Student Recitals Continue
May 29th - June 3rd
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Tuesday May 29 7:00pm, Wednesday May 30 7:00pm, Friday June 1 7:00pm, Saturday June 2 10:30am, Sunday June 3 2:30 and 4:30pm
First Reformed Church in Hastings, N.Broadway & Main
for information email: musicprogram@riverarts.org
Conversation: Terrence O'Brien
Sunday June 10, 4 PM, Irvington Public Library
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
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O'Brien is the Founding Artistic Director of the acclaimed Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, and the director of the New World Shakespeare Lab in New York City. Interviewer Carrie Barron, MD, is a psychiatrist and author of The Creativity Cure, who specializes in creative process.
Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Video: Carrie interviews dancer Mary Ford Sussman about the transformative power of performance.
Save the date! More information coming soon.
RECENT EVENTS
Photo: Walter Strate
Information
Dance Conversation & Screening: José Limón
Saturday May 19th 7:30, The Art Academy
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Limón: A Life Beyond Words, a film portrait of the late legend of modern dance. Special Guest Carla Maxwell, Artistic Director of The Limón Dance Company with former Limón principal dancer Mary Ford-Sussman.
145 Palisade St, Dobbs Ferry.
Details of the evening [here].
RESERVATIONS recommended.
dance@riverarts.org
RiverArts Children's Chorus Performs Hansel & Gretel
The Bronx Opera Company
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May 11 & 12 7:30pm, Lovinger Theater, Lehman College; May 18 8pm & May 19 2pm, Adams Theater, Hofstra College.
Children from the Rivertowns join the Bronx Opera Company for this popular opera performed in English. Music Program Director Doug Marouk-Coe is Chorus Master .
Tickets $25-$40 RiverArts Music Program
Guy Walks Into a Bar
Our first season of dinner theater!
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Don Creedon, playwright and actor, brought 3 nights of Poor Mouth Theatre's hilarity to a full house at Comfort Restaurant. Check back for more this Fall.
A Great Tour! April 28 & 29
Two group shows and 65 artists - See map below
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Photo Story from Rivertowns Patch
See Christina Ha's report on Tour highlights on
WNET Channel 13 NYC-ARTS
Download map & brochure
Studio Tour Artists Blog
New Work: Stephen Antonakos
January 28, 2012
Exclusive SOHO Studio Reception, NYC
Exclusive SOHO Studio Reception, NYC
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Private viewing of new work with gold leaf — and panels backlit with neon. Conversation with the artist about five decades of abstract formalist work including public works at sites around the world. This event sold out. Thank you. More information.
Dance Concert Featured Monica Bill Barnes and Company
November 5th -- A night of brilliantly original dance
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The New Yorker called her "the downtown darling," and the New York Times said "Monica Bill Barnes' dance [is] too much fun to miss." We agreed.
Barnes "has great comic timing that is unusual in dance... you feel a deep connection as a human being to what she is doing and to the dancers onstage." -- Mary Ford-Sussman.
Fall Welcome Party
with Eileen Fisher
Saturday, October 15
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A celebration of the living art of the Hudson River twilight featuring merriment and your generous support for RiverArts. This event sold out -- thank you. Photos
Dance Conversation and Screening
September 24, 2011
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A screening and artist talk with Maxine Sherman, principal dancer of the Graham Company during the choreographer's lifetime. The documentary includes rare film of Graham performing. Presented with the Art Academy of Westchester, Dobbs Ferry. This event sold out -- thank you.
Private Tour with Whitney Curator
September 21, 2011
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RiverArts members toured the show Lyonel Feininger: At the End of the World with celebrated Whitney curator Barbara Haskell. Free to members. The Whitney Museum NYC.
This event sold out -- thank you.