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 Show #959 RECAP 

Powered by Clean Energy for the First Time EVER! Concert 

Yo! We just powered concert #959 with clean energy!

I teamed up with the incredible Australian band Lime Cordiale at the legendary El Rey Theatre, and it was a massive success!

Then… we made history.

For the first time ever, we powered a show at The Roxy Theatre—yes, the ICONIC Roxy on Sunset Blvd—with clean/renewable energy.

That’s never been done before. Ever.

This was a first.

The Roxy has helped launch the careers of legends like Guns N’ Roses, Adele, Bruce Springsteen, and Bob Marley… and now, I’m beyond honored to say this night marked the start of my chapter in that legacy.

But I’m doing it different—I launched clean.

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Big love to Green Sports Alliance for coming together with us to unite music and sports and amplify the message of sustainability.

This was the official kickoff to our partnership in 2025—this is decarbonization in action.

We previewed some new songs from my upcoming album “DecArbonYzed,” and once again proved that concerts can be clean, green, and game-changing.

Shout out to some of our incredible partners: Overdrive, Footprint Project, New Use Energy, and Reon. Couldn’t be on this #RoadTo1000 without you. Thank you for powering change with us.

More to come.

Let’s get the world plugged in.

NEXT UP: Concert/Show #960

Going down at the GSA Summit on June 10 in Miami, Florida! We’re keeping the momentum rolling—another step toward 1000 clean energy concerts!

Let’s keep pushing the movement forward!

This is history in the making.

Let’s electrify the world together! 

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WHITE WAVE Dance

presents

The 2024 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL: A FOUR-DAY SPECTACULAR

PRESENTING 50 COMPANIES FROM NEW YORK & AROUND THE WORLD

2024 dumbo dance festival

June 27-30

June 27 at 6:30pm GALA Opening Night

June 28-30 – Festival Performances

Mark Morris Dance Center

James and Martha Duffy Performance Space

3 Lafayette Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11217

PLEASE JOIN US:

Thursday, June 27, 2024 at 6:30 pm – Gala Opening Night

Friday, June 28, 2024 at 7 pm

Saturday, June 29, 2024 at 4 pm and 6 pm

Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 4 pm and 6 pm

Please RSVP to Michelle Tabnick: michelle@michelletabnickpr.com, 646-765-4773

Photos are available for download at:

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On Thursday, June 27, WHITE WAVE Dance celebrates the 23rd Anniversary season of the DUMBO Dance Festival (DDF) with a GALA Opening that heralds the most anticipated four-day festival of contemporary dance in the greater New York City region. Committed to developing dance as an important art form, WHITE WAVE scours the globe in search of the most innovative of today’s dance makers, both emerging and established, and brings them to Brooklyn for one extended weekend. For four nights and three days, dance lovers will experience a veritable cornucopia of the best of contemporary dance. DDF is committed to advancing the best of dance by providing on-stage and behind-the-scenes opportunities for 50 dance troupes from across America and around the globe, allowing audiences to experience, first-hand, the incomparable vitality of the New York dance scene.

“This is a festival about opportunities,” says Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of White Wave Dance. “The DUMBO Dance Festival provides an opportunity for over 400 performing artists to showcase their work. Further, it offers New York audiences the chance to participate in one of the most diverse displays of leading-edge choreography and excellence at an affordable price.”

GALA Opening Night: June 27 at 6:30PM

The 2024 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL will kick off with WHITE WAVE’s Opening Night GALA Celebration on Thursday, June 27^th at 6:30 pm.

WHITE WAVE Dance is proud to honor Joan Finkelstein and John Ryan!

Joan Finkelstein, with deep appreciation for her tireless support of the Art of Dance in all of its many dazzling forms, especially through her work at the amazing Harkness Foundation for Dance, we salute Joan’s tireless dedication to the creative future and development of Dance.

John Ryan, by championing Ms. Kim’s artistic vision through his vital philanthropic support, enables WHITE WAVE Dance to continuously find, nurture and present thousands of emerging and eminent artists.

Opening remarks will be followed by five stunning contemporary dance troupes: Buglisi Dance Theatre, Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, ZviDance, Company | E, and WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

After the performances, the audience can enjoy an open bar, food, and music to feed the soul, as well as a fabulous raffle including gourmet wine baskets, “Dinner for Two” at local DUMBO eateries, and much more!

Festival tickets: $30 in advance / $25 students & seniors.

GALA Tickets are $100 and $250 (VIP seating) per person; all proceeds raised will directly offset WHITE WAVE’s production costs for our 2024/25 Season.

GALA & Festival Tickets can be purchased at https://www.whitewavedance.org

Questions? Please contact WHITE WAVE at wwyskdc@gmail.com or call at 718-855-8822!

2024 DDF features 50 contemporary dance troupes combining over 400 artists who will present solo, chamber, and full-scale works. Dancers from across the United States, and internationally from Switzerland, Germany, Colombia, Mexico, Taiwan, Japan and Korea will join the New York’s active dance community to offer the full range of new directions in dance in the 21^st century.

Special Performance Opportunities:

This year at the 2024 DUMBO Dance Festival, White Wave Dance is pleased to announce we will be selecting TWO outstanding companies to have the opportunity to perform at the 2025 New Dance Festival in South Korea, and the 2025 Detroit City Dance Festival. Both of these highly regarded festivals will provide companies with another fantastic opportunity for further exposure, promotion and performances. All companies participating in this year’s festival will be carefully considered and will be notified after the festival.

In this anniversary year, the roster of companies includes:

E-Danza, Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Seabird Dance Collective, Lopez & Dancers, Freespace Dance, Tsiambwom M. Akuchu, Ali Pfleger and Artists, Company | E, Pau Aran Gimeno, Columbia Repertory Dance Company, Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX], Michiko Kiyofuji, X&Y Quadrant Dance Company, Alexander Hille, Tina Croll + Company, O’Toole & Dance, TheCo, Amos Pinhasi, Gianna Burright, McKoy Dance Project || MDP, Elizabeth Shea Dance, Natya Anubhava, Mending Dance Theater, Mark Bankin Dance Theater, OR Dance, Emilio Castellón Dance Company, BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY, David P. France Dance Company, Synergy Dance Collective NY, American Swiss Ballet Co, Natalia Sanchez, East by North Dance Theatre, Ramona Sekulovic, Hoon Dance Company, Mei Yamanaka Works, Buglisi Dance Theatre, Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, ZviDance, and WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company.

In our commitment to presenting dance for all, the 23^rd Annual DUMBO Dance Festival is proud to announce the following events in our exciting 2024 program:

Grand Finale: Sunday, June 30^th 6PM

For the Festival Grand Finale, eight companies will present works, including:

Ali Pfleger and Artists, Cori Marquis+the Nines [IX], Alison Cook Beatty Dance, Hoon Dance Company, Mending Dance Theater, Freespace Dance, Ara Dance Project, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company

2024 DUMBO DANCE FESTIVAL Performance Schedule:

GALA OPENING NIGHT

Thursday, June 27 @ 6:30 PM

• Buglisi Dance Theatre, NY
• Yoshiko Chuma & The School Of Hard Knocks, NY
• ZviDance, NY
• Company | E, DC
• WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY

Friday, June 28 @ 7 PM

• Alexander Hille, MN
• X&Y Quadrant Dance Company, NY
• David P. France Dance Company, Switzerland
• Company|E, DC
• Tina Croll + Company, NY
• O’Toole & Dance, NC
• Tsiambwom M. Akuchu, CA
• Mending Dance Theater, Taiwan

Saturday, June 29 @ 4 PM

• Columbia Repertory Dance Company, SC
• McKoy Dance Project || MDP, NY
• E-Danza, IA
• Michiko Kiyofuji, Japan
• Gianna Burright, CA
• David P. France Dance Company, Switzerland
• Hoon Dance Company, Korea
• TheCo, Mexico

Saturday, June 29 @ 6 PM

• Lopez & Dancers, NY
• Elizabeth Shea Dance, IN
• Amos Pinhasi, NY
• Natya Anubhava, NY
• Mei Yamanaka Works, Japan
• Mark Bankin Dance Theater, NY
• OR Dance, NJ
• WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY

Sunday, June 30 @ 4 PM

• Emilio Castellón Dance Company, CA
• BAIRA MVMNT PHLOSPHY, TX
• Synergy Dance Collective, NY
• ArtLab J, MI
• Ramona Sekulovic, Germany
• American Swiss Ballet Co, NY
• East by North Dance Theatre, NY
• Natalia Sanchez, NY

GRAND FINALE

Sunday, June 30 @ 6 PM

• Ali Pfleger and Artists, NY
• Cori Marquis + the Nines [IX], NY
• Alison Cook Beatty Dance, NY
• Hoon Dance Company, Korea
• Mending Dance Theater, Taiwan
• Freespace Dance, NJ
• Ara Dance Project, NY
• WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company, NY

For Artists BIO and more info, please visit www.whitewavedance.org.

WHITE WAVE

Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Our mission is to be a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the production of dance concerts, classes, residencies, and education. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of dance, music, theater and visual art, surging forward to create new possibilities. Ms. Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance. We provide both emerging and established choreographers/companies with a NYC venue where they can congregate, create, rehearse and present new dance works through our festivals.

www.whitewavedance.org.

ABOUT WHITE WAVE

Formed in 1988, WHITE WAVE Young Soon Kim Dance Company (WHITE WAVE) strives to inspire audiences through multi-dimensional dance productions reflecting themes and philosophies both modern and timeless. Our mission is to be a potent stimulus for change and expansion of the dance/arts world through the production of dance concerts, classes, residencies, and education. Artistic Director Young Soon Kim’s vision is expansive, challenging the threshold of dance, music, theater and visual art, surging forward to create new possibilities. Ms. Kim creates works of vision and movement language in reverence and awe of novelty that challenge and broaden the boundaries of dance. We provide both emerging and established choreographers/companies with a NYC venue where they can congregate, create, rehearse and present new dance works through our festivals.

WHITE WAVE created DDF in 2001 in response to the dance community’s need for performance opportunities that would not only present, but also produce, the work of rising choreographers at minimal expense for the artist. The festival is now recognized as New York’s most prestigious gathering of pioneering choreography, encouraging experimentation, creativity, and originality.

To date, WHITE WAVE Dance has proudly presented over 3,200 choreographers/dance companies and over 25,500 performers to a total of more than 90K audience members.

www.whitewavedance.org.

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Young Soon Kim, Artistic Director of WHITE WAVE Dance, is a recipient of the 2023 Bessies Angel Honoree Award, and is a nationally and internationally acclaimed choreographer, whose work has been hailed for its exhilarating, visually stunning, and emotionally rich phrases and textures.

In addition to her role as a performer and Artistic Director, Ms. Kim created a series of dance festivals soon after inaugurating the WHITE WAVE John Ryan Theater in DUMBO, Brooklyn, in 2001.

She has since become one of the most recognized producers/curators in New York City. Ms. Kim has also served as a juror for New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in 2006 and for the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2014.

After the World première at the 2017 La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival, WHITE WAVE Dance’s Canadian première of “iyouuswe” (read as I-You-Us-We-two) at the 2018 Vancouver International Dance Festival was a resounding success! WHITE WAVE presented “Eternal NOW” at our enormously successful 2019 tour to Korea and China. In Gwangju, Korea, we performed at a special event at the Asian Cultural Center, one of the most prestigious arts complexes in all of Asia. There we participated at the Opening Celebration of the 2019 FINA World Championship Masters’ Games, a sporting event that rivals the Olympics. Following that, we flew to China to perform at the Ningbo Cultural Plaza, as part of a China-US Cultural Exchange program. Dazzled sold-out audiences greeted us at every performance!

During the Summer/Fall 2021, Young Soon Kim continually created “iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” and a stage version of the production.

In October 2021, WHITE WAVE Dance presented three free performances of their newest production, iyouuswe II (I-You-Us-We-Two), on October 9 and 30, 2021 at DUMBO Archway, and two shows at the Home of WHITE WAVE Dance at 5pm as part of the City Artist Corps Grant Initiative.

“iyouuswe II, A Dance Film” was selected as finalist for the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival, Paris International Short Festival, Vancouver Independent Film Festival and an OFFICIAL SELECTION at the 2021 London International Short Film Festival, Espoo Digi-Dance International Film Festival (Finland) and Experimental, Dance, Music Film Festival (Canada).

“There are people who simply have a lot of energy, and the Korean-born choreographer Young Soon Kim is clearly one of them.” – Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times

Please visit www.whitewavedance.org for more information about the

OPENING NIGHT GALA and DUMBO Dance Festival.

Click HERE to download photos of 2024 DUMBO Dance Festival

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

WHITE WAVE’s programs are supported, in part, by public funds from The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, The New York Community Trust, Dance/NYC’s Coronavirus Dance Relief Fund, Howard Gilman Foundation, Harkness Foundation for Dance, New York City Artist Corps, Mosaic Network & Fund, Grace Charity Foundation Inc., JOHN RYAN, and Individual Arts Supporters like you.

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Releationships,

Matt Fraser, from E! Entertainment’s hit show, Meet The Frasers, appears for the first time at NYCB Theatre at Westbury NY. May 10, 2023 at 8:00 pm ET.  Matt Fraser, a New York Times bestselling author, will share personal stories about his life and explain how his gift works. He will deliver healing messages to audience members and bring comfort to people knowing that their departed loved ones are still with them, just in a different way in Spirit.  Would you like an interview with Matt Fraser and a Press Pass?

Tickets are available visiting the NYCB Theatre in Westbury NY  online and at their box office.   Tickets are also available at  Ticket Master .

Fraser has been featured on numerous national television shows, including “The Kelly Clarkson Show” ,  “The Real Housewives,” “The Doctors,” “BOTCHED” ,  FOX NY, and many more. He has been praised for his accuracy and authenticity by both skeptics and believers alike. Matt’s latest book, “We Never Die: Secrets of the Afterlife” was released in 2022 and debuted on the New York Times bestseller list published by Gallery a division of Simon and Schuster.  Matt’s first book When Heaven Calls has details his life story and his experiences growing up communicating with departed loved ones beginning at the age of 4 years old. How he learned to share messages to help bring healing to others and details how to recognize signs from Heaven in daily life, Daily Pop TV

Throughout the tour, Fraser will be helping people connect with their loved ones who have passed away by giving readings throughout the audience. He will also be sharing his personal journey and the lessons he has learned throughout his career as a medium.

 “I am so excited to be able to connect with people in person and help them connect with their loved ones in the spirit world,” Fraser said. Matt Fraser’s readings lead guests through a rollercoaster of emotions from laughing to crying, turning skeptics into believers with stunning details. His dynamic readings frequently include names, dates, and locations he couldn’t possibly know, only adding to his long-established reputation. Matt’s uncanny abilities and extreme accuracy have allowed him to reach people world-wide from A-list celebrities and influencers to everyday people looking to get in touch with those they have lost.

About

The NYCB Theatre at Westbury is one of the most famous indoor venues in North America, renowned for it’s exciting and mesmerizing Broadway productions. The NYCB Theater (originally known as the Westbury Music Fair) has many events throughout the year.

Set just outside New York, the Theatre at Westbury has also given countless of music performances throughout the years, from the classic iconic names of The Doors and the unforgettable rockers The Who among many of the more modern acts of Alanis Morrisette, Lauryn Hill plus so much more. As the venue boasts of music and comedy events, the NYCB Theatre at Westbury is often the number one location to sit back and enjoy a live experience.

Would you like to schedule an interview with America’s Top Psychic Medium Matt Fraser?

 Please contact imalwagner@gmail.com .

The names and brands mentioned above are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

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Imal Wagner

301-325-4085

imalwagner@gmail.com

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Acclaimed globally as master film music scorer Randy Edelman has composed over 100 popular films including: “XXX”, “ Gettysburg“, “ Anaconda”, “27 Dresses”, “The Mask”, “Ghostbusters ll”, “ Kindergarten Cop”, “Twins”, “Dragonheart”, and an endless array of others. He is also recognized for creating musical themes for the Olympics, ESPN, ABC’s “MacGyver” and even NASA. He has shared the stage with The Carpenters, and Frank Zappa, and has performed all over the world including at the Drury Lane Theatre in London and the Budokan in Japan…

SohoJohnny, CEO of Tribeca Records is a philanthropist, producer, actor, and entrepreneur based out of New York City, He is responsible for the production of huge celebrity benefits in the name of the Let Me Help, Inc foundation created by him in honor of his mother who passed from Covid. SJ has presented charity extravaganzas with icons including Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, Sir Patrick Stewart, Jeff Goldblum, Julian Lennon, Stephen Perkins, Scott Page, Jane Lynch, Rick Wakeman, John Lodge, Rick Wakeman, John Lodge, Tony Moore, Kim Sledge, Leon, and many others. Randy Edelman is one of his most cherished artists on his Tribeca Record label.

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Learn more of the miraculous story of St. Valentine told through original love compositions like this one (in first audition) composed, choreographed, arranged, performed by “Modern Renaissance” Indiggo Twins.

Gabriela will play the piano, whereas Mihaela the guitar.

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“What we play is life.”

-Louis Armstrong

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Apollo Theater Announces the

First Phase in Creating

the Apollo Performing Arts Center

Two new theaters, office space, and support for artists and cultural organizations to open at the Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project
Fall 2020

Harlem, NY – (December 4, 2018). The Apollo Theater announced today that it is undertaking the initial phase of the iconic Theater’s transformation into the Apollo Performing Arts Center through two new theaters within the Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project at 233 West 125^th Street. The theaters will be the first physical expansion of the Apollo in its nearly 85-year history. Scheduled to open in fall 2020, the two new theaters at the Victoria space will allow the nonprofit Apollo Theater, which will operate the spaces, to increase the number of programming, educational, and community programs it offers. They will also house the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Harlem Arts Alliance, and Jazzmobile, the cultural partners designated by Empire State Development, enhancing Apollo’s advocacy for African-American, African-diasporic, and Harlem-based artists and culture. In conjunction with the initiative, the Apollo will develop a theater rental subsidy program for nonprofits, with details to be announced. The Victoria Theater’s revitalization into a creative and community resource expands on the Apollo’s mission to work with and support a greater number of emerging and established artists of color across disciplines, and serve as an artistic, educational, and community resource.

“The Apollo Theater is reaffirming its deep responsibility to our community and to the emerging and world-class artists with whom we work while, simultaneously, creating ways to offer even greater opportunities to artists, audiences, students, and the community and safeguarding the spirit and cultural character of Harlem,” said Apollo Theater President and CEO Jonelle Procope. “At the heart of this endeavor and the future Apollo Performing Arts Center is the Apollo’s desire to expand our many positive impacts. The Victoria revitalization is the right moment to support the important work New York’s cultural organizations are doing while expanding our programming and educational offerings, shepherding in the next generation of the creative workforce of color.”

The Apollo Theater will serve as the operator and manager for the theaters located within the Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project, a public/private partnership that also includes residential units, retail, and a hotel. The Apollo will manage the cultural initiatives, including two new, state-of-the-art, flexible performance venues, one with 99 seats and the other with 199 seats, and office space for the Apollo and partner cultural organizations. Separate developers will manage the commercial aspects of the building. The Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project is a part of the revitalization of 125^th Street by the State of New York.

Apollo’s 25,000-square foot facility, designed by Kostow Greenwood Architects, will be located on the third and fourth floors of the building. The expanded venue will allow the Apollo to serve the needs of its artists, artistic partners, staff, audiences, the community, and tourists who travel to Harlem every year.

“The Apollo is the soul of American culture, and the Apollo Performing Arts Center will allow us to share that culture with an even wider audience, not only with the Apollo’s own productions, but with other cultural institutions that will help us create and develop the kinds of resources that serve the creative community and audiences around the corner and around the world,” said Apollo Theater Executive Producer Kamilah Forbes. “The new theaters will allow the Apollo to provide support for artists throughout their career, especially emerging artists, and will provide an opportunity for us to grow our artistic programming as we continue to create a new, 21^st-century performing arts cannon and provide space to incubate, develop, and collaborate on new works that speak directly to the needs of our community. This expansion will allow the Apollo to look to the future while protecting the heritage that makes Harlem such an indispensable part of New York City and the world.”

Gifts and grants from a variety of public and private funders helped to make the theaters at the Victoria possible, including Booth Ferris Foundation, Empire State Development, the Harlem Community Development Corporation, The New York Community Trust – LuEsther T. Mertz Advised Fund, and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone.

“With UMEZ’s substantial commitment to the Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project, and our grant support to the Apollo Theater, we believe these two dramatic new stages will showcase the wide-ranging creative talents that make Upper Manhattan their home base. These fully-equipped, multi-purpose theaters will further enliven 125^th Street, now re-emerging as a vibrant cultural corridor, particularly for artists of color,” said Blair M. Duncan, President and CEO of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone. “We are proud to be supporting this dynamic project, which will bring both cultural and economic vitality to Upper Manhattan.”

“We are delighted to partner with the iconic Apollo Theater. The theaters at the Victoria will add vital new space for cultural and educational programming while preserving and restoring a reminder of Harlem’s rich history,” said Curtis Archer, President of the Harlem Community Development Corporation. “HCDC looks forward to bringing both a new mixed-use, mixed-income development and hundreds of new jobs to the neighborhood through the Victoria Theater Redevelopment Project as a whole.”

“The Classical Theatre of Harlem is thrilled for the opportunity to be a cultural partner with the Apollo in the theaters at the Victoria,” saidPeggy King Jorde, Board Chair Classical Theatre of Harlem. “This exciting new project will allow Harlem-based institutions such as CTH the much needed, state-of-the-art performance space to reach a wider audience, expand our programming, and work with like-minded organizations.”

“On behalf of the Harlem Arts Alliance membership we salute the developers, sponsors, and supporters in their collective partnership in the launch of the new cultural spaces in the historic Victoria Theater,” said Voza Rivers, Harlem Arts Alliance Chairman. “Thanks to all in adding another jewel to Harlem’s cultural assets.”

“For 55 years Jazzmobile’s mission has been to present, preserve, promote, and propagate jazz – America’s classical music. We welcome this opportunity to again partner with the Apollo Theater, who, like us has long been an advocate for this artform and for the community,” said Jazzmobile’s Director, Robin Bell-Stevens. “Through the theaters at the Victoria we are looking forward to having a year-round performance space, strengthening our relationship with the Apollo and The Classical Theater of Harlem (a longtime collaborator) as well as with the other organizations that will take advantage of these venues.”

About the Apollo Theater

The legendary Apollo Theater—the soul of American culture—plays a vital role in cultivating emerging artists and launching legends. Since its founding, the Apollo has served as a center of innovation and a creative catalyst for Harlem, the city of New York, and the world.

With music at its core, the Apollo’s programming extends to dance, theater, spoken word, and more. This includes special programs such as the blockbuster concert Bruno Mars Live at the Apollo, the world premiere theatrical reading of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s National Book Award-winning Between the World and Me, 100: The Apollo Celebrates Ella, the annual Africa Now! Festival, and the New York premiere of the opera We Shall Not Be Moved. The Apollo is a performing arts presenting organization that also produces festivals and large-scale dance and music works organized around a set of core initiatives that celebrate and extend the Apollo’s legacy through a contemporary lens; global festivals including the Women of the World (WOW) Festival and Breakin’ Convention; international and U.S.-based artist presentations focused on a specific theme; and Special Projects, multidisciplinary collaborations with partner organizations.

Since introducing the first Amateur Night contests in 1934, the Apollo Theater has served as a testing ground for new artists working across a variety of art forms and has ushered in the emergence of many new musical genres—including jazz, swing, bebop, R&B, gospel, blues, soul, and hip-hop. Among the countless legendary performers who launched their careers at the Apollo are Michael Jackson, Ella Fitzgerald, Stevie Wonder, Billie Holiday, James Brown, D’Angelo, Lauryn Hill, Dave Chappelle, Machine Gun Kelly, Miri Ben Ari, Sarah Vaughan, Gladys Knight, and Luther Vandross; and the Apollo’s forward-looking artistic vision continues to build on this legacy. For more information visithttps://www.apollotheater.org/

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Apollo Theater

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