Wednesday, April 17: Environmentalists seeking to reduce our carbon footprint and stave off global warming worry that this new structure (Zone G) will make the Hudson Valley a target for the construction of new power plants that burn fossil fuels, especially fracked gas.
Saturday-Sunday, April 13-14: Bessie Award-winning choreographer Ephrat Asherie, artist-in-residence this year at Bard College, makes her Fisher Center debut with Odeon, a high-energy, hybrid dance work set to and inspired by the music of early-20th-century Brazilian composer Ernesto Nazareth, played live.
The Kingston Police Department is investigating a report of shots fired at an occupied Henry Street residence.
New Paltz Central School District Superintendent Maria Rice and high school principal Barbara Clinton have announced that Claire Deen Taylor has been named the 2019 valedictorian of New Paltz High School. Elijah Tamarchenko is this year’s salutatorian.
Friday, Apr. 5: In existence since the early 1960s, the Skatalites scored numerous hits under their own name and served as house band for many of the biggest names during the first heyday of ska and reggae.
Sunday, Apr. 7: Back in 1954, when Reginald Rose wrote this classic courtroom drama, the title was meant to be taken literally: Women were not allowed to serve on juries in many US states. From April 5 to 8 this year, schools, community centers, universities and regional theaters all across America are going to be staging all-female performances of the play with the aim of increasing voter registration and empowering women as participants in local, state and national politics.
Saturday, Apr. 6: Described by The New York Times as “a kind of miracle,” Taylor 2 is the small dance ensemble founded by the legendary American choreographer Paul Taylor, who died in 2018 after a historic career at the center of modern dance.
Friday, Apr. 5: Inspired by “Benshi,” the Japanese performers who provided live narration and cultural translation for audiences in the silent film era, Neo-Benshi artists take scenes from popular film or television and replace the sound with their own live spoken works. The result is a new kind of multimedia happening that has taken the experimental performance art world by storm.
Saturday, Apr. 6: Performers include the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Energy Dance Company, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Neville Dance Theater, Silver Screen Ballroom Ballet Hartford, Ulster Ballet Company and Justin Valentine & Jillian Schubert.
Thursday, Apr. 11: Kidjo first crossed paths with the original album when she fled Benin and moved to Paris in 1983. She premiered this musical project at New York’s Carnegie Hall and at Bonnaroo (David Byrne came out of the audience to sing with her during the Carnegie Hall show).