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The Virginia Arts Festival Dance Series continues this weekend with a performance by Norfolk’s own Todd Rosenlieb Dance--Les Noces (The Wedding); a dance cantata that premiered in 1923 Paris. 

Jessy Davis showed up in my art universe like the Pegasus, which sprung forth from the blood of Medusa fully formed and raring to go. That's not to say that before we met she wasn't already extremely successful as a working artist--she was. What I mean is, when I finally met her at Better Block a couple weeks ago, I thought, 'How do I not already know this woman?!'

When we came up with the concept for the Found Art Exhibition, I was genuinely concerned that we'd get a bunch of maccaroni paintings and garbage-laden sculptures, and that TFC Recycling (the project's sponsor) as well as Norfolk City Hall (the exhibition venue) would not want to have anything to do with me ever again. 

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I stood on my feet, clapping and cheering, as the Birminham Royal Ballet dancers took their final bows for Saturday night’s performance of Coppélia. I turned to see that everyone in the audience was standing and cheering like I was. As I looked around, I reflected on the superb and sparkling performance that BRB presented at Chrysler Hall.

Les Miserables first opened at the Barbicare Theater in London on October 8, 1985. Upon opening, It received some rather awful reviews from the press, but all the while managed to sell out and blow theater-goers away with its powerful story and evocative music. Over 25 years later, the show has been running there ever since, making it the second longest running musical in the world! 

If you are looking for love (in all the wrong places or in all the right places), or you are looking to become lost in language, or if you are looking for an ass’s head, venture down to the Mary T. Christian Auditorium starting April 12 and continuing through April 21.

The Governor’s School for the Arts photography students "created with their hands what their young eyes chose to capture and reveal."

Her stage presence mixes Liza Minella with Queen’s Freddy Mercury, the wit of Joan Rivers and Mike Myer’s SNL character Dita from Sprockets, and the vocal stylings of Edith Piaf and Amanda Palmer all rolled into one improvised stream of consciousness.

Some of the course descriptions may sound satirical or unserious, I agree, like the courses “Banality Based Banality” or “Underwater Procrastination,” but that’s probably because the teachers are innovative artists and thinkers and like their course names to sound catchy.

It’s not often one encounters a play that can make an audience feel such a sincere and wide range of emotions.

As we knew that it of course would, the arts district project has morphed, evolved and taken on a very real life of its own.

The Empty Bowls Peninsula charity event is coming up next month, and David got to interview one of the featured potters, Susan Yager.