'A Christmas Carol' weaves together original choreography and score

A Christmas Carol has taken many forms, but a two-day run with Grand Rapids Ballet will be one of the most unique by far.

Revue Arts 01 December 2017
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Breaking Ceilings, Opening Doors: How and why local institutions are making art accessible

UICA Executive Director Miranda Krajniak is giving the community an early Christmas present with new admission fees that will make the venue accessible to low-income adults and children.

Revue Arts 01 December 2017
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Succession and Success: MMA’s director discusses her retirement and successor

Confident that Muskegon Museum of Art is in capable hands, retiring Executive Director Judith Hayner said her replacement, Kirk Hallman, has a connection to just about everything and everybody.

Revue Arts 01 December 2017
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Spreading Roots: Winfred Rembert’s art tells the story of a fascinating life

A self-taught artist who grew up in the rural south during the civil rights era, folk artist Winfred Rembert draws and speaks from experience, weaving together leather, color and real-life injustices to make meaning of painful memories.

Revue Arts 01 December 2017
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Review: Canadian Brass provided a delightful, impressive night of music and fun

Holiday live entertainment options abound this time of year in Southwest Michigan, but perhaps none so festive and crisp as the Canadian Brass Christmas concert at Miller Auditorium in Kalamazoo, which kicked off the season mere days after Thanksgiving.

Revue Arts 28 November 2017
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Review: 'An American in Paris' is a transcendent escape full of astounding talent

Christopher Wheeldon, the British-born Royal Ballet trained dancer and one of the world’s most innovative and celebrated choreographers, created a ballet based on An American in Paris, the iconic multiple Oscar-winning 1951 Vincente Minelli film starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, in 2005 for New York City Ballet, but he had never before directed actors.

Revue Arts 18 November 2017
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Review: Wellspring stretches boundaries and looks to the future with its fall concert

Between the two acts of Seeing/Seen, Wellspring/Cory Terry & Dancers’ Fall Concert of Dance, the audience is invited onto the stage to interact and make noise with drumsticks on the Singing Wall Sculptures, an enormous set of suspended gongs and other metalwork created by Lisa Renee Coons and Steven E. Pierce that is prettier to look at than to hear.

Revue Arts 18 November 2017
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REVIEW: Grand Rapids Symphony performance of Verdi’s Requiem traverses a world of emotion

German conductor Hans von Bülow coined the famous snap judgment of Giuseppe Verdi’s Requiem Mass: “an opera, though in ecclesiastical robes.”

Revue Arts 18 November 2017
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Review: ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ is heart wrenching and incredibly important

Regardless of the form it takes or how much time has passed since a now-famous adolescent girl documented her life in a red checkered notebook while in hiding from the Nazis during World War II in Amsterdam, “The Diary of Anne Frank” remains powerfully moving.

Revue Arts 11 November 2017
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Review: ‘Passing Strange’ is an evocative, emotional experience

“Passing Strange,” by Stew, is a beautifully raw story of a young African American boy searching for more out of life and the whirlwind of emotions he faces along the way.

Revue Arts 10 November 2017
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Review: The Naughton Sisters dazzled at The Gilmore

Many renowned classical piano duos have kept it in the family — consider the Labèque sisters, the Pekinel sisters, or the Kontarsky brothers. The vast benefits of a musical partnership between siblings were obvious during Christina and Michelle Naughton’s concert with The Gilmore’s Rising Stars Series yesterday. The two 28-year-old pianists brought esoteric unity to their art form in a way only identical twins can. But as their spellbinding Sunday afternoon performance showed, the Naughton sisters are no gimmick. The two extraordinary musicians demonstrated uncanny harmoniousness and technical precision, even when expressing individual soulfulness and spontaneity across two separate Steinways.

Revue Arts 06 November 2017
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Review: ‘All About a Table’ is focused, meaningful

In H2 Dance Company’s current modern dance program, “All About a Table,” the same sturdy rectangular table appears in all three pieces composed by Hope College dance department faculty members. The company of 11 select pre-professional student dancers move around, atop, beneath the table, at turns, as desperate housewives, birds, and tragicomic men in control of the world’s fate — all at the Knickerbocker Theatre in Holland.

Revue Arts 01 November 2017
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From Shadow to Stage: Muskegon Civic Theatre’s new managing director

Besides directing Muskegon Civic Theatre’s latest production, Jason Bertoia is settling in to what he considers his dream job.

Revue Arts 30 October 2017
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On Their Toes: Rehearsing with Deos Contemporary Ballet

On Their Toes: Rehearsing with Deos Contemporary Ballet

“When do we add tension and stress?” The asker is serious: She’s wondering at what point she needs t...
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Review: 'Seussical' is an All-Ages Delight Full of Sensory Wonders

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“Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun/ But you have to know how,” declares ...
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Review: 'Measure for Measure' at Interlochen Shows Why Shakespeare Endures

Review: 'Measure for Measure' at Interlochen Shows Why Shakespeare Endures

Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure raises important questions about justice and how some succeed as w...
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