12 Awesome August Arts & Culture Events You Won’t Want to Miss!
Between beach trips and ice cream cones, summer 2017 is flying by! But there’s still plenty of time and plenty of local festivals, performances and celebrations...
Tag: Breakdancing
Neighborhood Studios Prepares Local Teens for a Career in the Arts and Beyond
If you aren’t familiar with our nationally-recognized, award-winning 6-week summer arts apprenticeship program, Neighborhood Studios, you should be. In it...
Neighborhood Studios Part 1: Knowledge
Neighborhood Studios is a journey through the arts and beyond. The experience you have and the people you meet have a lasting impact. As one apprentice told us,...
Making Moves with Breakdancing Shakespeare
That’s right. Breakdancing and Shakespeare. B-Boys and the Bard. It was a summer of breaking, beatboxing, and soliloquies for a group of 16 teens. They spent ho...
Inside the Rehearsal Studio with Breakdancing Shakespeare
During their final week of rehearsals, Greater Hartford Arts Council volunteer, Lindsey Hopper got to sit down with a few of the members of Breakdancing Shakesp...
Neighborhood Studios Q&A: Hartford Stage – Breakdancing Shakespeare
It’s not often that a performance makes us want to get up and dance, but when the Breakdancing Shakespeare apprentices of Neighborhood Studios are on stag...
Spotlight On: Studio SnapShots!
Although Neighborhood Studios ended its fifteenth summer last Friday, we couldn’t help but share with you one last report on these amazing, innovative and creat...
Spotlight On: Hartford Stage’s Breakdancing Shakespeare
With all five Neighborhood Studios well underway, it’s time to drop in and take a closer look at each of our partners. First up, Hartford Stage returns to the G...
Spotlight On: Neighborhood Studios 2013
Besides fireworks and barbeques, the first week of July also kicks off the beginning of the Arts Council’s Neighborhood Studios, a six-week arts education appre...
The Spectacle and Magic of Breakdancing Shakespeare
William Shakespeare—two seemingly innocent names when strung together represent the bane of many high schoolers English careers. From the iambic pentameter to t...