News and Events Press Room Press Releases Young Audiences Artists Perform at "Louvre Atlanta"

 

October 12, 2006 (Atlanta) – Young Audiences artists helped to launch the “Louvre Atlanta” festivities last weekend with a performance in Woodruff’s Nalley Piazza. That performance was the first among many more to come as part of a collaboration between Young Audiences and the High Museum designed to maximize the experience of museum-goers drawn to the new “Louvre Atlanta” exhibit. Performances that include mask theatre, caricature and musical traditions from around the world will wow visitors every weekend from now through November 26, 2006.

 

This partnership between Young Audiences and the High Museum represents the growing spirit of collaboration among the divisions that compose the Woodruff Arts Center. The presence of dynamic artists in the Piazza invites pedestrians on Peachtree Street to come and explore the wealth of arts and cultural experiences the Center has to offer. They also provide a performing element to all the activities within the High, celebrating this unprecedented partnership with the Musée du Louvre in Paris.   Events like the Young Audiences performances in Nalley Piazza are likely to become more common as the Woodruff seeks to solidify its position as a Village for the Arts welcoming all the communities encompassing Atlanta, including families with young children.

 

Young Audiences artists typically offer arts-in-education programs to children in a school setting. The “Louvre Atlanta” performances offer parents and community members a rare opportunity to enjoy the artistry and instruction of Young Audiences’ master teaching artists at a public venue. One artist or ensemble will perform in the Piazza from 1-4 PM each Saturday and Sunday through the end of November. There will also be a special Friday performance on November 24. The schedule of performances is as follows:

 

Sat., 10/14            Gateway Performance Productions

Sun., 10/15           Havana Son

Sat., 10/21            Havana Son

Sun., 10/22           Dave Ellington

Sat., 10/28            Troika Balalaikas

Sun., 10/29           Tahino

Sat., 11/04            Rialto Jazz for Kids featuring the Phoenix Jazztet

Sun., 11/05           Sapien

Sat., 11/11            Dave Ellington

Sun., 11/12           Havana Son

Sat., 11/18            Ritmo Blu

Sun., 11/19           Rialto Jazz for Kids featuring the Phoenix Jazztet

Fri., 11/24            Tim Oliphant

Sat., 11/25            Tahino

Sun., 11/26           Sapien   

 

For more information about each of these performing artists, visit Young Audiences online at www.yawac.org. Visit the “Louvre Atlanta” site at www.louvreatlanta.org for more information about the exhibit at the High.

 

Young Audiences, Woodruff Arts Center (YAWAC) is a leading provider of arts-in-education programming in the Southeast. Part of the 32-chapter national Young Audiences organization, YAWAC brings the power of live arts experiences to Georgia students from pre-school to high school. From a small organization of nine artists in 1982, YAWAC has grown into a force in arts education, comprising more than 65 professional artists and ensembles that reach more than one million students each year.  We fulfill our mission – to improve the life and education of every child through the arts – by providing a dazzling and culturally diverse array of curriculum-based performances, workshops and residencies in music, dance, theatre, literary and visual arts.

 

The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the southeastern United States. With over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection, the High Museum of Art has an extensive anthology of 19^th- and 20^th-century American art, significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art, a growing collection of African American art, and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The High is also dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art. The High’s Media Arts department produces acclaimed annual film series and festivals of foreign, independent and classic cinema. In November 2005, the High opened three new buildings by architect Renzo Piano that more than doubled the Museum’s size, creating a vibrant “village for the arts” at the Woodruff Arts Center in midtown Atlanta. For more information about the High, please visit www.High.org.

 

The Woodruff Arts Center is the largest arts centers in the Southeast as well as one of the four largest in the nation. The Woodruff is unique in that it combines five visual and performing arts divisions on one campus as one not-for-profit organization. Opening in 1968, the Woodruff Arts Center is home to the Alliance Theatre, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the High Museum of Art, Young Audiences and the 14^th Street Playhouse.

 

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Amy Turner                                        Communications Director, Tel: 404-733-5308/Fax: 404-733-5236