ArtsPrep Special Offers

Periodically we are able to provide all members of ArtsPrep special opportunities to see world-class performances by top international artists. We are firmly committed to the belief that a significant part of the learning process in the arts is being able to experience the work of accomplished artists in their fields. The Tri-C Presents Season includes Dance, Music and Theatre performances of the highest quality.

We at ArtsPrep have the ability to offer free tickets to a number of these performances exclusively to ArtsPrep members. No other organization can provide this level of entertainment for free.

See below for the events that are included in this offer. Prices listed are simply for comparison sake. The value of this offer will, in most cases, exceed the cost of your ArtsPrep classes or lessons.

To book your free tickets simply email artsprep@tri-c.edu or call 216-987-6145.
Seating will be allocated on a “best-available” basis.

DANCE

Yu Wei Chinese Dance
Friday, February 19, 2010, 8 p.m.
Tri-C Metropolitan Mainstage Theatre

Prodigiously talented Chinese choreographer and dancer Yu Wei has been holding American audiences spellbound since her debut in 2000. Wei’s enthralling dance style integrates Chinese traditional, folk, Western ballet and modern dance traditions with powerful short films to create performances of vivid imagery and artistic power. Influenced by the synergy between dance, poetry and music that flourished during the Tang Dynasty, Wei’s dance art is both symbolic and expository in nature and steeped in Chinese classical literature, history and folk legend.

Tickets $17 Adult/ $15 Senior / $10 Student
General Admission

“Yu Wei’s graceful beauty . . . makes her a treasure of both China and the world.” – The Dayton Daily News

Joe Goode Performance Group
Saturday, March 13, 2010, 8 p.m.
Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare,

Returning to Tri-C after performing in the 2006-2007 season, Joe Goode Performance Group's latest work Wonderboy is a collaboration with acclaimed avant-garde puppet designer Basil Twist and eclectic composer/musicians Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi. The piece incorporates Twist’s magical puppetry into Joe Goode Performance Group’s innovative storytelling through dance, text and song. The evening-length work is an enlightening tale of an unexpected hero isolated by sensitivity and an intuitiveness that sets him apart from others, giving him an enormous power to see and heal with his gentle demeanor. Award winning choreographer, writer, and director Joe Goode is widely heralded as an innovator for his ability to combine movement with spoken word, song, and visual imagery to create stunning contemporary dance theater.

Tickets $35/$30/$20/$10
Reserved Seating – Senior and Student Discounts Available

“Performances [that] are uniformly first rate.” – The New York Times

This performance is appropriate for older students only.
There is some adult language included.

MUSIC

Enrich your soul and immerse your senses in the common language of music.

Ethos Percussion Group
Saturday, November 14, 2009, 8 p.m.
Tri-C Metropolitan Auditorium

Ethos Percussion Group, a quartet equally at home in a contemporary classical repertoire and in collaborations with musicians from non-Western traditions, integrates global instruments and playing styles into percussion chamber music for a visually and aurally compelling experience. The ensemble’s critically-acclaimed performances regularly feature numerous commissions and world premieres, traditional influences from India, West Africa and the Middle East, and landmark works by composers such as John Cage, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Steve Reich and Frank Zappa, among others. The group’s rousing performance concludes with the heralded piece Missa Luba, a mass in the Congolese (Zairian) style with a guest choir, with tom-toms providing the rhythmic canvas, developing into a collective improvisation in the call-and-response style.

Tickets $17 Adult /$15 Senior / $10 Student
General Admission

“Redefining classical music for the twenty-first century.” – Esquire

CLASSICAL PIANO RECITAL SERIES
Featuring internationally acclaimed and rising young stars, the Classical Piano Recital series in the only one of its kind in Cleveland.

First Baptist Church of Greater Cleveland
3630 Fairmount Blvd., Shaker Heights
All performances at 3:30 pm

Yunjie Chen
Sunday, November 15, 2009

Rustem Hayroudinoff
Sunday, January 10, 2010

Logan Skelton
Sunday, February 7, 2010

Chamber Music Concert
Sunday, March 21, 2010
*All tickets $20

Emanuela Friscioni and members of the Cleveland Orchestra will join forces in presenting a benefit chamber music concert with piano. The revenue of this concert will benefit Tri-C Classical Music Academy scholarships. Our goal is to give the opportunity to all our students to benefit from the arts.

Unless otherwise noted, tickets for the Piano Recital Series are $15 Adult/$10 Senior and Student (General Admission).

THEATRE

Understand the world, the past and the future through challenging and thought provoking issues wrapped in engaging stories.

The Laramie Project Epilogue: Ten Years Later
Monday, October 12, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
Pilgrim Congregational United Church of Christ in Tremont
2592 W 14th St., Cleveland

In the ten years since the Tectonic Theatre Company told the story of the brutal murder of gay University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard, Artistic Director Moises Kaufman and other company members wondered what changes affected Laramie, Wyoming since the incident brought hate crimes legislation to national attention. In a continuing effort to explore this tragedy and its effects on societal norms, the Tectonic Theatre Company revisits Laramie and many of the people portrayed in the original play. This seminal event features the Cleveland premiere of a live reading of this stunning piece by local actors – one of 20 taking place across the country – with an introduction via the internet by playwright Moises Kaufman and a pre show discussion with local members of PFLAG, LGBT Center, and Equality Ohio.

Click HERE to listen to Judy Shepard speak about her book

Click HERE to read and listen to NPR on Ten Years Later, The Matthew Shepard Story Retold

Click HERE for Laramie Project Audience Guide Part 1

Click HERE for Laramie Project Audience Guide Part 2

Click HERE for Laramie Project Audience Guide Part 3

Click HERE for Laramie Project Audience Guide Part 4

Tickets $15 Adult/$10 Students and Seniors
General Admission

“(Kaufman) has a remarkable gift for giving a compelling theatrical flow to journalistic and historical material.” – The New York Times

L.A Theatre Works: War of the Worlds/The Lost World
Friday, October 16, 2009, 8 p.m.
Ohio Theatre, PlayhouseSquare

Join L.A. Theatre Works, America's premier radio theatre company, for a special back-to-back double bill of chills, thrills and great literature as they present two masterpieces of science fiction and adventure: War of the Worlds & The Lost World. The original 1938 broadcast of War of the Worlds by Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre of the Air sent the nation into a panic over what they thought was an "eyewitness report" of an actual alien invasion. L.A. Theatre Works recreates that experience in gripping detail. The Lost World, based on a story by Arthur Conan Doyle, follows the expedition of a group of scientists. Cut off from the outside world on a primeval plateau, the fearless explorers discover a land where dinosaurs have evolved beside ape-men and the fate of the human race hangs in the balance.

L.A. Theatre Works (LATW) has been the foremost radio theater company in the United States for two decades. Broadcast in America on NPR and XM Satellite Radio, internationally on the BBC, CBC, Voice of America and many other English language networks, LATW has single-handedly brought the finest recorded dramatic literature into the homes of millions. The company records the majority of its productions annually in Los Angeles before an enthusiastic and loyal audience of season subscribers.

Tickets $35/$30/$20/$10
Reserved Seating – Senior and Student Discounts Available

“Performances that are intense, chilling and deeply moving.” – The Daily News

This presentation is supported by the Performing Arts Fund, a program of Arts Midwest funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional contributions from the Ohio Arts Council, General Mills Foundation, and Land O’Lakes Foundation.

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