Get a jump start on planning for next year’s Ordway school
performances!
The Spring Pre-Sale on May 18, 2012 at 8 a.m. will be your
first chance to reserve tickets to the Ordway 2012-2013 Performing Arts
Classroom and New Broadway Songbook school performances. Payment is not due
upon ordering, but all pre-sale orders must be paid in full by August 17, 2012
or ticket orders will be canceled and released.
Pre-Sale orders may be placed by:
Phone: 651.282.3115
Mail: Education Sales, 345 Washington Street, Saint Paul, MN
55102
Fax: 651.215.2135
The 2013 Flint Hills International Children’s Festival will
be announced in August 2012. Festival tickets will go on sale August 31, 2012.
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SCHOOL PERFORMANCE SERIES
Performing Arts Classroom Series
50-60 minute performance | $3.50 Tickets | Recommended for
grade K-12
The Performing Arts Classroom series provides students a
unique glimpse in to World Music and Dance!
These are 50-60 minute weekday matinees that feature world renowned
performing artist from around the globe. Performing Arts classrooms take place
in the Ordway’s Music Theater.
NEW! Broadway Songbook Series
90 minute performance | $5.00 Tickets | Recommended for
grades 6-12
The Broadway Songbook Series gives your students a window
into the world of musical theater through the works of some of the most famous
songwriters of all time! Each 90-minute performance will be a mix of the
composers’ life stories, a glimpse into what made their work extraordinary and
a sampling of their work through live vocal performances. Broadway Songbook
performances take place in the Ordway’s McKnight Theatre.
2012-2013 PERFORMING ARTS CLASSROOM SERIES
Lila Downs
Oct 16, 2012 | Recommended Grades 4-12 | Music
Lila Downs has traversed the planet, bringing her unique
reinvention of traditional ranchera music and original compositions fused with
blues, jazz, soul, and African roots. Some would classify this Oaxaca-born,
Minnesota raised singer as a Mexican artist, but there is no real way to
categorize her unique and exciting fusion of international sounds.
Delfos Danza Contemporánea
Oct 22 & 23, 2012 | Recommended Grades 6-12 | Dance
The mask is a disguise, but it can also be a useful one;
however, all masks fall away and in the end we are left with our true selves.
In their newest dance piece, Delfos examines the masks we wear to survive, to
love and to endure the world that seems never to want us to take our masks off.
Delfos Danza Contemporánea was founded in 1992 by Mexican choreographers/
dancers Claudia Lavista and Victor Manuel Ruiz. Calling Mazatlán, Mexico
homebase, the company is a unique collective of artists whose creative vision
is characterized by the fluid physicality and poetic narratives within their
diverse repertoire.
Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Band
Oct 26, 2012 | Recommended Grades 2-8 | Music
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| Photo by Devin-Dehaven |
Join Poncho Sanchez as he stirs a fiery stew of jazz, soul
music and infectious melodies and rhythms from a variety of Latin American and
South American sources. Two of the primary architects of Latin jazz-conga
drummer and composer Chano Pozo and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie— are Sanchez’s
major musical influences. Get ready to groove as Sanchez and his band transform
the Ordway into a Latin jazz nightclub with the congas, trombone, timbales,
bongos, and more!
Buckwheat Zydeco
Feb 6 & 7, 2013 | Recommended Grades K-6 | Music
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| Photo by Rick Olivier |
American musical legend Stanley “Buckwheat” Dural Jr.—along
with his band, Buckwheat Zydeco—is the preeminent ambassador of Louisiana
zydeco music. Buckwheat and his band introduce students to the sounds of zydeco
through a smoking accordion, rocking Hammond B3 organ, rollicking rub board, and
sizzling guitar licks creating a musical gumbo of Creole culture on stage.
Buckwheat Zydeco will deliver a musical party of funk, rhythm and blues and
contemporary zydeco that will have students dancing in their seats!
VocalEssence: WITNESS
Feb 19 & 20, 2013 | Recommended Grades 4-12 | Music
VocalEssence celebrates the legacy of Marian Anderson,
celebrated African American contralto. In 1939, after Anderson was being
refused permission to perform at Constitutional Hall, First Lady Eleanor
Roosevelt helped Anderson arrange a concert on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial. Anderson sang for more than 75,000 people and to a radio audience of
millions. In a semi-staged performance, students will learn how Anderson’s
undeniable talent made her a force more powerful than the discriminatory norms
of that time. The performance features Marlissa Hudson as Anderson and the
VocalEssence singers. Set on the eve of her performance at Dr. King’s March
on Washington, Anderson becomes a
powerful role model to young people by sharing her life story.
Eileen Ivers & Immigrant Soul
Mar 18, 2013 | Recommended Grades 2-8 | Music
Legendary nine-time all- Ireland fiddle champion, Eileen
Ivers respectfully explores the traditions and progression of Celtic music.
Joined on stage by the band Immigrant Soul, Ivers blends her fiddling with
instruments from around the world including the accordion, bouzouki, congas,
and harmonica. The original star of Riverdance, she is hailed as one of the
great innovators and pioneers in the Celtic and world music genres. Called the
“Jimmy Hendrix of the violin” by the New York Times, Eileen Ivers will change
how you think about the violin!
Black Grace
Mar 19 & 20, 2013 | Recommended Grades 4-12 | Dance
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| Photo by Duncan Cole |
Black Grace takes the stage with an explosive program that
mixes athleticism, rhythm, physical strength, and energy. This leading
contemporary dance company from New Zealand fuses Pacific traditional cultures
with contemporary dance in an extraordinary and dynamic form. Founding Artistic
Director Neil Ieremia not only weaves two styles of dance together while he
choreographs but also uses three key Samoan principles to guide his company.
These principles are: Fa’amaoni (meaning integrity, honesty and pride),
Fa’amalosi/Loto Tele (meaning perseverance and determination) and Fa’aloalo
(meaning humility and respect).
PILOBOLUS
May 3, 2013 | Recommended Grades K-8 | Dance
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| Photo by John Kane |
Creating zany moving shapes, Pilobolus opens their world of
movement to the audience. Known for their unique style involving the
entanglement and contortions of bodies, dancers are often seen as being able to
defy the laws of gravity. Pilobolus demystifies their process of improvisation,
creativity and collaboration in this truly laugh-out-loud experience. Pilobolus will stretch one’s definition of
modern dance through their highly athletic and inventive, performances, giving
audiences a brief glimpse into the idea that movement is everywhere and is an
important part of everyday life.
2012-2013 BROADWAY SONGBOOK SERIES
Rodgers & Hammerstein
& Hart
Sept 27, 2012 | Recommended Grades 6-12 | Theater
Richard Rodgers was one of the most prolific composers of the
20th century. He began his career with Lorenz Hart, and together they wrote the
unforgettable hit songs “My Funny Valentine,” “Blue Moon,” and hundreds of
others. He teamed up with Oscar Hammerstein II to write a catalog of the most
enduring pieces of classic musical theater: Oklahoma, Carousel, The King and I,
South Pacific, and The Sound of Music. Richard Rodgers is undoubtedly a legend
among legends.
Stephen Sondheim
Jan 24, 2013 | Recommended Grades 6-12 | Theater
Picking up where his mentor, the renowned Oscar Hammerstein
II, left off, Stephen Sondheim is by far the most influential theatrical
composer and lyricist of the latter part of the 20th century. His work helped
define the “concept” musical. He wrote the lyrics to West Side Story and Gypsy,
and wrote words and music for A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum,
Sweeney Todd, Into The Woods, A Little Night Music, Sunday in the Park With
George, and others.
Cole Porter
Apr 25, 2013 | Recommended Grades 6-12 | Theater
Cole Porter’s brazen wit and lively melodies made him a
one-of-a-kind sensation. His style defined an era of Broadway musicals that
were rollicking and sassy. “You’re The Top;” “I Get A Kick Out Of You;” “So In
Love;” “Another Opening;” “Another Show;” “Night and Day” and “True Love” are
just a handful of his titles that still endure today. Cole Porter is not only a
master of the Broadway songbook, but a master of the great American songbook.
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