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
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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 […]
New Haven Ballet’s DanceAIR & Spring Performance – Jeffrey Kerekes
Here are some photos from the Spring performance which includes New Haven Ballet’s Company dancers and children from a number of New Haven public schools to introduce them to dance. Learn more about New Haven Ballet’s DanceAIR: DanceAIR is an outreach program offered by New Haven Ballet, which makes dance accessible to underserved urban children […]
New Haven Ballet’s DanceAIR + May Performance Dates – Jeffrey Kerekes
We are hoping that you can attend our DanceAIR performance on Friday, May 8 at 7:00 pm at the Fair Haven School Theater, 164 Grand Ave., New Haven. All tickets are complimentary and the performance is open to the public free of charge. DanceAIR Program Details: New Haven Ballet (NHB)’s DanceAIR program brings high quality […]