Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center

Opening this evening. Be there!

Brooklyn's Color Pointes Festival Spotlights Black Ballet Choreographers - Pointe Magazine Color Pointes, which runs June 21-23 at Brooklyn's Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, is THPAC's first dance season devoted to ballet .

COLOR POINTES COMING June 21, 22 and 23 in The Mark O’Donnell Theater 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn. THPAC'S 48TH Annual Dance Season!
Building on THPAC’s mission over nearly a half century, “Color Pointes” will feature contemporary and classical ballet companies and choreographers of color.
https://www.thelmahill.org/events

Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center The artistic vision of THPAC is to present and preserve the artistic dance creations of artists of c

COLOR POINTES COMING June 21, 22 and 23 in The Mark O’Donnell Theater 160 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn. THPAC'S 48TH Annual Dance Season!
Building on THPAC’s mission over nearly a half century, “Color Pointes” will feature contemporary and classical ballet companies and choreographers of color.
https://www.thelmahill.org/events

Home | Thelma Hill Performing Arts

THPAC's Upcoming Black History Month Program Featured On PIX New York Living
Monday, Feb. 19, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrUfO1LAiIs&t=59s

TOMORROW! Watch a special LIVE TV dance preview & interview with Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center's Executive Chairman, Alex Smith, Jr. ---- Monday, Feb. 19 @10:30 am ET on PIX!

FYI

FYI

Today I honor Hinton Battle, my dear friend who left us to dance and sing in God’s Ensemble last night. 🥲🥲🥲 He fought this battle to live and be creative impacting audiences and young people across the globe. Let us always hold him high in our hearts and in our mind’s eye and forever speak his name🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THPAC (TGAT) was originally introduced to the public as a work in progress in June of 2017 at the Mark O'Donnell Theater at The Actors Fund Arts Center in Downtown Brooklyn. In 2023 it was re-staged at Central Baptist Church located at 166 W. 92nd, NY, NY. in 2023. TGAT is a dance narrative. The subject matter is the sojourn of Black America from pre slavery, on through slavery, past Jim Crow and the ‘We Shall Overcome’ era, into the 60's with the black power rallying cry and onto Black Lives Matter movement of today. It was seen through the eyes of one woman's spiritual journey set in the Black church. The work was inspired by the life and times of Novella H. Smith, the mother of THPAC's Executive Chairman, Alex Smith, Jr. She also was major contributor to the music used in this production prior to her death in 2013. Unfortunately, she did not live to see this production. TGAT will be streaming free for a limited time until King Day 2024.
https://www.thelmahill.org/videos

Take note.

Making sure the history is documented and remembered.

8/8/23 O&A NYC DANCE/FILM: Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center Bringing Its Groundbreaking History To The Screen By Walter Rutledge Please excuse my self indulgent opening digression. It is the perfect example of history being rewritten and romanticized to create propaganda more palatable to the American fou…

FYI-Interesting read.

No Job, No Marriage, No Kid: China’s Workers and the Curse of 35 It’s widely discussed in China: Employers don’t want you after 35. Some job listings say it plainly, leaving a generation of prime-age workers feeling defeated.

So Very Sly opening Thursday, June 29!
https://www.thelmahill.org/events

About The Gospel According to THPAC-Central Baptist Church will never be the same. We took it all the way there. Everyone was ecstatic!

OPENING NIGHT
https://www.thelmahill.org/events

Deeply Rooted Dance Company Gets $5 Million City Grant Ahead Of Big Washington Park Move The 27-year-old dance company hopes to move into its new $15.6 million home in December 2024.

Well look at Kevin!

Deeply Rooted Dance Company Gets $5 Million City Grant Ahead Of Big Washington Park Move The 27-year-old dance company hopes to move into its new $15.6 million home in December 2024.

Thelma Hilll Performing Arts Center's 47th Season Coming June!
https://www.thelmahill.org/events

FYI: Take note.

Asase Yaa 20th Anniversary Concert Hithere, AN ASASE YAA ENTERTAINMENT PRODUCTION DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY YAO ABABIO – featuring – THE ASASE YAA AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE THEATER Executive Produced by Kofi

Walter Rutledge shines in this article. Great piece on THPAC and him.

DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Walter Rutledge Looks Back on his 25 Year Association with Brooklyn’s Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center In DAY IN THE LIFE OF DANCE: Walter Rutledge Looks Back on his 25 Year Association with Brooklyn’s Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, THPAC Celebrates 46 Years and a Return to Live Shows in Brooklyn "That is our obligation as dance makers and dance commentators. We share. That’s what being an a...