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The Artisphere in Arlington, Virginia. Artisphere was an arts center located in the Rosslyn section of Arlington, Virginia.The center encompassed four performance venues, three visual art galleries, an artist in residence studio, a 4,000 square foot ballroom, studio space, social gathering spots, food service facilities, a bar and lounge area as well as outdoor terraces.
Paata Tsikurishvili and Irina Tsikurishvili, Founding Artistic Director and Founding Choreographer of Synetic Theater. Founded in 2001, [2] Synetic Theater began as an artistic subgroup within the now defunct Stanislavsky Theater Studio which performed at the Church Street Theater in Washington, D.C., the result of an artistic split by the husband and wife team of Paata and Irina Tsikurishvili ...
3700. Website. www.levinemusic.org. Levine Music is a non-profit community music center serving the Greater Washington DC metropolitan area. Levine currently operates four campuses, in Northwest DC, Southeast DC, Strathmore MD, and Arlington VA. [ 1] Levine welcomes students of all ages and abilities, from all economic backgrounds.
Signature Theatre is a Tony Award-winning regional theater company based in Arlington, Virginia. Cameron Mackintosh, Terrence McNally, James Lapine, John Kander, and Fred Ebb are among those that have presented works here. Since 1991, Signature has had a long relationship with Stephen Sondheim, having staged more than 30 productions of his ...
Memorial Amphitheater is an outdoor amphitheater, exhibit hall, and nonsectarian chapel located in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, in the United States. It was designed in 1913 as a replacement for the older, wooden amphitheater near Arlington House. Ground was broken for its construction in March 1915 and it was ...
Sallie Wilson (April 18, 1932, Fort Worth, Texas – April 27, 2008) was a ballerina who appeared with New York City Ballet where she danced opposite Martha Graham in the premiere of Graham and George Balanchine 's collaboration at NYCB, Episodes in May, 1959, and subsequently with American Ballet Theatre, where she was associated with several ...
The center opened on schedule on July 1, although the inaugural season opening was delayed one month. That summer, 60 young musical performers were chosen for training in music, dance and acting, to culminate in a production at the center. On April 14, 1982, the Filene Center was destroyed by fire.
The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]