Wesleyan Center for the Arts Theater
Wesleyan Jazz Orchestra and Jazz Ensemble Fall Concert at Wesleyan Center for the Arts
Wesleyan Center for the Arts Theater 271 Washington Terrace, MiddletownIn this evening of classic and contemporary jazz, audiences will hear from both the Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra and the Wesleyan Jazz Ensemble. The Wesleyan University Jazz Orchestra, directed by Jay Hoggard ’76, MA ’91, Professor of Music and African American Studies, focuses on large ensemble repertoire, often featuring work composed by Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, Thad Jones, Oliver Nelson, Fletcher […]
inDANCE: ROWDIES IN LOVE at Wesleyan Center for the Arts
Wesleyan Center for the Arts Theater 271 Washington Terrace, MiddletownFriday, December 6, 2024 at 7:00pm Saturday, December 7, 2024 at 7:00pm ", the maverick gadfly is aggressively iconoclastic a very naughty boy scoff at tradition, turn things upside down and shake out all the cobwebs” --The Toronto Star “..most successful choreographic unions…intriguing work performed as scorching side-by-side duets that explored inDANCE’s affinity for hybridization…a […]
Sunny Jain: Love Force at Wesleyan Center for the Arts
Wesleyan Center for the Arts Theater 271 Washington Terrace, MiddletownCreated and conceived by Brooklyn-based composer Sunny Jain, Love Force draws on the musician’s autobiography to create an immersive performance inspired by the concept satyāgraha (which means “insistence or holding firmly to truth”). Coined by Mahatma Gandhi during his nonviolent protest against British colonialism in India, and also adapted by B.R. Ambedkar and Martin Luther King Jr. as “soul force” […]