This past Saturday I traveled to the New Haven Green to see if I could capture images of the Forlando dance party connected to the International Festival of Arts and Ideas. As I sat waiting for people to warm to the idea of an open dance party of the such I was informed that there […]
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Saturday On The New Haven Green by Gary
Arts and Ideas and The Youth Summit meant that Saturday on the Green was the place to be. There was drumming and dancing. There was rapping and singing. There was more dancing. There was art produced using chalk and art produced using spray paint. There was fun. More in the Facebook Gallery
SAGA Garba Night by Yogasai Gazula
SAGA (the South Asian Graduate and Professional Association at Yale) celebrated the Hindu festival Navaratri, by hosting a Garba night on October 30th. Garba and Dandiya are traditional folk dances from Western India that are typically performed during the festival. Everyone who came learned the steps involved in both types of dances, and danced the […]
A Ballerina in the Streets of New Haven – Chris Randall
Emma is from France and lives/studies in England, and is here doing work and research at Yale for school until the end of the summer. Emma is also a ballerina and we recently went out and took these photos.
Celebrate Our Dixwell
Below are images from Celebrate our Dixwell a pop up festival which connects to the Festival of Arts and Ideas. Several years ago these pop ups were begun to connect the larher festival to parts of the New Haven community that Arts and Ideas didn’t seem to necessarily reach. They have become a signifier of […]
New Haven Ballet’s Shared Ability & Spring Performance – Jeffrey Kerekes
I attended two evenings of Spring Performances of the New Haven Ballet (NHB). You should check them out next year if you missed them. NHB has an excellent community outreach program called Shared Ability which I featured here on ILNH before. It is an amazingly affordable integrated class that many of the dancers come back […]