Two of Detroit Dance City Festival's programs highlighting new works come together for an evening of exciting dance!

DDCF’s College Showcase was developed to give platform and agency to collegiate choreographers, professors and guests artists to present their newest work. This year’s showcase features:

• Univeristy of Michigan
• Western Michigan University
• Hope College
• Lindenwood University

Choreographers Showcase II, presents new works by local, national, and international artists and dancers, this year including:

• ARK Initiative Ballet
• Smutek Dance
• Morgan Walker
• Norberto Collazo
• Wellspring/Cori Terry & Dancers
• ConteXture Dance Detroit
• Mark Gonzalez
• Jazz Spectrum Dance Company

Detroit Dance City Festival (DDCF) is an annual community building event curated by ArtLab J that celebrates dance in its various forms and disciplines. DDCF brings the work of renowned local, national, and international performing artists, choreographers, and companies to the stage in a weekend full of performances, master classes and networking events. 
 

Local, national, and international artists and dancers share their current projects during Choreographers Showcase I. This year’s showcase features:
 

• DDC Dances
• Zehnder Dance
• Yukina Sato
• Gabrielle McNeillie
• Jasmine Powell
• CPR Dance: Inhale Movement
• Monica Brady-Barnard
• Rowan Janusiak
• Simone Knowelle Dance Theater
• Aimee McDonald
• Winifred Haun & Dancers

Detroit Dance City Festival (DDCF) is an annual community building event curated by ArtLab J that celebrates dance in its various forms and disciplines. DDCF brings the work of renowned local, national, and international performing artists, choreographers, and companies to the stage in a weekend full of performances, master classes and networking events. 

Virtuoso violinist, Juilliard instrument curator, and Hoboken, N.J. resident Eric Grossman will be joined by family members Lida Lopez Mancheva (piano) and Cecilia Grossman (cello) for this survey of famous composers of the Baroque period, including Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, and their contemporaries.

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. All aspects of hip-hop culture are being celebrated in the community and around the world. While many tributes are male-dominated, this performance celebrates the contributions of women in hip hop.

"Let’s make the fiftieth anniversary of hip-hop a time to engage. Look to the future, support, effect change." —Ice T

Jim Campilongo is a New York roots rock guitarist, known for the sound of his 1959 Telecaster that he plays with a hybrid right-hand technique that involves the use of both a plectrum and his fingers, capturing elements of country, bluegrass, blues, and rock and roll.

He writes the popular monthly column Vinyl Treasures for Guitar Player Magazine and has recorded a series of instrumental albums with his trio and is a member of The Little Willies band with pianist and vocalist Norah Jones.

For this intimate performance he will be joined by Luca Benedetti (guitar), Andy Hess (bass) and Dan Rieser (drums). 

Directed by Sander Burger / 2022

Eleven-year-old Ama is a top student and aspiring professional swimmer who thinks of herself unequivocally as Dutch, but her parents are Senegalese asylum seekers, and the world she aspires to create for herself is thrown into turmoil after her mother and brother are arrested. 

Winner of 2023 New York International Children’s Film Festival Audience Award, Grand Prize for Live Action Feature. Recommended for ages 8 and up. In Dutch and French with English subtitles. (95 min.)

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Drama of Works’ toy puppet theater takes us back to 1920s Harlem, where a new and unique African American culture is rapidly coming together, and where rents are rising faster than some inhabitants can manage. Three children—Rose, Jenny, and Ricky—must help their mothers set up a rent party so they can stay in their home. All they need to do is get the ice (not so easy before refrigeration), hand out invitations (and not get caught by the police)—and get a real live musician to play. Shouldn't be too hard…

In the DIA's newly renovated Lecture Hall. All ages but best suited for children 8 and up and adults. 45 min.

This program is supported through the generous support of the Dr. Audley M. Grossman and Paul McPharlin Puppetry Funds.
 

In 2013, The Detroit All Star Revue paid tribute to the Motor City’s rich jazz legacy. A decade later, the great Marion Hayden returns to the Revue to curate another magical evening. This year’s program will take the audience on a musical journey that pays tribute to the Titans of Detroit Jazz, featuring the brightest stars on the scene today.

This event will feature Dave McMurray, A. Spencer Barefield, Isis Damily, Alvin Waddles, Thornetta Davis, and the Gabriel Brass Band (Detroit). 
 

Concert of Colors is metro Detroit’s free annual global music festival, an upbeat event celebrating diverse World music traditions-including the indigenous music of the Motor City. The festival also hosts the Forum on Community, Culture and Race, a series of conversations with artists, cultural and community leaders examining the role of the arts in overcoming social barriers.

For a complete schedule of Concert of Colors programs at the Detroit Institute of Arts and neighboring institutions visit the festival website.

Concert of Colors is produced through the partnership of  Culture Source, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, ACCESS,  University of Michigan – Detroit Center, Michigan Science Center, Detroit Historical Museum, College For Creative Studies, Hellenic Museum of Michigan, Third Man Records, Lowriders of Detroit, Science Gallery Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Midtown Inc., University of Michigan Dearborn, University of Michigan – Detroit, Arab American National Museum, WDET, The Scarab Club, International Institute of Metro Detroit and Marx Layne & Company.

Detroit trio Infinite River plays a sprawling, peaceful form of instrumental psychedelia that incorporates layers of soothing, gauzy guitar textures as well as harmonium and tanpura drones. The group's members are veterans of the Michigan music scene, having played in bands such as His Name Is Alive, Slumber Party, Detroit Cobras, and many others. The musicians released an album with folk troubadour Ethan Daniel Davidson as Seedsmen to the World before releasing their debut LP as Infinite River, Prequel, in 2023.

Concert of Colors is metro Detroit’s free annual global music festival, an upbeat event celebrating diverse World music traditions-including the indigenous music of the Motor City. The festival also hosts the Forum on Community, Culture and Race, a series of conversations with artists, cultural and community leaders examining the role of the arts in overcoming social barriers.

For a complete schedule of Concert of Colors programs at the Detroit Institute of Arts and neighboring institutions visit the festival website.

Concert of Colors is produced through the partnership of  Culture Source, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, ACCESS,  University of Michigan – Detroit Center, Michigan Science Center, Detroit Historical Museum, College For Creative Studies, Hellenic Museum of Michigan, Third Man Records, Lowriders of Detroit, Science Gallery Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Midtown Inc., University of Michigan Dearborn, University of Michigan – Detroit, Arab American National Museum, WDET, The Scarab Club, International Institute of Metro Detroit and Marx Layne & Company.

“Detroit’s Queen of the Blues” Thornetta Davis is a singer, songwriter and recording artist. Her strong voice, melodic command and smooth delivery have been wowing audiences around the world for over 30 years. Backed by a band of veteran Detroit musicians, she tells her stories with incredible delivery, always leaving her audiences wanting more.

Davis has shared the stage with legendary blues and R&B greats including as Ray Charles, Etta James, Buddy Guy, and more. She has received many awards, including “Living Lifetime Achievement Award” from the Detroit Blues Society, a star on the Canada South Blues Museum Walk of Fame, and in 2023, was named “Soul Blues Female Artist of the Year” at the Blues Music Awards.

Concert of Colors is metro Detroit’s free annual global music festival, an upbeat event celebrating diverse World music traditions-including the indigenous music of the Motor City. The festival also hosts the Forum on Community, Culture and Race, a series of conversations with artists, cultural and community leaders examining the role of the arts in overcoming social barriers.

For a complete schedule of Concert of Colors programs at the Detroit Institute of Arts and neighboring institutions visit the festival website.

Concert of Colors is produced through the partnership of  Culture Source, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, ACCESS,  University of Michigan – Detroit Center, Michigan Science Center, Detroit Historical Museum, College For Creative Studies, Hellenic Museum of Michigan, Third Man Records, Lowriders of Detroit, Science Gallery Detroit, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Midtown Inc., University of Michigan Dearborn, University of Michigan – Detroit, Arab American National Museum, WDET, The Scarab Club, International Institute of Metro Detroit and Marx Layne & Company.