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Yahoo
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture announces 2025-26 performance lineup
(WJET/WFXP) – A local university is hosting over half a dozen performers to keep the Erie community entertained and in awe. Starting in September 2025 and spanning all the way until May 2026, the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture (MIAC) is hosting a plethora of different show-stopping live events for the public. From Academy Award-nominated stars to world-class dances, there's sure to be something for everyone to enjoy. 'I'm excited to welcome seven remarkable artists to Mercyhurst who will be performing here for the first time, alongside three returning favorites who continue to inspire and entertain our audiences,' said Dr. Brett D. Johnson, artistic director. 'These performers are masters of their craft, and we're honored to share their unique talents with our community. This season promises to be one of our most memorable yet.' Mercyhurst University president named among Top Women Leaders of PA The lineup is as follows: Thursday, September 4 The Beacon Brothers Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 7 Soweto Gospel Choir – Peace Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, November 11 Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 13 Darren Criss Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, December 10 Melissa Errico: The Secret Diary of Mrs. Santa Walker Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 18 Tango After Dark Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 18 Cheyenne Jackson, Signs of Life Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 17 Betty Buckley Walker Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 8 Seth Rudetsky: Divas by the Decade Walker Recital Hall 7:30 p.m. Those interested in buying tickets can get special access by joining The 501 or The Silver Circle, membership societies of the Mercyhurst Institute for Arts & Culture. Single tickets go on sale on Tuesday, July 29, at noon. To purchase tickets, you can go in person to the Mary D'Angelo Performing Arts Center box office, call 814-824-3000 or go online here. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Wall Street Journal
05-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Wall Street Journal
‘Tango After Dark' Review: Germán Cornejo's Contemporary Take on a Classic Style
New York 'Tango After Dark,' the two-act showcase of dance and music at the Joyce Theater through Sunday, is a decidedly contemporary take on a style whose roots go back to 19th-century Argentina, where the social dance for couples in upright embraces began life in bars and brothels. The suite has been choreographed in collaboration with the show's dancers by Germán Cornejo and assistant choreographer Gisela Galeassi, who with Mr. Cornejo makes up its leading couple. Each has garnered titles as World Tango Champions.
New York Times
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Review: Tango Passion as Muscular Feats
The dancers in 'Tango After Dark,' an Argentine production that opened a two-week run at the Joyce Theater on Tuesday, are skilled, seasoned professionals. Their biographies list the many competitions they have won and the many shows in which they have performed, most with 'tango' in the title. What distinguishes 'Tango After Dark' from these other tango shows? Not much. This one is directed and choreographed by German Cornejo (no relation to Herman Cornejo, the Buenos Aires-born ballet star who was at the Joyce last week). He and his partner, Gisela Galeassi, are joined by four other couples and an onstage band that plays adaptations of compositions by the great Astor Piazzolla. 'Tango After Dark' contains all that you might expect from a tango show. There are elegantly dressed couples moving as one in ballroom holds, sensually cool up top while their legs flick like grasshoppers, sneaking between the legs of their partner as often as possible, the women's legs periodically wrapping around the waists of the men. Routines are punctuated by deep lunges and dips. And since this is presentational tango, the women's legs sometimes extend above their heads, stretching past 12 o'clock. And the men don't just lift the women in low flight, allowing them to doodle with their feet in the air. They lift them overhead, one handed, or swoop them in loop-de-loops — feats met by mid-number applause. This two-hour show has a nominal theme. A singer, Antonela Cirillo, welcomes us to Buenos Aires, 'the city that never sleeps,' and most of her songs, which she sings in Spanish, refer to the city. At the start and several times later, a dancer in a Louise Brooks bob pretends to play a bandoneon, the accordionlike instrument central to the sound of tango. This theatrical idea, both inane and inept, is as imaginative as 'Tango After Dark' gets. Each couple is given a featured spot. There is a four-man number, with a dash of the male-male partnering traditional in tango. There is one for a woman and two men. There are group numbers during which the dancers circle and change partners carousel fashion. And after intermission, there is more of the same. All this would be tolerable if the dancing were better. Presentational tango tends to strip the dance of its intimacy, of the sense of a conversation in the language of the feet. That's the case here. All the chemistry is put on, and while the costumes keep changing, the couples aren't sufficiently distinguishable by style. These dancers express passion mainly with muscle, and when their traveling footwork gets fast, it gets frantic and messy. The soul of tango — the subtle play of electric musicality and wit against a sense of fatedness, what the tango lyricist Enrique Santos Discépolo characterized as 'a sad thought dancing' — is mostly absent. The music doesn't help. Cirillo is more impressive pop belter than chanteuse. The drum-heavy arrangements of Piazzolla aren't improvements, and at least on opening night the band had trouble locking into the same groove. The musicians fared better when not accompanying the dancers, sampling more of Piazzolla's wilder, avant-garde side. That music isn't really meant for dancing, but if Cornejo had taken on the challenge, it would have been a welcome sign of boldness. As it is, 'Tango After Dark' is basically an overextended nightclub floor show, the kind offered to tourists in Buenos Aires, now offered to stay-at-home tourists in New York.
Egypt Independent
10-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Egypt Independent
‘Tango After Dark' to perform in Egypt on Valentine's Day
The Argentinean musical performance 'Tango After Dark' will perform a concert on February 14th to celebrate Valentine's Day at one of Cairo's major hotels, coming as part of the 'Layali Misr' (Egyptian Nights) events which aim to promote Egypt's as a destination for global cultural and artistic events. The event comes out of cultural and artistic cooperation between Egypt and Argentina. Other concerts will be held at the Cairo Opera House on February 15 and 16 at eight pm. This event comes in joint cooperation between the Argentine Embassy in Cairo, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, and the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, and aims to highlight the cultural diversity and artistic openness that characterizes Egypt, as well as to enhance cooperation between both countries in arts and culture. Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
