Cuesheet: The (Mostly True) Adventures of Homer P. Figg
During the Civil War, a small twelve-year-old boy who never even owned a pair of shoes saves his older brother at the Battle of Gettysburg and then helps lead the Union to victory! Sounds hard to believe, but it’s true. At least mostly true. You see, Homer P. Figg will tell any tale to save his brother.
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Cuesheet: National Ballet of Canada Working Rehearsal: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll's classic children's book is given a glorious ballet treatment. Find out how this story is brought to life on stage.
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Cuesheet: NSO Open Rehearsal: Alisa Weilerstein
Get a behind-the-scenes look at a National Symphony Orchestra rehearsal featuring American cellist Alisa Weilerstein in Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto. The NSO also performs Symphony No. 5 by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, considered one of the 20th century’s greatest symphony composers.
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Cuesheet: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater: Performance/Demonstration
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater shares "Ailey Magic" with students, giving insights into the history of the company and its founder Alvin Ailey.
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KC Connection: Another Night by Kyle Abraham
Choreographer Kyle Abraham compares his choreography to gumbo, a Southern soup. Like a stew that includes many separate ingredients, his dances are a mixture of modern, ballet, social dance, and hip-hop.
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Cuesheet: Baobab
Explore the rich storytelling traditions of West Africa, from music to puppetry, in this mythical tale of one courageous child’s quest to change the history of the world.
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KC Connection: Beethoven Rocks!
Part 1 of the Beethoven Rocks series: Get to know Classical music's biggest star
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Cuesheet: Betty Carter's Jazz Ahead
Be among the first to meet the next generation of jazz greats—this year’s graduating class of the international jazz residency Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead, a two-week program for emerging jazz musicians.
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Cuesheet: NSO Kinderkonzert: Break It Down!
Just like a building made of blocks, music is made with different parts. Explore how music and even musical instruments break down and come together to make amazing music.
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Cuesheet: A Brown Bear, a Moon, and a Caterpillar: Treasured Stories by Eric Carle
People have used puppets to tell stories, entertain, or teach lessons for thousands of years. In this performance, puppets act out the stories and drawings from Eric Carle's classic picture books The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, and Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me.
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Cuesheet: Connections: Science + Music
In music, you can find real-life examples of concepts you might have learned in science class.
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Cuesheet: NSO Family Concert: The Cricket in Times Square
In this world premiere retelling of George Seldon’s classic children’s book, The Cricket in Times Square, the story comes to life on stage with actors, music, and the National Symphony Orchestra. Join Chester and his new friends in this exciting, “symphonic play.”
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Cuesheet: The Suzanne Farrell Ballet: Working Rehearsal
The Suzanne Farrell Ballet presents a program of three well-known Balanchine ballets that showcase the legacy of this great choreographer. At this rehearsal, the company presents the sublimely choreographed Divertimento No. 15, the iconic 1929 masterpiece Prodigal Son, and Slaughter on Tenth Avenue, complete with gangsters, tap-dancing, and drama.
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Cuesheet: Danish Dance Theater: Love Songs
At this working rehearsal, the company presents Love Songs, an original work that explores human emotions and relationships, set to reinterpreted jazz classics originally sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and Sarah Vaughn.
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KC Connection: Discovering American Scrapbook
Bringing poetry to life through performance
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Cuesheet: WNO Opera Dress Rehearsal: Don Giovanni
Mozart weaves the tale of Don Juan into a comically serious musical masterpiece
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Cuesheet: WNO Opera Look-In: Don Giovanni
This 50-minute narrated program includes fully-staged scenes from Mozart’s light-hearted musical masterpiece
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Cuesheet: NSO Family Concert: Halloween Spooktacular!
Is it ever cool to "boo" the orchestra? It is on Halloween! And during their Halloween Spooktacular, NSO musicians dressed up as ghosts, ghouls, and goblins just might peek out from behind their instruments to go "BOO" back at you!
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Cuesheet: Teatret Gruppe 38's Hans Christian, You Must Be an Angel
Stories about the ugly duckling, the little mermaid, and the nightingale all came from the imagination of one writer, Hans Christian Andersen. And you’re invited to a theatrical dinner party for him
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Cuesheet: The Hemsing Sisters: Performance & Demonstration
Meet Norwegian violinists Ragnhild and Eldbjørg Hemsing, sisters who have been playing together since the ages of five and seven. Get to know the Hemsing sisters and their musical style as they perform a diverse program of classical masterpieces, in addition to some lesser-known, traditional Norwegian folk songs
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Cuesheet: The Intergalactic Nemesis: A Live Action Graphic Novel
Earth faces an unusual threat—in a very unusual performance. The Intergalactic Nemesis is a live-action graphic novel, which combines hundreds of art projections, actors, and sound effects for this tale that’s part adventure, science fiction, romance, and comedy.
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Cuesheet: Jason Invisible
Based on the novel Crazy by Han Nolan, this haunting, humorous play humanizes young people dealing with less than perfect families and celebrates the awesome power of friendship.
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Cuesheet: Jason Moran & Bandwagon: Performance/Demo
Jason Moran, the new Artistic Advisor for Jazz at the Kennedy Center, performs with his acclaimed group The Bandwagon. In this high-energy performance and demonstration program, Moran explores improvisation, technique, and technological experimentation and guides students in what to listen for in jazz.
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KC Connection: The Kennedy Center Concert Hall
Conductor Emil de Cou leads an expedition to the Kennedy Center's grand Concert Hall
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KC Connection: Know Before You Go
Everything middle and high schoolers need to know before seeing a performance at the Kennedy Center
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KC Connection: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Musical
A Kennedy Center production about family, best friends, baby steps, and memories that last a lifetime.
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Cuesheet: Backa Teater: Little King Mattias
What happens when an 11-year-old boy becomes king of a troubled kingdom? Come along and find out as Sweden’s Backa Teater brings a 1923 children’s novel to life on stage as a play—and a problem-solving adventure that requires your help!
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KC Connection: Locomotion
A foster child uses poetry to cope with his troubled past
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Cuesheet: WNO Opera Dress Rehearsal: Manon Lescaut
In Puccini’s Manon Lescaut—a free-spirited and flirtatious lady with a weakness for anything that sparkles meets a dashing young man who steals her heart. True love just isn’t enough for this French girl whose desire for finer things threatens to destroy her happiness, her reputation... even her life.
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Cuesheet: Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts
Jazz artist Matt Wilson performs with his band Arts & Crafts. In a high-energy performance/demonstration, the band explores the process of improvisation, and shows students how much fun jazz music can be.
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KC Connection: maximum INDIA
The Kennedy Center celebrates the arts and artists of India
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Cuesheet: Iceland Symphony Orchestra: Maximus Musicus Visits the Orchestra
Meet Maximus Musicus, a mouse who discovers many funny and wonderful sounds during his visit to a concert hall. Based upon a popular book, this narrated concert program introduces students to the instruments and sounds of the orchestra.
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Cuesheet: Cuesheet: Working Rehearsal: Monica Bill Barnes & Company
In this working rehearsal, Monica Bill Barnes & Company rehearses three of their works, including Luster, mostly fanfare, and Everything is getting better all the time. You may wonder if these pieces are dance, comedy, theater, or showy circus acts. That’s because these works combine all of them together.
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Cuesheet: Cuesheet: Performance & Demonstration: Monica Bill Barnes & Company
In this performance/demonstration, Monica Bill Barnes talks about her choreography and demonstrates key elements of her approach to modern dance. Specifically, she explores two of her dances: mostly fanfare and Everything is getting better all the time.
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Cuesheet: NSO Kinderkonzert: Musical Opposites
Music is full of different types of opposites. Join musicians from the National Symphony Orchestra to explore how these opposites make music to our ears.
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Cuesheet: NSO Open Rehearsal with Lang Lang
Don’t miss this working rehearsal of the National Symphony Orchestra led by NSO Music Director Christoph Eschenbach with pianist superstar Lang Lang, performing Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2. Also on the program is Til Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks by Richard Strauss.
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Cuesheet: Nnenna Freelon
Nnenna Freelon shows us what it takes to be a modern day jazz singer. In this performance/demonstration, she explores rhythm, melody, tempo, and improvisation.
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Cuesheet: Nordic Cool 2013
The Kennedy Center invites you to explore the many countries and territories of the Nordic Region through Nordic Cool 2013
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Cuesheet: Ballet West: The Nutcracker
William Christensen choreographed his version of The Nutcracker in 1944, creating the first full-length version of the ballet to be staged in the United States. This production features Tchaikovsky's timeless score and a brilliant blend of costumes, sets, and choreography that create a magical storybook world.
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KC Connection: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
The Kennedy Center marks the 50th anniversary of a remarkable American presidency
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Cuesheet: WNO Dress Rehearsal: Show Boat
Based on the 1926 novel of the same name, Show Boat has gone down in American musical theater history as a revolutionary work—one of the first to successfully weave together an epic and dramatic storyline with beautiful and meaningful songs. The story follows the lives of the owners and workers aboard the Cotton Blossom—a floating theater travelling along America’s Southern rivers.
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KC Connection: Show Time!
Everything elementary schoolers need to know before seeing a performance at the Kennedy Center
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KC Connection: slamKC
This video series explores the performances of 15 student-poets at the Kennedy Center’s An American Playlist. Students from as far away as India perform original spoken word pieces with The Roots
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Cuesheet: Marionetas de la Esquina of Mexico's Sleeping Beauty Dreams
Sleeping Beauty Dreams reimagines the classic fairytale, using humorous storytelling and whimsical puppetry to awake the sleeping princess as never before
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Cuesheet: Teatret Gruppe 38's A Sonatina
See how everyday items transform through the magic of live performance to help tell the tale of the little girl and the big bad wolf.
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Cuesheet: NSO Young People's Concert: Summon the Heroes!
Join the National Symphony Orchestra for a rousing concert celebrating heroes
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Cuesheet: NSO Family Concert: Tchaikovsky Discovers America
Music! Dance! Chocolate! Take a magical train ride with famous Russian composer and conductor Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the man behind The Nutcracker and other classical music hits.
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Cuesheet: NSO Teddy Bear Concerts
This season's Teddy Bear Concerts invite the youngest of music lovers (and their favorite stuffed animal) to join in fun, interactive performances with musicians from the NSO.
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Cuesheet: NSO Kinderkonzert: Viva Violins
Ever wonder how people become good at playing musical instruments? Find out with the help of four violinists from the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO), who will show you the ABCs of music and playing the violin. It’s so much fun, you’ll want to cheer “Viva (long live) Violins”!
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Cuesheet: Víkingur Ólafsson: Performance & Demonstration
Get to know this young pianist and his unique musical style as he performs some of his favorite classical masterpieces by composers such as Beethoven and Debussy, in addition to some traditional Icelandic folk songs
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KC Connection: War Horse: Creating the Play
How do you bring a horse to life on stage? Find out with the video and image clips that give you a glimpse of the amazing puppetry that makes audiences forget Joey the horse isn’t a real animal.
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KC Connection: A World of Music
We’re off on a Musical Tour of Europe! The invention of the orchestra hundreds of years ago meant bigger musical possibilities, and composers all across Europe were inspired to try their hand at pushing classical music to new limits
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