LaGuardia Performing Art Center

2009-10 Upcoming Events
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	Around the World in 24 Hours— The Internationalists ( Lab 301) “The Internationalists is the resident theatre company for the 2009-2010 LPAC Season.” An annual event hosted by The Internationalists, spanning a 24 HOURS and held live in multiple venues around the world linked together using the best in Internet technologies. Performers are able to interact with each other, panel discussions are given a wide and vast audience, and people online have the opportunity to chat and share their experiences in REAL TIME while performances are happening. Featured events include the newest work by acclaimed Romanian playwright, Peca Stefan and the solo musical theater performance, Mujer Invisible with Puerto Rico's captivating Nancy Millán. For more information, visit: www.theinternationalists.org	November 7th at 3pm thru November 8th, 3pm Little Theatre General Admission: $24 $12 Midnight SPECIAL Click here to purchase your tickets
	Pieces of Life Dina Denis Dance / Dance Into Light, Inc. Featuring three premiere performances, Pieces of Life is a collaborative effort that defies classification. Dina Denis Dance employs evocative music, film, and inciting choreography pieces to weave together relatable stories of human life. As part of the company’s artist-to-youth mentor program, “Lonely Crowds” (Premiere) features young dancers from Nadia’s Performing Arts Center. “Love, to The Same Old Tune” (Premiere) takes the storytelling of classical blues music and applies it to dance. Using dance, music, and film, Elementary Balance (Premiere) explores the influences of human intention during ceremony and ritual over natural forces endeavoring for balance. Rounding out the program is the urban dance selection “Please Stand Clear of the Closing Doors.” Along with the harsh realties of conformance expressed in “Trickle Down, Up, and Through My Spine”.	November 14th at 8pm Little Theatre General Admission: $15 advance $20 at the door $10 Students Click here to purchase your tickets
	BLACK & WHITE Mariana Bekerman Dance Company Celebrating their ten year anniversary and returning to LPAC, the Mariana Bekerman Dance Company brings to you BLACK & WHITE. Addressing the human condition in all its complexity and diversity, in hopes of inspiring fresh dialogue, the program introduces a suite of seven evocative dances that employ motion, costumes, music, and projected images. Examining the commonalities uniting people of different countries, races, and cultures, BLACK & WHITE is designed to make our world a better place in which to live, love, and dream. This program is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the Queens Council on the Arts.	December 5th at 8pm Little Theatre General Admission: $15 advance $20 at the door $10 Students Click here to purchase your tickets
	THE NUTCRAKCER (with a special visit with Santa) featuring Ballet For Young Audiences Clara travels with the help of music and dance and imagination. Her godfather, the mystical clock maker, Herr Drosselmeyer, is the one responsible for sending Clara on this exotic trip across time with the Nutcracker Prince. Get an injection of holiday cheer, as Clara, Old Drosselmeyer, and the Nutcracker Prince take a frolicking musical journey that happens only once a year. Afterward, visit Santa in our Toyland, where each child will receive a special gift. Every young dreamer will enjoy this classic holiday tradition.	December 12th at 3pm Mainstage Theatre Reserved Seating: $12 $10 students Click here to purchase your tickets ----- Schooltime Performances: Dec 9th thru the 11th 10am & 11:30am Reservations Required Tickets: $7 one free seat per every 10 paid seats Click here to Print & send your completed order form to: ATT: Dona Fombellida 31-10 Thomson Avenue Rm E241 LIC, NY 11101 or Fax to: 718-609-2061
	NAI-NI CHEN CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION With dazzling costumes and fantastic props, the dancers combine the flowing lines, twirling ribbons, martial arts and acrobatic moves in this colorful celebration of the Chinese New Year of the Tiger. This is an extraordinary production that brings the young people to explore one of the most ancient cultures in the world and it includes both traditional and contemporary music and dance. The New York Times says that Nai-Ni Chen's singular style which weaves the discipline of Chinese Arts with the freedom of American modern dance, is "an impressive, remarkably smooth blend of new and old."	Feb 1st & Feb 2nd 10am & 11:30am Reservations Required Tickets: $7 one free seat per every 10 paid seats Click here to Print & send your completed order form to: ATT: Dona Fombellida 31-10 Thomson Avenue Rm E241 LIC, NY 11101 or Fax to: 718-609-2061
	ANDREW CLEMENTS' FRINDLE Produced by The Griffin Theatre Company Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker are over. Everyone knows that Mrs. Granger, the language arts teacher, has X-ray vision, and nobody gets away with anything in her classroom. To make matters worse, she's also a fanatic about the dictionary, which is hopelessly boring to Nick. But when Nick learns an interesting tidbit about words and where they come from, it inspires his greatest plan yet: to invent a new word. From now on, a pen is no longer a pen -- it's a Frindle. “Frindle is …about discovering the true nature of words, language, thought, community, learning. It’s also about great teaching and great teachers, and about the life that surges through corridors and classrooms every school day.” - Andrew Clements	March 9th 10am & 11:30am Reservations Required Tickets: $7 one free seat per every 10 paid seats Click here to Print & send your completed order form to: ATT: Dona Fombellida 31-10 Thomson Avenue Rm E241 LIC, NY 11101 or Fax to: 718-609-2061