Tag: Performing Arts

Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra, 50th Anniversary Concert

3:00 pm

The Albuquerque Philharmonic Orchestra is celebrating their 50th Anniversary Grand Finale Concert!  Music Director Byron Herrington conducts Toccata and Fugue in d by J.S Bach, and Latin American Symphonette by Morton Gould on the first half.  Then we will have a 20-minute intermission, closing with Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73, by Johannes Brahms.  Join us in celebrating our 50th Anniversary with cake and coffee after the concert!  We would love to meet our patrons!

Free community event. Tickets available at the door day of performance

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Feature Film: What We Leave Behind

1st Annual NHCC Film Symposium: The Power of Our Stories
Feature: What We Leave Behind (2022) directed by Iliana Sosa

6:00 pm: Pre-film reception and cash bar 
7:00 pm: Film Screening followed by Director’s Q&A

What We Leave Behind is a 2022 documentary film. It’s a portrait of director Iliana Sosa’s grandfather, Julián Moreno, as he starts building a house in the Mexican state of Durango. As a younger man, Julián had spent decades living between the United States and Mexico, first working as a bracero and later traveling by bus to visit his children and grandchildren in the Southwestern United States. In the film, Julián revisits this past with his granddaughter as the two forge a tighter bond together. Voiceovers from the director punctuate the film and pair with imagery of the local landscape; the soundtrack features an a cappella song by the Cardencheros de Sapioriz, who are also from Durango.

The film received development, production, and post-production support from several institutions, including the Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, the Sundance Institute, the IDA, the Austin Film Society, the True/False & Catapult Rough Cut Retreat, the Jacob Burns Film Center, the Gotham Documentary Lab, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Ji.hlava New Visions Forum.

Free Community Event. Please register here or call the NHCC Welcome Center at 505-724-4771 for assistance.

2022 | Documentary | Spanish with English Subtitles | 71 minutes | not rated

Instituto Cervantes Film Series: Iberia (2005)

12 pm MST (available for 48 hours)
Instituto Cervantes Vimeo Channel Here

Don’t miss the latest online film series from Instituto Cervantes, focusing on the life and work of the internationally renowned director Carlos Saura. Saura’s 2005 film Iberia traces a series of dances inspired by composer Isaac Albéniz’s “Iberia” suite. The film received the Goya Award for Best Cinematography/Mejor Fotografía in 2006.

2005 | Spanish w/ English Subtitles | 1 hour 39 minutes | Not Rated

Free Community Event

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Opera Southwest: Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot

March 12, 15, 17 & 19, 2023
2:00 pm Sunday, 7:30 pm Wednesday & Friday

Opera Southwest presents Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, a fully staged opera with orchestra, sung in Italian with English translation supertitles.

Nessun dorma… No one sleeps in this beautiful new production of one of Puccini’s most famous operas by director Mo Zhou. A fairytale set in ancient China, Turandot brims with masterful music from start to finish. Maestro Anthony Barrese conducts.

$22, $42, $63, $85, $105 with discounts for groups of 8 or more, anyone 30 years old and younger and Opera for All with a WIC or EBT card.

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Broadway Bound LIVE: Round 4

6:00 PM
*Please note the time has changed from 7:00 PM to 6:00 PM

The program is a televised musical theatre competition show for low income young adults between the ages of 18-28. The program awards up to 18 contestants with private voice, group dance, and group acting lessons for 16 weeks as they compete for a $60,000 Scholarship to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City. Learn more at www.katharsismedia.org/bblsponsor.

$22, $27 & $32,  with a $2 discount for seniors and students 12 years old and younger

Price of the ticket includes a $2 Facility Fee.

Run time: Approximately 2 & 1/2 hours.

The Pandemia Chronicles: A Divination Ritual by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica

6:30-8:00 pm MST

The Pandemia Chronicles: A Divination Ritual

A brand new spoken-word monologue & “live-action juke-box” by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica 

by Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Balitrónica 

La Pocha Nostra and the artists are thrilled to present excerpts from their most recent performance manuscripts and bank of ritual actions. Utilizing a casino roulette and traditional tarot deck, Balitrónica utilizes various forms of oracular magic to select spoken word texts and props for Gómez-Peña live performance. The fate of the script and the performance are determined by methods of divination and chance. 

In this new project, the artists are unplugged, thinking out loud and articulating the challenges and possibilities of reinvention in the midst of multiple pandemics. The performance includes new texts written during the past two years combined with “classics” from Gómez-Peña’s own living archives.

Arrive early for a surprise pre-performance appearance and photo opportunity with The Phantom Mariachi! 

Click here to register for this free community event.

Presented in conjunction with the Latinx Visions: Speculative Worlds in Latinx Art, Literature, and Performance conference held at the University of New Mexico. Generously supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and United Way DEI Fund.

Teoquiyaoatl (Sacred Portal): Performance and Installation by Angel Cabrales

8:00pm MST

NHCC Plaza Mayor

Join us for a performance and interactive art installation on the plaza with Fronteras del Futuro artist, Angel Cabrales!

Teoquiyaoatl references a sacred portal through which the explorers of the parallel universe Axihuical breach the universal membrane and cross into this universe to greet the people of our world through dance.

Created by Angel Cabrales in collaboration with Melissa Melpignano with music by Henry Van. Dance performance by Melissa Melpignano, Jenny Morales, Chris Delgado, and Jensen Springer.

NHCC Art Museum Open until 7:30pm

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Photo Courtesy of Angel Cabrales

Broadway Bound LIVE: Round 3

7:00 pm to 9:00 pm

The program is a televised musical theatre competition show for low income young adults between the ages of 18-28. The program awards up to 18 contestants with private voice, group dance, and group acting lessons for 16 weeks as they compete for a $60,000 Scholarship to AMDA College of the Performing Arts in New York City. Learn more at www.katharsismedia.org/bblsponsor.

$22, $27 & $32, with a $2 discount for seniors and students 12 years old and younger

Price of the ticket includes a $2 Facility Fee.

Run time: Approximately 2 & 1/2 hours.

Carnaval 2023: Homage

7:30 pm

Frank Leto and PANdemonium with the Odara Dance Ensemble present Carnaval 2023: Homage!

Frank Leto will be celebrating his 18th annual Carnaval performance at the NHCC’s Roy E. Disney Center for the Performing Arts with a production entitled Homage. This unique production will pay respect to the rhythms, cultures and people who have influenced Frank and Pilar Leto. Carnaval performances share with audiences the musical styles and dance of Brazil, Trinidad, Cuba and New Orleans, featuring Frank’s original compositions and original choreographies and costumes by Pilar’s Odara Dance Ensemble.

$17, $22, $27 with a $2 discount for seniors, children 12 years old and younger & NHCC members

Run Time: 120 minutes

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