Could breakdancing - the newest sport of the 2024 Olympics - become the coolest and hottest addition to world-class sports in Las Vegas? As two world champion B-boy brothers, Etienne and Guillaume Carreira, forge the breaking scene in Las Vegas, the city is well on its way to becoming the international epicenter of this trailblazing sport and art form.
In the music industry - as in all industries - when you need to innovate, you must collaborate. The mixing of minds leads to that special synergy that fuels brand-new ideas with bigger and better outcomes than anyone imagined at the start. That's exactly how the UNIDOS Project was hatched as a collaboration between the Youth Artists Orchestra of Las Vegas (YAO) and the Las Vegas Academy for the Arts (LVA) Mariachi Internacional.
Meet Don Bellamy, the new man at Nevada Ballet Theatre (NBT). Bellamy studied dance at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in his hometown of Washington, D.C. He began his career in 1988 as a corps dancer at Capital Ballet in the nation’s capital under the direction of Doris Jones and Billy Wilson. Bellamy subsequently joined the renowned Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater under the direction of founder Alvin Ailey.
The Jeremiah Program (JP), one of the country’s most proven models for attacking poverty head-on, has finally come to Las Vegas.
Desert Roots Rising Stars is a week-long festival of extraordinary musical feats from both the classical and modern traditions. It showcases four “Rising Star” professional musicians with roots in Las Vegas who perform all over the country.
Here in the Entertainment Capital of the World, we expect “gee-whiz extravaganzas” on stage both on and off the Strip. But who are the ingenious creators who dream up and execute these astonishing stage experiences that wow us? Meet one Las Vegan who works in Sin City and all over the planet - Axis deBruyn
The Las Vegas Jazz Society (LVJS) - one of Nevada’s oldest cultural nonprofits - is celebrating a long, illustrious history while it reinvents itself with two novel projects for the future. Today’s hip-hop and rap generations may not even recognize this 48-year-old organization, conceived during the golden era of live music in Vegas.
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The Las Vegas Academy of the Arts (LVA) is one of the premier arts magnet schools in the nation. Its award-winning programs serve nearly 1,750 students across the Greater Las Vegas Valley. Located in the center of the Las Vegas Founders District in Downtown Las Vegas, LVA serves Clark County School District high school students.
Las Vegas’s MOST SWINGIN’ Big Band - The JOI Jazz Orchestra - has scored a new home for jazz in downtown Las Vegas. Take note! Every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month, the entourage hits the stage at Notorietry inside the Neonopolis.
