Be a part of Adventure Theatre’s musical theatre world at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in a camp complete with choreography, acting and singing!  Each two-week workshop concludes with two full-scale productions with costumes and props on stage at the Atlas!

Children, ages 6-12, will participate in classes, workshops, and rehearsals culminating in the productions of either, Disney’s Mulan Jr. or Tom Sawyer. Children will be cast in one show or the other after the beginning of camp. Camp is weekdays from 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM.  Aftercare will be provided from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM at an additional cost.

Session 1:  July 2 – July 13 (No camp July 4)
Session 2:  July 16 – July 27

50% non-refundable deposit due at registration
Balance due June 25 for Session 1 and July 9 for Session 2
Full payment due for all online registrations
Contact the Atlas Box Office for assistance, 202.399.7993 x2

Register Now for Adventure Theatre’s Summer Music Theatre Camp at the ATLAS

Fridays 10:30am
$5 per child
(siblings under 6 months free!)
Boogie Babes was created by two moms, Amanda Clarke and Kara Morrissey when they decided they didn’t want to drive super far for quality kid’s music. In the Spring of 2008, they got in touch with some local children’s musicians, a local coffee shop, and Boogie Babes was born!  They have had almost weekly shows on Capitol Hill ever since then! Amanda and Kara live on Capitol Hill and are both moms to three adorable kids under 5 – two boys and a girl each!

Theater Alliance proudly presents the World Premiere of Hum written by Nicholas Wardigo and directed by Artistic Director Colin Hovde and Associate Artistic Director Nathaniel Mendez.   This bold new piece of theater challenges our expectations of storytelling.  Set in a world filled with a constant, pervasive hum that blocks out verbal communication, Van and Eva live an uneventful life.  When a stranger emerges and breaks the hum, Van and Eva must re-discover how to connect in new ways.  Nothing is safe in this dangerous new world, unless the status quo can be restored…But at what cost? This contemporary allegory echoes Orwell and Asminov and packs a mighty punch.

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Composer/arranger Gil Evans was influential in the development of cool jazz, modal jazz, free jazz and jazz fusion, working with icon Miles Davis on a series of highly praised albums including “Porgy and Bess” and “Sketches of Spain” and working with his own groups.  His early career includes work with Claude Thornhill’s Orchestra, the Miles Davis Nonet and after 1957, a series of projects under his own name, featuring Steve Lacy, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Cleveland, and Kenny Burrell as featured soloists.  He worked with artists outside jazz, most notably David Bowie, Sting and the Police, and a recording of music by Jimi Hendrix. From 1984 until his death in 1988, Evans led a Monday night big band at New York City jazz club Sweet Basil.  ATLAS presents Evans’ music with several ensembles including nonet, tentet, big band, and jazz orchestra.

Get Tickets to Out of the Cool: Gil Evans at 100

The award-winning Batavia Madrigal Singers, an outstanding vocal ensemble from Indonesia, comes to the Atlas Performing Arts Center in partnership with Capital Hill Arts Workshop. Avip Priatna serves as Music Director and conducts this internationally known ensemble. The ensemble has performed in many prestigious international festivals and competitions in France, China, and Taiwan.  The ensemble has also toured Europe, appearing in Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, and Spain.

Get Tickets to Batavia Madrigal Singers.

Watch the Batavia Madrigal Singers performing Gabriel Faure’s “Les Djinns.”

Read the interview from Modern Luxury

Get tickets to International Contemporary Ensemble.

“There is no more defiant a land that I can think of than AXIS. They showed me what dance could be.” -Bill T. Jones.

AXIS creates, performs, and teaches “physically integrated dance”— a contemporary dance form that evolves from the collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities.
Founded in 1987, AXIS has become a jewel of contemporary dance and disability culture. AXIS has paved the way for a powerful contemporary dance form – physically integrated dance – performing
nationwide, as well as in Europe and Siberia.

Under the Artistic Direction of Judith Smith, the company has commissioned works by such movement innovators as David Dorfman, Alex Ketley, Stephen Petronio, Bill T. Jones, Joe Goode, Joanna Haigood, Sonya Delwaide, Victoria Marks, Ann Carlson and Margaret Jenkins. AXIS’ own choreographers have created numerous repertory works, three evening-length works and two works for young audiences – expanding AXIS’ full repertory to include over seventyfive works. AXIS has received seven Isadora Duncan Dance Awards and has been featured on KQED’s SPARK program, KRCB’s One in 5 Stories, WNET’s nationally broadcast People In Motion. Most recently, AXIS was named one of the top 10 high-impact arts nonprofits in the Bay Area by Philanthropedia

Watch a performance of To Color Me Different

Funded in part by the NDP of the NEFA and the NEA.

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Celebrate dance with JOMDC Youth Companies Groove Elements, DanceFusion Jazz Project and Soles of Steel with special guest Hip Hop Prep Class students!

Adults $20; Students/Seniors $15-  Advance

Adtul $25; Students/Seniors $20 – At the Door

Get Tickets to JOMDC Youth Company Concert.

A group of friends in 1960s Brooklyn reminisces about the trying times of their past, questioning social, economic, and cultural standards while simultaneously sharing the story of the birth of hip-hop. This historic dance fresco, which was partly created in New York City in 2011 during an artistic residence of KLP in the city.

Cie KLP is a reference in the world of French Hip Hop dance. Created in 1999, it has given birth to 8 shows, that tour regularly throughout Europe. Now led by dancer and choreographer Sofian Jouini, the company stresses the importance of transmission to younger dancers, of collaboration with other companies and other artistic disciplines, and of the multiple ways to promote Hip Hop cultures and values.

Watch an excerpt of the performance here.

This event is part of Urban Corps, a transatlantic hip hop festival organized by the Alliance Française de Washington. For more information, visit francedc.org

Get Tickets to Tour of Duty by Compagnie KLP

Dan Tepfer is a New York-based pianist and composer and one of the most formidable jazz musicians on the international stage — hailed as “brilliant” by The Boston Globe, “remarkable” by The Washington Post.  Dan has developed a rare improvisational gift and a complex yet deeply melodic approach to music. He has performed the world over as a soloist and in a full orchestra, exploring a a personal aesthetic, a unif­ed artistic identity. After graduating in 2005 from Boston’s New England Conservatory, where he completed his masters under the guidance of Danilo Perez, Dan moved to New York and quickly became an in-demand player and composer.

Dan has also had the extraordinary privilege of an ongoing partnership with alto saxophonist and jazz luminary Lee Konitz. The two documented their rapport on the acclaimed 2009 Sunnyside CD Duos With Lee. They have appeared together live at the Village Vanguard and many other leading jazz venues.

Dan’s numerous awards include ­first prize and audience prize at the 2006 Montreux Jazz Festival Solo Piano Competition, fi­rst prize at the 2006 East Coast Jazz Festival Competition, and fi­rst prize at the 2007 competition of the American Pianists Association.  Dan has also been named a Cultural Envoy of the U.S. State Department, with recent travels to Azerbaijan, Georgia and the Czech Republic.

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presented as Jazz in the ‘Hoods as part of the DC Jazz Festival

Mark Turner’s elegant, abstract and thoughtful playing has been much remarked on by his contemporaries. Brad Meldau has noted that Mark “doesn’t court the theatrics associated with his instrument… (He is) playing with a direct candor usually reserved for older players.” And the older players, too, have been taking note.  Lee Konitz noted,  “I think Mark is a very serious contender. He’s really playing lines up there as Warne Marsh could do – and Mark uses that register much more than Warne did.”

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Join tenor saxophonists Ted Brown and Brad Linde for a performance and masterclass on the music of Lester Young, Charlie Parker and the Tristano School.

presented as Jazz in the ‘Hoods as part of the DC Jazz Festival

The Rodney Richardson Trio is one of the few organ trios in Washington DC, featuring original compositions, jazz standards and adaptations of modern jazz and rock songs. With Will Rast on organ and Larry Ferguson on drums, 2 of DC’s top players, the guitar-led trio has a truly unique sound. Vocalist Lena Seikaly has been dubbed “one of the local jazz scene’s most promising performers” and “brightest voices in jazz” byThe Washington Post.  Lena is already making her mark as both a revivalist of traditional jazz vocals, as well as an innovator in contemporary vocal jazz styles.

Masterclass with Rodney Richardson and Lena Seikaly at 6:00 PM.

Get tickets to Rodney Richardson Trio with vocalist Lena Seikaly.