ArtsArenaPLUS. A Balanchine Evening
31 January, 2020 at 19:30 - 22:30 on Opéra Bastille, Place de la Bastille, Paris 12e
An invitation to the dress rehearsal of the all Balanchine program at the Paris Opera Ballet. Drinks and discussion afterward with Ellen Sorrin, Director of The George Balanchine Trust, and the repétiteurs from the New York City Ballet. Anne Hogan, editor of the Arts Arena publication Balanchine Then and Now, will also be present. Arts […]
Richard Peña presents SALT OF THE EARTH
21 January, 2020 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
1954: a film, once shunned for political reasons—blacklisted writers and Mexican-American union strikers–now deemed a classic. The screening will be followed by a talk and discussion with Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of The New York Film Festival and for 25 years Programming Director of The Film Society of Lincoln Center. A coupe de champagne follows.
ArtsArenaPLUS. An Evening with Photographer Jean-Michel Fauquet
14 January, 2020 at 19:00 - 20:30 on To be given upon confirmation of your reservation, Paris
A private evening for Arts Arena members with photographer Jean-Michel Fauquet, with a viewing of his latest gallery show and a coupe de champagne. His works can be found in the collections of Musée national d’art moderne, La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Fond national d’art contemporain, Bibliothèque nationale de France. Arts Arena members only.Reservations […]
ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION RECITAL
13 December, 2019 at 19:30 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
A piano recital by the First Prize winner of the 2019 Orléans International Piano Competition Maroussia Gentet on the occasion of the release of her CD, which includes Ravel’s “Miroirs.” Among her other 2019-2020 engagements are a concert with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, then the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, Dusseldorf, and Hanover, […]
ALEXANDER POLZIN
04 December, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
RESCHEDULED FOR DECEMBER 4 Sculptor and opera director Alexander Polzin returns to the Arts Arena, where in 2016 he spoke on the eve of the inauguration of his public sculpture of the poet Paul Celan by the Ville de Paris. This time we will show videos of his new music-dance-sculpture work presented at the 92nd […]
AMERICAN FRINGE 4
15 November, 2019 at 15:00 - 23:30 on Cinémathèque Française, 51 rue de Bercy, Paris 12e
American Fringe 4, the fourth edition of the Arts Arena-produced festival of ultra-independent American films, curated by Richard Peña, Director Emeritus of the New York Film Festival and Professor of Film Practices at Columbia University, and Laura Bloom Ingram, Vice-President of Icarus Films. In partnership with La Cinémathèque française and Festival d’Automne. Each of the […]
MOVING STORIES, the award-winning film
10 October, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Jonathan Hollander, Founder and Artistic Director of the Battery Dance Company of New York City, will present MOVING STORIES, an award-winning documentary about the Company’s work with at-risk youth around the world, imparting the tools of choreography so they can tell their stories through dance. The documentary film, which premiered at MoMA, has been selected […]
THE ARTS ARENA CURTIS ON TOUR CONCERT
27 September, 2019 at 20:00 - 22:30 on Galerie dorée de la Banque de France, 3 rue de la Vrillière, Paris, 1er
World-renowned musicians Pamela Frank and pianist Mikael Eliasen, Artistic Director of the Curtis Opera Theater, lead a quartet with baritone Dennis Chmelensky and cellist Chase Park for a special concert in the spectacular Galerie dorée of the Banque de France. The concert is part of the Arts Arena’s Patrons Trip and will be followed by […]
ROBERT STORR: THE ARTS ARENA LECTURE
26 September, 2019 at 19:00 - 21:00 on Hôtel de Lauzun, 17 Quai d'Anjou, Paris, 4e
Robert Storr, artist, curator, critic, and author, returns to deliver an Arts Arena lecture. Widely considered one of the most influential voices in contemporary art, he has been Senior Curator at MoMA, the only American invited to be Commissioner of the Venice Biennale, and for ten years Dean of the Yale School of Art. The […]
SOPRANO KALLEN ESPERIAN
13 June, 2019 at 19:00 - 22:00 on George C. Marshall Center, Hôtel de Talleyrand, 2 rue Saint-Florentin, Paris 1er
Kallen Esperian was just in her twenties when she performed some of the most famous roles in opera, appearing opposite Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras at world-renowned venues such as La Scala and the Met. Yet soon after her triumphs, her life began to unravel : divorce, depression, extreme weight fluctuations, physical injury […]