Mise en Place Dance: Detroit City Conduit

Friday and Saturday December 18th & 19th, 2009 at 7:30pm
Starbrite Studios at The Russell Industrial Center

Detroit City Conduit is a collaborative event striving to bring energy and art, light and performance to Detroit. The movement acts as a conduit, or means of communication between diverse people of the greater Detroit community. In a shared evening [...]

New McCree Theatre Celebrates Red Hat Society Day

[ December 19, 2009; 3:00 pm; 3:00 pm; ] Saturday, December 19, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.

is Red Hat Society Day at the New McCree Theatre. For this performance, all Red Hat Society members will be admitted for only $5.00 per person.  The New McCree Theatre is presenting its Holiday Musical, “A Soulful Christmas,” an exciting, foot-stomping, Christmas celebration, set to music [...]

Photo Blog: The weekend of art openings before the official start of summer

When Detroit warms up it seems like all of the best artwork comes out to introduce itself at the same time.
I scramble to try and collect and compile as many postcards and photographs I can to put into a reference book for later when I need inspiration.
This is my first contribution of letting the public [...]

Extreme Animals W/Will Sessions Play Art Spiegelman’s Opening Night

[ June 7, 2009 12:00 pm to July 26, 2009 12:00 pm. ] Three New Exhibitions
- Art Spiegelman: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
- Linkage Artists Select Artists
Jesper Just | With Mixed Emotions

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

Opening Reception: Friday, May 29, 2009 at 8:00pm to 12:00am

ART SPIEGELMAN: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG %@&*!
May 29 – July 26, 2009
Extreme Animals
Art Spiegelman
Pittsburgh and San Diego [...]

Eisenhower Dance Ensemble presents “Motown in Motion”

[ April 4, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Eisenhower Dance Ensemble in MOTOWN IN MOTION featuring
The Contours with Sylvester Potts

Join Eisenhower Dance Ensemble and Motown’s legendary The Countours for a razzle-dazzle evening of dance and music! This lavish production showcases the work of such renowned choreographers as Joel Hall, Stephan Koester, Laurie Eisenhower and Bill DeYoung and celebrates the music that made [...]

MOMIX Retrospective @ Music Hall

[ March 16, 2009; 8:00 pm; ] Music Hall Center for the Performing Arts proudly presents the surreal and innovative dance company, MOMIX, in a “best of 20 years” retrospective, one night only, Monday, March 16th at 8PM on the historic Music Hall main stage.
Blurring the fine line between illusion and reality with mind-blowing inventiveness, the athletic dancers of Momix fool the [...]

The Eisenhower Dance Ensemble: Promoting An Art And Building A Community

Demetrius Tabron. Photo by Riina Ruben.
If you would have asked me a week ago about the presence of the art of dance in the metro Detroit area, I would have maybe been able to name a handful of dance schools located in strip malls out in the suburbs that I remember driving by, with fond [...]