The founders of Lafayette’s Creole Nutcracker have had success carving out a new performing arts tradition in the community, and now they’re setting their eyes on bringing more boys and young men into ...
A new record by Nouveau Electric Records scheduled for release on June 19 captures an early 20th-century style of music from house dances in rural Acadiana by one of its last practitioners. Creole ...
This post originally published on KQED, San Francisco’s NPR and PBS affiliate. See more of KQED Arts’ award-winning video series If Cities Could Dance here. KQED filmed this episode in February, ...
The rhythmic heartbeat of Creole culture comes alive at the George & Joyce Wein Jazz & Heritage Center on Friday, March 29, from 7 – 10 p.m. In a celebration of unity and musical diversity, the Dance ...
Barry Ancelet, then 23 and a University of Louisiana at Lafayette student, was plenty worried on a stormy night at Blackham Coliseum 50 years ago this day. Stakes were high. Assigned to work at the ...
Dance Theatre of Harlem (Virginia Johnson, Eddie J. Shellman, Lowell Smith, Cassandra Phifer, Lorraine Graves, Zelda Wynn, Judy Tyrus, Augustus Van Heerden, principal dancers) ; Danish Radio Concert ...