Month: August 2013
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New York exhibition celebrates the timeless elegance of Monaco
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Monaco’s Consulate General and Tourist Office in New York is currently hosting a fascinating photographic retrospective, Timeless Monaco, at The Forbes Galleries on Fifth Avenue. A combined presentation of two exhibitions – Monte-Carlo Legends and Forever Monte-Carlo – it celebrates the elegance, style and allure of Monaco, which has endured since the Principality was first…
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Tom Gold Dance performs at the Guggenheim, Bilbao
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New York ballet company, Tom Gold Dance, is to perform in the Stars of Ballet season at El Auditorio del Museo Guggenheim in Bilbao next week. Part of the programme Works & Process at the Guggenheim, it will be the fifth time that the company has been invited to Spain to participate in this event.…
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Lucerne Festival celebrates Diamond Jubilee
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The 2013 Lucerne Festival opens on August 16th, and this year celebrates not only its 75th anniversary, but the 10th anniversary of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and the Lucerne Festival Academy. Special jubilee celebrations will take place on August 25th, in and around the KKL Luzern (Culture and Convention Centre), 75 years to the day…
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World premiere at Jacob’s Pillow for New York City Ballet’s Wendy Whelan
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Wendy Whelan is thrilling audiences at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival this week with a complete departure from the roles in which she normally appears as a principal dancer of New York City Ballet. Aptly titled Restless Creature, this suite of contemporary duets enables one of today’s most celebrated ballerinas to pursue a new outlet for…