If you loved watching So You Think You Can Dance Season 11 then you’re not going to want to miss seeing the top ten finalists perform live at Richmond CenterStage on December 3, 2014.

Use code SYTYCD when you purchase your tickets online (through this link) by phone or in person for the December 3rd performance.

So You Think You Can Dance, the 11-time Primetime Emmy® Award-winning show that sparked America’s fascination with dance, is set to captivate audiences again this fall. Celebrating its momentous 11th season, the tour lineup includes the following Top 10 finalists: Bridget Whitman, Casey Askew, Emilio Dosal, Jacque LeWarne, Jessica Richens, Ricky Ubeda, Rudy Abreu, Tanisha Belnap, Valerie Rockey and Zack Everhart.

Fall’s hottest ticket will feature this season’s most popular routines, as well as original pieces created specifically for the nationwide tour. 19 Entertainment and dick clark productions will present audiences around the country with the opportunity to experience the action brought into their living rooms each week on the beloved summer series, with a variety of sizzling, one-of-a-kind dance routines they have come to expect from their favorite dancers.

Tickets available at Richmond CenterStage Box Office,
online here and Charge-By-Phone at 800-514-ETIX (3849).

CenterStage and Dominion present

A SWEET VIRGINIA EVENING

Tickets are now available for this summer evening of celebration in honor of the 2014 recipients of CenterStage’s Renaissance Awards: Virginia-based musician Robbin Thompson and Altria Group,
the long-standing corporate supporter of the performing arts, also headquartered in Richmond.
What: CenterStage & Dominion present A SWEET VIRGINIA EVENING

When: Thursday, June 5, 2014 @ 7:00 p.m.

Where: Richmond CenterStage, 600 E. Grace Street

Tickets: Available now at RichmondCenterStage.com/Reniassance
or by calling Sara Greene at 804-592-3378.

Get ready for hip hop dancing, swordplay, an instrument petting zoo, and an absolute smorgasbord of all that there Richmond arts community has to offer Richmond kids and families!

Genworth Lights Up! Youth Open House, is a family event featuring more than 40 FREE workshops, lecture-demonstration and performances for children and youth from toddler to 18 years old!
This full day of fun starts at noon and continues until 5 p.m.!

Participate in FREE dance, music, theater, and visual arts workshops provided by individual artists and area arts organizations including Virginia Repertory Theatre, Latin Ballet of Virginia, Richmond Ballet, Richmond Symphony, SPARC, Pan Jan steel drum performer, Elegba Folklore Society, Henley Street Theatre Company/Richmond Shakespeare, musician Brenda Johnson and Art 180.

Performances by Latin Ballet of Virginia, Richmond Ballet’s Team XXL, SPARC, Virginia Repertory Theatre, and Silly Bus.

Limited online pre-registration runs on Monday, March 17th through Thursday, March 20. Onsite registration begins at 10:30 a.m. on event day (March 22nd)!
There’s something for everyone and it’s always a fun time.  Don’t miss the 3rd bi-annual Genworth Lights Up! Youth Open House.

WHEN:
Saturday, March 22, 2014
10:30 a.m. – Onsite Pre-Registration
12:00 Noon – 5:00 p.m. – Workshops, lecture-demonstrations, performances

WHERE:
Richmond CenterStage
600 E. Grace Street
Richmond, VA 23219

Thursday, November 21 – 6:30 pm for Copland: Clarinet Concerto with clarinetist
Ralph Skiano and conductor Steven Smith. Held in the Gottwald Playhouse at Richmond
CenterStage, this concert is conveniently downtown and is a great event for those new to the
orchestra experience, as well as for the most die-hard listeners. End your work day with friends
and live music! Tickets are just $20 and include a beverage ticket.
Tickets online at richmondsymphony.com or 1.800.514 ETIX.

RICHMOND, VA – Richmond CenterStage announced the second installment of Richmond’s premier event for young professionals with the 2013 Single in the City Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction.

On the heels of an immensely successful inaugural event that raised upwards of $40,000, this year’s fundraiser will once again be held in CenterStage’s Rhythm Hall on Saturday, May 18, 2013 and will be hosted by Style Weekly’s Editor-in-Chief, Jason Roop.

bravo!, Young Professionals for CenterStage, was created in 2012 to support CenterStage’s mission to be a catalyst for the arts in our community. They work to foster relationships between CenterStage and the community by creating unique and exciting cultural events and experiences.

The 2013 installment will feature a live auction with some of Richmond’s most eligible men and women and their fantastic date packages available to the highest bidder. Packages include fabulous local experiences, shopping sprees, great dinners at some of Richmond’s finest restaurants, the very best in the local arts scene and many more surprises. The event will also feature a silent auction.

Applications are still being accepted for eligible bachelors and bachelorettes for the auction and can be found on the event’s official website.

All proceeds help support the Artistic and Educational programs of Richmond CenterStage – including the BrightLights Education Programs, housed at the Genworth BrightLights Education Center.

Tickets

Tickets for the auction are available at the website and are $30 in advance ($35 tickets at the door), with VIP Admission at $60 per person ($75 at the door). VIP tickets include an open bar cocktail reception with the eligible bachelors and bachelorettes and premium auction seating. Online Registration closes on May 17, 2013 at 11:59 p.m.

A full schedule of events can be found below:

6:00 p.m.        VIP Meet the Bachelors and Bachelorettes Reception (VIP Admission Required)
7:00 p.m.        Doors Open and Silent Auction Opens
8:00 p.m.        Live Bachelor and Bachelorette Auction Begins

About Richmond CenterStage

A world-class performing arts facility located in the heart of Richmond on Grace Street between 6th and 7th streets, Richmond CenterStage includes the fully-renovated, 84-year-old, nearly 1,800-seat Carpenter Theatre.  In addition, CenterStage offers guests and performers three separate venues: the multi-use space Rhythm Hall; the intimate Gottwald Playhouse; and Showcase Gallery, for exhibition of the visual arts.  The Genworth BrightLights Education Center, located on the third floor, promotes arts in education to the region’s K-12 students.  Also included in CenterStage’s venues is the Landmark Theater, which is located in the heart of Richmond’s historic Fan District at 6 N. Laurel Street.

Virginia Repertory Theatre, Richmond CenterStage, and the
Richmond Public Schools’ Arts and Humanities Center
Partner with the John F. Kennedy Center to Bring Innovative
Arts Education Workshops to Richmond Public Schools Teachers

Kennedy Center teaching artist Dr. Karl Schaffer will present two workshops
exploring the relationship between dance and mathematics on February 25 and 26

RICHMOND, VA – The Richmond-based partners of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Partners in Education Program will present two teacher workshops with Master Teaching Artist Dr. Karl Schaffer on February 25 and 26, 2013.  The region’s partners are Virginia Repertory Theatre (formerly Theatre IV), Richmond CenterStage, and Richmond Public Schools’ Arts and Humanities Center, and these innovative workshops will focus on using physical movement and dance to explore and understand mathematical concepts.

Dr. Schaffer comes to Richmond from Cupertino, California, where he teaches math at DeAnza College. During the last fourteen years he has worked with dance teacher Erik Stern to develop performances, classroom activities and teacher workshops linking dance and math. Their work demonstrates that mathematical ideas become more exciting, tangible and memorable when acted out with the whole body. The interdisciplinary approach to learning demonstrated in these workshops is the cornerstone of the Kennedy Center education partnerships. More about Dr. Schaffer’s work can be found at www.mathdance.org.

“Research has long shown the effectiveness of using the arts to teach concepts in other core subjects such as math, and given the state’s recent revised math standards and testing, the partners thought this to be an extremely valuable professional development opportunity for teachers in Richmond Public Schools,” said Janet Krogman, Director of Education for CenterStage.  “Through this partnership with one of the nation’s leading performing arts center, we have the unique ability to introduce new, exciting, and engaging ways for teachers to enhance their curricula.”

“Dr. Schaffer is the nation’s foremost practitioner in using movement to teach math,” said Bruce Miller, Artistic Director of the Virginia Repertory Theatre. “As we’ve learned that different students learn in different ways, we’re excited to explore using the arts to teach math SOLs to kinesthetic learners.”

Since 1997, Virginia Repertory Theatre and Richmond Public Schools have been a part of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts’ Partners in Education Network, a program designed to assist arts organizations throughout the nation to develop or expand educational partnerships with their local school systems. The primary purpose of this program is to provide professional learning in the arts for general classroom and arts teachers.

In April 2012, Richmond CenterStage joined the team as an additional arts partner.  To date, there are 95 partnership teams across the country.

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