Events

Register From the Horse's Mouth combines dance and theater to tell stories of dancers and dancing. This series of productions is a celebratory multi-disciplinary dance and theater production in which 20-25 performers ranging from dancers, choreographers, and dance professionals of all ages and dance traditions share memories and perform their own movement within an environment of projected images and video segments. For its 25th year celebrating the "Heart and History of Dance," From the Horse…

Register The Library for the Performing Arts presents an afternoon of dance and discovery in partnership with The Royal Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Black British Ballet Project. This special program highlights the little-known but extensive history of Black dancers in ballet in the UK and US and features performances by The Royal Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem. The live event by Dance Theatre of Harlem will take place in London with the Royal Ballet, and be livestreamed to the N…

Register The magnetic Clara Bow is remembered by her nickname, “The It Girl," but burned brightly on the screen for only 10 years. Get Your Man (1927) teams her with Charles “Buddy” Rogers, and her other hits include Mantrap (1926), It (1927), Red Hair (1928), as well as the blockbuster aviation drama Wings (1927). Unhappy in sound films, she retired at age 28 in 1933. We open this program with the recently rediscovered Charlie Murray two-reeler The Pill Pounder (’23) with Bow in an early appea…